Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Clinton Portis

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American celebrity Clinton Portis.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Clinton Earl Portis is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons. He played college football for the Miami Hurricanes. He was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the second round of the 2002 NFL Draft. Portis was best known for being the starting running back for the Washington Redskins for seven seasons, in which he gained an average of 81.2 yards rushing per game, for which a select panel of celebrities included him as one of the 80 Greatest Redskins.

American - Celebrity | Born: September 1, 1981

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Everybody who I play always wants to use me, so I always tell them that I'm the only one who knows how to stop Portis, so go ahead.

Clinton Portis

I have the opportunity to control what happens in a game. I'll have the ball in my hand, and only I know what I'm going to do with it.

Clinton Portis

As far as dude running the ball, or running with the ball, and somebody hit you helmet to helmet, I think you got an opportunity to go down. You got an opportunity to slide.

Clinton Portis

I have a special gift, and I go out and use it. I don't think you can hide it. I'm just confident in myself-always have been.

Clinton Portis

I don't feel like I have to live up to anything because I've proven that I can play. Give me the ball and let's go.

Clinton Portis

I don't feel like there should have been three backs taken ahead of me. And I'll always feel that way. But there's only one draft, and I can't change it. All I can do is go out and prove myself.

Clinton Portis

If y'all see me in the news, and I make the news for something that I ain't got no business making it for, don't bash me. Say it was a young guy living.

Clinton Portis

When a grown man is chasing you around a building or running through the hotel and trying to jump in your elevator, oh man, I can't even see it. What excitement can you possibly get from having my autograph besides selling it?

Clinton Portis

I didn't get my hair styled today. I actually stuck my hand in a socket and this is the way it turned out.

Clinton Portis

Hopefully I don't have to play for eight years but can go and relax somewhere and do something enjoyable while I'm still young.

Clinton Portis

I can be a receiver, a cornerback, a safety and quarterback-I can play everything.

Clinton Portis

I'm instinctive. I'm still learning how to run the ball. What I've done may look good to everyone else, but I know I'm capable of more than I've shown.

Clinton Portis

I was a pretty good DB, but I realized one day I would rather have someone trying to tackle me than me trying to tackle guys like Jerome Bettis and Eddie George.

Clinton Portis

Every day I wake up, I say, 'Damn, I hope I don't get that call today.' I don't want to lose my mama. When I start thinking about that, I fall into a hole.

Clinton Portis

On offense, you can fumble and they still talk about you.

Clinton Portis

It's exciting when kids look up to you or kids come up to you and ask for your autograph. When grown ups come up to you, that's really not exciting. Why would a grown man be excited for meeting another grown man?

Clinton Portis

A man can wear pink if he has confidence, if he believes in himself and knows he's man enough to do it.

Clinton Portis