Richard Sherman Quotes

Pele wasn't as gifted as George Best and I would definitely put George above Johan Cruyff because he had more heart.

Arm strength, I think, is a thing that's, like, incredibly overrated in the NFL.

You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.

Carson Wentz, when you watch him on tape, No. 1, I just like a big guy that has athleticism.

I think a player should be evaluated for what he does on the playing field.

Andre Sa is playing close to his potential - maybe even above it.

David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to say that he thinks I'm being overly generous. He points out that, for years, there used to be an "all-star challenge" on television, in which the best professional athletes from a variety of sports competed in a kind of makeshift decathlon.

I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts.

I can evaluate a player in a very short period of time because I'm very close to that game, very educated in that game and played the game for a long, long time. I wasn't just a guy with talent. I learned a lot about the game.

They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.

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

When you go from Division II to the NFL, you're amazed at how good these guys really are.

Chase Daniel is not a bad player.

You have guys that are all over the field that are making a lot of plays, you'll win a lot of games in the NFL.

I pray that Jimmy Graham passes as a wide receiver. Because at the end of the day, if he passes as a wide receiver, that's better for the rest of the tight ends. He will have opened up a door, a pathway for the rest of the group.

Everybody makes a big deal about small ball. Well, I've guarded Anthony Davis every time I've played him, since he first came into the league.

Sometimes fans, sometimes even players, they don't know the game sometimes, and they look at numbers, or they use smoke-and-mirrors as far as who's a top 15 player, who's a top 20 player.

Obviously, I love the idea of athletic quarterbacks.

Equipment's the biggest change. And the guys have been getting bigger, stronger, more athletic - so the game has become more of a track meet instead of a tennis match, in a sense.

Critics have always questioned whether players like Pele from the 50s could play today. Lionel Messi could play in the 1950s and the present day, as could Di Stefano, Pele, Maradona, Cruyff because they are all great players. Lionel Messi without question fits into that category.

There's no comparison between Division I and Division II. The reason they have Division II is for the guys who can't make it at Division I. That's fine. They need to have something to feel good about themselves. Those guys have to have something to do with their lives.

Kobe's an incredibly talented athlete, and there are many more like him among today's players.

Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas. But it's a wonderful game.

I definitely run up right, and I've got pretty good speed.

We think Eli is taller and handsomer now that he's won the Super Bowl. Imagine what would've happened if [Jaws] won the Super Bowl.