Eric Weddle

“Going through everything in my mind, I kept waking up in the middle of the night thinking Baltimore, thinking this is my fit, this is where I want to be, and they want me.”

“I just wanted to work, build a relationship with my teammates, and earn their trust.”

“I live and breathe football.”

“It's not a selfish desire, growing a beard, but maybe I need to not have the beard, and it'll bring us more wins.”

“Ed Reed is a legend. Ed Reed will always be the standard that, as players, we look up to and strive to be like.”

“I always try to remind myself, when it's tough, when your body's sore and you're hurting, I try to sit back and tell myself, 'Would you rather be doing anything else in the world at this moment?'”

“I love working with the youth. I am just as new to the gospel as lot of the kids, so I get just as much out of it as they do. Just being around them makes it one of the best callings.”

“Understanding why we are here, what we are supposed to be doing, relationships, and striving to do more other than play football - when you get understanding like that and apply it, it works wonders.”

“The things I felt Baltimore would give me is a team that gives everything for each other and a team that wants to win and has a goal to win a Super Bowl every year.”

“I'm not going to waste time or energy spent on something I can't control.”

“I'm not Ed Reed. I'm Eric Weddle, and you're going to get a great Eric Weddle that does a lot of amazing things on the football field. And there's no pressure; pressure is self-inflicted.”

“If I don't trim the upper lip, my wife wouldn't kiss me. You have to take into account her needs as well.”

“I'm as loyal as anyone and will do anything for people I respect. But if you don't give that back to me in return, you're dead to me.”

“Our kids are super outgoing and energetic, and they definitely don't stay in the house at all.”

“It's a blessing to know that the church and the gospel are the same no matter where I go. I can find a church and know the services and feel at home there.”

“I don't really worry or waste my energy on where I rank and this and that. I know where I'm at.”

“If teams are doubting me and offering me such a small amount of money, it might not be worth moving my family.”

“We came from a neighborhood that was kind of older, so we didn't have that many kids that would go out and play. We moved into a neighborhood that has, like, 50 kids in it. There are 12 houses where we kind of all share a big backyard, and we're all circled in there. If one kid goes out there, they all go out and play.”

“Everybody drops balls every once in awhile. I just can't let it happen.”

“They welcomed me like I have been a Raven my whole life. It meant a lot to me. I knew what I could bring to the team, on and off the field.”