Quotes from Joe Thomas

My mentality from the day I started playing sports was that you get up, you dust yourself off and you do it again.

If it's an outside zone play, you have the green light to cut-block.

I still spend my time feeling sorry for myself and making serious mistakes.

So while most people dealt with the scale every Monday at the Berea training facility nervous about how high the number was going to be, I was the one that was nervous about how low the number was going to be.

The Browns have unbelievable medical resources. I'm always seeking the best help and advice possible. I'll continue to do that even when my career is over.

Men and women have different ideas of what constitutes tidiness. I tend to think it's about things being clean, but my mum and girlfriend are more about how things look.

When the game gets eyeballs in newspapers and on TV, that's what in the end is the goal for everyone.

At university, I said to a girl, 'Before I met you all I could think about was history; now, all I can think about is you'. I thought that was the sort of thing you had to say.

Even though you strive for perfection, you're never going to play the perfect game.

I honestly thought that since I didn't associate myself with any people or groups who were outwardly racist, and I didn't act in a way that struck me as racist, that this meant that I myself was not a racist, and that racism wasn't a huge issue.

Antiracism is direct opposition to any idea that supposes one race is better than any other in any respect.

It's just a matter of sometimes the CTE in your brain affects what happens in your life... and sometimes... it does not.

Until they study the general population and find out what the likelihood of CTE in a soccer mom is versus an NFL brain, we really have no baseline to rate this study off of.

Even though you wouldn't want to line a D-lineman and running back up across from each other to block, when you get help initially from the guard, and then the defensive tackle gets picked up by the running back, it's not as bad as a lot of people would think versus if you're just putting that matchup on paper.