Quotes from Ed Reed

There's a reason why, outside of me dropping a few, people don't throw my way, man.

There's only so many guys on a football team that really have a voice. So anytime you have a microphone, you should use it for the betterment of humanity, for the betterment of this country, for the betterment of our kids coming up behind us, for the future of the world. Why not? Make the world a better place.

When kids grow up into adults now... they learn that taking care of their body is like taking care of their car. You're not going to put bad gas into your car. Why not treat your body the same way? It makes all the sense in the world for us to do the right thing for our bodies.

Everybody in the world knows that plans tend to change.

Stay in school because education provides you with an opportunity. Opportunity is all you can ask for.

When I'm on the football field, I'm giving you everything. Do the Ravens know that? Yes they do.

We always said it's not suit-and-tie on the football field.

When you play sports, when you're on a team with people from different walks of life, and you have to look after each other and count on each other, race and all that stuff goes out the window when you are in the locker room.

I love Bill Belichick. He is a great coach, great man - raising men to do the right thing and win championships in this league.

When I was in Baltimore, it was all about raising me and not having players come in and out of there. It was about raising men, and there was a reason why it built up to the success.

The old G's, or the gangsters, turned me away from the street because they knew my dad, and they had a lot of respect for my dad, but because I was an athlete.

I always will be a Raven. That's where I was kind of raised in the NFL. I did a lot of growing, and we did a lot of special things. That's something that can never be taken away, and it never will. There's a lot of love there.

Football is a reaction sport.

I am going to graduate school, but that ain't got nothing to do with football.

We need more of our young youth graduating from college trying to get their education, and trying to be contributing members, positive contributing members to the community.

There's not many people - only really the great ones - who realize what they were born to do.

I tried to go and get my master's in-season. That's a tough cookie to try to eat, but it's just a great thing.

Not everybody likes Ed Reed.

I know I have the abilities to be a head coach or D-coordinator. It's something I wouldn't mind doing. But it's tough being a player and going back and doing something like that, because egos get in the way.

I love this game, and I put my heart and soul into it.

I don't want to play till I'm 40.

The game takes a toll on your body.

When you've been playing the game for so long and sports for so long, it can take a toll on your body, and that's what we're putting on the line, and that's what our argument is as players when we're doing negotiations and stuff like that.

The fact of the matter is that people don't understand that football players are regular people just like them. And half of them don't understand the business. And most of them just want you to entertain them.