Top 44 Doug Baldwin Quotes

I’ve been blessed enough to be on a great team, gone to the divisional round five years in a row or whatever it was. That’s special. Not everybody gets an opportunity to do that.

I want to know what coverage it is every single time. I want to line up and be able to read what the defense is trying to do to me so I can get open.

I play football because I love the game and I put everything into it.

Honestly, I think the combine is a waste of time. The effort should be in film watching, physicals, and mental evaluations.

As a competitor, I try to do everything in my power to control the uncontrollable.

I support Kam Chancellor as a person.

There aren’t enough people who are passionate with what they do. They’re content just going through life being mediocre, being average. They don’t want to thrive. They don’t want to strive for greater. They’re happy being where they are.

Individuals have a right to freedom of speech.

It’s not necessarily about the physical aspects when people say receivers have a lot of drops or can’t catch the ball. It’s that they are not focusing on the right things. That their mind-set is not in the right spot.

The difference between a mob and a movement is follow-through.

I’m just trying to be the best Doug Baldwin I can be.

I would say I had anger-management issues, to be honest with you. But it was only on the football field.

I’m on the record as saying Andrew Luck can be the greatest quarterback who ever played the game of football. I’ve seen him do some unbelievable things that I still can’t believe a quarterback was able to do. I have tremendous respect for that guy.

It’s easy in this world, in this business, to get caught up and get jealous of people.

I’m a religious man. I believe in God.

You’re always fighting the demons.

It’s not going to matter, but there’s a part of me, a human part of me, that wants to be 60 years old, watching a Seahawks game, and they’re talking about the days back when I was playing. I want to be able to feel that. I want to know what that feels like.

Good instincts are vital to longevity in the NFL.

I’m not the fastest, the strongest, the most athletic, the tallest. But in order for me to be good at what I do, I have to focus on my craft so much that it alleviates those other things. I can’t have personal relationships like other people do. I can’t spend time on that.

I feel like I am a better person because of my struggles, because of my challenges and persevering through them and realizing the mistakes that I’ve made, correcting them.

It’s been my desire to support efforts to aim at healing the relationship between law enforcement and the community.

If you want to get anything done, you have to start somewhere.

If there are cracks in your armor, your opponent is going to find them.

Not that I don’t care about winning or I don’t care about doing well, but I have to care less about the things that happen that are outside of my control.

When I was younger, I took everything seriously, and I still do to some degree.

I watched a lot of Jerry Rice’s film just to learn how to run routes, but it was so difficult to imitate him, and he didn’t play with the same body language that I wanted to play with.

The reason why I play ‘Madden’ is because in ‘Madden,’ I can control everything, and in the game of life and the game of football, you can’t. It’s kind of like an outlet.

I don’t know how to put this, but to some people, the NFL is basically modern-day slavery. Don’t get me wrong – we get paid a lot of money. There’s a sense of ‘shut up and play,’ that this is entertainment for other people. Then, when we go out in public, we’re like zoo animals. We’re not human beings.

I knew police officers have a very difficult job. They have to make split second decisions that will impact not only the communities they serve but their families, their own personal lives.

I don’t have a chip on my shoulder. I have a boulder on my shoulder.

As a human, I feel extremely compelled to use my platform and my influence in whatever way for the benefit and not just for my sole benefit.

Let’s be honest: Everyone has got their opinion. It doesn’t mean their opinion is an intelligent one.

We are kind of in a false reality here, playing football.

It’s like, I go through life, and all these relationship that I have, they’re more like acquaintances than they are true relationships. It’s not fulfilling. I don’t know. It’s a very cold feeling at times, but it’s what I’m comfortable with.

I read a lot. I try to gain as much knowledge as I possibly can and listen to people, because I don’t know what I don’t know.

My motivation comes from the plays I didn’t make.

The greatest tragedy for any human being is going through their entire lives believing the only perspective that matters is their own.

The NFL cares about one thing, and that’s the NFL. That’s the bottom line.

As we’ve grown as a country, we’ve allowed our fears and our doubts and our questions about things that we don’t know to become more divisive than uniting us as a country, as a people.

My father’s a police officer, and he’s told me numerous times about his training and how they’ve gone through what they call verbal judo, which is essentially them trying to de-escalate the situation.

I didn’t have a lot of good film coming out of college. Also, my height didn’t help me at all. I ran a decent 40, but no one would call it blazing speed.

What separates me is I’m a dog. I use that term very strongly because that’s what I am. That’s why I have an angry demeanor. It’s not a front. It’s not a face.

Communities have changed. Our society is changing. Sometimes I feel like our law enforcement, the public services, they don’t have enough resources to keep up with the changes that we see in our society.

As a human being, when I see things going on in my community, I feel compelled to do something, to say something.