Marquise Goodwin Quotes

I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.

I was in the top 1 percent of football players. Indie guys are in the bottom 95 percent of wrestlers.

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

I want to be one of the greatest athletes ever to live, not only in track and field, but in all of general sport.

Watching Bo Jackson, seeing his size, his speed, a lot of his abilities, really drove me.

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.

Football's the biggest game in the world. America's the greatest sporting nation there is. To play some part in putting those two things together: why wouldn't I be excited about that?

I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.

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.

I feel like I'm just like anyone else. I just happen to play football, and obviously with that comes responsibility, but I love that.

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

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.

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

I want to be able to show NFL teams, Whatever you need help at, I can play it.

I never wanted football to be my highest peak.

My dad wanted me to play football so bad, he took me to Washington High School on the west side of Atlanta because they were number one. They never lost.

I was always an athlete; my grandfather and my dad are basketball players, and I played sports my whole life.

It's one of my goals to play in the best leagues and against the best players.

I ran track and played football... I was an all-American.

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.

I'm not your average athlete. I'm good at other things. I'm not just a basketball player. I'm multi-talented.

I know what being a star athlete means.

I travelled the world because of the way people saw me at the Olympics.

I will try hard to win more medals for the country and make India proud.

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.