Top 50 Bobby Wagner Quotes

Coach Clune has been a great person to me, he taught me a lot, linebacker-wise.

I’m blessed and there’s nothing that anybody can say to me that’s going to take that away from me.

I thought it was a really good thing to be a part of giving blood and saving lives.

You know, we’ve had moments on our great defenses in the past – 2012, ’13, ’14… where we weren’t playing as well as we wanted to play. We had moments where we weren’t doing the things that we practice or we were supposed to execute.

All the knowledge that I get, all the access that I get, I try to pass that down. And not open a door, and close it behind me. But open a door and see how many people behind me that I can pull in with me, and start showing the value of diversity, the value of having that different perspective than yours.

I don’t really want acknowledgement or want people to pat me on the back or whatever. I just want to help the people I feel like I can help and if there’s an opportunity where I feel like I can help, I do it.

You just get into a routine and you allow that routine to become consistent. So if your routine off the field becomes consistent, then your play on the field will become consistent.

I just don’t like missing games.

I always try to be a consistent player.

When you’re around somebody for a long period of time, they know you and you know them. So, there’s a lot of nonverbal communication that happens.

Everybody kind of passed up on me; a lot of the teams I played against said I was too short, I wasn’t strong enough, I wasn’t fast enough, I wasn’t physical enough. The only team that believed in me was Utah State.

If you lose and don’t go to the big game, they always try to figure out what went wrong, what happened.

My goal is to really be a dominant player in this league and have nobody question that. That’s what I strive for.

You’ve got to get what you’ve got to get while you can.

Saying, ‘I’ll find the answer for you,’ opens the door for people to still come to me with questions. Even if I don’t have an immediate answer, I build trust by finding the answer.

I wish I could sing.

Every game is different. Every week is different.

There is a lot of things happening that are bigger than football.

I think you have to have an environment where people want to come and work, feel they’re appreciated and are aligned on the same path or same goal. And then they have got to believe in the leader.

If you are saving lives, I am willing to help.

If I could get a Ninja Turtles tattoo, I would.

I’m definitely a guy that yells at the TV. You call out plays and think they’re going to hear you say what you called out.

You’ve got to be by yourself at some point.

When I was a rookie, I was kind of just flying, trying to make plays.

A lot of Utah State when I was there, there was a lot of California guys. So, you get a lot of Cali music, you got a lot of dance music, I think the Jerk was popular back then. It was a lot of the music that you can dance to with your teammates. A lot of hip-hop, rap, R&B, it was really fun. It was live in there.

My mom taught me, ‘There are a lot of doubters out there.’ It doesn’t matter what everybody else thinks.

I feel like I finally got a routine with massages, and yoga and swimming, and all these different things that I do. I think it has helped me not get hurt.

That’s how my mom was. She did that. She went out of her way to say hi to people or to speak to people. She was a people person.

You can’t do the same thing every game.

Utah State stayed with me, so I stayed loyal to the people loyal to me.

I do yoga.

A lot of athletes go from not making any money at all to make any large pot of money. Then they get approached by an agent who takes a percentage. Then they get approached by your financial advisor who starts investing your money without you even understanding what he’s doing.

I think that the consistency on being great and a top player, you know, it’s always been the goal because it’s not too many people that can sustain greatness for a long time.

You’ve got to do what’s right for you.

Obviously, everything that has been built in Silicon Valley is something that a lot of places are trying to mimic, and rightfully so. There’s been a lot of amazing companies that have come out of there.

A lot of companies feel like they have to go down to the Bay Area to get the money that they need to build their business, and we don’t believe that’s true.

When I started to go out there and listen to different startups or different CEOs talk about how you build this company from a two-person team to a team of 500, I really just stepped back and was like, ‘Well, it’s not necessarily a business, but football has a lot of similarities to that.’

The season is very long.

I just want to be someone that a football player can look at and say this guy dominated on the field and was able to transition and do just as well. I feel we need more of that.

I do feel like the quarterback of the defense is pretty important, so not having that piece would put a damper on the defense.

Coming out of high school, I wasn’t really highly recruited because I was still learning the game.

I worked hard and had support from my family, but it was a grind at Utah State.

I know my value. Nobody has to tell me my value. I know my value, so no team, no person, no agent, can tell me my value, and I believe in myself.

If I’m being interviewed by a reporter, I take my time to answer the question.

I’m a professional.

I want to wake up in a Bugatti.

No, it’s not easy as it seems sometimes, but hitting year 10 is definitely special because it’s not too many people that can do it, let alone do it at a high level.

I really want to stand out as a middle linebacker.

I just feel like that ’90s era was pretty special from all aspects. Whether it was hip-hop, R&B, it was a lot of music back then that everyone could relate to and listen to.

I feel like if I can help somebody look at money differently or manage their finances differently or spend a little differently, then I feel like I’m doing my job. So I’ll try to help them see the bigger picture and think longevity versus the temporary spending that we’re kind of accustomed to.