Top 101 Quotes & Sayings by Ed Reed

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American celebrity Ed Reed.

Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Edward Earl Reed Jr. is a former American football free safety in the National Football League (NFL), spending the majority of his career with the Baltimore Ravens. He played college football for the Miami Hurricanes, where he was a two-time consensus All-American. He was drafted by the Ravens in the first round of the 2002 NFL Draft and played 11 seasons with them before playing with the Houston Texans and New York Jets in 2013.

American - Celebrity | Born: September 11, 1978

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The fact of the matter is that people don't understand that football players are regular people just like them. And half of them don't understand the business. And most of them just want you to entertain them.

Ed Reed

When kids grow up into adults now... they learn that taking care of their body is like taking care of their car. You're not going to put bad gas into your car. Why not treat your body the same way? It makes all the sense in the world for us to do the right thing for our bodies.

Ed Reed

We all played sports, my brothers, my daddy, my uncles. That's all we had.

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I was very proud to hear that my friend Andre Johnson was like, 'Man, I'm going back to school.' I was so excited because, yeah you have great talent. You do everything on Sundays, you do everything on the field, but you went to college, and I'm not saying that you forgot about it, but that was on your mind when you first went.

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Especially in black communities, we've been so groomed to stay where we are and not like people in the other neighborhoods. It's crazy. It won't allow people to experience life and see what the world truly has to offer. People are stuck in their ways, stuck in their communities, stuck on their streets.

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I always know how to play this game. It's about being smart.

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If the youth has a good foundation, then I think they won't grow into the bad situations they get into.

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We've got to help our community out. We've got to help Baltimore out, because it's a lot of things that have been handed down in our society that we're dealing with.

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I'm always excited about life.

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We had church and sports, and that's how we stuck together. We were so hungry sometimes, but if somebody's playing football, you can completely forget about eating until later on that night.

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I tried to go and get my master's in-season. That's a tough cookie to try to eat, but it's just a great thing.

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God gives you talent to nurture. God gives you talent to be something. Some people realize it and some people don't.

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I've just been playing football for a long time. I've been playing football since I was a little kid, so it's just some natural blessings that God has blessed me with to get to the ball and understand what I've been doing over the years.

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When I'm on the football field, I'm giving you everything. Do the Ravens know that? Yes they do.

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Working out is a part of life.

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That's what being a human is about, leaving this place better than we got it.

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There's a lot of good fans out there, but there's also a lot of bad - I don't want to say bad people, but a lot of people who just want to try to get on your nerves and stuff like that, man.

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Not everybody likes Ed Reed.

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When I was in Baltimore, it was all about raising me and not having players come in and out of there. It was about raising men, and there was a reason why it built up to the success.

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I've been treated with the utmost respect by the whitest of white guys, and I've been treated bad by the whitest of white persons. I've been treated bad by the blackest of black persons and treated good by the blackest of black persons. So at the end of the day, I know it's about humanity - do you have a good heart or a bad heart?

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I love Bill Belichick. He is a great coach, great man - raising men to do the right thing and win championships in this league.

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We're all going to have our trials and tribulations, but you can work through them and everything will be all right.

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We need more of our young youth graduating from college trying to get their education, and trying to be contributing members, positive contributing members to the community.

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Monday night, there ain't a better time to showcase your talent.

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Encourage those around you. Encourage yourself.

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There will be good and bad, right and wrong. Your reaction of choice, good or bad, has consequences that affect you and those around you.

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There's not many people - only really the great ones - who realize what they were born to do.

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Not every officer is a bad police. I work with police officers. I know first responders.

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My dad would leave at 4 or 5 in the morning and then I wouldn't see him until evening. The conversations we used to have, he would tell me, 'A man takes care of his home first. A man handles his responsibility. He doesn't ask another man for anything.'

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Help each other, encourage each other, lift each other up.

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Football was easy.

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It's tough for kids to stay focused if they don't have something to get them off the streets... that's where the kids can get into the bad things.

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Football is what we do. It's our job, it's a business.

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I am going to graduate school, but that ain't got nothing to do with football.

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I know everybody wants to make it to the NFL, but it doesn't happen like that.

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It wasn't about accolades, but showing that I was bred and predestined to be one of best football players to come into the league - and, every Sunday, to help my team to win.

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Now that I know the dangers? Yes, I still would do it again. Why? 'Cause look at me. Look at my family. They're able to eat, they're able to have food and shelter over their head. Would I play football again? Yes.

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I was a San Francisco fan when Joe Montana and Ronnie Lott and those guys where there. And I watched Joe Montana get cut and go to K.C. and still ball.

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Not everybody is going to understand you. You can't please everybody. That's just human nature. Everybody has their opinion, and that's going to be there. You deal with it. You take it in stride. You take the good with the bad, the bad with the good. That's part of life.

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I look at the quarterback and the receivers. You look at the quarterback, the formation. I focus on the passing game and react on the running game. You look at it over and over, then sooner or later, it becomes like a movie. You ever notice how you quote movies? That's all film watching is.

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Coming out of college, I wasn't considered the fastest, the biggest or the smartest. There was no way around that.

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God has blessed me with the ability to play football.

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I wasn't about one season, but career and longevity.

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I want to be the best, but it comes with a lot of work. And it can be pressure if you put it on yourself in that way. But if I keep going the way I'm going, and with the good Lord guiding me the way he's been guiding me, and the way I let him take control of my life, the sky is the limit.

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I'm not the kind of person to hold my tongue.

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Ever since I was a kid, I knew I could play in the NFL because I had a knack for the game. But I can't play this game forever. When I'm finished, maybe I'll become a motivational speaker, maybe a preacher. But children need to know that life may be hard, but you can always overcome.

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There's only so many guys on a football team that really have a voice. So anytime you have a microphone, you should use it for the betterment of humanity, for the betterment of this country, for the betterment of our kids coming up behind us, for the future of the world. Why not? Make the world a better place.

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If you play NFL football, you play football, these are the consequences. There's choices and consequences in life for everything. There's consequences if you play football.

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Pretty much just stay humble. And continue to work hard and let the game come to me and try not to make even more plays or jump plays. Just let the game come to me and play my defense and my responsibility.

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My older brother, he did everything. He played baseball, he played basketball. Just being able to watch him as a youngster, wanting to be like him, wanting to play on the team with him and watching those older guys in my neighborhood play sports.

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I love this game, and I put my heart and soul into it.

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Baltimore is my heart. The fans are family.

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We always said it's not suit-and-tie on the football field.

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My time in Baltimore was awesome, every bit of it.

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The only way we protect ourselves, the only way a player gets what he wants is by holding out.

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Everyone has their own greatness. Whether you reach your own greatness depends on your environment, your structure, the company you keep and your attitude.

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My philosophy was simple. I was trying to score when I got the football in my hand. There was no question about that.

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Everybody in the world knows that plans tend to change.

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You don't hear about tradition in the NFL, but we have a tradition in Baltimore. It was just an awesome place to be.

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I take care of myself. I try my best.

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