Shannon Sharpe

“I'm a big cardio guy. I love spinning, and I do that seven to eight times a week because I have time. What else am I going to do? I don't have a hobby. I don't play golf; I don't restore cars; and I don't have a fixer-upper house that I'm working on. So basically, my day is built around just working out. That's what I enjoy doing.”

“I want to make one thing crystal clear. The NFL does have a responsibility to make sure that their players are upstanding, law-abiding citizens.”

“I am the only player who has been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and am the second-best player in my family.”

“When people told me I'd never make it, I listened to the one person who said I could: me.”

“I'm not supposed to be phonetically correct or enunciate perfectly.”

“You sacrifice so much to get to the NFL. You miss recitals and graduations. Moments that you can't have because you're focused on being the best.”

“When I left my grandmother's home in 1986 headed to Savannah State with two brown grocery bags filled with my belongings, nothing was going to keep me from realizing my dreams.”

“I'm not uncomfortable with my looks.”

“I really carried that seventh-round tag with me my whole career, even at the end.”

“I had a speech class in elementary school. And you know how teachers, when a kid is struggling to pronounce a word, used to lead him and say, 'Johnny, sounds like... ? Johnny, sounds like... ?' I said out loud, 'Sounds like Johnny can't read.' Teacher told me to leave the room.”

“To say someone is the greatest, I just don't want championships to define that greatness. Because under that theory, Robert Horry is one of the five or six best basketball players ever - he has seven championship rings. We know that not to be true.”

“I'm not a good talker, I'm a great talker because I do it so often over a long period of time.”

“A lot of problems that are going on aren't going to get better if we don't talk about it. Race is the biggest one. It's a very, very uncomfortable topic because the biggest part of America was founded on it.”

“I love to work out.”

“I could have never been a high diver or a gymnast because I don't like subjectivity. I love where I'm faster than you,, or I can jump higher or swim faster. I don't want you holding a card before I figure out whether I won or lost.”

“Some guys get on the road, the first thing they do is look for the nearest golf course. I look for a gym.”

“Even through all those Pro Bowls, at the end of the day, I was always just a seventh-round pick.”

“I'll always respect that institution of the presidency, and I'll respect President Trump.”

“I meet athletes from different backgrounds and see they share the same mentality and process as other athletes in other sports.”

“My grandma told me, don't get into trouble. I know how hard she worked to take care of her own nine kids and my mama's three. And I just never wanted to hurt her. I never wanted to do something that would embarrass her.”