Top 122 Quotes & Sayings by Terry Bradshaw - Page 2

That's one of the problems as a Christian, is that we have to deal with our failures and the shame of it all.

The First Amendment rights, everybody has them.

I'm a big card guy. I play Rook, Liverpool Rummy - love that. I play Pac-Man, shoot pool.

I am a man that loves the flag.

I was thinking, mothers show their love for their sons so much greater than dads do.

I've been bashed my whole career.

It was driving me crazy that I couldn't remember something that I studied the night before. All it did was trigger my anxiety, and all of sudden everything would snowball on me.

All my football injuries now have arthritis in them.

I'm learning how to prevent my brain from getting worse than it is after suffering a career worth of concussions playing football.

When I started as a color man in the booth with CBS, I would make footballs out of a roll of toilet paper.

I am not much on down-time. I'm ADHD, and I gotta be moving.

I wasn't that close to any of my teammates. I didn't find anyone to become a best friend. We don't stay in touch. They're all over the country, but I do not want to stay in touch.

I have more of an identity with Cowher than I do Tomlin. I knew Cowher when he came over from Kansas City as a defensive coordinator, and his teams were tough. Tomlin came in from Minnesota, and I didn't know anything about him. So maybe it's unfair for me to make the comparison.

If I moved back, my mother would love for me to move in because she absolutely loves her boys. 12 boys. She showers all of us. Would be no problem. She would love to have us back in the house.

I did an album called 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry.' I sang the song on 'Hee Haw.'

I've always took care of myself.

All you got to do is look around. This country's getting worse and worse and more and more immoral, and we're rotting from within.

I've never had a problem with people expressing themselves. It's one thing great about our country.

We can't talk about Jesus. We can't mention that anymore.

Most athletes, we're the good ol' boys, part of the good-ol'-boy fraternity, and we take care of our brothers, and we cover up the bad habit and the bad play.

Lawsuits make you care. I think the PR makes you care. But personally, when I got out in 1983, do I think they cared about me? No.

I lose stuff. I forget stuff. I walk into rooms and go, 'Why am I in here? What did I come in here for?' Is that normal? I'm 65. I don't know.

I got tested to see what condition my brain is in. And it's not in real good shape.

I would not put Dak Prescott on the bench. I would leave him as the starter, and I wouldn't have a problem with that at all.

I'm not afraid of being fired, and I'm gonna speak my mind.

I was frustrated I couldn't remember stuff, and I got real upset. It was driving me nuts.

The memory loss made me jittery at times.

I can't run anymore. That's the one thing I loved doing. And I can't play golf hardly at all because of wrist and back pain.

What does that mean - you're religious? Everybody is religious.

I would start with the most important thing a quarterback has to be: poised. If you panic in that pocket, you are no good. I don't care what else is there; you have to be poised.

Football is an awesome sport, but it's also a violent sport, and that's why all of us love it. We know what we checked in for, and at seven years of age, that's what I wanted to do with my life, and I didn't care that I got hurt.

Washington, D.C., is one of my favorite cities.

I know how much my late center Mike Webster suffered. I can only imagine what a lot of defensive players from my era are going through.

I'm not a one-liner guy. I'm a story guy.

I really started to forget things. That's why I quit reciting statistics: because I couldn't remember them exactly, and I stayed away from mentioning some players by name because I really wasn't sure, and I didn't want to make a mistake.

I know me, and I know my heart. I know what the Lord expects. I know what a Christian's supposed to act like, but you can't act it.

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

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

If I'm not the sexiest man alive, explain why so many women married me.

I want to help people, give hope to all. Humor is the foundation of our lives.

I didn't know I was depressed until years later. Actually, I went to the Minirth-Meier Clinic for ADD. I got tested for ADD. So, that's nice. It's nice to know you got ADD. So, that puts you on medication. Did that for years. Then got tested for clinical depression. So, finally when they tell you this, you go, 'ahhh, this is great.' So, now this explains events in your life and how you handle them. But our society frowns on it and they don't want their heroes to have these issues, but unfortunately I do.

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

Fans are fans. I hated and loved them, hated and loved them, hated and loved them.

There really has been only one thing in my life that has made me feel complete, and that is the game of football. The ability to throw a football was my God-given talent. That was my blessing and my passion; that was my calling in live, and everything that I've accomplished has derived from that.

While Bradshaw applauded McNabb for playing hurt, he offered this dose of reality for the Eagles If he doesn't stay healthy, it's over, ... What are you going to do You roll the dice.

I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back. With any bad situations I’d experienced before - a bad game or my two previous divorces - I got over them. This time I just could not get out of the hole. The anxiety attacks were frequent and extensive. I had weight loss, which I’d never had before. I couldn’t stop crying. And if I wasn’t crying, I was angry, bitter, hateful and mean-spirited. I couldn’t sleep - couldn’t concentrate. It just got crazy.

Ride it when you retire.

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

Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like playing quarterback on that team [the Pittsburgh Steelers]. It was a great ride.

I'm going to tell it straight, that yes, I'd love to be traded

I kept hearing I'd be traded to San Francisco. Man I would love that. I even went so far as to go into the locker room singing 'I left my heart in San Francisco'. Nobody laughed or said a word. I figured maybe I'd get my wish

I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger.

I must have been a really tough kid to corral. I got disciplined quite frequently. I guess that would be the best way to say it. The rod, I wore out the rod. You know, Spare the rod and spoil the child? Well, I wore out the rod.

Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far more failures are due to lack of will than lack of ability.

I had learned so much about marriage from Missy that I only had to get divorced two more times.

No one will ever win four [Super Bowls] in six years again. It won't happen. You can chisel that sucker in stone.

James Davison took me out to show me where Karl is living right now and where hes going to build. Karl wasnt at home. He was out there somewhere in the woods riding on some Caterpillar or some kind of tractor. But I figured wed at least knock on the door to see if he was there. His wife answered the door. So we got to meet Kay before Karl.

Pain is one of life's great lessons. You need to know how you'll react to the negatives in your life. Only then will you learn from the pain, and the next time it happens, you can speed up your healing process.

Football used to be my god but no longer is. I still love it, I'm still aggressive, I still want to be very successful at it, I want to win a lot of football games. And my job is to be the best football player in the world, because it affords me a life; it pays, it's my job, and so it hasn't dulled my senses for the game or the love or the great excitement I get from the game. It's just that I'm very much at peace with myself because of my faith.

The life of a winner is the result of an unswerving commitment to a never-ending process of self-completion .