Top 101 Quotes & Sayings by Ed Reed - Page 2

I never came out of a game unless I was truly hurt.

When you've been playing the game for so long and sports for so long, it can take a toll on your body, and that's what we're putting on the line, and that's what our argument is as players when we're doing negotiations and stuff like that.

I know I have the abilities to be a head coach or D-coordinator. It's something I wouldn't mind doing. But it's tough being a player and going back and doing something like that, because egos get in the way.

You've got to be smart about tackling.

I always said I wanted to become a master of my game, like Bruce Lee. I mastered my art of football, because that's what it truly is when you understand it.

Yeah, some people don't know anything about football.

The relationships I have in Baltimore will never change.

It's a kid's game we play. Nothing more than that.

Just being from Louisiana, being from the southern part of Louisiana, Metairie, close to New Orleans and growing up in St. Rose. There are a lot of things to overcome.

The old G's, or the gangsters, turned me away from the street because they knew my dad, and they had a lot of respect for my dad, but because I was an athlete.

Stay in school because education provides you with an opportunity. Opportunity is all you can ask for.

I always play the game a certain way, regardless of what guys say.

Baltimore, I love that city.

Not every game is going to be perfect. Not every game is going to be an interception or two or a big-bang tackle, so to say.

We tend to want to stay here in Louisiana as Louisiana people. We've just got to be mindful that there are other things out there, and we really need to open our kids' minds to get them to go to college. Get them to get away. Then come back and help the next ones behind us.

When I make a tackle or make a play and I have a slight pain or something, you're going to react the way you react.

The game takes a toll on your body.

I can't be lackadaisical when it's time for me to make any play, whether it's a tackle, fumble recovery, anything that it might be.

I was a two-star athlete. I got looked over.

Football is a reaction sport.

I love to have my football camps. I love being a part of that.

Those inner-cities, they're not giving kids a chance. They're not giving the teachers a chance to really help those kids. They're making it real tough. You're either gonna help or you're hurting your own country.

There's a reason why, outside of me dropping a few, people don't throw my way, man.

It helps you as a person when you're teaching something to somebody to understand it even better.

To be playing in my first Super Bowl in New Orleans, it's special.

I don't want to be like these guys having neck surgery, then you got to go have another surgery just to continue to play this game. I love this game but I love myself more.

When you play sports, when you're on a team with people from different walks of life, and you have to look after each other and count on each other, race and all that stuff goes out the window when you are in the locker room.

Football has always been a contact sport, and it's always going to be a violent sport, and there are going to be repercussions from that. But every player that ever played this game and will play this game, they're signing up for it.

We had a great staff in college, so after I got to the league, I'd already seen stuff I knew. Then it was enhanced, playing the game with great guys like Ray Lewis and Terrell Suggs, Haloti Ngata, Chris McAlister.

I know a lot about football. I know a lot about this game.

I always will be a Raven. That's where I was kind of raised in the NFL. I did a lot of growing, and we did a lot of special things. That's something that can never be taken away, and it never will. There's a lot of love there.

There's no place like Baltimore.

I know the hustle that is in Louisiana. Knowing where you are from, really where you're from, helps you to help the community. That's every city, but New Orleans is just different. We have big hearts, but it's just a matter of us having the information, having the people to push you along like I had.

We have a bunch of American citizens who step up because that's what we do. We'll step up and go across the world to help people out. When it comes to our own backyard, it's always a different conversation.

Sometimes I wake up and I think, where did my memory go? But at the same time, I signed up for it. Football has been like that for a long time, for ages.

You know mental illness is one of the biggest problems in our world.

You have to be coachable.

We are human and regular people at the end of the day. We're not immune from the trials and tribulations that go on through life.

The football fans loved the way I played the game.

I don't want to play till I'm 40.

To the young: Work, work, work, and then work some more!