Terrell Owens Quotes

God blessed me to play football.

Ill watch the highlights every now and then but, as far as watching the game, I feel like I am the game.

This is a dirty business, that is why I go out and play with my heart. I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports. This is like a nine to five. No guaranteed contracts, and that is the worst thing about it.

I am sure I lost out on a few million or more in money but I am happy with the team that I am on and the quarterback that I am with.

A lot of people have to deal with the feeling that their worlds are caving in.

I feel like with me being a big part of any offense, then the numbers are going to come.

I don't have to play for the Eagles.

I just feel like I know what I bring to the game. Very confident in what I do.

People forget that I'm a human being, just because I play a sport that everybody loves. We're human. We're not invincible. We share the same feelings and emotions that people on the outside feel. I don't think people really understand that.

A lot of people think I'm stuck up. Pretty much that I'm arrogant. I only do that when I'm on the field.

I've only been on one vacation ever. I just went to Acapulco before training camp.

Don't say I don't get along with my teammates. I just don't get along with some of the guys on the team.

I have done a lot of things off the field but I feel like in my heart I dont really have to publicize what I do for people because it is from my heart.

All that matters to me now is my family.

Everything that I've gone through since the end of 2010, from me finding out about my financial adviser stealing, mismanaging my money - that affected everything, from child support, mortgages, to me having to sell my properties, me being in and out of court trying to modify my child support. It's a lot to deal with at one time.

Everything that I have done that the media sees as an obstacle, I have over come it.

I'm going to have my family after I play football.

A lot of emotional stress that people go through, some people figure out a way to handle it. They have a strong enough support system to keep going and keep moving forward. And some people, they feel like they don't have that outlet.

I never even watched football growing up. I just play the game.

You have not seen my face go across the screen for any off the field problems, period.

I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.

But I know in my heart what I'm doing is right.

A lot of people expect to see the same type of character that they see on the field off the field, and that throws them for a loop.

I knew I was going to have success here.

I know the microphones and cameras are on me. They're looking at my gestures and taking it and running with it because of things that have happened in the past. It's very unfair.

For whatever reason, God has a plan for me.

It doesn't matter what any of my teammates have said about me.

I had my family before I played football.

But [Sunday] as you saw, it was obviously [the media] took some more than initiative to try to get me to kind of go down the wrong path. I know the last two teams that I've been on, I felt like I left those teams prematurely due to media interviews that I've done and things kind of taken out of context and they created sort of a media whirlwind in the locker room and things kind of went downhill from there. I'm just trying to do the best job I can do as far as answering the questions and trying to be a better teammate and not try to throw people under the bus.

You never know what a person is going through, regardless of how much money they make or however great a life you think they're living.

I think at some point during the course of the game, I will have an impact - whether it's blocking or whether it's catching the football.

I know my body better than anything, better than anybody.

I left a lot - a lot - of touchdowns on the field throughout the last two or three years.

This is Gods world this is not the medias world.

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 wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to achieve that.

I don't need the recognition and I did not expect it.

Off the field I'm down to earth. I'm a very caring person. I'm a very giving person.

It doesn't matter what people say about me, whether they're in Philly, or whether they're in San Francisco... all across the world.

The only people that really matter are the people that are in my inner circle.

People have doubted me and criticized me my whole life, and that's why I'm the way I am.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

I am the Terrell off the field who is laid back and this is me.

I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person

There has to be a beginning somewhere and my thing is that I am going to give it all I got.

You should know how to do your job.

Right is right and wrong is wrong.

As you get to know me, you kind of figure me out, that I'm not as probably as bad of a guy that I've been reported to be. I'm not that jerk.