A biography for Charles Woodsonhasn’t been written yet.
“We all know what Al Davis means to the NFL, what he means to the Oakland Raiders. He is the Oakland Raiders.”
“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.”
“Would it be great to intercept Peyton? No question about it.”
“I grew up watching my older brother very closely who was a football player and a star in my hometown of Fremont, Ohio. My love of the game started early because of watching him. My neighborhood played a ton of football, pickup games outside in the backyards of the apartments where I grew up.”
“All lives matter when black lives matter and no lives are more important than black lives.”
“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.”
“My love of wine happened organically while being in Napa Valley during training camp while playing for the Oakland Raiders in the 90s.”
“I've been injured where you can't play. But if I'm able to get up and move around, I'm not coming off the field.”
“I've done a lot in this game.”
“Practice don't win games.”
“I played in Green Bay. I look at their stadium, I look at the Packers Hall of Fame and all the things that go into that experience. I feel the Oakland Raiders are an organization that deserves something like that.”
“I think as long as you're authentic, people will relate to that.”
“Whenever you play the game, you just want the game to be on the up and up. You don't want to ever lose a game because you felt like it was stolen from you.”
“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.'”
“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.”
“When I started trying wine, I started drinking merlot, and that's all I had. I would go to dinner, and I'd see people drinking wine, and if I ordered anything, it would just be a merlot.”
“I'm a firm believer in that you've got to strike the iron when it's hot.”
“I had the broken collarbone twice, but collarbones heal.”
“That's the way I've always played the game from when I was a kid. It didn't matter if we were up or down in the game, how it was going, how you felt, you played until the end.”
“If a player hears me make a statement, I don't want them to be able to deny it.”