Terrell Owens Quotes & Sayings

Everybody is not going to be squeaky clean. — Terrell Owens

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

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. — Terrell Owens

You should know how to do your job. — Terrell Owens

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. — Terrell Owens

I don't see outside of me. — Terrell Owens

Yes, I am a narcissist. The best, too. — Terrell Owens

Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough. — Terrell Owens

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. — Terrell Owens

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

It doesn't matter what any of my teammates have said about me. — Terrell Owens

It doesn't matter what people say about me, I weather the storm. — Terrell Owens

A lot of people have to deal with the feeling that their worlds are caving in. — Terrell Owens

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

Terrell has 25 million reasons why he should be alive. — Terrell Owens

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

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

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

I don't have to play football. — Terrell Owens

I don't have to play for the Eagles. — Terrell Owens

I feel now I can take my talent through the roof. — Terrell Owens

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

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. — Terrell Owens

God blessed me to play football. — Terrell Owens

I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person. — Terrell Owens

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

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

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

Right is right and wrong is wrong. — Terrell Owens

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

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

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

Like I always said, if I'm one of the top players in the game, pay me like I'm one of the top players in the game. — Terrell Owens

I've sustained a meniscus injury, shortly after that I sustained an ACL injury so really just going through that and going through some personal issues, personal problems within myself. — Terrell Owens

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. — Terrell Owens

All that matters to me now is my family. — Terrell Owens

The only people that really matter are the people that are in my inner circle. — Terrell Owens

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

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

I know my body better than anything, better than anybody. — Terrell Owens

For whatever reason, God has a plan for me. — Terrell Owens

What you see on the field is my job. — Terrell Owens

You have a white guy as an announcer and sportscaster. Me, I'm black. I do it and I've already done some stuff in the past. We're more expressive than the white guys. You look at the skill players. We're the ones that get into the end zone. We get in the end zone more than they do. — Terrell Owens

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. — Terrell Owens

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

A lot of people think I'm stuck up. Pretty much that I'm arrogant. I only do that when I'm on the field. — Terrell Owens

I think there is something bigger in store for me. — Terrell Owens

Get your popcorn ready. — Terrell Owens

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. — Terrell Owens

I feel like I'm a basketball player in a football uniform. — Terrell Owens

I'm going to have my family after I play football. — Terrell Owens

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. — Terrell Owens

Once I step on the field, by the things I do in practice and the way I practice, you can't tell that I don't love the game. But I just know it deep down. — Terrell Owens

As you get to know me, you kind of figure me out, that I'm not as probably as bad of a guy that I've been reported to be. I'm not that jerk. — Terrell Owens

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

That goes with the saying that you call on God a lot of times and you pray for things and it may not happen at that moment. — Terrell Owens

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. — Terrell Owens

I never even watched football growing up. I just play the game. — Terrell Owens

You have not seen my face go across the screen for any off the field problems, period. — Terrell Owens

Like I have said all along, I have the best doctor of all, and that is God. You can't argue with a guy like that. — Terrell Owens

When I go out there and play I just play. — Terrell Owens

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

There are things players go through on an everyday basis in the business of football. You don't see it all with the glitz and glamour of game day. — Terrell Owens

This is God's world this is not the media's world. — Terrell Owens

I had my family before I played football. — Terrell Owens

I never had any run in with the law. — Terrell Owens

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. — Terrell Owens

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

God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time. — Terrell Owens

I feel like I know it is from my heart and God knows it is for a good cause, it is not necessary to be made public. — Terrell Owens

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. — Terrell Owens

I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person. — Terrell Owens

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

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. — Terrell Owens

I feel like with me being a big part of any offense, then the numbers are going to come. — Terrell Owens

I don't want that to be the headline. — Terrell Owens

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? — Terrell Owens

I don't need the recognition and I did not expect it. — Terrell Owens

I know the microphones and cameras are on me. They're looking at my gestures and taking it and running with it because of things that have happened in the past. It's very unfair. — Terrell Owens

Some people are too prideful to go out and reach out to people to help them in that situation because it's just such a dark time. — Terrell Owens

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

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

I love me some me. — Terrell Owens

I would not have gone to Philly if I really did not have my free agency right, if I did not have a case, period. — Terrell Owens

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. — Terrell Owens

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

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