Quotes from Shannon Sharpe

I'll always respect that institution of the presidency, and I'll respect President Trump.

I like to think my teammates had a good time when I was around.

I am the only player who has been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and am the second-best player in my family.

Even through all those Pro Bowls, at the end of the day, I was always just a seventh-round pick.

I'm not trying to have no surgeries because I'm trying to impress somebody and I end up hurting or tearing my labrum or rotator cuff.

Ray Lewis is the type of guy, if he were in a fight with a bear I wouldn't help him, I'd pour honey on him because he likes to fight. That's the type of guy Ray Lewis is.

When I went to the Pro Bowl, I went as a tight end. When I made the All Pro team, I made it as a tight end. When they introduced us and I ran out of the tunnel, they introduced me as a tight end. So how is that possible that now that my career is over, they say, 'Well, he put up stats like a wide receiver?' It's not my fault I was ahead of my time.

I don't want to live in a society where we ask sporting leagues or place of employment to dole out harsher punishment than what the criminal justice system would.

Of all the four major sports, whether you like Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, maybe you like Bobby Orr, or you like Larry Bird or Tom Brady - Bill Russell is the greatest athlete to play in Boston.

I was a terrible student. I didn't graduate magna cum laude: I graduated 'Thank you, Lawdy!'

Some guys get on the road, the first thing they do is look for the nearest golf course. I look for a gym.

I've said numerous times the hardest job in America isn't being a professional athlete. It's not being a matador or having some job that puts your life at risk. The hardest job in America is being black, because it's the one thing you can't outrun.

Everybody has an ego, and they don't like their athletic ability to be questioned.

If you want to boo, I want you to boo me as loud as you can, because I think that's a sign of respect: You don't boo the bad players; you boo the really good ones.

Most fans outside Denver don't like me, and for good reason. I give them every reason not to like me.

Talent is what wins games.

Guys would always start by saying, 'You ain't going to get nothing today, Sharpe!' And I'd say, 'Know what? Don't be surprised if your name is on the waiver wire tomorrow. It could have been prevented. But you wanted to go there. So now when you see your name on the wire, you'll know who put it there.'

I didn't bother with trash-talking people's moms, wives, or girlfriends. I was like, 'Hold on, man, you mean to tell me you're making $10 million a year? That's $9 million, $999,999 too much!' That ate them up.

Didn't know until my rookie year you could buy chicken parts separate, like drumsticks and thighs and breast. My granny always bought the whole chicken and cut it up.

Charles Barkley played in an era where he was never the guy. He always had to take a back seat to Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Isaiah Thomas, because what did they have that he never got? A championship.

No one in my family graduated from college until my brother did, and then I did.

My grandmother raised her nine kids and raised my mom's three.

Everything I am is because of my grandmother.

I can't for the life of me - and I've tried - love someone like I love my grandmother, my sister and my mom.