Top 45 Ed Reed Quotes

Football has always been a contact sport, and it’s always going to be a violent sport, and there are going to be repercussions from that. But every player that ever played this game and will play this game, they’re signing up for it.

I can’t be lackadaisical when it’s time for me to make any play, whether it’s a tackle, fumble recovery, anything that it might be.

You don’t hear about tradition in the NFL, but we have a tradition in Baltimore. It was just an awesome place to be.

Ever since I was a kid, I knew I could play in the NFL because I had a knack for the game. But I can’t play this game forever. When I’m finished, maybe I’ll become a motivational speaker, maybe a preacher. But children need to know that life may be hard, but you can always overcome.

I wasn’t about one season, but career and longevity.

Monday night, there ain’t a better time to showcase your talent.

You have to be coachable.

The game takes a toll on your body.

Now that I know the dangers? Yes, I still would do it again. Why? ‘Cause look at me. Look at my family. They’re able to eat, they’re able to have food and shelter over their head. Would I play football again? Yes.

I’m not the kind of person to hold my tongue.

Football is what we do. It’s our job, it’s a business.

My time in Baltimore was awesome, every bit of it.

God has blessed me with the ability to play football.

Football is a reaction sport.

I know I have the abilities to be a head coach or D-coordinator. It’s something I wouldn’t mind doing. But it’s tough being a player and going back and doing something like that, because egos get in the way.

Those inner-cities, they’re not giving kids a chance. They’re not giving the teachers a chance to really help those kids. They’re making it real tough. You’re either gonna help or you’re hurting your own country.

Just being from Louisiana, being from the southern part of Louisiana, Metairie, close to New Orleans and growing up in St. Rose. There are a lot of things to overcome.

Baltimore, I love that city.

It’s a kid’s game we play. Nothing more than that.

There’s a reason why, outside of me dropping a few, people don’t throw my way, man.

Especially in black communities, we’ve been so groomed to stay where we are and not like people in the other neighborhoods. It’s crazy. It won’t allow people to experience life and see what the world truly has to offer. People are stuck in their ways, stuck in their communities, stuck on their streets.

We’re all going to have our trials and tribulations, but you can work through them and everything will be all right.

Coming out of college, I wasn’t considered the fastest, the biggest or the smartest. There was no way around that.

My dad would leave at 4 or 5 in the morning and then I wouldn’t see him until evening. The conversations we used to have, he would tell me, ‘A man takes care of his home first. A man handles his responsibility. He doesn’t ask another man for anything.’

The football fans loved the way I played the game.

Working out is a part of life.

Sometimes I wake up and I think, where did my memory go? But at the same time, I signed up for it. Football has been like that for a long time, for ages.

We all played sports, my brothers, my daddy, my uncles. That’s all we had.

Everybody in the world knows that plans tend to change.

Baltimore is my heart. The fans are family.

Pretty much just stay humble. And continue to work hard and let the game come to me and try not to make even more plays or jump plays. Just let the game come to me and play my defense and my responsibility.

Not every game is going to be perfect. Not every game is going to be an interception or two or a big-bang tackle, so to say.

Everyone has their own greatness. Whether you reach your own greatness depends on your environment, your structure, the company you keep and your attitude.

I want to be the best, but it comes with a lot of work. And it can be pressure if you put it on yourself in that way. But if I keep going the way I’m going, and with the good Lord guiding me the way he’s been guiding me, and the way I let him take control of my life, the sky is the limit.

You’ve got to be smart about tackling.

Yeah, some people don’t know anything about football.

I love Bill Belichick. He is a great coach, great man – raising men to do the right thing and win championships in this league.

I was a two-star athlete. I got looked over.

When kids grow up into adults now… they learn that taking care of their body is like taking care of their car. You’re not going to put bad gas into your car. Why not treat your body the same way? It makes all the sense in the world for us to do the right thing for our bodies.

We always said it’s not suit-and-tie on the football field.

We have a bunch of American citizens who step up because that’s what we do. We’ll step up and go across the world to help people out. When it comes to our own backyard, it’s always a different conversation.

I never came out of a game unless I was truly hurt.

When I’m on the football field, I’m giving you everything. Do the Ravens know that? Yes they do.

There’s no place like Baltimore.

The fact of the matter is that people don’t understand that football players are regular people just like them. And half of them don’t understand the business. And most of them just want you to entertain them.