Quotes from Ray Lewis

You have to be honest about who you are.

You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's damn near impossible to turn this around.

I don't train for football; I train more for a lifestyle.

Because a football game is just sixty minutes, but I'm training six, seven hours in every day. So, going for sixty minutes becomes easy. More importantly, I think that your muscles mature and can move in all different directions.

And I love Evander Holyfield to death!

I love passion. I love for a coach to be passionate.

I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him.

If you clean your body out so that it is not fighting against you, you rest better, think better and you're always light on your feet.

It's a bad place when you see sometimes how coaches treat people. I don't even want to say players. I want to say people. They're people before they become a player.

God has never made a mistake. Ever.

There's nothing I'm doing to my body that a regular person is not doing to theirs outside of just running into somebody at full speed.

Every day, we've got to do something physical. It's mind, body and spirit.

And that's my honour, that's what my goal is, to always keep my mum's name ringing, because I know what sacrifices she went through for me.

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

I fight for the man next to me. It don't matter about me, what matters about me is sacrificing for you; for the ultimate goal which is us.

Man believes in the possible, but God believes in the impossible.

Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.

You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're just looking at me with a football uniform on. That's a totally different person. That's my job, that's it.

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

I wasn't the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic.

The only thing that follows work is results.

When I step on the field, it's on. I know it's time to go to work.

The only thing that could pull me away, was hard work.

To be the best and stay there, sweat is necessary.