Top 55 Greg Olsen Quotes

We can’t make or break our whole season on the first game.

I’ve had some good games and some not so good games, hopefully all the fans remember the good ones.

I think we’ve learned in our society that people are scared sometimes of something that’s different.

The thing about the NFL is nobody cares. Nobody feels bad for you. Nobody feels sorry for you… They don’t care if you’re hurt. They don’t care if you don’t feel good. You have a bad call. Play goes against you? No one cares. You’ve got to play. You’ve got to win.

I don’t get wrapped up in catches and fantasy football. It’s not the way I view the tight end position.

Everyone always thinks the grass is greener. That’s sports.

At the end of the day, no one has won more games than Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks to start a guy’s career, right. So success there has also made them a little, you know, it’s almost spoiled them a little bit.

If I could coach LeBron James for one year, I could make him an All-Pro wide receiver.

Typically in training camp, especially as I’ve gotten older, we were always very selective with the plays. If it was a pass or a look I needed to get in the run game or pass protection, I was always in there to get it.

As players, you have to go out and do the best you can and show in practice that you deserve to be one of the 46 guys up.

For as much fun as I have out there with my teammates, nothing will ever compare to the joy I get from running around and laughing with my kids.

For anyone who knows me, I’m usually relatively cleanshaven most times.

I try to be pretty in tune with my body. If you play this game long enough, you’re going to wake up and one day your knee is going to hurt or your back is going to hurt.

Since we’ve come to Charlotte, we very quickly realized that this is home. This community quickly embraced our family, so we put down roots here. We love it here. This is home for us.

I think I’ve been very fortunate. I have obviously played a lot of snaps and played a lot of games, so my mileage is high. But I’ve been very fortunate that I’ve been able to stay relatively healthy, no major surgeries and stuff like that.

Both productivity and all things considered, there’s nobody that’s been more productive or more consistent than I have. And I’ll stand on that until the cows come home.

My family obviously takes up a lot of my time and that’s by choice.

In this league, you make your own luck, you make your own fate.

I wear a composite non-stick glove.

Our main efforts for our foundation is our HEARTest Yard program that we run here in Charlotte at Levine Children’s Hospital.

That’s not my position to compare myself to other guys. I look at it as can I be productive, can I get the job done?

Being told that your child will be born with HLHS is absolutely heartbreaking.

When you throw your fourth touchdown of a game in the NFL… it’s hard to do.

Don’t dive into the weeds of mock drafts and rumors, because that’s all that they are. They’re just rumors.

During the offseason, when you don’t have the worries and the grind of the games and the wear and tear of your body, you can really attack the training element a lot harder. More load on your body, more stress – whether that be through running or in the weight room with the lifting program that you’re doing at the time.

To be in complete control of the game in the fourth-quarter and just self-destruct, it’s tough.

I’ve always been a guy who didn’t mind speaking to reporters.

I could turn Russell Westbrook into an All-Pro free safety.

I played a lot of games with this body, so I’ll take it.

In the football world, we throw around words like ‘sacrifice,’ ‘hard work’ and ‘hero.’

I probably have the longest pre-game warm-up in the NFL – it’s actually gotten longer over the years.

We don’t live our life on panic.

I never want to see active or retired players ever struggle. The basic human being in me wants to see guys leave the game as healthy as possible.

No one ever gets to write their ending, write their final script.

You look at the skills involved, especially with things like lateral movement or change of direction, and there’s definitely a strong correlation between playing basketball and playing tight end.

The city of Charlotte has become our family and this forever will be home.

There’s a lot of guys that are productive for a four- or five-game stretch, then have to sit out. Or are great one year and fall off. I don’t ever want that to be me.

I’m very confident on where I stand in the league and where I belong.

I think I’ve shown that I can get up the middle, create some separation, and catch the ball.

I love playing.

The hardest thing about winning is to continue to win, and I think human instinct says ‘OK, I’ve done this before. I got it, let’s just keep doing what we’re doing.’

With my size and receiving skills, I would hope I could cause some matchup problems for defenses, and that some team sees that.

Every year, you try to evolve a little bit. You try to introduce new elements to your offense.

We’ve learned a lot about ourselves as a family about perseverance and continuing to be mentally strong and continue to take the good with the bad and wake up the next day and do it all over again.

It takes two sides to put things together.

I want the Carolina Panthers to be successful.

Something I’ve always prided myself on is not only can you be highly productive, but can you be highly productive continuously.

The reality of going to the Super Bowl was beyond words, as was the disappointment of falling short.

You can only gain the real intricacies of playing by playing. You can study the playbook all you want and you can ask as many questions, but until you’re out there out of the field doing it, that’s the only way is to mess it up, or do it right and cement and then learn from it.

Guys every year across the league look for new contracts. That’s just the business in the NFL.

You’ve got to sustain drives in this league.

Obviously, ESPN, that Monday Night gig is a big deal. You don’t just easily dismiss that.

With digital and podcasting and the amount of radio outlets – traditional stations but with satellite radio – there’s a billion ways to get your voice out.

Be productive, but be productive consistently.

We don’t live our life worrying.