Jerry Rice Quotes

Hopefully, my teammates will say that I was important and that I gave it everything and I didn't leave anything to chance my whole career. To be mentioned as Hall-worthy is a great thing.

My interpretation of football is to stay humble, work hard, and things will come.

I'm a Hall of Famer and I'm still fighting for it because I love the game and I love to play.

For me, I pride myself on every aspect of the game.

Although I have never won a major trophy, I consider myself a winner because I helped Fiorentina to compete with the big boys.

I don't care what you do in life. To say that that year I was the absolute best, especially when you're in a team sport - and I have more of a personality that I wished I would've played an individual sport - to win a championship, to get 60 people and focused in one direction and do it over a seven-month period is phenomenal.

There is nothing better than playing for the championship at any level of football.

The game has been great to me. The Steelers have been great to me, and I think things will work out and take its toll. But I'm just singularly focused on being a great player, being here around the guys and my teammates, and representing my family.

I love being an All-Star and continue to want to be an All-Star because that just shows you my talent and who I am. But I've always been a team player.

I must continue to work hard to help my teammates. Competition always exists in football.

I would like to be remembered as a boxer who tried to do his best.

But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer.

My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.

I'm worried about doing my best, playing to my potential, helping out my teammates, and trying to win games for the Giants.

I just want to continue to play great football - that's all that matters. I don't really care about the accolades or any of that.

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

There are so many things about playing football that seem to me uniquely American. Anybody can succeed, anybody can play, but you've got to work hard to do it.

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

There was no question that in our house doing well, doing it the right way, school, sports - there was an expectation. One of the things I've taken away from that is that I'm unafraid to expect a fair amount from people. It makes them so much better - you're doing them a disservice if you don't.

Football taught me how hard you had to work to achieve something.

Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.

That's what really motivates me: to make my coaches proud, my teammates proud, and the fans proud.

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.