Terrell Owens Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

God blessed me to play 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.

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

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

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.

This is Gods world this is not the medias world.

I'll do whatever it takes to win.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I don't want that to be the headline.

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 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.

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.

When I was a kid, I'd watch pro football on TV and I'd see someone make a play and I'd say, 'I wish that could be me.' But then I'd have to wonder, 'Could I make that big play?'

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

I'm human; that's what people don't realize.

I don't have to play football.

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

I never had any run in with the law.

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

For whatever reason, God has a plan for me.

Right is right and wrong is wrong.

Everybody is not going to be squeaky clean.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

I knew I was going to have success here.