Top 60 Chris Long Quotes

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I've heard a lot of people say you need white athletes

I’ve heard a lot of people say you need white athletes to get involved in the anthem protests. I’ve said before I’ll never kneel for an anthem, because the flag means something different for everybody in this country, but I support my peers.
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It’s unbelievable how far my career has taken me.
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I’ve dealt every day of my life with my dad’s career, the comparisons to him, with people wanting me to live up to him. I just put that stuff out of my head, I don’t even hear it after awhile – I just turn my ears off.
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I wouldn’t be anywhere close to where I am today without my pops. I think a lot of a football player’s makeup is mental, and I’ve been blessed to have someone to learn from. Not just from a technical standpoint, but everything he taught me about being a hard worker, a teammate and just being a football player.
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I came to Philly not only because of the quality of the team and the organization, but also the fans, the passion – it’s really palpable in that city.
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In my training in the summer, back in the day, I used just go, go, go! I wouldn’t take any days off, I would do whatever I wanted, as much as I wanted of it.
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My dad taught me to work hard and to be the same guy every day. If that’s going 100 miles per hour and working hard, then that’s what I’ll do.
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I’m a big guy and I can’t have any tiny tattoos.
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If teams focus on me, that will allow my teammates to make plays.
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Everyone fears change. But what you’ll find is that change breeds your most important accomplishments.
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When I grew up, I had everything you could ask for, and I kind of didn’t appreciate it. Because it was a given for me. Everybody that grew up in my neighborhood was going to have an opportunity to go to college. I took that for granted. I always regret that.
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I think of myself as a complete person, not just a football player and athlete.
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My wife and I have been passionate about education being a gateway for upward mobility and equality.
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Actually, I wanted to play baseball. Honestly, I just think with a kid developing, playing a lot of sports, it’s just kind of whatever you’re good at.
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Robert Quinn. He’s ridiculous. He can do anything a DB can do… at three hundred pounds!
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The 25-year-old me would tell the 32-year-old me to take the two rings and go start the next chapter in life, but it’s never simple when you still have gas left in the tank.
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I was a Panthers fan growing up, being close to Carolina.
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I think if you show a player an avenue to make a difference, he’s going to bring that same intensity he brings on the field in his community.
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My mother has been really instrumental in raising a lot of money through the Boys & Girls Club in my hometown.
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Earlier in my career, I wanted to do a lot of things under the radar because I felt uncomfortable in engaging with the fans because then they’re thinking, ‘Well, you’re doing it for publicity,’ or whatever.
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It’s an accomplishment to play in the NFL.
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I think a lot of times with football players, we’re just head down, grinding away, maybe not enjoying it as much as we should.
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Wherever I go and whoever I go play for, I’m a football player. I enjoy playing football, I enjoy the game, I enjoy being a teammate.
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If I never got cut, I wouldn’t have the Super Bowl ring.
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America’s an awesome country, man. Everybody knows that.
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And I respect the anthem. I would never kneel for it. We all come from different walks of life and think differently about the anthem and the flag and what that means.
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I’m always trying to play for respect. I don’t play the game for much else.
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Michelle Obama has also done a lot of work in the scope of educational equity and being able to work with her on some of her initiatives has been awesome. I’m very honored.
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A mullet is something that takes time and effort.
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I’ve been through nine camps, and they’re all a little bit different, but at the end of the day, it’s just football.
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The older you get, it is harder to prepare physically, even if you have all the experience in the world. You’re more sore the next day, you can’t pack in as much, and you have to train smarter. You have to pay attention to more subtle things like your warmup routine or core work.
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I love charity. Ask anyone.

I love charity. Ask anyone.
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I play in a league that’s 70 percent black and my peers, guys I come to work with, guys I respect who are very socially aware and are intellectual guys, if they identify something that they think is worth putting their reputations on the line, creating controversy, I’m going to listen to those guys.
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My dad and I shared a lot of football memories.
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I’ve noticed that right tackles have gotten better in pass pro throughout my career.
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The 24-hour news cycle is kind of insatiable. Players in the ’80s and ’90s didn’t have to deal with that scrutiny.
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I love Philadelphia.
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I’ve been compared to my dad my whole life. That pressure I’ve learned to deal with.
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I don’t know that I’ve gotten to the point where people know me more than my dad or that I ever will or even want to get to that point.
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For Laura Ingraham to go after LeBron for speaking out politically is ridiculous.
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I do believe that clean water is the most efficient way to change the world.
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I never mean to make a headline where it’s like, ‘Chris Long unsure.’ I never try to make it sound like I’m under the impression it matters either way if I play or anybody cares.
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Even when I was being recruited here to the University of Virginia, a lot of people in my own community didn’t think I was Division I football material because I played at a small private school.
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I do have great memories from when my pops got inducted. Obviously, knowing him and knowing how hard he worked in pro football for so long and what he sacrificed, the physical side of it, the injuries, and the grinding and now eight years into the NFL you know what hard work that is.
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I’m a worker. I’m a grinder.
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I joke that every time I’m in the playoffs, it feels like I’m in the Super Bowl.
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There was a time when I was injured and playing really bad and cut, rightfully so, that I wasn’t sure what my future in football was.
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If we’re saying there are incidents of oppression in this country, systematically or individually in this country, I don’t think saying, ‘Well, in country X, Y or Z it’s 10 times worse’ is making things any better. I think that may be true, but why can’t we improve?
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I’ve been lucky, man. I’ve been very lucky for 10 years, made a lot of money playing a game, a kids’ game.
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Do I get irritated by the no-Pro Bowl thing, never making a Pro Bowl? Yeah, I do.
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I’m not somebody that’s been a natural at anything.
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It wasn’t like I loved football from 12 on. It took time.
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I’ve always believed there are inequities in our country.
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You may doubt the significance of your work, but work faithfully anyways.
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It’s a team game, but at the end of the day, you gotta be happy, and you gotta enjoy playing football every day.
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I’m a rhythm player. I need to set people up, I need to be in the flow of the game.
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I’m a bit biased with my love for Kyle Long. I would say he’s the best bald guard in football.
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I like having my dad around.
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One thing I take pride in is that I never cracked and stopped playing hard. There’s something to be said for that, because life doesn’t always throw the best situations at you.
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Educational equity was my way of giving my salary. It’s not $10 million or anything. I’m not going to act like I’m the first guy to donate $1 million to something, but it has been good.
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