Ray Lewis Quotes

I don't think I can play any other way but all out . . . I enjoy the game so much because I'm putting so much into it.

Football is my life, and I cannot imagine myself doing anything other than playing this game.

If you're not an ambitious footballer, you're in the wrong game, really.

I had so many outs in my career. I could have said, I don’t need this. I have money; I have fame; I have victories; I have Grand Slams. But when your love for something is bigger than all those things, you continue to keep getting up in the morning when it’s freezing outside, when you know that it can be the most difficult day, when nothing is working, when you feel like the belief sometimes isn’t there from the outside world, and you seem so small. But you can achieve great things when you don’t listen to all those things.

When somebody's really good, they're not just thinking about their job.

A lot of fans were drawn to me because they knew that whatever the score was, I was going to run as hard as I could on every play. You don't have that now, you have guys waiting for next week or even next year.

You've gotta love the game. To become really good, you need to live it and sleep it.

No matter what you're doing, try to work at that task like it's your dream job.

Once I step on the field, by the things I do in practice and the way I practice, you can't tell that I don't love the game. But I just know it deep down.

I literally want to work until I'm in the grave.

Life is not fair. And you have to choose your battles, because there are some that you cannot win. If you're passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.

We agreed to love each other madly.

No matter if I have a job for one weekend or for the next year, or three years, I'm going to drive the same way. That's the way I am. I'm going to give it everything I have.

Now I am short on some props, and there isn't nearly enough time in one night to run through all the ways I've fantasized about taking you, but I promise you this..." His voice deepened, "You'll be scandalized in the morning when you can think again.

As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.

If all of us who love baseball and are doing our jobs, then those who get the game from us will be as proud to be a part of it as we were. And we are. This game is a gift, and I am humbled, very humbled, to accept its greatest honor.

My motivation comes from playing the game I love.

I have worked like a galley slave throughout these eight years, morning till night, and I have given all I could to this work. I am happy with the results.

I have a really strong passion for what I do. I don’t see myself doing anything else.

If every basketball player worked as hard as I did, I'd be out of a job

It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important.

I think you take a job, you owe it as much passion as the job itself demands. And most jobs demand that you be totally committed.

I'm passionate, I'm driven at my job and I also am compassionate with people. We all think we can save somebody that we love.

You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody.

I wanted to follow the path of music and feel that power, and I couldn't turn back.