Top 40 Joe Thomas Quotes

You look at guys with significant Alzheimer’s and dementia and the mood swings and the suicides that unfortunately NFL players have been faced with. And depression. Lou Gehrig’s disease. These are all things that have kind of been linked to the brain damage from football.

Who cares if they throw a football that has no air pressure? What does it matter? Why don’t we let the quarterbacks do whatever they want to the football? I don’t understand why there’s any rules.

I was religious with the way I stretched, the way I would do my soft-tissue work, whether it be massages or foam rollers. I was very good about getting in the hot tub and cold tub, and getting in the training room. I also love to do yoga, and I give yoga a lot of credit for my longevity in the NFL.

I still spend my time feeling sorry for myself and making serious mistakes.

Coming in, you’re so concerned about learning your job and the things you need to do to be successful individually. Once that’s good, you can start to focus on learning guys around you and learning defenses and what they’re trying to do to you.

Towards the end of my career, I had a lot of wear and tear, a lot of arthritis that was building up. Being 300 pounds for over 15 years was starting to take its toll. I was constantly on all sorts of anti-inflammatories and medicines to deal with the pain.

I was more eager to lose weight than almost anything in retirement.

I want to learn more about the game as a whole and about the finer points of technique across the line of scrimmage. I want to learn more about coverages and blitzes so I can kind of see the game before it happens.

It’s important to try and balance my own diet, my own health, my own lifestyle, with the needs of my family.

I’m not sure I really want to step into the booth.

I’m hired to do a job. They expect me to do a job, and that job requires me to get my butt up and get back to the huddle, get the play and go do it another time. And until I can’t physically get up, I’m going to do that.

The passion, toughness and determination that you display on a daily basis is an inspiration for myself and for all of my teammates and all the people that wear ‘Cleveland’ across their chest.

I’d like to play as long as I still love the game, as long as I’m still feeling healthy and playing well so a team would want me to play for them.

Most period drama is so earnest. A lot of it is about making yourself take seriously things you wouldn’t normally.

My mentality from the day I started playing sports was that you get up, you dust yourself off and you do it again.

It would be like when the Cubs won the World Series. Everybody in the country has probably been cheering for them for so long because they’ve been suffering for so long. And you want to cheer for teams like the Browns.

I didn’t want to miss that opportunity to be able to enjoy an afternoon fishing with my dad which is something we had done growing up a ton of times on Lake Michigan and it was funny that it kind of turned into an attention thing than I expected and even more than if I would have gone to the draft.

I love Cleveland. I really do. I love the Browns, I love being a part of this organization, and it’s been kind of my career’s mission to help turn this team around into a consistent winner.

If I was a stone mason or if I was a painter or building bridges or whatever, there’s going to be some wear and tear on your body and your brain. And that’s just the way it is.

In order to spur progress, we all need to be people who point out and shine a spotlight on racism wherever we see it. It doesn’t always have to be confrontational, but it does need to become the societal norm that racism is identified and not tolerated in any form or fashion.

I honestly thought that since I didn’t associate myself with any people or groups who were outwardly racist, and I didn’t act in a way that struck me as racist, that this meant that I myself was not a racist, and that racism wasn’t a huge issue.

Goodbye not because I’m retiring, but because I’m merely changing jobs. From being your left tackle to being the No. 1 fan of the Cleveland Browns.

When the game gets eyeballs in newspapers and on TV, that’s what in the end is the goal for everyone.

If it’s an outside zone play, you have the green light to cut-block.

You have to be able to process 1,000 things that are happening at one time and be able to decide the right technique to use. And have the reaction between what your eyes are seeing and what your hands and feet need to do.

So, there’s no guarantee in the NFL that if you’ve got the No. 1 pick or you’ve got a top-five pick, that you’re going to be able to draft a franchise quarterback.

I was always the 250 pound guy that I was when I was 18 years old coming out of high school.

David Bakhtiari is a guy I like to watch. He’s an exceptional left tackle.

I’m a Cleveland Brown, that’s who I am and I’m not going to change allegiances just to get a Super Bowl title. I want to do it as a Cleveland Brown because that’s who I am.

No, but I remember going out to Las Vegas while playing AAU for a team from Wisconsin. I’d heard about this LeBron James guy. We went to the gym to watch his team, and I was very impressed at how big and athletic he was even at that age.

Even though you wouldn’t want to line a D-lineman and running back up across from each other to block, when you get help initially from the guard, and then the defensive tackle gets picked up by the running back, it’s not as bad as a lot of people would think versus if you’re just putting that matchup on paper.

I can say confidently that I don’t think Austin Corbett is going to play tackle in the NFL.

Until they study the general population and find out what the likelihood of CTE in a soccer mom is versus an NFL brain, we really have no baseline to rate this study off of.

So while most people dealt with the scale every Monday at the Berea training facility nervous about how high the number was going to be, I was the one that was nervous about how low the number was going to be.

I really had to train myself to eat like a maniac really four or five meals a day until I felt sick, just to keep the weight on.

I can hardly think of any players that have really walked out of their own volition while there were still teams that really wanted them at a fair price.

I live in a flat in central London. I do like it there; there’s always stuff going on. But I do crave a bit of peace and quiet.

Maybe down the line I think I would like to call a game, but right now, I recognize where my talents are and how much work and growth I would have to have in order to be able to step into that booth.

The Browns have unbelievable medical resources. I’m always seeking the best help and advice possible. I’ll continue to do that even when my career is over.

Imagine if you grew up in a place and the team was bad for a long time and there’s almost like a pride in being able to stay here and stick it out, knowing that you’re going to get to where you promised yourself and you’ve been promised at some point.