Quotes from Marquise Goodwin

I graduated with a double degree, I speak well, I play two sports at an elite level, I volunteer, I do things the right way - I even got down on my knee to ask my wife to marry me! - and I can't get sponsored? It confuses the hell out of me.

I know I'm a dog. I'm a beast especially when it comes to long jump.

All I can focus on is what I can control and that's being happy. My own happiness.

I have the track label on me. I'm the track guy. So I have to go above and beyond the expectations of what other people will limit their bodies to.

I'd love it to be in Buffalo. I love football. But I know how important it is to live your life like you want to.

I don't think anybody in any sport ever sucks. You're an athlete. You're a professional.

I have definitely got more than a few pieces of cheetah in my wardrobe.

If you have to cheat to win, it doesn't mean as much as if you did it on natural abilities and hard work.

Just because something that you wanted your whole life didn't quite work out as you planned it to - a lot of the times it's not supposed to work out how you want it to - it will grow you as a person and make you better.

My relationship with my sister is closer than white on rice.

I don't compare myself with anybody.

People outside the organization or outside of football, they don't know how hard it is to win in this league, such a high-caliber athletes and elite group of people competing each week.

The number of really good athletes is decreasing. People don't want to work as hard anymore and they complain. In the future, there probably won't be as many good athletes because they won't work as hard. The world is getting lazy.

Like you see in the fairy tales, that's how it planned out in my head. Kids, little white picket fence, the American dream.

I have a lot of things going for me, I try to be a well-rounded role model.

I pray for everybody throughout the game, even my opponents. Outside of the game, we still have to live life, still have to lead normal lives, and we still need our bodies.

My wife at home. She didn't have a pregnant belly anymore, nobody to cling to, no shoulder to cry on, no one to talk to, while I'm at work getting the love and everybody just patting me on the back. I was mad. I felt that I should be at home helping my best friend get past the grief.

To me, no doctor can determine when it's your time to go. God really knows, and He's the only one who can really give you the day. You just have to keep the faith and live the best you can each day.

I get to see my baby's development. I get to change diapers, I get to be a real father, something that I didn't have growing up.

I told myself at some point that I've got to hold it down for my family. I can't let work and the check and the money dictate decisions that I truly want to make.

At the end of the day, all I can focus on is doing what I need to do, as a player, to help the team win.

As long as I have the respect and understanding of my teammates, that's all that matters.

A lot of people think track, you just run, that's all you do. No. There's a lot of technical aspects to it as well. A sprinter is not just going to get out of the blocks and start running. You do that, you're going to get embarrassed every time.

My father was never really a big part of my life, he ended up passing away a few years ago, my biological father. And the guy I consider my dad, he was incarcerated for a crime he didn't even commit, which is part of the reason I protest.