Top 105 Quotes & Sayings by Terrell Owens - Page 2

When I go out there and play I just play.

Once I step on the field, by the things I do in practice and the way I practice, you can't tell that I don't love the game. But I just know it deep down.

You have a white guy as an announcer and sportscaster. Me, I'm black. I do it and I've already done some stuff in the past. We're more expressive than the white guys. You look at the skill players. We're the ones that get into the end zone. We get in the end zone more than they do.

Terrell has 25 million reasons why he should be alive.

I'm content where I am. I know I am going to be a Cowboy for life.

The only people that really matter are the people that are in my inner circle.

I'm going to have my family after I play football.

I never had any run in with the law.

But [Sunday] as you saw, it was obviously [the media] took some more than initiative to try to get me to kind of go down the wrong path. I know the last two teams that I've been on, I felt like I left those teams prematurely due to media interviews that I've done and things kind of taken out of context and they created sort of a media whirlwind in the locker room and things kind of went downhill from there. I'm just trying to do the best job I can do as far as answering the questions and trying to be a better teammate and not try to throw people under the bus.

I left a lot - a lot - of touchdowns on the field throughout the last two or three years.

But if you look at the big scheme of things, I have never failed, regardless of anything I have had to go through: from Dallas, to the sharpie, to me getting involved with a debate with my coach, a lot of people look to see my fail.

But I know in my heart what I'm doing is right.

You should know how to do your job.

A lot of people expect to see the same type of character that they see on the field off the field, and that throws them for a loop.

You have not seen my face go across the screen for any off the field problems, period.

All that matters to me now is my family.

That goes with the saying that you call on God a lot of times and you pray for things and it may not happen at that moment.

I don't have to play for the Eagles.

Everybody is not going to be squeaky clean.

What you see on the field is my job.

Off the field I'm down to earth. I'm a very caring person. I'm a very giving person.

I never even watched football growing up. I just play the game.

It doesn't matter what people say about me, whether they're in Philly, or whether they're in San Francisco... all across the world.

Growing up as a little kid, I wasn't always this size. I got picked on a lot.

All I can tell everybody is, I'm the same guy, just on a different team.

For whatever reason, God has a plan for me.

I think there is something bigger in store for me.

As you get to know me, you kind of figure me out, that I'm not as probably as bad of a guy that I've been reported to be. I'm not that jerk.

Like I always said, if I'm one of the top players in the game, pay me like I'm one of the top players in the game.

Everybody is not going to be squeaky clean. All the guys they are giving these marketing endorsement deals are the ones going out there getting in trouble. That is what is really puzzling to me. They will take a chance on the so call good image guy and they are the ones that go out there and screw it all up. You have not seen my face go across the screen for any off the field problems, period.

It doesn't matter what any of my teammates have said about me.

I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.

I have done a lot of things off the field but I feel like in my heart I dont really have to publicize what I do for people because it is from my heart.

Don't say I don't get along with my teammates. I just don't get along with some of the guys on the team.

Say I had been with a guy like Tom Brady, Peyton Manning or Drew Brees all of my career. Are you kidding me?

I knew I was going to have success here.

I feel like I know it is from my heart and God knows it is for a good cause, it is not necessary to be made public.

I feel now I can take my talent through the roof.

I don't need the recognition and I did not expect it.

I am sure I lost out on a few million or more in money but I am happy with the team that I am on and the quarterback that I am with.

Get your popcorn ready, 'cause I'm gonna put on a show.

I have donated money to the kids overseas, the open hand project and the homeless.

I am the Terrell off the field who is laid back and this is me.

I had my family before I played football.

I feel like I'm a basketball player in a football uniform.