Quotes from Chris Long

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.

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.

I think preparing every week like it's the most important game in the world makes things a little easier once you get in situations where a lot more people are watching and it might be a lot more important for people outside of the building.

For all the evils in the world, I think apathy is one of the most dangerous.

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.

It's a team game, but at the end of the day, you gotta be happy, and you gotta enjoy playing football every day.

If teams focus on me, that will allow my teammates to make plays.

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.

Do I get irritated by the no-Pro Bowl thing, never making a Pro Bowl? Yeah, I do.

I've noticed that right tackles have gotten better in pass pro throughout my career.

Before I was a champion, I failed, and I was afraid.

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.

Everyone fears change. But what you'll find is that change breeds your most important accomplishments.

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.

I'm a rhythm player. I need to set people up, I need to be in the flow of the game.

I think of myself as a complete person, not just a football player and athlete.

When I entered free agency, I said whatever team I end up on, I'm going to work.

This is not supposed to be a fascist country, where you are forced to do things you don't want to do. This is a free country.

Tom Brady blew me away. Who's the most famous athlete of our generation: Tom Brady? LeBron? Messi? Ronaldo? Serena Williams? Maybe I haven't been around enough to know how the biggest stars really act. But Brady is a normal guy.

I am incredibly thankful that football has provided me with a platform to give back and I am proud that so many of my colleagues have decided to use this stage to create positive and impactful change in our local communities and around the world.

My mother has been really instrumental in raising a lot of money through the Boys & Girls Club in my hometown.

At the end of the day, Coach Belichick does a great job of bringing in people he knows that will fit well.

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.

I'm a bit biased with my love for Kyle Long. I would say he's the best bald guard in football.