American football player Quotes

You can't be everything to everybody, but you can be everything to somebody.

Don't lose the ones you love trying to please the world

Just because they say they're praying for you in your face, doesn't mean they aren't laughing at your struggle behind your back.

Never make excuses for someone who disrespects you-who they are or what they do isn't a pass to treat you like trash!

Broken crayons still colour the same

Don't pursue a heart that you're not ready to be loyal to.

Stop trying to change someone who does not want to change.

Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop walking back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words and ignoring their actions. Stop breaking your own heart.

Life has taught me that you can’t control someone’s loyalty.

No matter how good you are to them, doesn’t mean they’ll treat you the same. No matter how much they mean to you, doesn’t mean they’ll value you the same. Sometimes the people you love the most, turn out to be the people you can trust the least.

If the shoe fits, buy it in every color!

A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.

Alabama fans love Alabama football. Auburn fans love Auburn.

I think sometimes in life the biggest challenges end up being the best things that happen in your life.

If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler.

Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves.

For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.

I believe the game is designed to reward the ones who hit the hardest - If you can't take it, you shouldn't play!

If you put in the work, put in the time, put in the effort, you're going to reap the benefits.

It takes all kinds to make a world go round.

Always take the time to show compassion for those less fortunate, and there are many. Take the time to help a young child cross the street, or to carry a bag of groceries for an elderly lady. And every now and then, look up into that big, beautiful, blue sky and admit that there are things in this world more wondrous that yourself.

With the game on the line. I want the ball in my hands.

Our strength is that we don't have any weaknesses.

Our weakness is that we don't have any real strengths.

There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.

The toughest place to play in the SEC is LSU, Death Valley.

The fans there are relentless. They don't stop at all. They keep going.

May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright, Of soft and golden hue, Pierce through the future's veil and show, What fate now holds for you?

Do not throw in the towel; use it for wiping the sweat off your face.

I was very emotional. I cried when I got into the locker room. I didn’t want to show that stuff on the sideline.

I’ve been the same guy since day one.

No matter how successful I am in life, I’m going to stay true to myself and stay humble and grounded. I feel like that’s where your success comes from. Once you get that big head, it’s over. You feel like you can’t be stopped. Staying humble is the only way you can be great.

Your retirement is an opportunity to live out your dreams and take care of your family. Don’t leave it to chance.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

If you want a simple strength and conditioning program, stick to the basics.

Run your 400s and 800s, and do lots of power cleans and presses and long heavy sets of squats.

Do what your momma tells you to do, go to sunday school, go to church, and when you die, you'll go to Statesboro.

A dream written down with a date becomes a goal.

A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.

How lucky I was to have played for the Pittsburgh Steelers fans.

A proud, hard-working people, who loves their football, and their players.

I'm the best corner in the game. When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that is the result you are going to get. Don't you ever talk about me.

A guy like Malcolm who makes that type of quick, instinctive plays, that's one of his strong suits. I don't think it surprised any of us players because that's what his skill set is.

When I see guys huddling up after the game, to pray, that’s what scares me about the game. I’m a Baptist, but I’m also a quarterback killer, and I ain’t praying with you. But I will give you 30 seconds to ask your Lord and master to keep me from killing you.

A lot of people didn't get to see Butler's skills throughout the course of the season.

When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time.

[The popular impression about some chemists is that] the aquafortis and the chlorine of the laboratories have as effectually bleached the poetry out of them, as they destroy the colours of tissues exposed to their action.

It's something you dream about as a kid.

Like when you play all those NCAA video games as a kid and you create your own player and win the Heisman with a bunch of crazy numbers. It's the biggest, most prestigious award in college football, so it'd definitely be a dream come true.

I'd love to give Malcolm the truck. We're going to figure out how to make that happen.

It's an incredible play, and not only that, that's the type of plays Malcolm makes for our team.

Butler's interception comes off as a great play, which it really was, at the biggest time of the year.

Give me a 6 pack, half-hour of rest and lets go play them again - We can beat them.

Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something.

Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?

You can't go out and practice average on Wednesday, average on Thursday, okay on Friday and then expect to play well on Sunday.

Sometimes some of the toughest things you deal with end up being the best things because you realize the people that you can rely on, that love you and support you through it.

Your shoes are only as good as the laces they're attached to.

If you don't play to win don't play at all.

It's a humbling thing being humble.

Whenever I see those crmison jerseys and crimson helmets, I feel humbled to have played football for Alabama. Other players in the NFL talk to me about their schools and their traditions. I just smile knowing the immense love Alabama fans have for our school and its football program. I'm proud to be a part of that Crimson Tide heritage.