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.

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

A lot of emotional stress that people go through, some people figure out a way to handle it. They have a strong enough support system to keep going and keep moving forward. And some people, they feel like they don't have that outlet.

God blessed me to play football.

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.

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.

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

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

That just shows you their type of class and integrity. They claim to be first class and the best organization. It's an embarrassment and it shows the lack of class that they really have.....The Eagles would be undefeated right now with Green Bay's quarterback. We'd probably be in a much better position with him on the team (instead of present Eagles quarterback Donavon McNabb).

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.

I'll do whatever it takes to win.

This is Gods world this is not the medias world.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 smart enough to know when I've done something wrong, but I don't understand this. Guys are beating their wives, getting DUIs and doing drugs, and I get national attention for a Sharpie? People are personally attacking me, calling me a classless asshole because I did something creative during a game. Why?

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

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

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.

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

I don't have to play football.

Everything that I've gone through since the end of 2010, from me finding out about my financial adviser stealing, mismanaging my money - that affected everything, from child support, mortgages, to me having to sell my properties, me being in and out of court trying to modify my child support. It's a lot to deal with at one time.

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.

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

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.

I have donated money to the kids overseas, the open hand project and the homeless.

I had my family before I played football.