This goes across all racial lines, ethnicities, religious backgrounds. People believe in disciplining their children... It's the 21st century. My mom was wrong. She did the best she could, but she was wrong about some of that stuff she taught me. And I promised my kids, I won't teach that mess to them.
Cris Carter
In life, we always make the right decisions the second time around, you know?
I always loved math in high school and I thought that I would be an accountant. But I also thought I would be better at counting money in the NFL.
Everyone knows someone who is struggling with a mental health issue, whether it's depression, trauma or substance abuse. It affects everyone, so we all have a stake in making sure good treatment is available.
When we see active and former NFL players uniting with owners and the League to address injustice, we can see the way football brings people together beyond the game itself.
I thought math, especially when I was younger, is something you either love or hate. I had been blessed to be able to do math and it made me like it.
Before, when going to youth camps, the line for QBs would be around the corner. Now, kids want to be either QBs or WRs. Being a WR is popular, it's cool.
If you give Brett Favre time to throw the ball and single coverage, you're making the offense that much better.
My job as a former player is to help young players understand about the business.
I put bounties on guys. And the guys tried to take me out, a guy tried to take a cheap shot on me, I put a bounty on him, right now.
Your image in sports will always matter.
I think it would be tough for a lot of the athletes that I play with to think that while that I'm showering, that I'm performing on the field, I'm bleeding, I'm fighting with a person that is a homosexual.
Advocating for quality addiction treatment has become a passion, and it's the most rewarding thing that someone like me can do. People were there to help me when I needed it, so I've made it my goal to pay it forward.
I come from some humble beginnings, and I just believed that when people pay their money, hard-earned money, that they deserve a certain level of performance.
Larry Fitzgerald, I've spent so much time with him, he's one of my favorites and one of the best.
I would never tell young people to break the law or avoid prosecution.
When you play in the NFL now the teams are very, very equal.
I grew up in small-town America, black, disadvantaged.
If you want to be a national brand, damn act like it.
I think there would be situations that will occur on the field that would be tough for a person who is homosexual, because I know there will be people definitely taking shots at him.
If you want someone to pay you - the highest paid receiver in the history of the game - damn act like it.
The one thing you have to address with Randy Moss is not a conditioning thing. It's not an age thing. It needs to be addressed. I believe it's the elephant in the room. It's that thing called quit. And Randy, not like any other superstar I've met, he has more quit in him than any of those other players.
It's an unbelievably tough process. And there ain't no bums in the Hall. I mean, they're putting in great players every year. The selection committee they have, I believe, is the right selection of people.
Michael Strahan should get the amount of money that anybody else in the league is getting. I don't care if it is a quarterback, wide receiver, defensive lineman, linebacker. He should make the kind of money Brett Favre, Marshall Faulk make, because he's that type of player.
I owe everything to the Vikings. What they invested in me was more than money.
Joe Montana had bad games in the playoffs against the Giants and Chicago Bears; that doesn't stop us from considering him as possibly the best.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to be voted into the Hall of Fame. But if I don't get in, that's not the end of the world. I am surrounded by my loved ones, and being with them, going through this journey with them, makes me extremely happy.
You have to understand, it takes a lot of qualities to play linebacker - quickness, tackling ability and sheer force - so you just can't take someone from another position and think they could all of a sudden handle that role.
The difference between the good players and the great is how long they stay in their prime.
I know wide receivers.
There are positive steps being taken to tackle issues that people from all walks of life, races, ethnicities, and political persuasions agree have been devastating to communities of color.
When Buddy Ryan cut me, my wife was pregnant.
We have learned from history that change is never easy, that it usually doesn't look pretty, especially in today's politically-charged environment where intent and actions can readily be misconstrued and judged.
Receivers have always dropped a lot of balls.
Braxton Miller is a special football player and has been special since he stepped on campus.
Ronnie Lott - he got a really good shot on me once and I learned that unless I wanted to shorten my career, I needed to steer clear of his path.
I don't think Joey Harrington is good enough to be a starting quarterback in the NFL.
It's not as if I dislike Michigan. I have a lot of respect for the university - not only the athletic department but how they educate young people. The only reason I dislike them is because they are the No. 1 rival for OSU.
Bill Romanowski was one of the most feared players to play, not only because of his intensity, but because he played through the whistle and after the whistle.
Lynn Swann - I loved the way he was like a ballerina playing in the NFL.
I'm a football player. I believe I'm just as tough as anybody else. I try not to play like a wide receiver.
If you're going to be a professional you continue to grow.
Would you rather have a good fullback or a good third receiver? I'll take the receiver.
As a wide receiver, you don't want to feel that the quarterback is only going to throw you the ball if you're wide open.
I don't care what you do in life. To say that that year I was the absolute best, especially when you're in a team sport - and I have more of a personality that I wished I would've played an individual sport - to win a championship, to get 60 people and focused in one direction and do it over a seven-month period is phenomenal.
This is what I know for a fact. I know that every guy playing in the league, they have someone out there that loves them swearing up and down that they shouldn't be out there.
Football gave me a sense of purpose. It gave me a sense of me.
There's not a whole bunch of options in America for a black man. But sports gives you that opportunity... So where would my life be without football? I don't know.
As far as revolutionizing the game and things like that, God doesn't make a lot of people like RGIII, bruh.
Odell is going to grow up. That why's he is bringing other people in his life so he can grow up. If he wasn't trying to grow up, he wouldn't be calling Cris Carter.
