Not everybody likes Ed Reed.

Football is a reaction sport.

There's no place like Baltimore.

I don't want to play till I'm 40.

The game takes a toll on your body.

You've got to be smart about tackling.

Baltimore is my heart. The fans are family.

I'm not the kind of person to hold my tongue.

I wasn't about one season, but career and longevity.

I love this game, and I put my heart and soul into it.

Everybody in the world knows that plans tend to change.

To the young: Work, work, work, and then work some more!

The relationships I have in Baltimore will never change.

Help each other, encourage each other, lift each other up.

We always said it's not suit-and-tie on the football field.

I always know how to play this game. It's about being smart.

I love to have my football camps. I love being a part of that.

Monday night, there ain't a better time to showcase your talent.

I always play the game a certain way, regardless of what guys say.

To be playing in my first Super Bowl in New Orleans, it's special.

You know mental illness is one of the biggest problems in our world.

We all played sports, my brothers, my daddy, my uncles. That's all we had.

I am going to graduate school, but that ain't got nothing to do with football.

I know everybody wants to make it to the NFL, but it doesn't happen like that.

There's a reason why, outside of me dropping a few, people don't throw my way, man.

Not every officer is a bad police. I work with police officers. I know first responders.

There's not many people - only really the great ones - who realize what they were born to do.

The only way we protect ourselves, the only way a player gets what he wants is by holding out.

When I'm on the football field, I'm giving you everything. Do the Ravens know that? Yes they do.

I tried to go and get my master's in-season. That's a tough cookie to try to eat, but it's just a great thing.

Coming out of college, I wasn't considered the fastest, the biggest or the smartest. There was no way around that.

When I make a tackle or make a play and I have a slight pain or something, you're going to react the way you react.

We're all going to have our trials and tribulations, but you can work through them and everything will be all right.

God gives you talent to nurture. God gives you talent to be something. Some people realize it and some people don't.

You don't hear about tradition in the NFL, but we have a tradition in Baltimore. It was just an awesome place to be.

My philosophy was simple. I was trying to score when I got the football in my hand. There was no question about that.

Not every game is going to be perfect. Not every game is going to be an interception or two or a big-bang tackle, so to say.

I love Bill Belichick. He is a great coach, great man - raising men to do the right thing and win championships in this league.

We are human and regular people at the end of the day. We're not immune from the trials and tribulations that go on through life.

I can't be lackadaisical when it's time for me to make any play, whether it's a tackle, fumble recovery, anything that it might be.

There will be good and bad, right and wrong. Your reaction of choice, good or bad, has consequences that affect you and those around you.

It's tough for kids to stay focused if they don't have something to get them off the streets... that's where the kids can get into the bad things.

I was a San Francisco fan when Joe Montana and Ronnie Lott and those guys where there. And I watched Joe Montana get cut and go to K.C. and still ball.

Sometimes I wake up and I think, where did my memory go? But at the same time, I signed up for it. Football has been like that for a long time, for ages.

Everyone has their own greatness. Whether you reach your own greatness depends on your environment, your structure, the company you keep and your attitude.

I always said I wanted to become a master of my game, like Bruce Lee. I mastered my art of football, because that's what it truly is when you understand it.

The old G's, or the gangsters, turned me away from the street because they knew my dad, and they had a lot of respect for my dad, but because I was an athlete.

We've got to help our community out. We've got to help Baltimore out, because it's a lot of things that have been handed down in our society that we're dealing with.

Just being from Louisiana, being from the southern part of Louisiana, Metairie, close to New Orleans and growing up in St. Rose. There are a lot of things to overcome.

I don't want to be like these guys having neck surgery, then you got to go have another surgery just to continue to play this game. I love this game but I love myself more.

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