Ray Lewis Quotes & Sayings

One thing about God's will, you can never see God's will before it happens. You can only see at the end of it. — Ray Lewis

So, if I give any credit, besides giving all credit to God, for being totally healthy, it's just my workout and how much torture I put my body through in the offseason. — Ray Lewis

If you want to get something done, there is always an alternate route other than cursing somebody and belittling them. There's always an alternate route. If you want to get any message across. Everybody has an opinion, and everybody has their own way of doing things, but the bottom line is that when you affect someone else, you should pay closer attention to how you treat people. — Ray Lewis

Whatever your path is, that's your path. — Ray Lewis

Who knows what the future holds? It's all on parenting, one way or another. I don't care what level it is, it comes back to people learning how to deal with people. — Ray Lewis

The game will fade one day. I realize that success is one thing; impact is another. I live to impact people. — Ray Lewis

Nobody's more serious about health and fitness than me and staying fit is my top priority, That's why I've teamed up with Medifast to bring my fans a line of products that are packed with everything the body needs to get in better shape and improve their health. I use the products every day as part of my training. — Ray Lewis

Somebody has to give a wakeup call to our coaching world to ask them real questions and show them that if you have kids, then you know there is no way you can talk to somebody else like that, because that's somebody's child. — Ray Lewis

One of the things I've always said is that if you're given the ability to coach kids, then you're really given the ability to be a father or parent of some sort. — Ray Lewis

Every day of my life, I'm trying to find a different way to get better. — Ray Lewis

There's no "I" on the football field. We have a total commitment to each other when we're out there. There is no doubt. It doesn't matter. The wins and losses of the game don't resonate with us. What resonates with us is "how much effort would you give for the man next to you." — Ray Lewis

God has never made a mistake. Ever. — Ray Lewis

Effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. So that team that thinks it's ready to see you, they think what they've seen on film, they ain't saw what film shows, because every day is a new day. Every moment is a new moment. So now you've got to go out and show them that I'm a different creature now, than I was five minutes ago, cause I'm pissed off for greatness. Cause if you ain't pissed off for greatness, that just means you're okay with being mediocre, and ain't no man in here okay with just basic. — Ray Lewis

The journeythe journey, I promise you, is the greatest thing ever. The destination always takes care of itself. — Ray Lewis

I've always said to the refs to not be the ones to decide the game. Let the players dictate the outcome. — Ray Lewis

If you clean your body out so that it is not fighting against you, you rest better, think better and you're always light on your feet. — Ray Lewis

A leader puts himself last then he sticks out. — Ray Lewis

What makes you grind? You have to always be chasing something. — Ray Lewis

And that's my honour, that's what my goal is, to always keep my mum's name ringing, because I know what sacrifices she went through for me. — Ray Lewis

I don't train for sports. I've never trained for sports. I train for life, and sport is just a part of that. So when I start training, that's lifestyle training and that's why I go through so many things, whether it's yoga, kickboxing, wrestling or swimming. — Ray Lewis

Daddy wasn't there for me, so I had to grind every day. — Ray Lewis

When you think about Peyton Manning, you think about numbers. When you think about Tom Brady, you think about championships — Ray Lewis

Let your name be worth more than your bank account — Ray Lewis

You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91. — Ray Lewis

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding. — Ray Lewis

I've got kids that are always watching and I taught them to always finish something you started. — Ray Lewis

Everything I got, I'm willing to sacrifice — Ray Lewis

When I step on the field, it's on. I know it's time to go to work. — Ray Lewis

The only way to defeat pain is to recognize pain exists. — Ray Lewis

Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That's how God designed it. — Ray Lewis

You have to be careful of people who like to talk a big game but can't back it up. — Ray Lewis

I don't know a man on this Earth who can outwork me. — Ray Lewis

It's simple: when God is for you, who can be against you? — Ray Lewis

The refs are so confused themselves because there's so many rules. It's like, 'Oh my gosh I've never seen this many rules in my life.' And everybody's trying to govern this and justify that. — Ray Lewis

I once said that effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. The same can be true between and individual and their camera. What you're shooting is between you and you and nobody else. Outcomes are for the audience. The action is yours alone. — Ray Lewis

Success is one thing, impact is another — Ray Lewis

Sometimes I have no idea whats going on — Ray Lewis

Because a football game is just sixty minutes, but I'm training six, seven hours in every day. So, going for sixty minutes becomes easy. More importantly, I think that your muscles mature and can move in all different directions. — Ray Lewis

The more you know about your opponents, the more you learn how to beat them. Where the holes open to run through, blocking schemes, even down to player tendencies and what hand they like to carry the ball with. — Ray Lewis

Never be comfortable ... with just good enough. — Ray Lewis

Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line. — Ray Lewis

Whatever you want to do, go do it. — Ray Lewis

Do whatever you gotta do to chase your legacy every second of your life. — Ray Lewis

You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're just looking at me with a football uniform on. That's a totally different person. That's my job, that's it. — Ray Lewis

There's a spirit that grabs me, and it's in every one of you guys, but the questions is, how much time are we wasting? — Ray Lewis

Even Rod Woodson will tell you his best year he had as a professional was when he was 36 years old. If you think about why, you're much wiser. — Ray Lewis

I prepare so no one can take what is mine, no one can replace my mind, my heart. — Ray Lewis

I like to see honesty out of people. People who are trustworthy. I like to see people who are involved with The Lord. — Ray Lewis

I don't believe a thing about a curse. I don't understand how we can talk about a curse. You have to remember, God is blessed and man can't curse, no matter how hard they try. — Ray Lewis

With all the things I've been through, the No. 1 thing that I've learned is that we're supposed to help people through this world. — Ray Lewis

You can't take no breaks. — Ray Lewis

If tomorrow wasn't promised, what would you give for today? — Ray Lewis

The locker room talk is always that about who can beat who. — Ray Lewis

Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day. — Ray Lewis

Once again, God to all glory, because I didnt feel one thing. I didnt hurt it one time. I actually argued with my equipment staff to take it off half way through the game, because I thought I didnt need it. I was trying to tell them it was stopping me from extending, but you know what, Ive always trusted them with their advice. It was kind of important to keep it on, and for me to come out and not have a bruise, not tweak it, not do anything like that, is just really awesome. — Ray Lewis

Don't waste talent. No matter what you do, don't waste talent. — Ray Lewis

Do this research if we don't have a season
watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game, — Ray Lewis

We're in a tough place in this world. There are a lot of kids giving up very early. Scripture says it takes a village to raise one child, and that's what these coaches are going to have to go back and understand. — Ray Lewis

Only a fool trips on what's behind them. — Ray Lewis

If there's something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God's got to change it. Because if God's got to change it, you ain't going to like it. — Ray Lewis

It's poetry to watch the game when the game is left alone, when there's not a bunch of flags on the ground. — Ray Lewis

I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him. — Ray Lewis

You have to be honest about who you are. — Ray Lewis

I fight for the man next to me. It don't matter about me, what matters about me is sacrificing for you; for the ultimate goal which is us. — Ray Lewis

To come into camp and have my defensive coordinator say you won't be touched, I feel like a kid all over again. — Ray Lewis

I honor God that much in the way I play. That's why I never believe in getting tired. I don't even know what that word means. — Ray Lewis

My thing about camp is to come in and be who I am, which is the most dominant player in the game, That's who I am, and that's what I'm here for. — Ray Lewis

I don't care where we're going; I'm gonna wear a suit all day, every day. — Ray Lewis

With the mindset that I give everything I've got for the man that's next to me, not me, cause I know what I got while I'm by myself, but when I step on the field, when I step on the turf, what am I willing to sacrifice? — Ray Lewis

Watching the season for me is about watching the chess matches. — Ray Lewis

I have so much respect for people that are my elders. You aren't going to hear me cursing around people that are 60 and 70 years old. — Ray Lewis

My game is me. I didn't try to pattern my game after nobody. — Ray Lewis

You don't care if I'm guilty or not. You gonna make sure I go to jail for life. — Ray Lewis

Life is about being a versatile athlete and training in all realms of life. — Ray Lewis

I didn't like where I once was, so I promised myself I wouldn't be back there. — Ray Lewis

Parents needs to spend more time with who they're trusting their kids with. That's one of the nuggets going forward. Find out who these coaches are. Figure out their environment and what kind of problems they have, and see if you want your child involved with that. — Ray Lewis

When you try to help people become a better person, you're going to have to find out what's really going in their world. — Ray Lewis

Any game that you step on, you can get beat. — Ray Lewis

In any war who pulls their general out? No one. — Ray Lewis

All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited. — Ray Lewis

No matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it. — Ray Lewis

You got to be willing to walk in a storm. That's what I tell people all the time. — Ray Lewis

I think the fans, if you want to actually learn about us, I think you have to go way more intricate than just what you see on TV, because that's whatever they want to report. But it's just so much going on, and when you talk about being in our world you have to understand we're individuals too. We're not just athletes. No, we're fathers, we're sons. So when you put us through a job shortage you take away everything that we built. — Ray Lewis

You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's damn near impossible to turn this around. — Ray Lewis

There's nothing I'm doing to my body that a regular person is not doing to theirs outside of just running into somebody at full speed. — Ray Lewis

Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort, nobody can judge effort. Because effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else. — Ray Lewis

Effort is between you and you. — Ray Lewis

Don't let your alarm clock, be the only reason you wake up. — Ray Lewis

When something goes wrong, smile, cause there's always a next play. — Ray Lewis

Outside of these doors, it is the real world. Someone tries to get you to do something wrong, run. — Ray Lewis

We get one opportunity in life, one chance at life to do whatever you're going to do, and lay your foundation and make whatever mark you're going to make. Whatever legacy you're going to leave; leave your legacy! — Ray Lewis

There's some things you can cover up. And there's some things you can't. — Ray Lewis

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching. — Ray Lewis

Parents may be always working, parents may be in and out. When you're dropping them off with coaches, the first thing kids should be coming back and saying is, 'Mom, guess what I learned today? Guess what coach taught me today?' — Ray Lewis

I like college football a lot, because it's the dream that you're chasing. The dream of one day possibly making it, with the harsh reality that only one percent make it. — Ray Lewis

Will you be remembered, how would you be remembered, why wouldn't you fight for the greatest achievement ever? — Ray Lewis

Some people take certain things and they try to forget what that pain felt like. I don't. I take that same pain and I chase it every time I walk in a weight room. — Ray Lewis

I love passion. I love for a coach to be passionate. — Ray Lewis

I've got Pacman, Galaga, Galaxian, Daytona 500. Those are the games I grew up playing. — Ray Lewis

I don't train for football; I train more for a lifestyle. — Ray Lewis