Quotes by Shannon Sharpe - Page 2

In my 14 years, catching 200 yards or scoring 3 touchdowns in a game, breaking a record - none of those compared to winning the Super Bowl for the first time.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Catching
Super Bowl
Yards
Bowl
Breaking
Scoring
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You're only great if you win. I mean, Alexander wasn't Alexander the Mediocre or Alexander the Average. He was Alexander the Great, and there's a reason for it.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Average
Mediocre
Alexander
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I don't want to live in a society where we ask sporting leagues or place of employment to dole out harsher punishment than what the criminal justice system would.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice System
Employment
Punishment
Criminal
Leagues
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Colin Kaepernick had a... maybe he had an epiphany. Maybe he had a realization that 'I have a higher calling the playing quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers.'
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Epiphany
Higher
Quarterback
Realization
San Francisco
Colin
Francisco
San
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If you want to boo, I want you to boo me as loud as you can, because I think that's a sign of respect: You don't boo the bad players; you boo the really good ones.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Loud
Good Respect Me
Boo
Good Ones
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There's not a throw that Tom Brady can make that Aaron Rodgers can't, but there are several throws that Aaron Rodgers can make that Tom Brady only dreams of making.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Brady
Aaron
Rodgers
Several
Throw
Tom
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Didn't know until my rookie year you could buy chicken parts separate, like drumsticks and thighs and breast. My granny always bought the whole chicken and cut it up.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Granny
Thighs
Chicken
Rookie
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Ray Lewis is the type of guy, if he were in a fight with a bear I wouldn't help him, I'd pour honey on him because he likes to fight. That's the type of guy Ray Lewis is.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Sports
Fighting
Guy
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This was a no-brainer, ... When it came down to it, I said to myself, Hey, you can still play, you can still play at a high level and you still enjoy playing. Why not play?
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Hey
Levels
Play
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I've got my bell rung, and when I first came in the league, the term wasn't 'concussion,' it was 'getting dinged' or 'had your bell rung.' So I had my bell rung a few times.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Bell
Rung
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When I left my grandmother's home in 1986 headed to Savannah State with two brown grocery bags filled with my belongings, nothing was going to keep me from realizing my dreams.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Bags
Brown
Filled
Grandmother
Realizing
Savannah
Grocery
Headed
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The NFL is made up of 1,800 players, guys from different religious backgrounds, different upbringings. I love Peyton Manning. But I don't want 1,800 Peyton Mannings in the NFL.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Backgrounds
Nfl
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It trips me out when I hear people say, 'Well, I don't see color.' You see color. Now, how you respond and how you handle the situation once you've seen and noticed color is different.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Color
Handle
Situation
Me People See
Me People Situation
Respond
Me Situation People
Hear People
Noticed
People Say
Trips
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President Trump wouldn't stick to politics, so he got to jump into sports. So I feel very comfortable now, moving forward, jumping back and forth. Sports to politics, politics to sports.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Sports
Comfortable
Moving
Moving Forward
President
Trump
Feel
Now
Very
Back
Forth
Got
Jump
President Trump
Stick
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To get down on the ground and get yourself up for an extended period of time at 245 lbs... that takes a lot. When you see those CrossFit guys, none of them weigh 245, I can assure you of that.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Assure
Extended
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The guys that are serious serious about football - your Peyton Mannings, your Tom Bradys - I'm not saying don't advertise or do endorsements dollars. But there's a time and a place for everything.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Advertise
Time Football Your
Tom
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Of all the four major sports, whether you like Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, maybe you like Bobby Orr, or you like Larry Bird or Tom Brady - Bill Russell is the greatest athlete to play in Boston.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Sports
Athlete
Bird
Boston
Brady
Larry
Bill
Bobby
Major
Maybe
Russell
Ted
Tom
Williams
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At some point in time, we're going to have to stop addressing the kneeling, and we're going to have to start addressing what led Colin Kaepernick to kneel. That's the issue that nobody wants to talk about.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Addressing
Colin
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A lot of problems that are going on aren't going to get better if we don't talk about it. Race is the biggest one. It's a very, very uncomfortable topic because the biggest part of America was founded on it.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Uncomfortable
Founded
Topic
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You just don't wake up one morning and say, 'I'm going to be a talker. I'm going to be a braggart.' It's something you achieve over the years, and you get better at it. Obviously, I've gotten pretty good at it.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Achieve
Wake Up
Talker
Gotten
Obviously
One Morning
Pretty Good
Wake
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I didn't bother with trash-talking people's moms, wives, or girlfriends. I was like, 'Hold on, man, you mean to tell me you're making $10 million a year? That's $9 million, $999,999 too much!' That ate them up.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Bother
Man Me People
Ate
Girlfriends
Million
Moms
Wives
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I have the utmost respect for Charles Barkley. He was a heck of a ballplayer... When it comes to basketball, please quote Charles Barkley. But when it comes to race in America? Please don't quote Charles Barkley.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Please
Ballplayer
Charles
Heck
Quote
Utmost
Utmost Respect
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I had a persona as a player, and I know this will come as a shock, but I liked to talk. But don't let the persona overshadow the person. The persona liked to have fun. The person knew when it was time to get to work.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Persona
Shock
Work Time Fun
Have Fun
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Charles Barkley played in an era where he was never the guy. He always had to take a back seat to Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Isaiah Thomas, because what did they have that he never got? A championship.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Bird
Championship
Johnson
Jordan
Larry
Magic
Seat
Michael
Magic Johnson
Michael Jordan
Thomas
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My grandma told me, don't get into trouble. I know how hard she worked to take care of her own nine kids and my mama's three. And I just never wanted to hurt her. I never wanted to do something that would embarrass her.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Grandma
Hurt
Mama
Nine
Take Care
Trouble
Embarrass
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I could have never been a high diver or a gymnast because I don't like subjectivity. I love where I'm faster than you,, or I can jump higher or swim faster. I don't want you holding a card before I figure out whether I won or lost.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Faster
Gymnast
Subjectivity
Swim
Card
Holding
Jump
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My grandmother was a very simple woman. She didn't want a whole lot. My grandmother wanted to go to church and Sunday school every Sunday. She wanted to be in Bible study every Wednesday. The other days, she wanted to be on a fishing creek.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Bible
Church
Fishing
Grandmother
Study
Sunday
Sunday School
Wednesday
Creek
Every Sunday
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I've said numerous times the hardest job in America isn't being a professional athlete. It's not being a matador or having some job that puts your life at risk. The hardest job in America is being black, because it's the one thing you can't outrun.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Athlete
Hardest
Outrun
Professional Athlete
Life Your Black
Numerous
Numerous Times
Puts
The One Thing
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To say someone is the greatest, I just don't want championships to define that greatness. Because under that theory, Robert Horry is one of the five or six best basketball players ever - he has seven championship rings. We know that not to be true.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Basketball
Championship
Greatness
Rings
Seven
Six
Theory
Be True
Define
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For me, having played the game of football, I look at it through a much different lens. I don't look at it from a fan's perspective. I'm always trying to analyze and critique things when I'm watching sporting events. That's why I never have the sound on.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Critique
Perspective
Sound
Always Football Me
Always Football Game
Analyze
Fan
Lens
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The British are coming, the British are coming! Mr. President! We need the National Guard! We need as many men as you can spare because we are killing the Patriots! So call the dogs off! Send the National Guard, please! They need emergency help! Please! Help!
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Men
Dog
President
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A lot of guys are going to say, 'Look, if it meant me getting a Super Bowl ring, I'd run right over the top of my brother.' And I would have. But once it was said and done, I would have been very disappointed that I had to get the ring at my brother's expense.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Disappointed
Super Bowl
Done Me Look
Ring
Bowl
Expense
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Super Bowl XXXII was a victory made long before stepping on that field in San Diego in 1998. It was earned with my brother guiding me as a kid in Glennville, Ga., and as a seventh-round pick out of Savannah State. Even at the pinnacle, that ring was always his.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Brother
Pinnacle
San Diego
Savannah
Super Bowl
Ring
Bowl
Diego
Earned
Guiding
Pick
San
Stepping
Super
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You can get in front of the media and say, 'Yeah, I'm working hard.' You can't do it in front of those other 52 guys in the locker room. You can't fool your teammates, because they see you. They see you every day, and they see you more than your family sees you.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Fool
Locker Room
Yeah
Teammates
Locker
Sees
Working Hard
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I had a speech class in elementary school. And you know how teachers, when a kid is struggling to pronounce a word, used to lead him and say, 'Johnny, sounds like... ? Johnny, sounds like... ?' I said out loud, 'Sounds like Johnny can't read.' Teacher told me to leave the room.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Teacher
Class
Elementary School
Loud
Said
School
Speech
Used
Like
Teacher Me School
Me Know School
Had
Me
Teachers
Out
Read
How
Elementary
Leave
Say
Lead
Johnny
Him
Word
Room
Pronounce
Sounds
Struggling
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Racism is a disease. Go to your doctor with an ailment, and let the doctor tell you, 'Well, look, I'm not going to treat you; we're just not going to talk about it. It's going to go away.' You would look at him like he's crazy. By not talking about racism, it's not going to go away.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Disease
Not Talking
Racism
Talking
Ailment
Doctor
Go Away
Treat
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I tell you what: I bet Jerry Jones would not trade places with a 75-year black man in Chicago. I bet Joel Klatt would not trade places with a 30-year old black guy from Chicago or Watts. I bet he wouldn't do that. You know why? It's great to know that I'm white and a male in America.
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Jerry
Bet
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We have never, ever, in the history of football seen a guy that possesses what Aaron Rodgers possesses. Nobody, no quarterback in history, has the touch, the accuracy, the ability to throw the ball moving left or right, throw the ball from the pocket, throw the ball from different plains.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Accuracy
Quarterback
Aaron
Plains
Pocket
Possesses
Rodgers
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What I tell people all the time is that bodies are made in the kitchen, not in the gym. You cannot exercise a bad diet. It's just impossible. Unless you want to be the ultra-marathoner or someone like a Michael Phelps that's swimming 70 or 80,000 meters in a week, you cannot exercise a bad diet.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Diet
Exercise
Gym
Impossible
Swimming
Bodies
Michael
Time Diet Exercise
Unless
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I was born in the 1960s. I came up in the 1970s. I know how race relations were. The thing is, I want to advance the ball and never return to those days again. I want to keep the topic going. I'm going to discuss it. And we're going to make America better. It's my job as a citizen, and I demand it.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Demand
Race Relations
Advance
Citizen
Discuss
Topic
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Guys would always start by saying, 'You ain't going to get nothing today, Sharpe!' And I'd say, 'Know what? Don't be surprised if your name is on the waiver wire tomorrow. It could have been prevented. But you wanted to go there. So now when you see your name on the wire, you'll know who put it there.'
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Wire
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Most people, they're dug in. 'Michael Jordan is the best player, and there's nothing LeBron can do.' A lot of people dug in that LeBron is whiny and he complains, he jumped teams, he wants all the best players. And once you have your mind made up on a particular topic, there's no moving you off of that.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Jordan
Moving
Particular
Best Mind People
Complains
Best Mind Your
Michael
Dug
Lebron
Michael Jordan
Teams
Topic
Wants
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You can tell the truth, but sometimes you can't always be in your face with it. I found a way to tell the truth and put it in a nice, neat package for people to receive it. A lot of times, you have to put it in a nice, neat box with a bow tie, and when they open it, it's the truth. I think people respect that.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Respect
Neat
Face
Bow
Open
Package
Receive
Tell
Tie
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The thing you can't measure is someone's heart, someone's desire. You can measure a 40, his vertical, his bench press, and that might let you know things like, yeah, he can jump high. But desire, his dedication, his determination, that's something you can't measure. That's something you can't measure about Rod Smith.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Desire
Determination
Heart
Might
Vertical
Yeah
Bench
High
Jump
Measure
Press
Rod
Smith
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Growing up on a farm, I saw that if I didn't go to the military or go to school, and I knew my mom and my family wasn't going to be able to send me to school out of their pocket, so it basically came down to athletics. I knew I didn't want to work on a farm. I knew I didn't want to do manual labor the rest of my life.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Athletics
Labor
Manual Labor
Military
Life Family Work
Basically
Farm
Manual
Pocket
Send
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I'm a big cardio guy. I love spinning, and I do that seven to eight times a week because I have time. What else am I going to do? I don't have a hobby. I don't play golf; I don't restore cars; and I don't have a fixer-upper house that I'm working on. So basically, my day is built around just working out. That's what I enjoy doing.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Cardio
Eight
Golf
Seven
Spinning
Love Time Day
Basically
Play Golf
Restore
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When I went to the Pro Bowl, I went as a tight end. When I made the All Pro team, I made it as a tight end. When they introduced us and I ran out of the tunnel, they introduced me as a tight end. So how is that possible that now that my career is over, they say, 'Well, he put up stats like a wide receiver?' It's not my fault I was ahead of my time.
Shannon Sharpe / Football Player
Ran
Receiver
Wide
Time Me End
Bowl
Time Me Ahead
Introduced
Pro
Tight
Tunnel
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