Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Marshawn Lynch.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Marshawn Terrell Lynch is a former American football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons. Nicknamed "Beast Mode" for his powerful running style, he spent the majority of his career with the Seattle Seahawks. Lynch played college football at California, where he earned first-team All-American honors and became the school's second all-time career rusher. He was selected by the Buffalo Bills in the first round of the 2007 NFL Draft and played three full seasons before joining Seattle during the 2010 season.
I'm cool with my body, I love my body. I wouldn't trade it for no other body.
When I go speak to these kids through my foundation and am able to sit down and tell them some of the things that I've been through, they can look up and relate to me, and they can understand the feelings I had that are similar to what they're going through and feeling.
Michael Phelps wouldn't have been on the Wheaties box if I stuck with swimming. I've been swimming since I was a little kid. I still swim. I'm the best.
I ain't never seen no talking winning nothing. Been like that since I was little. I was raised like that.
Dej Loaf's solid.
I got dogs. I'm a dog guy.
As a running back, it takes five offensive linemen, a tight end, a fullback and possibly two wide receivers, in order to make my job successful.
Growing up in Oakland, we did things like white t-shirt, blue jeans and Nikes. That was my get down, how I was going to rock. And if you look at me right now, I'm pretty much black tee, blue jeans and some sneakers.
I've been pretty good at reading people. If you rockin' with me cause you're just a solid individual, then we're rockin'. But if you got a motive or something, I am going to probably see right through that.
I just like beautiful women. They don't have to be a celebrity, though... I mean, if they're beautiful, they're beautiful.
I don't play ball because I want attention. I do it because it gives me the opportunity to bust somebody's head. And I just love to do it. I love what I do.
I ain't got nothing to say. I just wanna play football.
I like to go home and get involved in my community.
What's my favorite thing about Seattle? It's Ho Ho's Restaurant.
I don't know what story y'all trying to get out of me. I don't know what image y'all trying to portray of me. But it don't matter what y'all think, what y'all say about me because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face - my family that I love, that's all that really matter to me.
I listen to some Kevin Gates, Rick Ross, Fabolous.
My old school hip-hop would probably consist of Bad N-Fluenz, The Dangerous Crew, Seagrams, Mr. ILL, RBL Posse, Rappin' 4-Tay.
There are only so many times I can say, 'I owe it to my offensive linemen,' or, 'The credit should go to my teammates,' before it becomes run down.
I've been a Nike athlete since day one.
My favorite college experience was probably leaving college.
Being from Oakland, you see a lot of thing. You see friends turn on friends all the time. You see family turn on family.
I don't know what's in store for me. I don't know what tomorrow is going to bring.
The Seahawks, their front office gets in the media; they talk a lot.
When a defender comes up to tackle me, I want him to feel that ground.
I've never seen anybody win the game in the media. But at the same time, I understand what it could do for you, if you wanted to be someone who talks a lot.
You never want to be the one who everyone is going to bust jokes on. The only way to prevent that is to be good at something.
If you are in your everyday life, and you feel like you just accomplished something big that you had going on, then that's Beast Mode. It's an accomplishment, that you put yourself through something to get something better out of it. I feel that that's Beast Mode.
To learn to do backflips and front flips, you had to fall and bump your head a couple times. I've been doing them since I was a little one, though. Just something I've enjoyed doing, just flip.
But I'm gon' get mine more than I get got.
I'm blessed. I'm blessed every day I wake up. So I just try to maximize every day to the fullest.
I'm just about that action, boss. I ain't ever see no talking win me nothin'.
The so-called right to privacy, as it were, is no longer a right inasmuch as it is now a privilege, to be enjoyed until it is torn away at a moment’s notice.
When you get to practice against the best, it brings the best out of you.
You find out what's in you when it comes out
I'm just 'bout that action boss.
It doesn't matter what you all think, what you all say about me, because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face, my family that I love, that's all that really matters to me.