Terry Bradshaw Quotes & Sayings

Football used to be my god but no longer is. I still love it, I'm still aggressive, I still want to be very successful at it, I want to win a lot of football games. And my job is to be the best football player in the world, because it affords me a life; it pays, it's my job, and so it hasn't dulled my senses for the game or the love or the great excitement I get from the game. It's just that I'm very much at peace with myself because of my faith. — Terry Bradshaw

I'm going to tell it straight, that yes, I'd love to be traded — Terry Bradshaw

I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give me a basketball, give me something I can bounce and throw. — Terry Bradshaw

I'm not ashamed of who I am. — Terry Bradshaw

I'm on national TV in front of millions and I hate making mistakes. — Terry Bradshaw

When I played for the Steelers and I got my bell rung, I'd take smelling salts and go right back out there. — Terry Bradshaw

While Bradshaw applauded McNabb for playing hurt, he offered this dose of reality for the Eagles If he doesn't stay healthy, it's over, ... What are you going to do You roll the dice. — Terry Bradshaw

Ride it when you retire. — Terry Bradshaw

No one will ever win four [Super Bowls] in six years again. It won't happen. You can chisel that sucker in stone. — Terry Bradshaw

For an athlete, there's no time off ... until it's over. — Terry Bradshaw

I must have been a really tough kid to corral. I got disciplined quite frequently. I guess that would be the best way to say it. The rod, I wore out the rod. You know, Spare the rod and spoil the child? Well, I wore out the rod. — Terry Bradshaw

I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real. — Terry Bradshaw

When I was labeled stupid, that scarred me forever. — Terry Bradshaw

I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger. — Terry Bradshaw

There's a company that wants to put hair on me! I don't know if it's plugs, I'm sure it is. I laughed and said, 'You gotta be kidding.' — Terry Bradshaw

Any team can win. — Terry Bradshaw

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell. — Terry Bradshaw

Depression is a physical illness. — Terry Bradshaw

I was not used to criticism. — Terry Bradshaw

I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back. — Terry Bradshaw

Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up to your level. — Terry Bradshaw

If you play in the NFL and start for 10 years, it's not good. It is not good. — Terry Bradshaw

The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him. — Terry Bradshaw

People ask me all the time would I like to still be playing? No. I'm glad I played when I played. — Terry Bradshaw

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain. — Terry Bradshaw

There really has been only one thing in my life that has made me feel complete, and that is the game of football. The ability to throw a football was my God-given talent. That was my blessing and my passion; that was my calling in live, and everything that I've accomplished has derived from that. — Terry Bradshaw

I don't want to hurt anybody. — Terry Bradshaw

The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you. — Terry Bradshaw

Pain is one of life's great lessons. You need to know how you'll react to the negatives in your life. Only then will you learn from the pain, and the next time it happens, you can speed up your healing process. — Terry Bradshaw

I had learned so much about marriage from Missy that I only had to get divorced two more times. — Terry Bradshaw

I didn't respond well to a firm hand and insults. — Terry Bradshaw

Fans are fans. I hated and loved them, hated and loved them, hated and loved them. — Terry Bradshaw

I really don't care that I'm ranked. — Terry Bradshaw

You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win. — Terry Bradshaw

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be. — Terry Bradshaw

I don't like confrontation. — Terry Bradshaw

I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier. — Terry Bradshaw

I didn't know I was depressed until years later. Actually, I went to the Minirth-Meier Clinic for ADD. I got tested for ADD. So, that's nice. It's nice to know you got ADD. So, that puts you on medication. Did that for years. Then got tested for clinical depression. So, finally when they tell you this, you go, 'ahhh, this is great.' So, now this explains events in your life and how you handle them. But our society frowns on it and they don't want their heroes to have these issues, but unfortunately I do. — Terry Bradshaw

I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family. — Terry Bradshaw

People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes. — Terry Bradshaw

You can't have 'yes' people around you. — Terry Bradshaw

James Davison took me out to show me where Karl is living right now and where hes going to build. Karl wasnt at home. He was out there somewhere in the woods riding on some Caterpillar or some kind of tractor. But I figured wed at least knock on the door to see if he was there. His wife answered the door. So we got to meet Kay before Karl. — Terry Bradshaw

Bad attitudes will ruin your team. — Terry Bradshaw

I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids ... my older parents and my preachers and everybody. — Terry Bradshaw

Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far more failures are due to lack of will than lack of ability. — Terry Bradshaw

I'm just in an unfortunate business where if you ask me a question I have to answer it honestly and if I don't answer it truthfully then I'm not respected. — Terry Bradshaw

I kept hearing I'd be traded to San Francisco. Man I would love that. I even went so far as to go into the locker room singing 'I left my heart in San Francisco'. Nobody laughed or said a word. I figured maybe I'd get my wish — Terry Bradshaw

Why would anyone want to read what I have to say? — Terry Bradshaw

After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced. So that's kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today ... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like he's going to be a bust in Detroit. — Terry Bradshaw

As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy ... there's something about winning a Super Bowl. — Terry Bradshaw

When you're clinically depressed the serotonin in your brain is out of balance and probably always will be out of balance. So I take medication to get that proper balance back. I'll probably have to be on it the rest of my life. — Terry Bradshaw

You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy. — Terry Bradshaw

I want to help people, give hope to all. Humor is the foundation of our lives. — Terry Bradshaw

The life of a winner is the result of an unswerving commitment to a never-ending process of self-completion . — Terry Bradshaw

The only thing I care about is my family. — Terry Bradshaw

I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while. — Terry Bradshaw

Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like playing quarterback on that team [the Pittsburgh Steelers]. It was a great ride. — Terry Bradshaw

If I'm not the sexiest man alive, explain why so many women married me. — Terry Bradshaw

I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at. — Terry Bradshaw

I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer. — Terry Bradshaw

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway. — Terry Bradshaw

I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid. — Terry Bradshaw

I'm always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed. — Terry Bradshaw

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it. — Terry Bradshaw

I'm taking memory power boost tablets to help me every day and doing the puzzles to help me stay focused. — Terry Bradshaw