Terrell Owens Quotes

I remind myself to be grateful and remember where I came from.

We're [President Barack Obama and I] clear on the fact that we have to stay humble and prayerful. We have to dig down deep to our roots. When things come together, we know some of it is Barack, some of it is us-but a lot of it has nothing to do with either of us.

As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.

I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from.

Every day I'm trying to be more humble and how do you do that? I guess, every day, we have mass. Every day, I pray the rosary. That's what I do.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody's life.

The most meaningful and spiritual prayers I have experienced contained many expressions of thanks and few, if any, requests.

I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.

The more I separate myself from my upbringing, the more I appreciate what it's done for me.

I've been lucky and I recognize that, but I haven't lost sight of that girl I was.

I feel that where I came from made me the actor that I am, and I wouldn't want to trade that with anything else.

Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.

But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging that I am a dependent creature. I am not self sufficient.

Even in my prime, I need God in my life because without God, we're nothing.

He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being.

I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving.

I am so leading the life that I want and wanted and dreamed of as a kid. I'm trying very hard not to abuse it or take advantage of it.

I grew up very modest, and I never forget that.

To be allowed to come back to WWE is the greatest gift that's ever been given to me. Back in the day, I never appreciated what WWE had given me, because I was in too much disarray and too confused about my own life. I let opportunities foolishly slip through my hands.

My whole life, I've wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.

The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.

I took it all for granted, I'm sorry to say.