Deion Quotes & Sayings

Sure we're in limos. We're stars. How else is a star supposed to travel? — Deion Sanders

If I don't fish in the morning, I fish in the evening. — Deion Sanders

I would do this for free as long as you're doing it for free. — Deion Sanders

Bill Belichick is the best professional football coach I think ever lived. I'm upset that I played for a plethora of teams and never got an opportunity to play for Bill Belichick. — Deion Sanders

I enjoyed being a teammate of Deion Sanders. He brings different elements to the game that many people would not even realize, and to watch and witness a superior talent like him and watch him prepare and train, and study the game is truly amazing. — Emmitt Smith

What makes a good leadoff hitter? Deion Sanders had speed, but he wasn't the ideal leadoff hitter. What was his on-base percentage? The criteria shouldn't be speed, it should be getting on base. — Jack McKeon

I don't think anybody in the game over the last several years has made more plays than Richard Sherman. — Deion Sanders

You don't go from a Yugo to a Benz, back to a Yugo. — Deion Sanders

The positions I played, every play, I was making contact, not like that Deion Sanders. He couldn't tackle my wife. He's back there dancing out there instead of hitting. — Chuck Bednarik

Jason Witten will go down as one of the best tight ends in history. — Deion Sanders

Whenever you make a promise, you have a responsibility to that promise. — Deion Sanders

I'm not Deion Sanders. We're different people with different styles. People see similarities between me and him; that's fine. It's an honor to be mentioned in the same breath with him. But that's as far as I go with it. — Champ Bailey

I can really fish - I've been fishing since I was a kid. — Deion Sanders

Defensive backs are the best players on the field. But when you get an exceptional player like a Deion Sanders or a Darrell Green - these guys are fast and they have very good technique. You have to work a little harder. — Jerry Rice

Russell [Wilson] plays really well in the pocket [and] outside the pocket. He's just a play waiting to happen. — Deion Sanders

If you don't believe in yourself how will somebody else believe in you? — Deion Sanders

I felt like a deer with a hundred hunters after me. — Deion Sanders

I grew up a Michael Jordan fan; that was my first idol. But my true sports idol was Deion Sanders: he was the person I always wanted to be. I wanted to play two sports professionally, which would never happen, but to me, that was every kid's dream. — Tim Howard

I always idolized guys like Deion Sanders, Barry Sanders, Steve Young and the entire 49ers team, really. I was a huge 49ers fan growing up. — Reggie Bush

It's gonna be a lot of zeroes in that contract. You gonna think it's alphabet soup or something, all those zeroes in there. — Deion Sanders

Just think about the game. Think about playing great, having a great time. Helping my team win. — Deion Sanders

Marshawn Lynch is the heart of this team. If he's not going, the Seahawks aren't going. — Deion Sanders

Time is a wonderful storyteller. — Deion Sanders

When you say I committed adultery, are you stating before the marriage of 1996 or prior to? — Deion Sanders

Bill Belichick and Tom Brady are the masters of finding something that you didn't suspect. — Deion Sanders

I was kinda scared. I thought Detroit was gonna take me. I would've asked them for so much money they would have to put me on layaway. — Deion Sanders

Tom Brady rises up to the occasion and plays well. That is just who he is. — Deion Sanders

If you look good...you play good. — Deion Sanders

I'm married to football, baseball is my girlfriend. — Deion Sanders

Athletes know kids look up to them, and it's important for athletes to be responsible. — Deion Sanders

Fishing's relaxing, man. Most relaxing thing in my life. It's therapy for me. I don't think about business ... sports. All I think about is catching the next fish. — Deion Sanders

Whenever you have to come to my house and convince me to leave my home and play football, deep down in my heart I really don't want to play, but I really don't want to let you down. — Deion Sanders

If you look good, you feel good, If you feel good, you play good, If you play good, they pay good. — Deion Sanders

When we have public success we also have private struggles. — Deion Sanders

The problem I have with Bill Parcells is him quitting. I don't like guys quitting. If you sign up for something, finish the job get the job done. Don't quit. It is a three-year formula, he goes in, gets his three years and then he quits and walks out of there with a bucket full of money. I don't like that part of it — Deion Sanders

I never wear the same shoe twice. — Deion Sanders

Yes I would have been able to play for Bill Parcells. — Deion Sanders

I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire. — Deion Sanders

What separates us is that we expect to be great. — Deion Sanders

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father. — Deion Sanders

Water covers two-thirds of the Earth. I cover the rest. — Deion Sanders

I always wanted to make sure my parents didn't have to work again for the rest of their lives. — Deion Sanders

I expect to be great. I expect to do what hasn't been done. I expect to provoke change. — Deion Sanders

There's no class to manage people. There's no class to teach on how to handle millions. There's no class to teach us how to manage time. — Deion Sanders

I think he supersedes Peyton Manning but let's not throw Tom Brady in the category with Joe Montana, who was 4-for-4. He's royalty. — Deion Sanders

Hey Deion, Bubbelah - maybe you'd better pay a little less attention to those unfairly Draconian salary caps that only allowed you to acquire four of the five remaining 1932 Aston Martins still in road-worthy condition after you'd paid for life's little necessities like hookers and weed, get your medulla oblongata out of your duodenum for a few milliseconds, and make a tackle or two, okay, Babe? — Dennis Miller

If your dream ain't bigger than you, there's a problem with your dream. — Deion Sanders

Wives, girlfriends, fiancees - clean out your closets. I'm cleaning out my old bell bottoms. We can touch millions. — Deion Sanders

Look good, play good. Play good, eat good. Eat good, die good. — Deion Sanders