Edgerrin James Quotes

Too much of my family has messed with drugs. Addiction might be in my genes, so I ain't never tryin' it. It's something you can't control, and I don't like things I can't control. I worked too hard to have it taken away for something stupid. I ain't gonna be laughed at the way I used to laugh at those crackheads.

I take pride in whatever I do. If you told me to clean the room up, I'd clean it up real good.

People underestimate me, maybe because of my look, maybe because of my speech, and I love that. I love to give the impression that I'm an easy victim. I ain't nobody's fool, believe that.

I never got into the gangs. Gangs are for followers.

My way has always worked. My way is what got me here.

To be the best of all time, you have to do it over and over. I want to keep it up, and then the numbers will speak for themselves.

Put me in any city, I'll end up doing something with kids. That's the time of your life when it's pure fun.

It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken

I want to be one of the best ever. It's important to me. Why can't I be? Who's faster than me? Not many. Who has the size and can move like me? Not many. Catch passes like me? Not many.

My biggest fear in the world is going broke and having to depend on someone else again.

I want to make my mark in the NFL. This is the highest level, and this is where it goes down in history.

All my life has been about proving myself.

Trust me-the day I'm not into football, I'll walk away.

I was a man by middle school.

I just want to live like a full-time tourist, to show up at the airport, pick a destination, walk up to the counter and say, 'Do you have any first-class seats?'

My total goal in life is to have fun. I just want to be out and around, chillin'.

I keep things real simple because I know where I came from and I don't ever want to go back to that way of living.

I hate getting yelled at, that'll get you on my bad side. My mom never yelled at me. She just told us what needed to be done and we did it.

I want to be remembered as a person who kept it real, who did what he wanted to do, but never did nothing stupid and never tried to offend nobody else. I'm always being myself.