Ray Lewis Quotes

Some of these kids are spending more time with the coaches than they are with their parents. The coach is supposed to be raising these kids, not belittling them and talking to them like the world is coming to an end.

Outside of these doors, it is the real world. Someone tries to get you to do something wrong, run.

I've always said to the refs to not be the ones to decide the game. Let the players dictate the outcome.

The journeythe journey, I promise you, is the greatest thing ever. The destination always takes care of itself.

I honor God that much in the way I play. That's why I never believe in getting tired. I don't even know what that word means.

Watching the season for me is about watching the chess matches.

Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies.

Any game that you step on, you can get beat.

One thing about God's will, you can never see God's will before it happens. You can only see at the end of it.

To come into camp and have my defensive coordinator say you won't be touched, I feel like a kid all over again.

When you think about Peyton Manning, you think about numbers. When you think about Tom Brady, you think about championships

If you clean your body out so that it is not fighting against you, you rest better, think better and you're always light on your feet.

There's one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That's the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is.

We're in a tough place in this world. There are a lot of kids giving up very early. Scripture says it takes a village to raise one child, and that's what these coaches are going to have to go back and understand.

When you see tears in my eyes, you see it's not about the wins or the losses, It's about the opportunity.

Whatever your path is, that's your path.

The only way to defeat pain is to recognize pain exists.

There's a spirit that grabs me, and it's in every one of you guys, but the questions is, how much time are we wasting?

I fight for the man next to me. It don't matter about me, what matters about me is sacrificing for you; for the ultimate goal which is us.

I once said that effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. The same can be true between and individual and their camera. What you're shooting is between you and you and nobody else. Outcomes are for the audience. The action is yours alone.

No coach who is coaching kids should ever curse a kid.

Before anything great is really achieved, your comfort zone must be disturbed.

In an era that's run on free agency, everybody's going where the dollars are. They go after the dollars and they forget that the game will always come down to brotherhood.

You can't take no breaks.

Daddy wasn't there for me, so I had to grind every day.

Sometimes I have no idea whats going on

Because a football game is just sixty minutes, but I'm training six, seven hours in every day. So, going for sixty minutes becomes easy. More importantly, I think that your muscles mature and can move in all different directions.

It's simple: when God is for you, who can be against you?

Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That's how God designed it.

Let your name be worth more than your bank account

And I love Evander Holyfield to death!

It's poetry to watch the game when the game is left alone, when there's not a bunch of flags on the ground.

One of the things I've always said is that if you're given the ability to coach kids, then you're really given the ability to be a father or parent of some sort.

Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort, nobody can judge effort. Because effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else.

You have to be honest about who you are.

You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's damn near impossible to turn this around.

My game is me. I didn't try to pattern my game after nobody.

The refs are so confused themselves because there's so many rules. It's like, 'Oh my gosh I've never seen this many rules in my life.' And everybody's trying to govern this and justify that.

Somebody has to give a wakeup call to our coaching world to ask them real questions and show them that if you have kids, then you know there is no way you can talk to somebody else like that, because that's somebody's child.

Whatever you want to do, go do it.

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

When you try to help people become a better person, you're going to have to find out what's really going in their world.

I wasn't the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic.

So, if I give any credit, besides giving all credit to God, for being totally healthy, it's just my workout and how much torture I put my body through in the offseason.

Coaching is something I've been a part of my entire life. One of the things I've always been very passionate ...

With the mindset that I give everything I've got for the man that's next to me, not me, cause I know what I got while I'm by myself, but when I step on the field, when I step on the turf, what am I willing to sacrifice?

When something goes wrong, smile, cause there's always a next play.

Pain is only temporary, no matter how long it lasts.

What makes you grind? You have to always be chasing something.

I prepare so no one can take what is mine, no one can replace my mind, my heart.

You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're just looking at me with a football uniform on. That's a totally different person. That's my job, that's it.

With all the things I've been through, the No. 1 thing that I've learned is that we're supposed to help people through this world.

I like college football a lot, because it's the dream that you're chasing. The dream of one day possibly making it, with the harsh reality that only one percent make it.

Every day of my life, I'm trying to find a different way to get better.

Parents needs to spend more time with who they're trusting their kids with. That's one of the nuggets going forward. Find out who these coaches are. Figure out their environment and what kind of problems they have, and see if you want your child involved with that.

You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91.

Do this research if we don't have a season
watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game,

There's nothing I'm doing to my body that a regular person is not doing to theirs outside of just running into somebody at full speed.

Success is one thing, impact is another

Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.

I love passion. I love for a coach to be passionate.

I think the fans, if you want to actually learn about us, I think you have to go way more intricate than just what you see on TV, because that's whatever they want to report. But it's just so much going on, and when you talk about being in our world you have to understand we're individuals too. We're not just athletes. No, we're fathers, we're sons. So when you put us through a job shortage you take away everything that we built.

Do whatever you gotta do to chase your legacy every second of your life.

Some people take certain things and they try to forget what that pain felt like. I don't. I take that same pain and I chase it every time I walk in a weight room.

Life is about being a versatile athlete and training in all realms of life.

I'm a prideful person when it comes to competition.

Don't waste talent. No matter what you do, don't waste talent.

I have so much respect for people that are my elders. You aren't going to hear me cursing around people that are 60 and 70 years old.

Only a fool trips on what's behind them.

Effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. So that team that thinks it's ready to see you, they think what they've seen on film, they ain't saw what film shows, because every day is a new day. Every moment is a new moment. So now you've got to go out and show them that I'm a different creature now, than I was five minutes ago, cause I'm pissed off for greatness. Cause if you ain't pissed off for greatness, that just means you're okay with being mediocre, and ain't no man in here okay with just basic.

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

And that's my honour, that's what my goal is, to always keep my mum's name ringing, because I know what sacrifices she went through for me.

Effort is between you and you.

Don't let your alarm clock, be the only reason you wake up.

Parents may be always working, parents may be in and out. When you're dropping them off with coaches, the first thing kids should be coming back and saying is, 'Mom, guess what I learned today? Guess what coach taught me today?'

There's no "I" on the football field. We have a total commitment to each other when we're out there. There is no doubt. It doesn't matter. The wins and losses of the game don't resonate with us. What resonates with us is "how much effort would you give for the man next to you."

Everything I did to get back, if it wasnt for my team, it was for my city. Thats one thing that I bought into from Day One. Im not just here in this city to play football, Im here to actually create real change in this city. If my effort can give you hope, faith or love, then so be it. Ill give everything I have, and today was about me giving everything that I had, showing people that no matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it. If you can push through it, you will encourage somebody. Today, hopefully through what I did today, somebody was uplifted.

Never be comfortable ... with just good enough.

I don't care where we're going; I'm gonna wear a suit all day, every day.

If you want to get something done, there is always an alternate route other than cursing somebody and belittling them. There's always an alternate route. If you want to get any message across. Everybody has an opinion, and everybody has their own way of doing things, but the bottom line is that when you affect someone else, you should pay closer attention to how you treat people.

I don't train for football; I train more for a lifestyle.

If tomorrow wasn't promised, what would you give for today?