Words matter. These are the best Junior Seau Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I can’t handle rollercoasters. I have no control of it. It gets to me.
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.
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.
I’m afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My background wasn’t one blessed with all the luxuries in life. Nothing is forever and I realize that.
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.
The best meal at my restaurant is the whole right side of the menu.
The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.
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.
I’m living proof that you can make it out of the ghetto.
From my old neighborhood, I learned nothing was guaranteed, not even life itself. You better get it today, because tomorrow is not promised.
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.
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.
No, I want my kids to be Tiger Woods. And Serena Williams. I dig those two.
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.
The past isn’t going to get you to your goal.
I want to be the best. That’s just the human way.
