Ed Reed Quotes

Oh, I never knew I was going to be a great player.

Nobody can tell me that if players are good enough, they will come through. That is not true. There are plenty of players who are good enough.

I had a coach when I was getting recruited say maybe you should play basketball at a Division III level, because you're not good enough to play football in college.

I led the state in defensive interceptions my senior year, with seven in nine games. Then I went to Montana to play basketball and found out quickly that my college career wasn't going to work out how I'd envisioned it.

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school.

Every kid in America dreams of playing in the big leagues and they don't, just because. It's not because they blew out their knee. It's just because they didn't make it.

People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.

People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.

I had jumped about 6.40 metres with no training, no run-up, and certainly no skill, when this big, good-looking guy came up to me and told me I could be great.

If it wasn't for finding out that my right leg could kick a ball really far, which is what I did, I am 100 percent certain that I would be attempting to be or would be a professional wrestler.

A lot of freshmen will come in and say they can do what Carmelo did, but not everybody is Carmelo Anthony. He was a special player. Syracuse was a great fit for him.

I've been called so many names and been written off by so many people who just say, 'Whatever happened to this guy?'

I had a little bit of expectations just to be not terrible, because you can't be named so similar to a sport and not be at least adequate at that sport. I don't think there's been expectations to be really good, because my parents never put that kind of pressure on me, but I had to be at least decent.

In 2003, being Virginia Player of the Year was an amazing feeling because I think that was the moment I realized I could actually, really go far in my sport, and I was actually, really good at something. At that moment, I knew that I could play at a high level.

I was a Division III kid whose dad wasn't a coach.

I went to the University of Arizona on a full athletic scholarship for gymnastics, where I competed and got 9th in the nation at the NCAAs.

I always knew and my parents always knew I was destined for greatness. I didn't know what sport it was going to be in. I played football, baseball and wrestling.

If you see Michael Johnson running a race, and he beats someone by three strides, that's really dominating, but it's beautiful.

Nobody wants to hear me sing! I can sing, but nobody wants to be there for it.

I've always been a scorer. So when I went to Arizona, I led the team in scoring both years.

Coaching in college is not a right. It's a privilege.

I was top-10 once upon a time in this league, and I took a quick drop-off. Like, that's just not normal.

It's easy to feel spurned, especially when you return to your apartment and stare at the hundreds of rejection letters tacked to your bulletin board.

I enjoyed playing the other sports. I just sucked at them.

It is unusual for a coach to call you, just from a fundamental standpoint and say 'hey we're watching what you do.'