Michael Strahan Quotes

I am the only player who has been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and am the second-best player in my family.

I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.

I think it was fantastic being in the 49ers Hall of Fame.

I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best.

Nike doesn't want to make products for everyone - they want to make products for champions.

I want to be a New York Giant for a very long time.

I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.

I don't ever think about, 'Aw, man, my legacy. My legacy this.' No, I just want to fight the best fights out there to fight just to prove to the world that I'm the best fighter in the world.

I was blessed to play 15 years, especially not even supposed to have made it. So, to be able to play 15 years, win a championship, I think that basketball chapter of my life is done.

I want to finish my career as a Dolphin and win a championship here. That's what they brought me here for and that's what I came to do.

I want to be remembered as a championship football player.

I think at the end of the day, even though I didn't win a Super Bowl ring, I felt like I backed them up for drafting me. I backed up the San Diego Chargers for picking me with the fifth pick.

And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

In my heart of hearts my motivation would always have been to be the best, and I think that athletics is probably what I was built for.

I'm really looking forward to the Hall of Fame ceremonies. It's going to be unbelievable - just crazy. I'm looking forward to thanking all the fans for inspiring me to go out there and play my best football each and every game.

I don't think there's any honor bigger than going to your Hall of Fame for your sport.

What defines greatness is when you hold all the records and what you mean to your fans, on and off the field, because that is who ranks you as the greatest receiver of all-time. The guy that holds all the records, the guy that has set the stage for all of us, you have to give it to Jerry Rice.

I knew that I wasn't a first-ballot Hall-of-Fame inductee.

It would mean a lot to me to get into the Hall of Fame, to be grouped with some of the greatest players in history.

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

Amazingly enough, athletic achievement is one of those things that seems larger than life at points. I think we all look to sport for inspirations.

The three-peat has never been attempted, ever, and for me, I think it will add to my legendary status. I want to become one of the greatest athletes ever to have competed in any sport, so for me, that's what it means.

I never wanted football to be my highest peak.

I would love to bring the state of Utah their first championship. I think that's one thing I've always wanted.

To have six years of professional football under my belt already is really something.