20th-century Football Player Quotes

O. J. Simpson

Jim Brown

Joe Montana

Dick Butkus

Vince Lombardi

Don Shula

Richard Sherman

Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible.

Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends. Please think of the real O.J. and not this lost person.

You can run on a football field but you can't hide out there.

To be successful, all you have to do is work half-days; you can work the first twelve hours or the second twelve hours.

When the game is over I just want to look at myself in the mirror, win or lose, and know I gave it everything I had.

Do anything that might make the
world a better place for someone

If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player.

A lot of people had sent to me over the weekend, but I thought this would be the best place to address it. There were some points in that article, or in that post, that were relevant and I could agree with. But there were also some obviously ignorant points in there. I don't think any time's a time to call out for an all-out war against police or any race of people. I thought that was an ignorant statement. But as a black man, I do understand that black lives matter. You know, I stand for that, I believe in that wholeheartedly.

Richard Sherman

I set my standards so high, no one could be harsher on me than I was.