Top 106 Quotes & Sayings by Shannon Sharpe - Page 2

Some guys get on the road, the first thing they do is look for the nearest golf course. I look for a gym.

The NFL is made up of 1,800 players, guys from different religious backgrounds, different upbringings. I love Peyton Manning. But I don't want 1,800 Peyton Mannings in the NFL.

I want to make one thing crystal clear. The NFL does have a responsibility to make sure that their players are upstanding, law-abiding citizens.

Everybody has an ego, and they don't like their athletic ability to be questioned.

Everything I am is because of my grandmother.

Even through all those Pro Bowls, at the end of the day, I was always just a seventh-round pick.

When I went to the Pro Bowl, I went as a tight end. When I made the All Pro team, I made it as a tight end. When they introduced us and I ran out of the tunnel, they introduced me as a tight end. So how is that possible that now that my career is over, they say, 'Well, he put up stats like a wide receiver?' It's not my fault I was ahead of my time.

Talent is what wins games.

Some people think all I did was trash talk. But ask my teammates, coaches - they saw how hard I worked, how hard I prepared.

Most of the great players leave the game under their terms.

I love the NFL. Everything that I really have is because of the NFL... but every idea that the NFL pitched is not a great idea.

Guys would always start by saying, 'You ain't going to get nothing today, Sharpe!' And I'd say, 'Know what? Don't be surprised if your name is on the waiver wire tomorrow. It could have been prevented. But you wanted to go there. So now when you see your name on the wire, you'll know who put it there.'

I like to talk. I admit it.

I didn't bother with trash-talking people's moms, wives, or girlfriends. I was like, 'Hold on, man, you mean to tell me you're making $10 million a year? That's $9 million, $999,999 too much!' That ate them up.

I'll always respect that institution of the presidency, and I'll respect President Trump.

I like to think my teammates had a good time when I was around.

I'm just a skinny kid from Glennville, Georgia. I'm going to the Hall of Fame. Not to the Hall of Very Good. The Hall of Fame.

I really carried that seventh-round tag with me my whole career, even at the end.

Some people retire and play golf. Some people hunt. Some people fish. I work out.

A lot of guys are going to say, 'Look, if it meant me getting a Super Bowl ring, I'd run right over the top of my brother.' And I would have. But once it was said and done, I would have been very disappointed that I had to get the ring at my brother's expense.

You can't be a poor sport all the time.

You're not going to win all the time.

I'm not supposed to be phonetically correct or enunciate perfectly.

I'm not uncomfortable with my looks.

No matter what I do, unless I break his records, I'm still going to be Sterling's little brother.

I'm not a good talker, I'm a great talker because I do it so often over a long period of time.

I was a talker back in elementary school. I used to get A's and B's in everything, but I got an F in conduct.

I don't want to live in a society where we ask sporting leagues or place of employment to dole out harsher punishment than what the criminal justice system would.

There's not a throw that Tom Brady can make that Aaron Rodgers can't, but there are several throws that Aaron Rodgers can make that Tom Brady only dreams of making.

I was always a talker. You just don't wake up one morning and say, I think I want to talk a little more.' Some are better at it than others.

I felt like I always had to fight to prove my worth.

We have never, ever, in the history of football seen a guy that possesses what Aaron Rodgers possesses. Nobody, no quarterback in history, has the touch, the accuracy, the ability to throw the ball moving left or right, throw the ball from the pocket, throw the ball from different plains.

I'm all in on 'Undisputed,' and that's where I was with football.

I love to work out.

The only thing I do is say what everyone else is thinking but doesn't have the guts to say.

When someone keeps doing something, you say that that isn't him, he is just making some bad decisions. Sometimes those decisions reflect the person.

You just don't wake up one morning and say, 'I'm going to be a talker. I'm going to be a braggart.' It's something you achieve over the years, and you get better at it. Obviously, I've gotten pretty good at it.

Most fans outside Denver don't like me, and for good reason. I give them every reason not to like me.

You have to do more than the coaches ask you, or you'll never be a great player in this league.

The guys that are serious serious about football - your Peyton Mannings, your Tom Bradys - I'm not saying don't advertise or do endorsements dollars. But there's a time and a place for everything.

Without TD, we don't win Super Bowls. That's fact.

The British are coming, the British are coming! Mr. President! We need the National Guard! We need as many men as you can spare because we are killing the Patriots! So call the dogs off! Send the National Guard, please! They need emergency help! Please! Help!

Tell Ray to put the eyeliner, the lipstick and the high heels away. I'm not saying he's a cross-dresser, that's just what I heard.

I won't talk about someone's mother. I won't talk about their girlfriend or their wife, but if you have a deformity, I would talk about that.

Ray Lewis is the type of guy, if he were in a fight with a bear I wouldn't help him, I'd pour honey on him because he likes to fight. That's the type of guy Ray Lewis is.

This was a no-brainer, ... When it came down to it, I said to myself, Hey, you can still play, you can still play at a high level and you still enjoy playing. Why not play?