Julian Edelman Quotes

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.

A college athlete is going to be competitive. You don't get to that level if you're not.

I am a football player. I like to win. And I am used to winning - quite a lot.

I've always prided myself on being a football player.

I believe that, deep down at heart, I'm a football player.

There are a lot of good football players in the league. You just try to keep yourself grounded.

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.

It wasn't about accolades, but showing that I was bred and predestined to be one of best football players to come into the league - and, every Sunday, to help my team to win.

I hustle, I run down the line, I do whatever I can to win ball games. Those are the only things we can control as baseball players.

Once you're a player, you always have a little bit of that in you.

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

I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track, and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am today and even how I think today.

To play in the Olympics, to play for your country, there's nothing like it. You love doing it and I'm looking forward to it again. We're all looking forward to trying to win another gold.

If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don't care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.

I like to win, I like to compete and I like to sack the quarterback. I imagine there's a team out there looking for that.

I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

I will do whatever it takes to win a football match.

I just wanted to be an athlete.

Again, like I said, I went out to play the game of baseball because I love to play it. I did it right. I did it the right way. I worked hard doing it.

You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's the point in being involved?

When you're on court, you just want to win. You're a competitor.

I can do my job with the best of my peers in the National Football League.

We gotta play hard and leave it all out there. Dive for lose balls, take charges, just do whatever it takes to win the game.

I think I'm a crazy competitor when it comes to basketball.