Top 122 Quotes & Sayings by Terry Bradshaw

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Last updated on November 3, 2024.

Terry Paxton Bradshaw is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League (NFL). Since 1994, he has been a television sports analyst and co-host of Fox NFL Sunday. Bradshaw is also an actor and singer, having participated in many television shows and films, most notably starring in the movie Failure to Launch and releasing several country music albums. He played for 14 seasons with Pittsburgh, won four Super Bowl titles in a six-year period, becoming the first quarterback to win three and four Super Bowls, and led the Steelers to eight AFC Central championships. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1989, his first year of eligibility. Bradshaw was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1996.

American - Athlete | Born: September 2, 1948

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It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

Terry Bradshaw

You don't know how many times I was in the huddle, asking my teammates to help me call a play.

Terry Bradshaw

When you're clinically depressed the serotonin in your brain is out of balance and probably always will be out of balance. So I take medication to get that proper balance back. I'll probably have to be on it the rest of my life.

Terry Bradshaw

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.

Terry Bradshaw

You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy.

Terry Bradshaw

Bad attitudes will ruin your team.

Terry Bradshaw

Depression is a physical illness.

Terry Bradshaw

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

Terry Bradshaw

You can't have 'yes' people around you.

Terry Bradshaw

I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.

Terry Bradshaw

When I played for the Steelers and I got my bell rung, I'd take smelling salts and go right back out there.

Terry Bradshaw

If I could reach down in my heart, I would say I'm sorry for every unkind word and thought I ever had.

Terry Bradshaw

Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up to your level.

Terry Bradshaw

I don't like confrontation.

Terry Bradshaw

The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you.

Terry Bradshaw

Just everything that I've done, everything that I do, is to this day, all major decisions are all through prayer - all my actions, although a sinner, but you know what? I'm cool with that.

Terry Bradshaw

Any team can win.

Terry Bradshaw

I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at.

Terry Bradshaw

For an athlete, there's no time off... until it's over.

Terry Bradshaw

Forget politics and what their platforms were and everything, because you can take whoever you want to take, but the guy that I liked was Nixon... He was a smart man.

Terry Bradshaw

I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back.

Terry Bradshaw

I have always felt like a fish in water with football, Fox, speeches, riding horses, and raising cattle.

Terry Bradshaw

I found out that superstars Winkler and William Shatner are real people, and I was so thankful for that.

Terry Bradshaw

I am a Christian guy. I've struggled with that; I have struggled with everything.

Terry Bradshaw

I don't have hair anymore. I've shrunk. I'm barely 6 feet 2 inches. I just had my teeth fixed because I'm a grinder.

Terry Bradshaw

All great empires die from within.

Terry Bradshaw

I'm on national TV in front of millions and I hate making mistakes.

Terry Bradshaw

I don't want to hurt anybody.

Terry Bradshaw

As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's something about winning a Super Bowl.

Terry Bradshaw

Going out to play a game in front of 100,000 spectators doesn't worry me. Nothing to it.

Terry Bradshaw

I'm always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed.

Terry Bradshaw

There's a company that wants to put hair on me! I don't know if it's plugs, I'm sure it is. I laughed and said, 'You gotta be kidding.'

Terry Bradshaw

When I was labeled stupid, that scarred me forever.

Terry Bradshaw

I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family.

Terry Bradshaw

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

Terry Bradshaw

I'm just in an unfortunate business where if you ask me a question I have to answer it honestly and if I don't answer it truthfully then I'm not respected.

Terry Bradshaw

I'm taking memory power boost tablets to help me every day and doing the puzzles to help me stay focused.

Terry Bradshaw

I was not used to criticism.

Terry Bradshaw

Everybody handles things differently.

Terry Bradshaw

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.

Terry Bradshaw

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

Terry Bradshaw

I have been playing football since I was 7.

Terry Bradshaw

If you play in the NFL and start for 10 years, it's not good. It is not good.

Terry Bradshaw

You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.

Terry Bradshaw

I love the national anthem.

Terry Bradshaw

I'm not ashamed of who I am.

Terry Bradshaw

People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes.

Terry Bradshaw

I really don't care that I'm ranked.

Terry Bradshaw

People ask me all the time would I like to still be playing? No. I'm glad I played when I played.

Terry Bradshaw

I didn't respond well to a firm hand and insults.

Terry Bradshaw

The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.

Terry Bradshaw

Why would anyone want to read what I have to say?

Terry Bradshaw

After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced. So that's kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like he's going to be a bust in Detroit.

Terry Bradshaw

I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while.

Terry Bradshaw

I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids... my older parents and my preachers and everybody.

Terry Bradshaw

I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.

Terry Bradshaw

I miss my coach. I love my coach. I miss Chuck Noll.

Terry Bradshaw

I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.

Terry Bradshaw

I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.

Terry Bradshaw

The only thing I care about is my family.

Terry Bradshaw

Top 122 Quotes & Sayings by Terry Bradshaw

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