Richard Sherman Quotes

#1. I consider every one of the Disney films that Bob & I worked on, to have been the luckiest break any two songwriters could have ever had. They all aimed at quality and timelessness. That's why they live over the years.

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#2. The goal has always been to stay in Seattle and continue to play for the Seahawks.

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#3. I know some 'thugs,' and they know I'm the furthest thing from a thug. I've fought that my whole life, just coming from where I'm coming from.

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#4. The playoffs, everybody gets a little frustrated. You lose, your season's over.

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#5. I don't care about people kissing my ass or telling me how great I am. I don't really give a damn. I read the bad stuff a whole lot more than I read the good stuff. I read that because there are always going to be critics who are going to say how good you aren't.

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#6. There's always been adversity, wherever I've gone.

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#7. I'm a pragmatist.

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#8. Every TV timeout, I went up and said it right to Brady: 'Please keep trying me. I'm going to take it from you.'

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#9. To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field - don't judge a person's character by what they do between the lines. Judge a man by what he does off the field, what he does for his community, what he does for his family.

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#10. Sign language was a great experience. I have a deaf aunt that I am able to communicate with because of that class.

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#11. It's hard coming in here talking a big game. It's hard, it's hard. It's a lamb coming to the wolves and throwing meat at them.

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#12. We've seen a lot of average college players turn into great NFL players. We've seen great college players turn into great NFL players. We've seen great college players turn into terrible NFL players.

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#13. There's a lot of racism still alive and still active.

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#14. I don't want to be an island. I want to be more of a tourist attraction. You stop here, I take your money and you go.

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#15. Both criticism and praise is part of putting yourself out there.

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#16. It's an awesome feeling being a father, because you never think you can fall in love with something so quickly. It was almost immediate.

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#17. I like every aspect of defense; I enjoy shutting down the offense.

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#18. I'm the best corner in the game. When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that is the result you are going to get. Don't you ever talk about me.

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#19. If I don't have the books to read, if I don't have the information to study, how can I succeed? That's a lot of the stuff I would focus on if I was elected because I think knowledge is power.

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#20. I think people somehow get a skewed view of Tom Brady. That he's just a clean-cut guy that does everything right and never says a bad word to anyone. We know him to be otherwise.

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#21. I would love for a regular student to have a student-athlete's schedule during the season for just one quarter or one semester and show me how you balance that. Show me how you would schedule your classes when you can't schedule classes from 2-to-6 o'clock on any given day.

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#22. I kind of go to the beat of my own drum.

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#23. He did look like the Monopoly man, but it was smooth. I thought he was going to pull a monocle out. That would have been awesome. And did you see the pocket watch? That was incredible.

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#24. There may be a lot of people out there who don't like me who don't even know me. But there are quite a few people who like me because they know me. I'm not a bad guy by any means. I can't do anything about people hating me for no reason.

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#25. Education is fundamental to any success. That's your baseboard.

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#26. We've been in all the big games, we've been in small games, and we've treated them all the same and I think that mentality is what's helped us get to the point where we are now.

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#27. You think, "Aw man, I would never want somebody else's poop on my hand," but when it's your child, "Oh, it's not that bad, I'll just wash it off."

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#28. The past is what the past is.

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#29. Work hard and believe in yourself even when nobody else believes in you.

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#30. If you want to judge me, I can handle it.

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#31. I've always been a square, a nerd. Kind of odd, kind of awkward. I still am to this day. People just think I'm a lot cooler 'cause I play football.

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#32. I'm not anybody's puppet.

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#33. If you put in the work, put in the time, put in the effort, you're going to reap the benefits.

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#34. You're not on scholarship for school, and it sounds crazy when a student-athlete says that, but that's - those are the things coaches tell them every day: 'You're not on scholarship for school.'

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#35. I'm the best corner in the game!

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#36. Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

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#37. You can know a person is a good person or a bad person by who they are, not by what they look like.

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#38. Don't you open your mouth about the best!

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#39. Good, bad or indifferent, I'm transparent with my opinions and what I believe. I just don't think in politics you can be that way.

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#40. I'm intelligent enough and capable enough to understand that you are ignorant, pompous, egotistical cretin. I'm going to crush you on here because I'm tired of hearing about it.

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#41. Sometimes, months elapse before we've completed the song completely. There's no set rule. Something inside of you says - 'now you can present it!' If one of us feels it's not quite right, lyrically or melodically, we don't present it.

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#42. I don't believe in curses. I believe in God.

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#43. The success doesn't define you. The success isn't what gave you the edge in the first place. The failure didn't give me the edge, either.

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#44. Giving a true speech, a true, passionate speech, is old-school football.

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#45. I think my game measures up pretty well to myself.

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#46. Everybody is a critic, everybody has a voice, everybody can reach you. Everybody is an expert and that's what makes it fun.

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#47. Walt Disney was a great believer in the use of song to convey story. He was primarily a storyman & story-driven songs were his 'pets.' He always asked what was going on with the song - he hated 'singing heads.' He loved learning about character & motivation thru music & lyrics.

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#48. Being physical is something I pride myself on.

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#49. A lot of people are like, 'Don't read your news clippings.' I read them every day. Anything negative somebody said about me, I find it and use it as fuel.

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#50. On the football field, you're still going out to there to win. And if you're not going out there to win, what are you going out there for?

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#51. Your circumstances don't dictate your future ... Your circumstances don't limit you.

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#52. My school almost lost its accreditation. If that had happened, my diploma wouldn't have been worth anything.

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#53. A lot of coaches have come up to me and liked the way I played.

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#54. But people find it easy to take shots on Twitter, and to use racial slurs and bullying language far worse than what you'll see from me. It's sad and somewhat unbelievable to me that the world is still this way, but it is. I can handle it.

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#55. I was making sure everyone knew Crabtree was a mediocre receiver. And when you try the best corner in the game with a mediocre receiver, that's what happens. I appreciate that he knows that now.

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#56. I saw a hockey game where they threw the puck aside and just started fighting. I saw that, and I'm like, 'So I'm the thug?'

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#57. To be painted a villain, you have to do something, I guess, evil or something heinous, and I don't know if I fit that description.

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#58. People don't talk much about my punt returns.

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#59. You don't want to always put a bunch of sugar in you. Because your sugar gets high, it gets stuck in your blood, it gets stuck in your system. It makes you tired. You have the ups and downs.

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#60. My teammates would never say anything bad about me, even if they thought it. That's the kind of locker room we have.

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#61. I like to play video games and read.

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#62. There are a lot of things my mother taught me and helped me and disciplined me and made sure I stayed on the right track. And there are a ton of things that only my father could have taught me.

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#63. You rest better coming off of a win.

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#64. Depending on the story, I don't feel that the music is disappearing. I feel if the story demands songs, they'll have songs. If it doesn't demand songs, you'll have underscore.

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#65. Anytime you run a gimmick offence, you're a little bit afraid - you're not sound in what you're doing in your base stuff.

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#66. My brother & I have always said that to write a song, it takes all the experiences of your life, plus the time it takes to write it! To be specific, yes, sometimes a song takes place in one session - together in one day.

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#67. I talk a big game because I carry a big stick.

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#68. Everybody can be who they are within the scheme of the Seahawks and what we want to do.

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