I do believe that clean water is the most efficient way to change the world.
Chris Long
For all the evils in the world, I think apathy is one of the most dangerous.
My wife and I have been passionate about education being a gateway for upward mobility and equality.
I want to squeeze every drop out of my potential as far as affecting the world around me.
There's no secret about it: Every team does things differently. Seattle runs their program one way. New England runs it another way. Philly runs it another way.
I think if you show a player an avenue to make a difference, he's going to bring that same intensity he brings on the field in his community.
I play in a league that's 70 percent black and my peers, guys I come to work with, guys I respect who are very socially aware and are intellectual guys, if they identify something that they think is worth putting their reputations on the line, creating controversy, I'm going to listen to those guys.
Educational equity was my way of giving my salary. It's not $10 million or anything. I'm not going to act like I'm the first guy to donate $1 million to something, but it has been good.
I'm a big guy and I can't have any tiny tattoos.
And I respect the anthem. I would never kneel for it. We all come from different walks of life and think differently about the anthem and the flag and what that means.
This is not supposed to be a fascist country, where you are forced to do things you don't want to do. This is a free country.
I've had to work and scratch and claw for every inch of what I've gotten as a football player.
For Laura Ingraham to go after LeBron for speaking out politically is ridiculous.
The 25-year-old me would tell the 32-year-old me to take the two rings and go start the next chapter in life, but it's never simple when you still have gas left in the tank.
I think of myself as a complete person, not just a football player and athlete.
You may doubt the significance of your work, but work faithfully anyways.
The lead initiative of my foundation is clean water, but not far behind it is military appreciation.
My mother has been really instrumental in raising a lot of money through the Boys & Girls Club in my hometown.
When I grew up, I had everything you could ask for, and I kind of didn't appreciate it. Because it was a given for me. Everybody that grew up in my neighborhood was going to have an opportunity to go to college. I took that for granted. I always regret that.
I like having my dad around.
Baseball was always my favorite sport, and I thought it would be the sport I'd pursue for the long term. But I guess about my sophomore year in high school, I started really getting into football, and then it just took off from there.
I think the one commonality between the two Super Bowl teams I've been on is great, great teammates. I can honestly say that guys in Philly could definitely thrive in New England and vice versa - if you throw out the scheme differences.
I am honored to be named the 2018 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year and to join the long line of men who have received this prestigious honor.
I do respect a man who doesn't settle.
Tom Brady blew me away. Who's the most famous athlete of our generation: Tom Brady? LeBron? Messi? Ronaldo? Serena Williams? Maybe I haven't been around enough to know how the biggest stars really act. But Brady is a normal guy.
It's unbelievable how far my career has taken me.
It wasn't like I loved football from 12 on. It took time.
Robert Quinn. He's ridiculous. He can do anything a DB can do... at three hundred pounds!
Continuity is one of the hardest things to come by in the NFL.
I've been lucky, man. I've been very lucky for 10 years, made a lot of money playing a game, a kids' game.
I think a lot of winning a Super Bowl is being at the right place at the right time. It's sacrifice, it's making team plays and being an impactful player is part of it.
There was a time when I was injured and playing really bad and cut, rightfully so, that I wasn't sure what my future in football was.
It's an accomplishment to play in the NFL.
I'm open for whatever any team asks me to do.
I've been compared to my dad my whole life. That pressure I've learned to deal with.
A mullet is something that takes time and effort.
America's an awesome country, man. Everybody knows that.
I'm always trying to play for respect. I don't play the game for much else.
Too often athletes think there's these norms that I have to fit into and there are people that I have to please.
My first big paycheck - this is kind of funny - I bought a Cadillac DTS. I thought it looked really comfortable.
I've always believed there are inequities in our country.
My dad was able to give me everything through football.
I love charity. Ask anyone.
I don't think football is enough for me.
Michelle Obama has also done a lot of work in the scope of educational equity and being able to work with her on some of her initiatives has been awesome. I'm very honored.
If we're saying there are incidents of oppression in this country, systematically or individually in this country, I don't think saying, 'Well, in country X, Y or Z it's 10 times worse' is making things any better. I think that may be true, but why can't we improve?
This is a wonderful country, and I think everyone agrees on that, but there are things in our country that can improve.
In my career playing football, nobody asked me to do as much as Bill Belichick did.
I love Philadelphia.
In New England, I learned so much about football. I always thought I was a smart player, even though I never thought about anything but the six inches in front of my face. In New England, I was forced to learn so many schematic concepts.
