Terrell Owens Quotes

I have an ability that I've already honed in on to get better.

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

All that matters to me now is my family.

Some people are too prideful to go out and reach out to people to help them in that situation because it's just such a dark time.

I don't have to play for the Eagles.

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

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

I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.

I don't have no friends. I don't want no friends. That's how I feel.

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

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

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.

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.

Yes, I am a narcissist. The best, too.

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

When I step on the field, you know what you gonna get.

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 didn't know who my daddy was until I was 10 or 12. Surprising as it may seem, he was living right across the street.

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

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

Like I have said all along, I have the best doctor of all, and that is God. You can't argue with a guy like that.

I don't have to play football.

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

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

What you see on the field is my job.

I've sustained a meniscus injury, shortly after that I sustained an ACL injury so really just going through that and going through some personal issues, personal problems within myself.

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.

Jerry (Rice) played until he was 42. At 39, I ran a 4.43 40-yard dash. You look at the number of dropped balls and the way guys are playing now and you can't honestly say I can't do better.

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

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

For whatever reason, God has a plan for me.

God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.

Like my boy tells me; if it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, by golly, it is a rat.

Get your popcorn ready.

Exposure is exposure, whether it's good or bad. But you know what? You live and you learn, and I know who to trust and who not to trust. I'm in control of what I'm in control of, and that's me coming in here and being productive on the field. And as long as I'm keeping my nose clean and doing the right thing, then I'm OK.

God blessed me to play football.

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

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

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.

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.

Get your popcorn ready, 'cause I'm gonna put on a show.

It doesn't matter what people say about me, I weather the storm.

Right is right and wrong is wrong.

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.

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

I feel now I can take my talent through the roof.

I never had any run in with the law.

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

Everybody is not going to be squeaky clean.

I feel like I'm a basketball player in a football uniform.

Growing up as a little kid, I wasn't always this size. I got picked on a lot.

All I can tell everybody is, I'm the same guy, just on a different team.

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

I'm smart enough to know when I've done something wrong, but I don't understand this. Guys are beating their wives, getting DUIs and doing drugs, and I get national attention for a Sharpie? People are personally attacking me, calling me a classless asshole because I did something creative during a game. Why?

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

Like I always said, if I'm one of the top players in the game, pay me like I'm one of the top players in the game.

I love me some me.

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.

I feel like I know it is from my heart and God knows it is for a good cause, it is not necessary to be made public.

This is God's world this is not the media's world.