Top 75 Quotes & Sayings by Marquise Goodwin
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American footballer Marquise Goodwin.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I led the world the whole year until the trials. I was in Birmingham, U.K. Broke the meet record, had the meet won already, beat the 2012 Olympic champion in long jump that day. It was a big moment. On the last jump, I blew it. Blew my hamstring.
I graduated with a double degree, I speak well, I play two sports at an elite level, I volunteer, I do things the right way - I even got down on my knee to ask my wife to marry me! - and I can't get sponsored? It confuses the hell out of me.
As long as I have the respect and understanding of my teammates, that's all that matters.
My relationship with my sister is closer than white on rice.
I'd love it to be in Buffalo. I love football. But I know how important it is to live your life like you want to.
I'm always hesitant to make any serious moves because you never know how the N.F.L. will treat you, you know?
I don't want to bring my personal issues to the field during game time. I don't want to take focus from anybody else.
I always knew one day fatherhood would be great, I just didn't think it would be this great.
I like track and field for the simple reason that I determine my own outcome. I don't rely on my coach or the president or the CEO making a decision. I'm kind of like the CEO of my own corporation.
My teammates give me a hard time about that all the time, 'Hey, if you catch the ball and get in an open field, I want you to long jump from the 10 into the end zone.'... I might make it happen one of these days.
I know I'm a dog. I'm a beast especially when it comes to long jump.
I've always wanted to be what my father never was to me.
It's pretty satisfying to make it through a season, only missing one game year.
I have definitely got more than a few pieces of cheetah in my wardrobe.
I chose to leave my wife at the hospital after prematurely birthing our first baby due to incompetent cervix, which resulted in a fatality, to play in a football game. I felt like I had to prove to my coaches and new team that I was dedicated to winning and I wouldn't let anything keep me from that goal, not even my family.
A lot of sprinters aren't football players. I'm a football player. That's the difference between me and a sprinter. My knowledge of the game. I'm totally different than any other track guy.
After choosing football so many times, I feel like I'm inclined to make the right decision by finally choosing my family first, and that's real talk.
I really don't focus on the competition at all. Like even on the football field it's me versus me.
I'm looking to run the fastest, but I want to prove that I'm more than a speed guy.
I have the track label on me. I'm the track guy. So I have to go above and beyond the expectations of what other people will limit their bodies to.
People outside the organization or outside of football, they don't know how hard it is to win in this league, such a high-caliber athletes and elite group of people competing each week.
I'm tough. I have taken on hits, I've blocked. I even got MVP for blocking one game and I didn't even touch a ball that game.
Like you see in the fairy tales, that's how it planned out in my head. Kids, little white picket fence, the American dream.
Just because something that you wanted your whole life didn't quite work out as you planned it to - a lot of the times it's not supposed to work out how you want it to - it will grow you as a person and make you better.
I don't compare myself with anybody.
My father was never really a big part of my life, he ended up passing away a few years ago, my biological father. And the guy I consider my dad, he was incarcerated for a crime he didn't even commit, which is part of the reason I protest.
I can't dwell on something that has nothing to do with football at all - it will hold me back.
The type of working hours you put in sometimes is overlooked. The diet. The little sacrifices that you take from your family, people don't take that into account.
I don't think anybody in any sport ever sucks. You're an athlete. You're a professional.
I'm definitely not a track guy playing football. I'm a football guy that just happens to jump really far.
I told myself at some point that I've got to hold it down for my family. I can't let work and the check and the money dictate decisions that I truly want to make.
I have a lot of things going for me, I try to be a well-rounded role model.
At the end of the day, all I can focus on is doing what I need to do, as a player, to help the team win.
A lot of people don't even know that about me, I grew up without a father.
I haven't quite mapped it out yet, but working out and training is my lifestyle.
When the ball is in the air, my job is to catch it, no matter where it's at, no matter how it is, no matter how difficult or how easy, you've just got to make it.
Who am I just to give up on track? This is something I've dreamed about since I was 9 years old, being an Olympic champion.
I went and played football so I can support my family like I wanted to. Track has been my real dream, to be an Olympic champion and God gave me another opportunity.
I always dreamed of doing this, being able to do track and field and the NFL at the same time.
I'm just blessed to be able to be alive, to be able-bodied and be able to play this game.
I've stayed sharp, basically through football workouts. I cater those workouts to track-specific things, so I don't lose the rhythm I've always had to keep football and track in balance.
I have proved I have more than linear speed. Track guys are known for not being able to catch, for not having good hands.
I don't want to get too much on the football side and gain weight, so I'm as fast on the field.
I pray for everybody throughout the game, even my opponents. Outside of the game, we still have to live life, still have to lead normal lives, and we still need our bodies.
I just believe in helping other people.
No matter what the outcome is, as long as you pray to Him and be genuine - because He knows when you're genuine and when you're not - and maintain the faith, I think things will turn around for you. I know things will turn around for you. And ultimately, you will always be victorious when it's all said and done.
To me, no doctor can determine when it's your time to go. God really knows, and He's the only one who can really give you the day. You just have to keep the faith and live the best you can each day.
What I do in long jump and track and field, it definitely correlates with what I do as a receiver. With being fast and being explosive and putting my foot down. It's the same mechanics that I use in football and track.
I love long-jumping, and if I'm granted the opportunity without repercussions, then I will pursue it further, but I'm obligated to Buffalo Bills football and that's the main focus.
A lot of people think track, you just run, that's all you do. No. There's a lot of technical aspects to it as well. A sprinter is not just going to get out of the blocks and start running. You do that, you're going to get embarrassed every time.
People who don't understand will try to label me as one or the other. I'm an athlete and a lot of people just have to come to terms with that. I do well in football, I do well in track. It is what it is.
Dealing with injuries each year, it's kind of like a given that it'll happen. You've just got to push through it.
If Deja wasn't my sister, I feel like I would still be motivated but not in the way that I am today. Having a disabled sister, that's a lot more motivation, especially when she tells you growing up that she wishes she can be out there with the kids playing and she wishes she can be out there running around.
I get to see my baby's development. I get to change diapers, I get to be a real father, something that I didn't have growing up.
It won't change that I'm an Olympian if you call me a football player, and it won't change that I'm an NFL player if you call me a track and field athlete.
I'm thankful for the relationship that I established with guys here in my time in Buffalo.
I'm not limited to running or jumping or catching footballs.
All I can focus on is what I can control and that's being happy. My own happiness.
Football has set me up to provide for my family, it has allowed me a better opportunity to do things in my life that track may have not.
My wife at home. She didn't have a pregnant belly anymore, nobody to cling to, no shoulder to cry on, no one to talk to, while I'm at work getting the love and everybody just patting me on the back. I was mad. I felt that I should be at home helping my best friend get past the grief.
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