Terrell Owens Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

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.

This is Gods world this is not the medias world.

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

This is a dirty business, that is why I go out and play with my heart. I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports. This is like a nine to five. No guaranteed contracts, and that is the worst thing about it.

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.

I'm content where I am. I know I am going to be a Cowboy for life.

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

But if you look at the big scheme of things, I have never failed, regardless of anything I have had to go through: from Dallas, to the sharpie, to me getting involved with a debate with my coach, a lot of people look to see my fail.

Say I had been with a guy like Tom Brady, Peyton Manning or Drew Brees all of my career. Are you kidding me?

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 know my body better than anything, better than anybody.

I may be a public figure, but really, I'm just like a guy who could be in your family and have some difficult things happen to him.

People forget that I'm a human being, just because I play a sport that everybody loves. We're human. We're not invincible. We share the same feelings and emotions that people on the outside feel. I don't think people really understand that.

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.

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

I had my family before I played football.

I think there is something bigger in store for me.

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.