Clinton Portis Quotes
If y'all see me in the news, and I make the news for something that I ain't got no business making it for, don't bash me. Say it was a young guy living.
I have the opportunity to control what happens in a game. I'll have the ball in my hand, and only I know what I'm going to do with it.
I don't feel like I have to live up to anything because I've proven that I can play. Give me the ball and let's go.
As far as dude running the ball, or running with the ball, and somebody hit you helmet to helmet, I think you got an opportunity to go down. You got an opportunity to slide.
Everybody who I play always wants to use me, so I always tell them that I'm the only one who knows how to stop Portis, so go ahead.
I'm instinctive. I'm still learning how to run the ball. What I've done may look good to everyone else, but I know I'm capable of more than I've shown.
I don't feel like there should have been three backs taken ahead of me. And I'll always feel that way. But there's only one draft, and I can't change it. All I can do is go out and prove myself.
Hopefully I don't have to play for eight years but can go and relax somewhere and do something enjoyable while I'm still young.
I didn't get my hair styled today. I actually stuck my hand in a socket and this is the way it turned out.
Every day I wake up, I say, 'Damn, I hope I don't get that call today.' I don't want to lose my mama. When I start thinking about that, I fall into a hole.
I was a pretty good DB, but I realized one day I would rather have someone trying to tackle me than me trying to tackle guys like Jerome Bettis and Eddie George.
I have a special gift, and I go out and use it. I don't think you can hide it. I'm just confident in myself-always have been.
A man can wear pink if he has confidence, if he believes in himself and knows he's man enough to do it.
