Ray Lewis Quotations

Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.

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.

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.

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.

There's one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That's the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is.

You have to be honest about who you are.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I'm a prideful person when it comes to competition.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Every day, we've got to do something physical. It's mind, body and spirit.

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.

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

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

We spoke out on the grass to a group of people, consoled them, let them know we understood this was a traumatic, life-changing situation. Some had tremendous reservations about relocating to a state they knew nothing about.

Peyton comes to the line, and he checks to a pass or a run, and I come to the line, and I check from a blitz to a zone, ... I think it's great for the fans to see, but it's actually more stressful when you're on the field, because you're actually trying to figure out truly their next move. He's good at it.

One of the guys I've liked and kind of monitored since college is Jonathan Vilma, ... I love the way that guy plays football.

He has to come in and fill some big shoes. Anthony Weaver is a big hit for us, so he has to come in and do some big things for us.

He didn't mean any disrespect. He was just basically saying he wasn't happy. Some people aren't happy with their job or their wife, they say it. That's all it was, him voicing his opinion. He has a right to do that.

I was leaving ... Cobalt nightclub, ... And on my way to my limousine ... a fight broke out way up past my limousine. We saw it, I grabbed my people, we hopped in my truck, we left. While we're driving off, we heard gun shots. We left the scene, and that is basically it.

LaDainian Tomlinson . He has every aspect of a running back: speed, quickness, power, agility, the cutback, the breakaway ... He has every aspect of what a running back needs. He's special, man.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. It's a very easy method with us. We run the football very well, we play hard-nosed defense,

Man, all the great ones do, so just go out and play.

You can actually go play quarterback for them this week, and go hand the ball off to Curtis Martin,

We can't have a play like they had on the touchdown when we play the Colts. Rex and the coaches will fix that.

We can't have a play like they had on the touchdown when we play the Colts.

To be on the cover of Madden NFL 2005 is the ultimate honor, ... With the focus on defense in the game this year, I knew it was my chance.

We had a certain formula when we won the Super Bowl, we had a certain formula when we went back to the playoffs, and if we're trying to go back to the Promised Land, there is a certain formula we're sticking to, hands down.

The scheme's got to fit your players. My thing is bashing running backs. That's what I want to get back to, just having fun and letting them deal with me. That's what the 46 package and the defense does.

Probably what Jonathan's seeing that I'm seeing, now that I'm older, is that I can read the guards, read the tackles, read the backfield, ... As a young guy, that's probably what he's looking at, more of my position, how I'm always in position to strike.

You're dealing with one of the most prolific passers in all of the National Football League for the last 10, 15 years. Understanding that, you have to respect what he can do in this game.

That's once again the same people who told me I was too small, the same people who said I couldn't win a Super Bowl with our offense, the same people who said I couldn't play in a 3-4, ... Are they with me when I get up every morning at 6:30 to go to work? The day I lose a step is the day I lose love for the game.

That hurts our league and the Falcons, and I feel for him. He's my friend, and he'll be back. I'll call him and give him encouragement.

It's always tough, because then that's when you have to humble yourself and you've got to take coaching and you have to do whatever they tell you to do. Whether it takes away from your game or it helps your game, just deal with it. That's what I did. It didn't alter how I prepared, it didn't alter my passion for the game. But at the same time, it alters how dominant I can be in this game.

That's big, to come out of here 1-1 instead of sitting home this week 0-2. That's hard. It's hard for anybody to come out of that hole.

I didn't see it, not at all. Like I said, if you are going to play a football game, don't be a coward and wait until you make one play and do something. Just play football. His celebration doesn't mean anything.

If I'm a head coach and my starting quarterback leaves for the season, and I have the leading rusher in the NFL last year, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know my game plan,

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

Some of these kids are spending more time with the coaches than they are with their parents. The coach is supposed to be raising these kids, not belittling them and talking to them like the world is coming to an end.

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.

Coaching is something I've been a part of my entire life. One of the things I've always been very passionate...

Watching the season for me is about watching the chess matches.

In an era that's run on free agency, everybody's going where the dollars are. They go after the dollars and they forget that the game will always come down to brotherhood.

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.

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

No coach who is coaching kids should ever curse a kid.

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.

I've never stopped loving the game since day one. If it were a job to me it would be very hard for me to get up in the morning. And why leave something that you can never come back to? Realistically, whether you accept it or not, you only get one wave in this journey. Run at it as hard as you can.

Any game that you step on, you can get beat.

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.

I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected. Because if you like me you can throw me away too quick. If you respect me, you may not even like what I was wearing, but you'll say, "I respect that."

I love passion. I love for a coach to be passionate.

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.

I've always had a problem with the things that people would say out of their mouths to other people. I've always had a problem with that, because a lot of people, they don't have enough information to speak to people a certain way or speak about people a certain way.

I've been a fan of video games since the old school, I even have a lot of the old school arcade games at my house.

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

It's a bad place when you see sometimes how coaches treat people. I don't even want to say players. I want to say people. They're people before they become a player.

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.

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.

Regardless of how well you can be offensively, if you have a great defense, you can deal with any offense.

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.

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?'

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

A leader puts himself last then he sticks out.

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

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

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

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.

Only a fool trips on what’s behind them.

To be the best and stay there sweat is necessary. I'm older. Of course I'm older. That's the beauty of it. Sixteen years plus different level of wisdom. Different level of understanding. Different level of punishment. i want to live loooong after my records have fallen, long after my rings have tarnished. Whatever you got to do to make sure you chase your legacy. Every second of your life. How will you be remembered? How will you be remembered? Why wouldn't you fight for the greatest achievement ever? Leave your mark to endure forever.

You can't take no breaks.

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

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

The only thing that could pull me away, was hard work.

You don't have to win it, just don't lose it.