Quotes by Junior Seau - Page 1

Leadership comes with consistency.
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I'm basically a homegrown American.
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Homegrown
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The past isn't going to get you to your goal.
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Goal
Past
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I get paid to practice. I play the game for free.
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Games
Play
Practice
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I want to be the best. That's just the human way.
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Being The Best
Want
Way
Human Way
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I'm not afraid to fail. I'm afraid to be mediocre.
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Failing
Mediocre
Not Afraid
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I'm living proof that you can make it out of the ghetto.
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Ghetto
Living Proof
Proof
Living
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The best meal at my restaurant is the whole right side of the menu.
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Meals
Restaurants
Sides
Meal
Menu
Restaurant
Right Side
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I can't handle rollercoasters. I have no control of it. It gets to me.
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Handle
No Control
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No, I want my kids to be Tiger Woods. And Serena Williams. I dig those two.
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Woods
Dig
Tiger
Tiger Woods
Williams
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I'm afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.
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Average
Linebackers
Real
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The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.
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Humility
Self Respect
Sportsmanship
Boys And Girls
Club
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Dad taught us about morals, values and goals. Having a tight-knit family was important to him.
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Morals
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My background wasn't one blessed with all the luxuries in life. Nothing is forever and I realize that.
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Blessed
Background
Luxuries
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When I first started playing football, a headache was called a 'headache.' And now it's called 'a concussion.'
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Headache
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You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.
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Inspirational
Motivational
Athlete
Beast
Hockey
Hockey Player
Professional Athlete
Skates
See Never Know
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The goal of my Foundation is to give young people a chance to better themselves and establish a base for a successful future.
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Chance
Successful
Future Better People
Base
Establish
Young People
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No, I didn't forget Samoan - I understand it when you talk to me but, you know, to put phrases together I sound like I do in English.
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Phrases
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From my old neighborhood, I learned nothing was guaranteed, not even life itself. You better get it today, because tomorrow is not promised.
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Neighborhood
Tomorrow
Life Today Tomorrow
Guaranteed
Promised
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No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.
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Looking Back
Stories
Waste
Wasting Time
Looking
Back
Full
Excuses
Over
Misfortune
No Time
Sob
Waste Time
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I had parents who instilled in me the importance of love, morals and hard work. I give God all the glory because he has brought me through so much.
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Giving
Glory
Hard Work
Importance
Parent
Love God Work
Brought
Parents
Instilled
Morals
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As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful.
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Hood
Influences
Seemed
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Being a part of the National Football League for so long, I've come across so many trainers and equipment managers who've allowed me to be who I am today.
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Equipment
League
Managers
Trainers
Across
Allowed
National
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A lot of children can go back and look at their childhood and find reasons why it wasn't perfect. But why whine about something no one can fix? You deal with it.
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Whine
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Ryan Leaf is doing great now. If he progresses the way he is now, we're going to have a quarterback that's going to be reckoned with in the near future. And that's not political.
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Quarterback
Reckoned
Leaf
Near
Ryan
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In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.
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Consistently
Football
Locker Room
Meetings
Order
Player
Saturday
Weight
Perform
Gain
Locker
Practices
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For dinner I want real sushi - not the Americanized kind. My parents are American Samoan so I don't go for any of those rolls. I'll have raw prawn or sea urchin or octopus. I love it.
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Dinner
Octopus
Sea
Sushi
Americanized
Raw
Rolls
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I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.
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Funny
Graduation
Inspirational
Laurels
Retirement
Surf
Today
Ahead
All Day
Graduating
Happen
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I wanted to perform well for my mom and dad, because in high school, I didn't have a job. My brothers, they worked at Pizza Hut or places like that, but sports, that was my way of giving back.
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Giving Back
Mom And Dad
Pizza
Perform
Brothers
Sports Dad Mom
Hut
Pizza Hut
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Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.
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Leadership
Consistency
Fool
Guy
Locker Room
Talk
Fabricated
Guys
Performance
Locker
Room
Rehearsed
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To chase an athlete that really doesn't want to speak with you and when you finally get him, gives you three words and you have to write a story based on three words of information he gave you, that's pretty tough.
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Athlete
Chase
Finally
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I was a quarterback in pee-wee football. I always wanted to be quarterback. They're the leaders, they make the calls. It didn't work out because I didn't have the arm. I also played wide receiver my senior year in high school.
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Quarterback
Receiver
Senior
Senior Year
Wide
Work Out
Arm
Calls
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Too many athletes are living in a tiny window. They have no vision for themselves - what they can be outside of football and what they can mean to a community. They just don't know any better. My hopes and dreams are unlimited.
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Tiny
Unlimited
Window
Athletes
Hopes
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The Super Bowl is a game. Life is for real. What I went through helped me get to where I am today. I won't forget. I can't forget. Because a man who forgets his past sometimes loses his soul and forgets where to go in the future.
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Men
Loses
Past
Real
Super Bowl
Bowl
Forgets
Helped
Super
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You can't live on last year, you can't live on the year before. I can't bring in my 13 Pro Bowls in the locker room and say, look at me. No. That is gone. That is the best thing about the game of football is that everybody starts over.
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Bowls
Last Year
Locker Room
Best Football Me
Locker
Pro
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Being a reporter and chasing down an assignment isn't an easy thing to do, especially when you're dealing with athletes that are so focused and trying to get their little game plan together to perform under adverse conditions... it's tough.
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Adverse
Chasing
Conditions
Focused
Game Plan
Adverse Conditions
Assignment
Athletes
Perform
Dealing
Reporter
Easy Thing
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I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the 'permanent quarterback.' I didn't know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.
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Age Difference
Brother
Football
Older Guys
Permanent
Quarterback
Remember When
Exactly What
Seek
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As a sophomore, I wanted to play varsity in three sports. And I accomplished that. It was a great feat that year, and something I held special. I wanted to bring a championship team to Oceanside High School, and it happened. It was a great year that I will never forget.
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Accomplished
Championship
Championship Team
Never Forget
Sophomore
Feat
Held
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There's a window in my life which is football. I try to remember that it's not going to be there forever. That's why staying humble is important; knowing who I am and the message I'm sending out. I always try to be a person first, before I'm No. 55 on the football field.
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Football Field
Staying
Window
Sending
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Football is a chess game to me. If you move your pawn against my bishop, I'll counter that move to beat you. Football is the same way. I study so much film that I know exactly what teams are going to do. I love knowing what a offense is going to run and stuffing that play.
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Running
Chess
Film
Football
Offense
Study
Team
Love Football Me
Against
Love Football Game
Love Me Game
Counter
Game
Beat
Bishop
Run
Exactly
Exactly What
Move
Pawn
Teams
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Playing football and rugby is the Samoan sport. It's part of the conversation at church. It's part of the conversation in their barbershops, in the grocery stores. It's what everyone is aware of and familiar with. They take a lot of pride in the beating you can take in the course of that sport.
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Conversation
Familiar
Pride
Rugby
Beating
Grocery
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I've tried to bring the mentality of the outside linebacker to the inside and the rough, tough style of an inside linebacker to the outside. The middle linebacker always has been known as kind of a big plugger. Outside guys are known to be able to run. I just try to make big plays wherever I am.
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Mentality
Rough
Plays
Wherever
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When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull.
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Jobs
Running
Sports
Enjoy
Lifestyle
Nfl
Reality
Reality Tv
Sports Illustrated
Stars
Weekend
Tv
Assigned
Bull
Run
Star
Retire
Reporter
Full-Time
Illustrated
Junior
Planned
Squeeze
Tv Show
Wound
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