Terrell Owens Quotations

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

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

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.

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

I don't want that to be the headline.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

It doesnt matter what people say about me, I weather the storm.

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.

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.

I don't have no friends. I don't want no friends. That's how I feel,

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

This is Gods world this is not the medias world.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I know my body better than anything, better than anybody.

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.

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.

When I haven't been outside signing autographs, I've been on the inside (rehabilitating) my groin. And that's what happened today.

on-the-field heroics will far outweigh any off-field criticism.

I don't think so and I'm just being honest.

If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here,

God put me in the situation to go out here and still play the game. That's why I'm here.

I think some people are kind of ticked off because I haven't really said much. They don't pay me to go in there and talk to everybody and be friendly to everybody. They paid me to play and they paid me to perform. That's what I've been going in there and doing.

Jerry, I know what's expected of me. I won't let you down.

Just because I don't talk to everybody, that's up to me,

I'm here in camp and that's all I can say.

wasn't the guy who got tired in the Super Bowl.

But naked women throw themselves at T. O. all the time, and it's not every day he gets to play for the Eagles.

This ain't San Francisco, ... You ain't bigger than this team. Shut up and play.

This is a dirty business, that is why I go out and play with my heart.

They don't pay me to go in there and talk to everybody and be friendly to everybody,

They're sending me to the Dominican Republic, ... Then I'll go with T. O. to the Bahamas and do his training program to get myself in shape. When I get back, I'll pitch if we're still in the race. After tomorrow's start, I'm on vacation.

Absolutely never happened. Not even close. I'm not sure why anyone would say that.

It's been about nine months since my last touchdown celebration, ... So I'm sitting on a backlog of material that I'm just dying to show my old teammates, who miss me, I'm sure.

then he needs to get his sense of humor checked.

That's right. That's what I bring to the table, in case you somehow forgot.

That's a good assessment. I would agree with that just with what Favre brings to the table. A number of commentators will say he's a warrior and that he's played with injuries. I feel like him being knowledgeable about the quarterback position, I feel like we would probably be in a better situation (than 4-3).

I tune into it every now and then, but I don't really care for it. The only two guys I like on there are Dan Marino and Bob Costas . So when you come next year, I probably won't do the interview.

It was just a difference of opinion, ... I was defending myself.

I'm going to work with T.O. and only T.O.,

I'm sure each one of you share my horror and disbelief over devastation along the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I urge each one of you to place a bid, as much as you can afford for this worthwhile cause.

I mean, that's a good assessment. I would agree with that. I just feel like - just what he brings to the table. I mean, he's the guy. Obviously, a number of commentators will say he's a warrior. He has played with injuries. I just feel like, (with) him being knowledgeable about the quarterback position - I just feel like we'd be in a better situation.

I'll watch the highlights every now and then but, as far as watching the game, I feel like I am the game.

I fight for what I think is right. In doing so, I alienated a lot of my fans and my teammates.

Terrell has 25 million reasons why he should be alive.

All that matters to me now is my family.

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

Everybody is not going to be squeaky clean.

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

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

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.

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

I don't have to play for the Eagles.

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

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.

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

I feel now I can take my talent through the roof.

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

A lot of people expect to see the same type of character that they see on the field off the field, and that throws them for a loop.

I don't see outside of me.

Right is right and wrong is wrong.

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

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.

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

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.

Everybody is not going to be squeaky clean. All the guys they are giving these marketing endorsement deals are the ones going out there getting in trouble. That is what is really puzzling to me. They will take a chance on the so-called "good image guy" and they are the ones that go out there and screw it all up. You have not seen my face go across the screen for any off the field problems, period.

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.

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.

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.

Yes, I am a narcissist. The best, too.

I had my family before I played football.

I have donated money to the kids overseas, the open hand project and the homeless.

I've never really thought of myself as having an ego. I've always found myself as having a lot of confidence. I know I have a lot of great ability. I know what I bring to the table.

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.

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

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?

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.

When I was a kid, I'd watch pro football on TV and I'd see someone make a play and I'd say, 'I wish that could be me.' But then I'd have to wonder, 'Could I make that big play?'

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.

You should know how to do your job.

I knew I was going to have success here.

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

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.

I'll do whatever it takes to win.

God blessed me to play football.

I don't have to play football.

That just shows you their type of class and integrity. They claim to be first class and the best organization. It's an embarrassment and it shows the lack of class that they really have.....The Eagles would be undefeated right now with Green Bay's quarterback. We'd probably be in a much better position with him on the team (instead of present Eagles quarterback Donavon McNabb).

Don't say I don't get along with my teammates. I just don't get along with some of the guys on the team.