Top 21 Quotes & Sayings by Marshall Faulk

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American footballer Marshall Faulk.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Marshall Faulk

Marshall William Faulk is a former American football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons with the Indianapolis Colts and St. Louis Rams. He played college football at San Diego State, where he was a two-time consensus All-American. He was selected by the Colts as the second overall in the 1994 NFL Draft, whom he was a member of for five seasons, before spending his last eight seasons with the Rams. Faulk was a member of the Greatest Show on Turf, a name given to the St. Louis Rams team that appeared in two Super Bowls and won Super Bowl XXXIV. In 2000, Faulk was named the Most Valuable Player of the NFL. Faulk is one of only three NFL players to reach at least 10,000 rushing yards and 5,000 receiving yards and the only one to amass 12,000 yards rushing and 6,000 yards receiving. He was also an analyst for various programs on the NFL Network until December 2017. Faulk was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011 and the College Football Hall of Fame in 2017.

Once the game begins, I play to that song in my head. I run to rhythm, and that allows my mind to be free.
Certain guys are like relief pitchers; they come off the bench, they don’t know when they’re playing – you come in and you just go. Certain guys, they like to start; they like to start the game and play. I believe Kirk Cousins is a reliever. I don’t know if he’s a starter.
If Russell Wilson wins this game... He starts to creep into the conversation of how we talk about Tom Brady, how we talk about Peyton Manning, Drew Brees, and Aaron Rodgers.
When things are not going right, where are the leaders to pull this team together? That leadership sometimes, you just can’t find it. If one of your leaders is the guy who throws five interceptions [in one game], you have an issue.
Today, the Ravens answered: What is our identity? 'We are the same old team. We can play the same style of football.
I think as a kid I never really understood the magnitude of a hurricane and what it could do.
I'd not only be cheating myself, but I'd be cheating my teammates if I continued to make the money that I was making and wasn't producing or putting out to the level of payment that I was receiving. That's just me.
Once it's in you to being a starter, you always want to be that. But you understand the circumstances and you understand what you can and can't do. And that's the reality of it.
Knowledge relaxes me. Football is all about playing faster. You play faster when you know more. — © Marshall Faulk
Knowledge relaxes me. Football is all about playing faster. You play faster when you know more.
There's no fast track, no easy track, especially from where I came from. You try to take the most of it and learn from it and hope others learn from it. That's what it is about.
Ozzie Newsome hit a home run by drafting Bernard Pierce. He is a great compliment to Ray Rice.
If you understand what the other team is trying to do to stop you, it makes your job easier.
Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it, and it doesn't always come from sports.
I try to tell the kids, Im not trying to run away from where I came from. — © Marshall Faulk
I try to tell the kids, Im not trying to run away from where I came from.
If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.
The disconnect between [offensive coordinator] Todd Haley and [quarterback] Ben Roethlisberger is so blatant you can just see it.
I didn't always walk that straight line. I'm not going to say that I'm an angel. But I made some right decisions along the way.
My vision is my best attribute. I can see everything.
If [the Packers] can protect Aaron Rodgers and allow him to throw the ball down the field this game will not even be a contest. But if they do not, and Minnesota can come in here and run the football, we are going to have ourselves a good game tonight.
I'm not a big power-and-strength guy, but I have a lot of balance, and I can take hits and stay on my feet. I control myself real good, shift my weight, and run real low. I do things that people haven't seen some of the running backs in the league do.
When a team tells you we’re going to let you get your option regardless if you get it or not, that’s a message to you as to what you need to do in order to make this team or to be on this team next year.
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