Top 55 Benjamin Watson Quotes

I’m a Georgia guy; we can run.

Sin is the reason we abuse our authority.

I know God has a plan for me. I don’t know what it is.

The NFL goes to great lengths to protect what it calls ‘the integrity of the game.’ The same should be said for us as individuals. Integrity, the truthful interaction of word and deed, not only creates leaders in the locker room who are worthy of being followed; it is also vital for success at home.

Whatever you do, do it wholeheartedly for the Lord and not for man, because our true identity is in Him.

Overwhelmingly, I would say I’ve had really good support from many of my teammates and guys that I’ve played with. We want to be able to express our views. You know, we’re part of this country, too.

Whether in the locker room, the community, or at home, our goal should not be to simply behave in a specific way. It should instead be to instill the correct values in our hearts, so that our actions will flow out unimpeded, confirming what we truly believe.

One of the biggest things we have to be able to do is to handle conflict and handle it correctly. We’re able to look at our biases, look at our frustration, look at our sin in this area, our pride and our selfishness. It allows us to move forward.

My goals in football helped make me disciplined and focused in all areas of my life.

Fortunately for me, I had a father who didn’t let us get away with anything. You were taught respect, and you were taught to be humble. That has a lot to do with how I am now, because I’m still scared of my dad.

I think, as athletes, we’ve been given a platform, and we can use it in a lot of different ways. We can use it for negative. We can use it for positive. We can be indifferent. But if you’ve been given a platform, I think God is pleased when you share… His truth in love.

I’ve heard my father say that the man is to be the priest, the provider, and the protector of his family. He’s the priest because he is the spiritual leader, monitoring and growing the spiritual temperature of his family.

I respect the police officers, but something you learn as a young black man in this country is that… life is a little bit different for you even though, on the surface, it seems to be the same.

The thing that happened in Ferguson touched many of us in a specific way.

Goals give you a mark to shoot for and keep you motivated when you face adversity.

Sometimes, we feel like we don’t want to offend people, but there are times that we need to express ourselves without fear that somebody is going to shut us down simply because we have differing opinions. That’s how we grow.

The only way to really cure what’s on the inside is understanding that Jesus Christ died for our sins.

In order to win in this league, you have to have a quarterback who can make all the throws, who makes great decisions, somebody who can get you out of bad situations, that just gives you a chance.

There are certain teams in the NFL that have a certain aura about them, and there’s a certain respect level about them.

I can tell my grandkids that I played with Drew Brees and Tom Brady, and Flacco will definitely be added to that list.

You’ve got a league with a couple thousand players or so depending on the time of year. Then you have 10 or more very high profile stories that are terrible stories and things that have happened.

Jesus meets the physical needs of kids but also tells them how to save their soul.

It feels great, definitely feels great to have your number called and be a part of the offense.

Ninety years after slavery, blacks were still segregated from whites. They still had separate drinking fountains, separate restrooms, separate neighborhoods, and separate schools. They still were expected to sit at the back of the bus.

I don’t approve of many of the attacks of Black Lives Matter. I don’t.

Athletes are in a position where others think they shouldn’t weigh in on certain social topics.

Sin is the reason we are racist, prejudiced, and lie to cover for our own.

Writing a book is not a small undertaking, but God placed it on my heart to trust Him with such a project.

We are God’s children. We are Christians first, and then what we do flows from that.

I sometimes think they should have said ‘Black Lives Matter Too,’ because that is really what is being said. The outcry is that historically and presently, the feeling is that black lives don’t matter as much as white lives because we don’t see the same type of things happening to them.

I didn’t know if I was going to be drafted, period. I remember sitting there and just praying that whatever God has for me to happen, and I didn’t get any calls from anybody else the whole round. And then I got a call from New England five hours after the draft started.

Our loyalty is not to our grandparents, the traditions, our volleyball team, our friends; as believers, our loyalty is to Scripture.

What I do is play football. What I do doesn’t change who I am and who God sees me as.

White people think one thing and black people think another thing about the same event. And we automatically, before we really know what happened, kind of pick our sides.

Preacher’s kids usually go one way or the other – way wild, or they follow in their dad’s footsteps.

Usually, ‘All Lives Matter’ comes as a response to ‘Black Lives Matter’; it doesn’t exist in a vacuum. So when people say ‘Black Lives Matter,’ a lot of times the response ‘All Lives Matter’ can seem very condescending, dismissive to ‘Black Lives Matter.’

I can identify many different experiences that I’ve had over the course of my life and things that I’ve witnessed where it seemed that black men, specifically me or someone else may have got the, you know, different treatment than somebody else would in that same situation.

My grandfather was born in 1920. His grandfather was born in 1860, at the beginning of the Civil War, into an America where slavery had yet to be abolished. And so, as I have sometimes thought about it, I dodged slavery by just five generations.

The amazing thing about a football team is we can disagree and fight like brothers, but then we come back together. We are able to be open and honest about things that may offend us.

Conflict, when mismanaged, destroys.

There comes a place where you need to respect. When people are speaking, you don’t comment.

I would say that we all – in whatever world we’re in, whatever your occupation is, we all have a path to walk. We all have struggles.

In the public, it seems to be painted that when minorities get pregnant, they need to get abortions, especially when it comes to teen pregnancy. It’s like, when black girls are pregnant, it’s like a statistic, but when white girls get pregnant, they get a TV show.

Sin is the reason we rebel against authority.

My grandmother and my father always said I would end up as a missionary. Well, I feel like I am one now.

You grow up a certain way, and you make decisions within your family, but then you go to college, and the decisions become harder. You are away from home, from the influence of your parents, dealing with peer pressure. There’s a lot of stuff that goes on in college.

The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It’s the gospel.

The reason why ‘Black Lives Matter’ is a chant is because a lot of people feel, myself included, that sometimes they don’t matter.

There shouldn’t be any looting or anything like that. But we’re seeing a lot of frustration, and nobody knows the answer. All of us are saying we need an answer, and what I’m saying is we need, all of us, a heart change so, as America, we can move forward.

So much of football relates to Christian life – sacrifice, commitment, discipline.

Good players on good teams don’t get too high, don’t get too low. They’re even-keeled, and they go about their business the right way.

We all doubt sometimes, and that’s okay, but He’s always there. He’s always faithful even when we’re not.

What I’ve found, and what Scripture tells us, is that your faith is not something on the side, something you carry with you – it is inherently who you are.

Guys are playing fantasy football; some guys I think even play fantasy baseball. I don’t get involved with it. I have five kids; I just don’t have time. Not that anything’s wrong with the fantasy, but I just don’t have time for it with my lifestyle.

I would say that one of the hardest things for an athlete, and really anybody of any profession, is that we create our identity in what we do.