Words matter. These are the best Raiders Quotes from famous people such as Hugh Douglas, Charles Woodson, Graham Moore, Hunter S. Thompson, Rickey Henderson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Living in Ohio, I grew up an Oakland Raiders fan.
My love of wine happened organically while being in Napa Valley during training camp while playing for the Oakland Raiders in the 90s.
One thing that I always loved about, say, ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’, is that Indiana Jones gets the Ark of the Covenant about sixty percent of the way through the movie. And then the rest of it is get-out-alive. To me, that’s really cool. Because he’s the one you care about at the end of the day.
The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.
I played in Green Bay. I look at their stadium, I look at the Packers Hall of Fame and all the things that go into that experience. I feel the Oakland Raiders are an organization that deserves something like that.
My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playing football, so she chose baseball for me. I guess moms do know best.
Well I grew up in the Midwest, and I think the first film that blew my mind was ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark.’
I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved – I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor.
When you go into free agency and have options, any team is up for you to be on – and the Raiders, obviously with me having been there for so long, have a great shot at it.
You don’t know, at the beginning of ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark,’ that you want Indy to use a whip, but you damn sure know at the end that you loved it. It’s cool, and you don’t know why.
I feel a lot of unfinished business and loyalty and responsibility to get the Raiders going again.
I was a fan of football. I was more of a Raiders fan, but I knew who O.J. was. I knew The Juice, and I remember the Hertz commercials with him running to the airport and whatnot. So he was a highbrow celebrity in my eyes.
It’s great because growing up, especially being a Raiders fan and then playing with Marcus, I was like, ‘Holy smokes, that’s Marcus Allen’ when I first walked in and saw him.
The Raiders have been good to me, giving me a second chance to come back around and wear the silver and black.
When you play for the Raiders and you play for Al Davis, it was always the talk that it was Al Davis against the rest of the league. Some of the calls that we would get, we would always say, ‘Oh we got that call because of Al’s relationship with the NFL.’
Money has never been a consideration In my continuing to play for the Raiders.
The kind of roles that Harrison Ford plays are what really interest me, like ‘Indiana Jones’ and ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark.’
I’ve often said, ‘If I had one drive to win a game to this day, and I had a quarterback to pick, I would pick Kenny.’ Snake was a lot cooler than I was. He was a perfect quarterback and a perfect Raider. When you think about the Raiders, you think about Ken Stabler.
I like the Raiders. That’s my favorite team.
I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football.
Discipline is knowing what you’re supposed to do and doing it as best you can… On third down and short yardage, the Raiders don’t jump offside. That’s discipline – not a coat and tie, not a clean shave.
You play against an opponent so much the numbers got to match at some point! I played against the Raiders six years straight pretty much. I played against them more than any team I’ve ever played.
Whenever anyone asks me what I did in the service, I just tell him I was a member of the famed ‘Remington Raiders.’
Some dudes who are key grips honestly look like they could play D-Line for the Raiders.
One of my good buddies is Marcel Reece with the Raiders. He’s a big ‘Triple-D’ fan; he’s a big food fan.
I grew up in Orange County, without a team. I never affiliated myself with the Chargers, south of me, or the Raiders, north of me. I’ve always followed the Dallas Cowboys. I’ve been a huge fan since the early ’90s.
For the Raiders, I’m always going to be ready and willing to go there and talk to those players about whatever.
I’ve known I wanted to do this ever since I was four years old and watched ‘Star Search’ for the first time. I mean, Harrison Ford in ‘Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark?’ My hero.
I’m a lover of the great adventure films of the 1980s: ‘Goonies,’ ‘E.T.,’ ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark,’ ‘Star Wars.’
I loved ‘Planet of the Apes,’ and I loved ‘Star Wars,’ and I loved ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark,’ and to me, the goal always was to work on something as cool as that.
