Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Greg Olsen - Page 2

I want the Carolina Panthers to be successful.

I don't mind being with a bunch of chicks. I'm around boys non-stop. I'm totally cool having a break from dudes.

I probably have the longest pre-game warm-up in the NFL - it's actually gotten longer over the years.

Being in the media is one of those things that so many guys say they'd like to do after they play. But you need to actually try a few different avenues to see if you like it - or if you'd be good at it.

Personally, I really approach every year the same way. I take my offseason training seriously.

In the offseason the priority is for us to get healthy, to best try to optimize our physical qualities, get faster, stronger - make sure our body is prepared for this long run and in a good place to try to prevent injuries.

For anyone who knows me, I'm usually relatively cleanshaven most times.

At the end of the day, no one has won more games than Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks to start a guy's career, right. So success there has also made them a little, you know, it's almost spoiled them a little bit.

I think you get a lot of life experiences and they all get dumped in a locker room and they say 'Hey, spend 10 months a year with each other.' That's a great example that just because you have different backgrounds and you may be staunchly on the other side on different issues, it doesn't mean that you can't cohabitate.

Be productive, but be productive consistently.

I don't get wrapped up in catches and fantasy football. It's not the way I view the tight end position.

I wear a composite non-stick glove.

I had the opportunity to go up to New York and be on the 'Inside Amy Schumer' show with Michael Strahan and Vernon Davis and those guys. That was an opportunity that presented itself, and it was something different and fun. I had a great time. Those guys are really good dudes, and she's obviously incredibly talented.

There are a lot of issues where I feel I have room to learn more about and possibly as a result have a change in opinion.

I feel like if you start taking a lot of days off, you start taking breaks from training, you start taking breaks because you use the 'I'm getting old' excuse, that's the fastest way to a decline.

I've always been a stroller guy. I love pushing them.

I'm not usually a beard guy.

I try to be pretty in tune with my body. If you play this game long enough, you're going to wake up and one day your knee is going to hurt or your back is going to hurt.

Workouts are a little different when you're 31 versus 21.

Something I've always prided myself on is not only can you be highly productive, but can you be highly productive continuously.

I love playing.

My family obviously takes up a lot of my time and that's by choice.

I never want to see active or retired players ever struggle. The basic human being in me wants to see guys leave the game as healthy as possible.

There's a lot of guys that are productive for a four- or five-game stretch, then have to sit out. Or are great one year and fall off. I don't ever want that to be me.

Player safety's important.

I've always been a guy who didn't mind speaking to reporters.

You've got to sustain drives in this league.

Sometimes when you struggle as a team, everyone starts to look to the future.

You can only gain the real intricacies of playing by playing. You can study the playbook all you want and you can ask as many questions, but until you're out there out of the field doing it, that's the only way is to mess it up, or do it right and cement and then learn from it.

It's hard to run the ball with 8-9 guys in the box.

During the offseason, when you don't have the worries and the grind of the games and the wear and tear of your body, you can really attack the training element a lot harder. More load on your body, more stress - whether that be through running or in the weight room with the lifting program that you're doing at the time.

Typically in training camp, especially as I've gotten older, we were always very selective with the plays. If it was a pass or a look I needed to get in the run game or pass protection, I was always in there to get it.

Be durable. Play every game. That's a lot that goes into that.

There's a lot that goes into being able to play every game and every practice and take every rep. Every year it gets a little bit harder, but I also enjoy that challenge.

I just love information.

It's a brutal game. It requires a certain type of person to play it. Once you make the decision to play it, that's your decision. I know what I signed up for. It allows me to provide for my family.

I actually played in Chicago with DK Metcalf's father.

I take a lot of pride in playing every week, practicing every day because I believe that's the only way you can continue to get better.

If you ask every team, they want to win every game, obviously.

We have an amazing family and our kids and just so much to look forward to for our life. You just don't want to ever take that for granted because we found out pretty fast that it's pretty fragile.