Omari Hardwick Quotes

Having a father as a football and a baseball coach, I grew up around college baseball players, college football players, like, I just knew sports my whole life.

When I wrestled in College, my team was very good.

You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college.

I was set to go to Oregon to play college baseball and football.

When I'm out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I'm doing.

Any game is important to me. At Boston College, when I went out for the spring games, I wanted to win. Maybe it is more important than other preseason games. It's just that everyone is expecting a lot from me in my first week of professional football. I want to confirm my expectations.

In the NFL, if you make the play or you don't make the play, you're just a football player who did or didn't make the play. You don't get more yards or less yards based on what you're labeled as by society.

There's no better Gamecock than Marcus Lattimore.

I was a Division I college athlete, and I grew up with five brothers and two sisters. I've always been a competitor.

Football has never left me. I still wake up in the morning and think of the operating room like a game, like it's showtime, let's perform.

Sometimes, as a former football player, we have to go into that away game and silence the crowd. And just let them know I am the man. I'm going to be here for a long time.

I competed every day as a professional football player... You've got to like competing. That's how your team gets better, when you have competition every day.

I had a full-ride football scholarship as a middle linebacker.

To this day I can brag to anyone who will listen that I had a catch in the Rose Bowl.

I was a competitor as a football player and I'm a competitor as a coach.

I like to let my football do the talking, I'm respectful of other good teams such as Arsenal.

I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.

I feel blessed that I had an opportunity to be in the Big Ten for four years as a player and be in the Big Ten as a coach for eight years. To get 12 years in a conference like the Big Ten - it's a first-class league with great towns and great fans.

I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.

Olympians are the product of the Movement, and to get them to the stadiums, pools and playing fields, it takes the actions of legions of people who might not be Olympians.

You know, I don't only play for the record books.

During the season... fun, to me, is getting sacks, making tackles and winning games. It's not spending money, girls, or, you know, this and that.

It's important to score some goals and make the decisive pass for my club.

I actually ran in junior high school a little bit, you know, like most kids do in track and things. Then I got out of it and just trained for football and played ball for so many years - high school, college and the NFL.