Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American footballer Edgerrin James.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Edgerrin Tyree James is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons. He played college football for the Miami Hurricanes. He was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts fourth overall in the 1999 NFL Draft. James also played for the Arizona Cardinals and Seattle Seahawks. The AP NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year in 1999, he earned four Pro Bowl selections and four All-Pro selections. James is the Colts' all-time leader in career rushing yards, attempts, and touchdowns. James is 13th on the all-time rushing list, and a member of the 10,000 Yards rushing club. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 2020.
I just want to live like a full-time tourist, to show up at the airport, pick a destination, walk up to the counter and say, 'Do you have any first-class seats?'
People underestimate me, maybe because of my look, maybe because of my speech, and I love that. I love to give the impression that I'm an easy victim. I ain't nobody's fool, believe that.
Trust me-the day I'm not into football, I'll walk away.
I want to be one of the best ever. It's important to me. Why can't I be? Who's faster than me? Not many. Who has the size and can move like me? Not many. Catch passes like me? Not many.
It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken
Put me in any city, I'll end up doing something with kids. That's the time of your life when it's pure fun.
I never got into the gangs. Gangs are for followers.
I keep things real simple because I know where I came from and I don't ever want to go back to that way of living.
I was a man by middle school.
All my life has been about proving myself.
Too much of my family has messed with drugs. Addiction might be in my genes, so I ain't never tryin' it. It's something you can't control, and I don't like things I can't control. I worked too hard to have it taken away for something stupid. I ain't gonna be laughed at the way I used to laugh at those crackheads.
My way has always worked. My way is what got me here.
My biggest fear in the world is going broke and having to depend on someone else again.
I want to make my mark in the NFL. This is the highest level, and this is where it goes down in history.
I take pride in whatever I do. If you told me to clean the room up, I'd clean it up real good.
My total goal in life is to have fun. I just want to be out and around, chillin'.
To be the best of all time, you have to do it over and over. I want to keep it up, and then the numbers will speak for themselves.
I hate getting yelled at, that'll get you on my bad side. My mom never yelled at me. She just told us what needed to be done and we did it.
I want to be remembered as a person who kept it real, who did what he wanted to do, but never did nothing stupid and never tried to offend nobody else. I'm always being myself.