Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Jason Witten
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
A big part of me has been tied to coaching and I want to get into coaching and make a difference that way.
I have a deep desire to have success, to play a high level, and to win championships.
A player checking Twitter at halftime? I've seen it. A player tweeting out a grievance with an organization about playing time or how he is being utilized? I see it far too often. But the most concerning? Watching a really talented player corrupt his mind and confidence by reading all the critiques from anonymous football experts around the world.
My job is to be able to perform for three hours or three and a half hours every Sunday and I've got to work my tail off to get to the point where I can do it, and that's what motivates me.
I'm a steak and potato guy.
My parents getting divorced gave me the opportunity to play for my granddad and to meet my wife. I fell in the draft but I ended up in Dallas.
When a new coaching staff comes in, there are a lot of changes that happen with that.
I've seen the negative impact social media can have, particularly on younger players, who grew up with Twitter and Instagram as an integral part of life.
You want to be able to run seam routes and do all that, but to have something that you can hang your hat on and know that it's going to convert first downs, that's what tight ends are paid to do. And I've certainly taken a lot of pride in that over the years.
I have so much respect for this game and the process that goes into playing at a high level.
I have 16 years in Dallas. I would love finish it off there. But I also understand and am not naive enough to think that... it may need to be somewhere else. I think that's how this business works. So you have to be open to that idea, for sure.
Early on, yeah, my life was a bit of a roller coaster.
Look, you cannot try to be somebody that you're not.
If you're in the NFL for more than five minutes you see that you can be here today and gone tomorrow. That's why I played the way I did. I think that's why I worked hard to not miss a game, fight through injuries and all that stuff because when it's gone, it's gone.
The Cowboys have done a good job at developing young players.
It's pretty cool to play against your idol.
In football there for a long time, I knew even if it was a bad day, a bad day at the office, it was still going to be really good in most cases.
Excellence is a high performance over a long period of time. That's what I've tried to focus on.
As a kid, you just want to play football. For me one day it will end, but until the end I love getting the opportunity to go out there and play at a high level.
I've spent my entire adulthood in pro football.
I'm always going to be a Cowboy.
I always say that I continue to set the standard really high for myself, but you don't get into a catch count or any of that stuff. I think it's just in how you play, how you approach the game.
There's high expectations for Cowboys. There's been some great quarterbacks who have come through that organization.
I am a gamer. I became a gamer since I had kids... much more than I used to be when I'd play 'Madden' and 'NCAA Football' in high school and college.
Negative social media can ruin a player. Reading your mentions? It's poison.
I'm going to be humble, I'm going to be accountable, do it with a smile on my face, make other people around me better.
I just want to be deliberate in the process of knowing what it takes to play.
I have a lot of respect for every opponent. I don't know if there's just one who I say, 'that guy intimidates me.' When I was young and first came into the league, Ray Lewis was that guy. I was young.
Fantasy football is good for the fans and good for the game.
I think any player would say that they want their coaches' respect, they want their teammates' respect, and they want their opponent to respect them.
I think Tony Gonzalez always set the standard. He was the guy that, I think for all of us, when I came in that was really kinda taking this league over as the tight end position. I think Shannon Sharpe was another one.
If you want to grow as a player, it takes commitment.
For me, I just focus on playing, playing at a high level. And when you can't do that any longer, you've got to get off the train.
That's what a team does is stay together.
You got to be able to listen to what the coaches are saying and not get your feelings hurt.
Look, I had a great experience in the booth. I saw a different perspective.
I know this: the opportunity to play, when that leaves, it is over.
Those heartaches, those cries in your life that you go through, I thought that every kid goes through them. I knew I didn't have much, but I didn't know there was another side out there. I thought one present for Christmas was the way it is.
You have to be able to recognize the value of the people around you.
My brother one time after a little league basketball game, I think he messed up or something had happened in the game, ends up getting in an argument with my dad. Ultimately he gets pushed down and he ends up cutting the back of his head. He had six or seven stitches over a 10-year-old basketball game. That was tough to watch.
When you call a game, it's almost like you're doing a three-hour movie and the production of it all, living in the moment in real time, the replays, all the intricacies that go into putting a game in a broadcast. It's not just 100 percent football.
Any competitor, I think, wants to be the best every time they're out there.
People talk about how precious the relationships of teammates are and the brotherhood and bond.
The things I learned early on from my granddad, the things he instilled in me, are still to this day a huge part and a huge priority of my own life. Even the little stuff like my granddad always telling me to tuck in my shirt at church. It sticks with you.
Aaron Rodgers, he throws that back-shoulder throw so well.
There's an old saying in football - the circus doesn't stay in town forever. The older you get, the more you realize there's a deeper meaning. It's better to leave 3 hours too soon than a minute too late.
You've got to be able to compete and play at a high level.
I played to have a chance to win and be around guys that have that same commitment.
Fortunately for me, my grandfather gave us a life I could never dream of. He was my high school football coach, my best friend, my school teacher - really my dad.
Head coach is the leader. He's the guy that sets the tone for the whole organization as far as the structure of the football side of things.
When you break a collarbone or do something like that, that's out of your control.
I've always felt like I know how much I've put into every offseason.
We know it's a young man's game.
I think you've got to have an unbelievable amount of passion and love for the game, even though it's a job and there's a lot of things that go on in the business side of it.
I love to play football. And I think anybody that's ever been my teammate or I've been theirs understands how much I love that.
I work hard every day not only to be a success on the football field and a credit to my team - but to be a good husband, father, son, grandson, teammate - to be the kind of man that is as respected as Walter Payton was.
The mental focus it takes to compete against the best players in the world is not easy to maintain. Developing mental toughness is a learned trait, and if you can't develop it in your pursuit of success, you likely won't last in any competitive line of work for more than a cup of coffee.
Every time an older player gets toward the end of their career, they're always talking about 'I feel better now than I did 10 years ago.'
He could rush the passer, he could bull you, he could beat you speed inside and quickness. Those are long days when you had Michael Strahan lining up right over your head for 60 minutes, because most defensive ends are good at one or the other. Michael was really good at both.
The great ones hate to lose more than they love to win.
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