Quotes from Charles Woodson

If you can utilize a guy's talents and not let other parts of the game suffer, you've got a winning mix.

The one thing I do know about Oakland fans is it doesn't really matter where they are, in my opinion, I still feel like they're gonna be die-hard Raider fans because it's in their blood, it's in their DNA.

We all know what Al Davis means to the NFL, what he means to the Oakland Raiders. He is the Oakland Raiders.

When you play for the Raiders and you play for Al Davis, it was always the talk that it was Al Davis against the rest of the league. Some of the calls that we would get, we would always say, 'Oh we got that call because of Al's relationship with the NFL.'

For the Raiders, I'm always going to be ready and willing to go there and talk to those players about whatever.

I think when guys watch me play, I think that raises the level of other guys because of the way I play the game.

There'll be some opportunities for other things post-playing, but it's like, 'Man, I don't want to give this gig up.'

No one can do anything by themselves. Sometimes you may need help and sometimes you will be offering it.

When people still see me, even though I have been in Green Bay and Oakland, they still talk about Michigan.

What Chris Webber and the Fab Five - Jalen, Juwan, Ray, Jimmy and those guys - they created a culture, and Michigan was a beneficiary of that. Chris Webber was a big part of it.

You know this is a great, great country that we live in to be able to play this great game.

Going into Green Bay was just a fresh start and I was able to stay on the field and go out there and do my thing and I had opportunity.

There's always going to be love between me and Green Bay.

I spent seven years in Green Bay. A lot of good times, a lot of great years. Got a lot accomplished.

I fell in love with wine in Napa Valley. I fell in love with the culture and the restaurants and the way the wood tastes when you're drinking wine.

The Raiders took me fourth overall because they had a certain need, and that was for me to come in and play man-to-man, bump-and-run all day, to guard the best receiver. You understand your job going in, so that's what you focus on. Would I have liked to play receiver and go both ways? Yep, would have loved to have done that.

I love competition, but my approach to the game was to never make it personal. It was business. It was what I did, so it didn't matter who the opposing team was, or who the receiver was. I approached it as business and I never let myself get outside of that.

I think it is rare that one player really hates another player on a team.

I had the broken collarbone twice, but collarbones heal.

People don't last long in this game. I feel blessed that I've been able to stick around and play at a high level for my entire career, which is another hard thing to do. That's the only way you stick around - if you're out there and you're able to produce and make plays.

You could look at Tim Brown, you walk in the locker room and you knew you were going to get consistency with him as a person and as a player.

For a guy not to want to listen to a Jerry Rice, a Tim Brown, a Charlie Garner, doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

I try to not to step on any coach's toes as far as what I'm telling the young guys or what I'm trying to give them.

Every player, when you get released, you feel like you still have a lot to offer. And that team is telling you, 'No, you don't have a lot to offer, so we're moving on.'