A biography for Ryan Clarkhasn’t been written yet.
“When I decide I can't play the way I've always played, I'll stop playing football, period.”
“I wanted to establish myself in the league and the community before I jumped into something. I wanted to get to the point where lending my name to a cause would really mean something.”
“With a franchise quarterback, he's talked to differently, there are conversations instead of being talked back. You don't berate them on the sideline.”
“We've seen in so many cases, Roger Goodell be judge and jury when it comes to players.”
“I actually had an up-and-down relationship with the media. There were so many times where I think I offended people, or I had discussions with the media about ways I was being portrayed or ways where things I said were flipped because I had some knowledge of how you do the job. There were some situations that I would treat differently.”
“I think sometimes people criticize what they don't understand.”
“Pittsburgh is about team-building and championships.”
“Football players don't play to salvage things. We enjoy winning. That's what you do.”
“A lot of times we try to make this thing way too complicated. It's truly a simple game. When you get turnovers and you don't allow people to get turnovers against you, you can win football games.”
“When you give interviews in a certain way or when people find you entertaining off the field, local radio stations and different TV shows give you opportunities, to kind of use your star in the area to help promote their shows.”
“Sickle cell is fatal. My sister-in-law died at the age of 27, the year after I had my crisis.”
“I always have a fun backpack of socks.”
“I was an undrafted guy who thought I could never miss anything.”
“As long as I can back up what I say with film and statistics and experience, I can say whatever that film tells me.”
“The Rooney family, I'm just so appreciative they took a guy that nobody really wanted and they gave me a shot.”
“Wes Welker had this mystique about him, about being a scrappy, tough and whatever adjectives people always like to add to him.”
“If the right people like you, then you know you get opportunities that other people don't. If you don't develop those relationships, then it's a little bit harder for you.”
“I don't know any player who, when they see Randy Moss get the ball, is not going to decide, 'I'm going to go full speed and try to tackle the ball.'”
“That's the crazy thing - you can stay with him, you can cover him, but the fight with Calvin Johnson comes once the ball is thrown. It's not about the separation he creates.”
“When I signed at LSU, I was just there to get an education.”