Top 13 Michael Oher Quotes

I would have – I didn’t really have to be an athlete. I could have been, you know – worked in fast food, been a janitor, anything. I would have had two or three jobs, working long hours, you know, to support myself and for my family in the future. I would have been successful.

People who watch ‘The Blind Side,’ they’re not going to have a chance to get to know me. People I’m close to, as long as they know me, know who I am, I don’t have a problem with it.

I’ve learned not to buy into what other people say. I’ve learned not to put dreams in other people’s hands.

Do what’s best for you, and do it to the best of your ability – go after your goals like nobody’s business.

Anything is possible. My background is a bad background, but a lot of people said I couldn’t do it. You can do anything if you put your mind to it.

I’m not dumb, I just wasn’t educated.

Obviously I’m not to where Michael Jordan is, but trying to get to some level where he was and just striving for the best. That’s what got me here.

Not every day where I’m from do people get a movie made about them.

Of course, we all need angels. I had to have one over my head throughout my life, even right now. The odds of my making it were slim to none. So you have to have an angel. You have to believe.

I’m not trying to prove anything. People look at me, and they take things away from me because of a movie. They don’t really see the skills and the kind of player I am. That’s why I get downgraded so much, because of something off the field.

For me, I was always just a down-to-earth guy. From Day 1 my rookie year, I’ve been the same. As an offensive lineman, we just want to be under-the-radar, humble guys, just like to do our work and not be noticed.

Everyone knows someone struggling in some kind of way. You are a role model to so many people, even if you don’t realize it. Take someone under your wing. Show them the right way to do things.

I try to win at everything.