Words matter. These are the best Charles Woodson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I never intended on playing as long as I have, but this is the way it’s happened and I’m so grateful for it.
I’ve had an incredible career.
Every time I step on the field, it doesn’t matter who we’re playing, I want to get an interception.
My love of wine happened organically while being in Napa Valley during training camp while playing for the Oakland Raiders in the 90s.
You can’t say Charles doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
If you can utilize a guy’s talents and not let other parts of the game suffer, you’ve got a winning mix.
I think as long as you’re authentic, people will relate to that.
Fifty career picks is a huge deal for me.
You can’t talk about the NFL without the Raiders, the three Super Bowl championships, what Al Davis meant to the league.
I love competition, but my approach to the game was to never make it personal. It was business. It was what I did, so it didn’t matter who the opposing team was, or who the receiver was. I approached it as business and I never let myself get outside of that.
Because my brother liked Michigan, I liked Michigan, and by the nature of that, I didn’t like Ohio State.
Practice don’t win games.
All lives matter when black lives matter and no lives are more important than black lives.
Green Bay is a blue-collar community, and it’s all about the Packers. I was able to go there, slow down and focus on the game.
I am a sore loser. I will be the first to admit that. When I get on video games I am not that good and when I play against somebody and they beat me, I want to rip the game out the wall, that type of thing. So, I really hesitate from playing them.
For the Raiders, I’m always going to be ready and willing to go there and talk to those players about whatever.
The wine business is intense. It’s not just bottle it and sell it. It’s really a process.
I’ve been injured where you can’t play. But if I’m able to get up and move around, I’m not coming off the field.
When you’re a player, there is almost automatically a respect you have for a person that has been in that fight, who knows what it’s all about.
You know this is a great, great country that we live in to be able to play this great game.
You have to go through a lot of trials and tribulations as a player to be able to grow and learn from ’em and to become better.
Eric Turner; man, that was my man a hundred grand.
Going into Green Bay was just a fresh start and I was able to stay on the field and go out there and do my thing and I had opportunity.
Jon Gruden just wants you to come to work, work hard and produce on Sundays. He’s not really too much worried about babysitting or holding somebody’s hand.
I was kind of wild. I enjoyed myself as a young man. I was moving 100 miles per hour – on and off the field.
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.’
A lot of hard work goes into making a great wine. It requires that same type of dedication and discipline that goes into getting to the Super Bowl as an NFL player.
It’s the only way you’re able to play as long as I have, is to go out there and perform.
I want to portray myself as myself.
I know I haven’t been the greatest student, but I do intend to get my degree. Otherwise, my mother will kill me.
Any time you end your career, no matter what it is, it’s tough to leave, regardless of if you know it’s time or not.
If you love your job and you love what you do, you’ll just continue to go out there and work, and try to make whatever corrections you can.
If you want to make a great wine that can stand the test of time, then you must put the time and the work into it.
I spent seven years in Green Bay. A lot of good times, a lot of great years. Got a lot accomplished.
That’s the way I’ve always played the game from when I was a kid. It didn’t matter if we were up or down in the game, how it was going, how you felt, you played until the end.
I’m negative-three yards in the rushing department. Nobody wants to go out with negative-three yards rushing.
I had the broken collarbone twice, but collarbones heal.
When I talk about the early years in Oakland, I don’t want to take anything away from who that player was, because that player was still a heck of a player, that player was just young. I played off the field the same way that I played on the field.
I think when guys watch me play, I think that raises the level of other guys because of the way I play the game.
You could look at Tim Brown, you walk in the locker room and you knew you were going to get consistency with him as a person and as a player.
For a guy not to want to listen to a Jerry Rice, a Tim Brown, a Charlie Garner, doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
Would it be great to intercept Peyton? No question about it.
For both the wine business and in football, if you want longevity, you must work hard.
I’ve always wanted to be under the confetti as a champion, and the Packers beating the Steelers to conclude the 2010 season finally gave me that opportunity. It was so surreal, being able to bring my family onto the field, seeing my oldest son roll around in the confetti, having a chance to hoist the Lombardi Trophy.
The time that I spent out of camp, I made sure when I sat out that I was in tip-top condition.
I fell in love with wine in Napa Valley. I fell in love with the culture and the restaurants and the way the wood tastes when you’re drinking wine.
The Raiders have been good to me, giving me a second chance to come back around and wear the silver and black.
The way people connected with wine intrigued me and I wanted to be a part of it.
As a young player, I never looked this far ahead. I never thought about how long I was going to play.
When people still see me, even though I have been in Green Bay and Oakland, they still talk about Michigan.