Football player Quotes

Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work.

I love being part of something that is working toward a greater goal, and there's no more satisfaction in life than achieving those goals as a team and being a part of that team.

The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.

I have always believed that you win as part of a team effort.

I've learned that if everybody does a little bit, it adds up to a lot.

By your own soul, learn to live. If some men force you, take no heed. If some men hate you, have no care. Sing your song, dream your dreams Hope your hopes, and pray your prayers.

If you do the bare minimum, expect bare minimum results.

You want to be great, work to be great. Nothing just happens

It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.

Winning is contagious, you know its a thought.

It's not something that just happens on Sundays. You know that's something, like you have to live like a winner. You have to think like a winner. You have to eat like a winner. Everything that you do with life, you gotta be a winner.

Somewhere inside, we hear a voice. It leads us in the direction of the person we wish to become. But it is up to us whether or not to follow.

If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner.

You know what a winner is? A winner is somebody who has given his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can, who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something.

It's more than personal. I can't screw it up. I have to do.

Success isn't owned. It's leased and rent is due every day.

Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success.

When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, the you'll be successful.

Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices.

Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter.

There are no turnarounds at Michigan. This is greatness. Long tradition of it.

Success isn't owned - it's leased. And rent is due every day. Every single day, someone's coming for your job. Someone's coming for your greatness. If you're the greatest, someone wants to be the greatest, and so if you're not constantly improving your game, somebody else is.

When you achieve one dream, dream another.

Getting what you want is only a problem if you have nowhere to go next. Dreaming is a lifetime occupation.

Not making a decision is the worst thing you can do.

So long as you feel you made the right decision based on the information you had at that time, there's no need to fret about it. If it fails, you'll know what to do next time.

Those who stay will be champions

People inspire you or they drain you. Pick them wisely.

Don't think about what can happen in a month.

Don't think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be!

When people see you do alright, then you start winning their hearts.

It's not going to come easy, though. It doesn't matter how many people you do right, you're still going to be hated by so many others. You can't live your life trying to make everybody happy.

May the moments of today become fond memories for tomorrow. Happy Birthday

You will not experience all life has to offer you or begin to experience life at its fullest as long as you are satisfied with mediocrity. You have to be disgusted with your current circumstances before your circumstances can change.

People talk about cold weather and it'd be tough to catch balls.

But the greatest catcher of all time, Michael Crabtree, catches everything. It's unbelievable. In the northern snowlands, down to the tropics' sunny scenes, he's catching the football. Where they throw a football, he'll be catching it.

Deep down, your players must know you care about them.

This is the most important thing. I could never get away with what I do if the players feel I didn't care for them. They know, in the long run, I'm in their corner.

People often think that there's a general who makes all the difference, but I would reject that. It's a team effort. It's the power of the wedge.

Football linemen are motivated by a more complicated, self-determining series of factors than the simple fear of humiliation in the public gaze, which is the emotion that galvanizes the backs and receivers.

Focus on your dream and never quit. It is always too soon to quit. If you quit, you can't succeed. By achieving your dream you will be an inspiration to others. You will set the example and make an enormous impact on the world.

Every setback has a major comeback.

Fans have a constitutional right to expect success and have high expectations.

Greatness is a lot of small things done well.

Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.

I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm going hard.

I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, and belief that you can do something great means you will do something great.

I was reminded of another very special word when I was driving into Ann Arbor this morning, and that word is homecoming. Our family's had three homecomings to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in my lifetime.

I figured this was the easy stuff, and if we couldn't show up on time, looking right and acting right, we weren't going to be able to do anything else.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

Tough times go away, tough people do not.

Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness.

You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football.

Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love - I think that's the meaning of this human experience.

Every day I wake up and that’s my goal, to be on a constant quest for knowledge and do something different, being unique and being uncommon.

I am a person that believes in different emotions with music.

Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.

Everything speeds up and it's blurry for a minute.

But you've got to have a little patience sometimes to just find a soft spot. There's always a soft spot in the defense, and it's your job to find it.

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.

I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.

Quit making excuses. What we're really talking about here is commitment. Until you make a commitment to your dream, it's not a commitment at all. It's just another fantasy. And fantasies don't come true because they're not real, we're not committed to them. When we make commitments, they become dreams. And dreams are very real.

Lambeau was always special, and so was Milwaukee.

You try to stay within the rules for the sake of the game, but you can always turn up the intensity.

The truth is not what we received today.

Once again, we are being used as props in a Pentagon public relations exercise.

Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.

Don't ever, ever quit. Recognize that stopping now, regrouping to try a new approach isn't quitting. If you quit you'll regret it forever