Quotes About Ray Lewis

#1. Micheal Barrow and Darrin Smith, those guys were really intelligent. They're smart football players. They'd always be a step ahead of the offense and could predict what was coming. Dan Morgan has that. Jonathan Vilma has that. Ray Lewis has that.

Larry Coker

#2. Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday.

Jamal Lewis

#3. If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.

Barry Sanders

#4. Ray Lewis, I've grown up watching Ray Lewis. Just watching his intensity, his passion for the game, his love for the game, his work ethic. Everything in a linebacker that you want to be is in Ray Lewis, from leadership qualities, all that.

Manti Te'o

#5. After the Cardinals traded their No. 6 pick, I didn't know where I was going, ... The first thing I thought about was me and Ray Lewis doing that commercial, and how he made me do his laundry. And now it's actually going to be a reality.

Terrell Suggs

#6. Ray Lewis is the type of guy, if he were in a fight with a bear I wouldn't help him, I'd pour honey on him because he likes to fight. That's the type of guy Ray Lewis is.

Shannon Sharpe

#7. As far as a guy like Ray Lewis is concerned, you know he's going to be around the ball all the time.

Jamal Lewis

#8. Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar.

Dennis Miller

#9. I've been a fan of video games since the old school, I even have a lot of the old school arcade games at my house.

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#10. The only way to defeat pain is to recognize pain exists.

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#11. Because a football game is just sixty minutes, but I'm training six, seven hours in every day. So, going for sixty minutes becomes easy. More importantly, I think that your muscles mature and can move in all different directions.

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#12. There's nothing I'm doing to my body that a regular person is not doing to theirs outside of just running into somebody at full speed.

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#13. God has never made a mistake. Ever.

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#14. Life is about being a versatile athlete and training in all realms of life.

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#15. Don't let your alarm clock, be the only reason you wake up.

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#16. When you try to help people become a better person, you're going to have to find out what's really going in their world.

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#17. With all the things I've been through, the No. 1 thing that I've learned is that we're supposed to help people through this world.

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#18. There's some things you can cover up. And there's some things you can't.

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#19. Outside of these doors, it is the real world. Someone tries to get you to do something wrong, run.

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#20. Whatever your path is, that's your path.

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#21. In any war who pulls their general out? No one.

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#22. Who knows what the future holds? It's all on parenting, one way or another. I don't care what level it is, it comes back to people learning how to deal with people.

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#23. We're in a tough place in this world. There are a lot of kids giving up very early. Scripture says it takes a village to raise one child, and that's what these coaches are going to have to go back and understand.

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#24. No coach who is coaching kids should ever curse a kid.

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#25. If you clean your body out so that it is not fighting against you, you rest better, think better and you're always light on your feet.

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#26. And I love Evander Holyfield to death!

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#27. Parents needs to spend more time with who they're trusting their kids with. That's one of the nuggets going forward. Find out who these coaches are. Figure out their environment and what kind of problems they have, and see if you want your child involved with that.

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#28. The only thing that follows work is results.

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#29. Some of these kids are spending more time with the coaches than they are with their parents. The coach is supposed to be raising these kids, not belittling them and talking to them like the world is coming to an end.

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#30. Somebody has to give a wakeup call to our coaching world to ask them real questions and show them that if you have kids, then you know there is no way you can talk to somebody else like that, because that's somebody's child.

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#31. Never be comfortable ... with just good enough.

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#32. Don't waste talent. No matter what you do, don't waste talent.

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#33. Before anything great is really achieved, your comfort zone must be disturbed.

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#34. The more you know about your opponents, the more you learn how to beat them. Where the holes open to run through, blocking schemes, even down to player tendencies and what hand they like to carry the ball with.

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#35. When you see tears in my eyes, you see it's not about the wins or the losses, It's about the opportunity.

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#36. It's simple: when God is for you, who can be against you?

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#37. Success is one thing, impact is another

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#38. I have so much respect for people that are my elders. You aren't going to hear me cursing around people that are 60 and 70 years old.

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#39. I fight for the man next to me. It don't matter about me, what matters about me is sacrificing for you; for the ultimate goal which is us.

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#40. I wasn't the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic.

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#41. Watching the season for me is about watching the chess matches.

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#42. I've always had a problem with the things that people would say out of their mouths to other people. I've always had a problem with that, because a lot of people, they don't have enough information to speak to people a certain way or speak about people a certain way.

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#43. Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort, nobody can judge effort. Because effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else.

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#44. I like college football a lot, because it's the dream that you're chasing. The dream of one day possibly making it, with the harsh reality that only one percent make it.

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#45. I once said that effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. The same can be true between and individual and their camera. What you're shooting is between you and you and nobody else. Outcomes are for the audience. The action is yours alone.

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#46. You have to be careful of people who like to talk a big game but can't back it up.

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#47. Everything I got, I'm willing to sacrifice

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#48. When I step on the field, it's on. I know it's time to go to work.

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#49. I like to see honesty out of people. People who are trustworthy. I like to see people who are involved with The Lord.

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#50. The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

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#51. Do whatever you gotta do to chase your legacy every second of your life.

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#52. Parents may be always working, parents may be in and out. When you're dropping them off with coaches, the first thing kids should be coming back and saying is, 'Mom, guess what I learned today? Guess what coach taught me today?'

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#53. Any game that you step on, you can get beat.

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#54. The only thing that could pull me away, was hard work.

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#55. One of the things I've always said is that if you're given the ability to coach kids, then you're really given the ability to be a father or parent of some sort.

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#56. Whatever you want to do, go do it.

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#57. I'm a prideful person when it comes to competition.

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#58. No matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it.

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#59. The person you are in the dark will eventually be the person you are in the light.

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#60. I don't care where we're going; I'm gonna wear a suit all day, every day.

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#61. I honor God that much in the way I play. That's why I never believe in getting tired. I don't even know what that word means.

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#62. The refs are so confused themselves because there's so many rules. It's like, 'Oh my gosh I've never seen this many rules in my life.' And everybody's trying to govern this and justify that.

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#63. Nobody's as serious about health and fitness as me, and staying fit is my top priority.

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#64. Coaching is something I've been a part of my entire life. One of the things I've always been very passionate ...

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#65. Even Rod Woodson will tell you his best year he had as a professional was when he was 36 years old. If you think about why, you're much wiser.

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#66. If tomorrow wasn't promised, what would you give for today?

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#67. When you think about Peyton Manning, you think about numbers. When you think about Tom Brady, you think about championships

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#68. You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's damn near impossible to turn this around.

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#69. I love passion. I love for a coach to be passionate.

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#70. It's a bad place when you see sometimes how coaches treat people. I don't even want to say players. I want to say people. They're people before they become a player.

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#71. I didn't like where I once was, so I promised myself I wouldn't be back there.

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#72. You can't take no breaks.

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#73. Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies.

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#74. Will you be remembered, how would you be remembered, why wouldn't you fight for the greatest achievement ever?

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#75. You didn't do anything. But I won't let anyone talk to you like that.. I don't care who they are."
"You ready to fight the whole town then, darlin'?"
She pursed her lips and said without even a bit of hesitation, "If I have to.

Shelly Laurenston

#76. Regardless of how well you can be offensively, if you have a great defense, you can deal with any offense.

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#77. One thing about God's will, you can never see God's will before it happens. You can only see at the end of it.

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#78. Daddy wasn't there for me, so I had to grind every day.

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#79. I already believe I am the best linebacker in the game. Now, I have to show one more thing ? that I am the most dominating, influential person in the game and the best football player to ever put on a pair of cleats.

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#80. And that's my honour, that's what my goal is, to always keep my mum's name ringing, because I know what sacrifices she went through for me.

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#81. I've got kids that are always watching and I taught them to always finish something you started.

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#82. All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited.

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#83. In an era that's run on free agency, everybody's going where the dollars are. They go after the dollars and they forget that the game will always come down to brotherhood.

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#84. The journeythe journey, I promise you, is the greatest thing ever. The destination always takes care of itself.

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#85. Do this research if we don't have a season
watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game,

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#86. There's one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That's the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is.

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#87. I don't know a man on this Earth who can outwork me.

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#88. The locker room talk is always that about who can beat who.

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#89. We get one opportunity in life, one chance at life to do whatever you're going to do, and lay your foundation and make whatever mark you're going to make. Whatever legacy you're going to leave; leave your legacy!

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#90. When something goes wrong, smile, cause there's always a next play.

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#91. My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

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#92. Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.

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#93. Some people take certain things and they try to forget what that pain felt like. I don't. I take that same pain and I chase it every time I walk in a weight room.

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#94. You got to be willing to walk in a storm. That's what I tell people all the time.

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#95. My game is me. I didn't try to pattern my game after nobody.

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#96. So, if I give any credit, besides giving all credit to God, for being totally healthy, it's just my workout and how much torture I put my body through in the offseason.

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#97. There's no "I" on the football field. We have a total commitment to each other when we're out there. There is no doubt. It doesn't matter. The wins and losses of the game don't resonate with us. What resonates with us is "how much effort would you give for the man next to you."

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#98. To be the best and stay there, sweat is necessary.

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#99. Every day, we've got to do something physical. It's mind, body and spirit.

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#100. If there's something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God's got to change it. Because if God's got to change it, you ain't going to like it.

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