P.M. Terrell Quotes

And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long.

While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.

Stop using the word 'Negro.' The word is a misnomer from every point of view. It does not represent a country or anything else ... I am an African-American.

It is only through the home that a people can become really good and truly great.

If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.

You will have to look at the tape. Actually, you could burn the tape. It's not even worth looking at... We just have to move on to next week. If we just get the next one we will be fine.

Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough.

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

As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head

To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

They say sleep is the cousin of death, guess we related... Cause I'm the most slept on, and the most hated.

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

Me, myself, I'm not a star. I'm just a regular guy who has a great rap album and is the protégé of Dr. Dre. But I'm the most down-to-earth guy.

If Dr. King marched today, would Bill Gates march? I know Obama would, but would Hillary take part?

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

Been there, done that Sold crack, got jacked Got shot, came back Jumped on Dre's back!

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

There's no controversy in my way. There's nobody telling me to rap like this or anything.

I'm proud to be alive during a time where we have the opportunity to responsibly bring cannabis to the public.

I think it's crazy that Bill Cosby has a mugshot for alleged assaults 11 years ago with no physical evidence or proof besides these womens accounts of what he did to them an entire decade later.

God blessed me to play football.

There is no such thing as sportsmanship.

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

I just feel like with God you can't be defeated.

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.

You've seen one gimmick, you've seen them all.

I may not say it all the time or I may not pray as much as I need to, but I am not forgetting where I came from and how I got to be where I am today.

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

It doesnt matter what people say about me, I weather the storm.

I'm truly flattered and honored that I get to be Raven for life.

This is Gods world this is not the medias world.

I'll do whatever it takes to win.

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

I've never really thought of myself as having an ego. I've always found myself as having a lot of confidence. I know I have a lot of great ability. I know what I bring to the table.

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

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

I did an internship with Mike (Shanahan) and the Redskins last summer and I knew after a week and a half that it wasn't for me. I think I knew that going in, but I wanted to make sure.

You can be the best person in the league but if you don't win championships, something's missing.

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

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

I've always been pretty much a quiet person. When I was little, I got picked on a lot. After I went through all that, I pretty much kept to myself.

I feel like it was a little disrespectful but you know what I feel like, I have been successful, blessed and I keep my faith in God, man, and I just keep it moving.

I'm not gonna waste your time, so I wouldn't expect you to waste my time.

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

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

My mom still lives in Denver and some of my brothers are still in the area, so I still have strong ties there.

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 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.