Top 81 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Sherman

I don't think college athletes are given enough time to really take advantage of the free education that they're given, and it's frustrating because a lot of people get upset with student-athletes and say, 'They're not focused on school and they're not taking advantage of the opportunity they're given.'

My teammates would never say anything bad about me, even if they thought it. That's the kind of locker room we have.

I don't believe in curses. I believe in God.

I've always been a square, a nerd. Kind of odd, kind of awkward. I still am to this day. People just think I'm a lot cooler 'cause I play football.

Giving a true speech, a true, passionate speech, is old-school football.

I would love for a regular student to have a student-athlete's schedule during the season for just one quarter or one semester and show me how you balance that. Show me how you would schedule your classes when you can't schedule classes from 2-to-6 o'clock on any given day.

There's always been adversity, wherever I've gone.

I saw a hockey game where they threw the puck aside and just started fighting. I saw that, and I'm like, 'So I'm the thug?'

The past is what the past is.

No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you'd like to witness history.

On the football field, you're still going out to there to win. And if you're not going out there to win, what are you going out there for?

My school almost lost its accreditation. If that had happened, my diploma wouldn't have been worth anything.

I know some 'thugs,' and they know I'm the furthest thing from a thug. I've fought that my whole life, just coming from where I'm coming from.

A lot of people are like, 'Don't read your news clippings.' I read them every day. Anything negative somebody said about me, I find it and use it as fuel.

There's a lot of racism still alive and still active.

You don't want to always put a bunch of sugar in you. Because your sugar gets high, it gets stuck in your blood, it gets stuck in your system. It makes you tired. You have the ups and downs.

I'm a pragmatist.

Sign language was a great experience. I have a deaf aunt that I am able to communicate with because of that class.

I talk a big game because I carry a big stick.

I don't hate anybody.

I'm the best corner in the game!

I think my game measures up pretty well to myself.

Being physical is something I pride myself on.

We've seen a lot of average college players turn into great NFL players. We've seen great college players turn into great NFL players. We've seen great college players turn into terrible NFL players.

You can know a person is a good person or a bad person by who they are, not by what they look like.

Everybody can be who they are within the scheme of the Seahawks and what we want to do.

A lot of coaches have come up to me and liked the way I played.

People don't talk much about my punt returns.

Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

You're not on scholarship for school, and it sounds crazy when a student-athlete says that, but that's - those are the things coaches tell them every day: 'You're not on scholarship for school.'

I like every aspect of defense; I enjoy shutting down the offense.

To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field - don't judge a person's character by what they do between the lines. Judge a man by what he does off the field, what he does for his community, what he does for his family.

The goal has always been to stay in Seattle and continue to play for the Seahawks.

I like to play video games and read.

To be painted a villain, you have to do something, I guess, evil or something heinous, and I don't know if I fit that description.

You rest better coming off of a win.

The playoffs, everybody gets a little frustrated. You lose, your season's over.

There may be a lot of people out there who don't like me who don't even know me. But there are quite a few people who like me because they know me. I'm not a bad guy by any means. I can't do anything about people hating me for no reason.

I'm not anybody's puppet.

I don't care about people kissing my ass or telling me how great I am. I don't really give a damn. I read the bad stuff a whole lot more than I read the good stuff. I read that because there are always going to be critics who are going to say how good you aren't.

Education is fundamental to any success. That's your baseboard.

Don't you open your mouth about the best!

If you want to judge me, I can handle it.

Work hard and believe in yourself even when nobody else believes in you.

Both criticism and praise is part of putting yourself out there.

If you put in the work, put in the time, put in the effort, you're going to reap the benefits.

The success doesn't define you. The success isn't what gave you the edge in the first place. The failure didn't give me the edge, either.

Walt had a seat-of-the-pants approach on what he wanted musically. We kind of 'read' the boss and had a very high batting average, but there were occasions when he felt we had just written the wrong piece for the situation he wanted. We invariably listened to what he wanted - he was very descriptive in what he wanted and we could read him. We'd go back to the drawing board and work out what he wanted. He was a great inspiration, but a tough taskmaster.

I think people somehow get a skewed view of Tom Brady. That he's just a clean-cut guy that does everything right and never says a bad word to anyone. We know him to be otherwise.

Sometimes you have to be somebody you're not.

We’ve been in all the big games, we’ve been in small games, and we’ve treated them all the same and I think that mentality is what’s helped us get to the point where we are now.

I don't want to be an island. I want to be more of a tourist attraction. You stop here, I take your money and you go.

I kind of go to the beat of my own drum.

The edge came from the slights I've had throughout my life, the slights I have dealt with through the entirety of my life. It wasn't one day when somebody said something and that made me upset and now I'm over it. I'm not going to stop playing with an edge because that's what got me here. That's just how I play the game. I can't play any other way.

There are a lot of things my mother taught me and helped me and disciplined me and made sure I stayed on the right track. And there are a ton of things that only my father could have taught me.

Every TV timeout, I went up and said it right to Brady: 'Please keep trying me. I'm going to take it from you.'

If I don't have the books to read, if I don't have the information to study, how can I succeed? That's a lot of the stuff I would focus on if I was elected because I think knowledge is power.

I'm the best corner in the game. When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that is the result you are going to get. Don't you ever talk about me.

It's an awesome feeling being a father, because you never think you can fall in love with something so quickly. It was almost immediate.

Your circumstances don't dictate your future. ... Your circumstances don't limit you.