Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Greg Olsen

To be in complete control of the game in the fourth-quarter and just self-destruct, it's tough.

I'm very confident on where I stand in the league and where I belong.

Being told that your child will be born with HLHS is absolutely heartbreaking.

In this league, it's so easy to get caught up in if this team loses and this team wins, and you get there, we can have home field.

With digital and podcasting and the amount of radio outlets - traditional stations but with satellite radio - there's a billion ways to get your voice out.

The one thing I'll never do is I'll never jeopardize my preparation. I'll never jeopardize any time or energy or efforts that need to be put into my preparation to play football.

In the football world, we throw around words like 'sacrifice,' 'hard work' and 'hero.'

For as much fun as I have out there with my teammates, nothing will ever compare to the joy I get from running around and laughing with my kids.

I learned that the simplest things made me the happiest.

When you throw your fourth touchdown of a game in the NFL... it's hard to do.

No one ever gets to write their ending, write their final script.

Doctors give your family three options when your unborn baby is diagnosed with HLHS. You can terminate the pregnancy, you can have the baby and refuse treatment, or you can go through with the three surgeries our doctor had told us about. There was never any doubt in our minds that we were going to give our child a chance to survive and thrive.

From the strength involved, the jumping, to body positioning and control, there are similarities. Playing basketball at a pretty good high school level, in a state where there were strong programs, definitely helped make me a better tight end.

My body type and physique has allowed me to be pretty dynamic and allowed me to do multiple things, both in the run game and the pass game.

I think everybody thinks I'm a little crazy.

Obviously, ESPN, that Monday Night gig is a big deal. You don't just easily dismiss that.

I think I've shown that I can get up the middle, create some separation, and catch the ball.

I think I've been very fortunate. I have obviously played a lot of snaps and played a lot of games, so my mileage is high. But I've been very fortunate that I've been able to stay relatively healthy, no major surgeries and stuff like that.

Obviously, you're always shocked when you feel like you're not wanted anymore.

I've had a few bad plays, but who hasn't?

I think we've learned in our society that people are scared sometimes of something that's different.

I take a lot of pride in impacting the game with or without the ball. That's something that only a few guys in the league can do that.

There are certain memories and specific days that you can never get out of your head no matter how hard you try. I'm talking about everything, including the feelings you had at the time.

Don't dive into the weeds of mock drafts and rumors, because that's all that they are. They're just rumors.

For a young kid to be expected at 15, 16, 17 years old to know what to do - it's hard. It's a tough ask.

The thing about the NFL is nobody cares. Nobody feels bad for you. Nobody feels sorry for you... They don't care if you're hurt. They don't care if you don't feel good. You have a bad call. Play goes against you? No one cares. You've got to play. You've got to win.

As players, you have to go out and do the best you can and show in practice that you deserve to be one of the 46 guys up.

Guys every year across the league look for new contracts. That's just the business in the NFL.

Every year, you try to evolve a little bit. You try to introduce new elements to your offense.

My approach every game really tries to stay the same. I try not to make it about me. I try not to make it about my personal vendettas.

It takes two sides to put things together.

Both productivity and all things considered, there's nobody that's been more productive or more consistent than I have. And I'll stand on that until the cows come home.

With my size and receiving skills, I would hope I could cause some matchup problems for defenses, and that some team sees that.

Our main efforts for our foundation is our HEARTest Yard program that we run here in Charlotte at Levine Children's Hospital.

Everyone always thinks the grass is greener. That's sports.

If I could coach LeBron James for one year, I could make him an All-Pro wide receiver.

Since we've come to Charlotte, we very quickly realized that this is home. This community quickly embraced our family, so we put down roots here. We love it here. This is home for us.

Proud of what I was able to accomplish in this league, proud of the relationships and everything that the game has given me.

We've learned a lot about ourselves as a family about perseverance and continuing to be mentally strong and continue to take the good with the bad and wake up the next day and do it all over again.

The reality of going to the Super Bowl was beyond words, as was the disappointment of falling short.

I played a lot of games with this body, so I'll take it.

It's very common business for players and management to go back and forth and try to find common ground.

I could turn Russell Westbrook into an All-Pro free safety.

When I was a junior in high school, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. To see her struggle and go through chemo, radiation and surgery, and all those things made a huge impact on us as a family.

At the end of the day I'm a football player. I'm paid to be prepared and people rely on me to get a job done, and I will never jeopardize that or sacrifice any efforts toward that goal.

I think there's no greater impact on a young kid's life than high school sports.

In this league, you make your own luck, you make your own fate.

We can't make or break our whole season on the first game.

We don't live our life on panic.

The city of Charlotte has become our family and this forever will be home.

We don't live our life worrying.

You look at the skills involved, especially with things like lateral movement or change of direction, and there's definitely a strong correlation between playing basketball and playing tight end.

I think that at some point the NFL and the NCAA years ago or decades ago, whenever the time frame is kind of struck up that agreement as a 'we'll take care of you, you take care of us.'

In 2012, I had a son born with very severe congenital heart defect that was life-threatening and required him to go through a series of open-heart surgeries, as young as two days old, and subsequent other procedures.

That's not my position to compare myself to other guys. I look at it as can I be productive, can I get the job done?

The hardest thing about winning is to continue to win, and I think human instinct says 'OK, I've done this before. I got it, let's just keep doing what we're doing.'

I've had some good games and some not so good games, hopefully all the fans remember the good ones.

I would argue there's not a lot of guys that has to do more than just catch the ball like me.

I think you don't take things for granted. You don't think you're going to just show up, because you've won in the past, thinking that all of a sudden that means that it's going to happen again.

If I can stay healthy, I know what I'm able to do.