Jerry Rice Quotes

A takeover or a player doing something wrong can take the focus away from what the most important thing is, which is to play football.

I became a professional footballer because I love football.

As long as we're winning football games, I'm happy.

As a kid, you just want to play football. For me one day it will end, but until the end I love getting the opportunity to go out there and play at a high level.

The thing it taught me was that winning's a helluva lot more fun than losing. It also taught me that the team with the best players that worked together the best wins.

A star can win any game; a team can win every game.

You are anxious before every game because you had to win it. If you didn't you went down the ladder. I felt proud of the way we beat some teams in tough games.

We're not going to apologize for acting like a good football team.

You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.

Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?

Football isn't necessarily won by the best players. It's won by the team with the best attitude.

It's hard to get up for a good high-school team like the Chicago Bulls.

At Alabama, our players don't win Heisman Trophies. Our teams win National Championships.

Teams make it tough on us, we make it tough on them. When you have two well coached teams that wanna win, it's going to be a competitive game.

A team wins with the elimination of mistakes and with people who want to win and can't stand losing.

I love winning and any team I'm on, I expect to win.

I'm one of the most competitive guys in the NFL. Believe me, nobody wants it more than me.

Being Number One isn't everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it's way ahead of whatever's in second place.

I always wanted to be a one-club man, I always wanted to play for Liverpool. If I had gone out of the team in my twenties or early thirties I would've left because I love playing football.

Age is nothing, can still win the Grand Slam, pretty happy about my age, more experience.

I want to win some Super Bowls, and so thats really my focus, to do whatever I have to do to lead this team to a championship.

Keep winning and get to the postseason, I won 20 games and they just dumped one beer on my head. It feels good because I'm helping my team win.

At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.

I've signed a contract with the Dutch national team until 2006. So I can win the World Cup not once but twice.

The men can go away, the executives can go away, but what is really though in this society are the players who has been handed down the feel of winning, of being the absolute best, which isn't equal to any other team.