Best 103 quotes of Ray Lewis on MyQuotes

Adversity defines true character.

All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited.

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.

Before anything great is really achieved, your comfort zone must be disturbed.

Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That's how God designed it.

Coaching is something I've been a part of my entire life. One of the things I've always been very passionate.

Daddy wasn't there for me, so I had to grind every day.

Don't let your alarm clock, be the only reason you wake up.

Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.

Don’t waste talent.  No matter what you do, don’t waste talent.

Do this research if we don't have a season -- watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game.

Do whatever you gotta do to chase your legacy every second of your life.

Effort is between you, and you, and nobody elseI'm pissed off for greatness. Cause if you ain't pissed off for greatness, that just means you're okay with being mediocre, and ain't no man in here okay with just basic.

Effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. So that team that thinks it's ready to see you, they think what they've seen on film, they ain't saw what film shows, because every day is a new day. Every moment is a new moment. So now you've got to go out and show them that I'm a different creature now, than I was five minutes ago, cause I'm pissed off for greatness. Cause if you ain't pissed off for greatness, that just means you're okay with being mediocre, and ain't no man in here okay with just basic.

Effort is between you and you.

Even Rod Woodson will tell you his best year he had as a professional was when he was 36 years old. If you think about why, you're much wiser.

Every day of my life, I'm trying to find a different way to get better.

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

Everything I did to get back, if it wasnt for my team, it was for my city. Thats one thing that I bought into from Day One. Im not just here in this city to play football, Im here to actually create real change in this city. If my effort can give you hope, faith or love, then so be it. Ill give everything I have, and today was about me giving everything that I had, showing people that no matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it. If you can push through it, you will encourage somebody. Today, hopefully through what I did today, somebody was uplifted.

God has never made a mistake. Ever.

Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.

Greatness is a lot of small things done well, stacked up on each other.

I already believe I am the best linebacker in the game. Now, I have to show one more thing ? that I am the most dominating, influential person in the game and the best football player to ever put on a pair of cleats.

I don't care where we're going; I'm gonna wear a suit all day, every day.

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

I don't train for sports. I've never trained for sports. I train for life, and sport is just a part of that. So when I start training, that's lifestyle training and that's why I go through so many things, whether it's yoga, kickboxing, wrestling or swimming.

I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected. Because if you like me you can throw me away too quick. If you respect me, you may not even like what I was wearing, but you'll say, "I respect that.

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.

I figured something out.  And it is no secret what I figured out.  Whatever the majority of people were doing, I found myself doing the opposite.  I wanted to chase something great.

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.

If you want to get something done, there is always an alternate route other than cursing somebody and belittling them. There's always an alternate route. If you want to get any message across. Everybody has an opinion, and everybody has their own way of doing things, but the bottom line is that when you affect someone else, you should pay closer attention to how you treat people.

I have so much respect for people that are my elders. You aren't going to hear me cursing around people that are 60 and 70 years old.

I just came out of the gym from three hours this morning. I got five hours of sleep. That's it. Every day of my life, I'm trying to find a different way to get better.

I like college football a lot, because it's the dream that you're chasing. The dream of one day possibly making it, with the harsh reality that only one percent make it.

I like to see honesty out of people. People who are trustworthy. I like to see people who are involved with The Lord.

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.

In an era that's run on free agency, everybody's going where the dollars are. They go after the dollars and they forget that the game will always come down to brotherhood.

I once said that effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. The same can be true between and individual and their camera. What you're shooting is between you and you and nobody else. Outcomes are for the audience. The action is yours alone.

I think the fans, if you want to actually learn about us, I think you have to go way more intricate than just what you see on TV, because that's whatever they want to report. But it's just so much going on, and when you talk about being in our world you have to understand we're individuals too. We're not just athletes. No, we're fathers, we're sons. So when you put us through a job shortage you take away everything that we built.

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.

It's poetry to watch the game when the game is left alone, when there's not a bunch of flags on the ground.

I've always said to the refs to not be the ones to decide the game. Let the players dictate the outcome.

I've been a fan of video games since the old school, I even have a lot of the old school arcade games at my house.

I've got kids that are always watching and I taught them to always finish something you started.

I've never stopped loving the game since day one. If it were a job to me it would be very hard for me to get up in the morning. And why leave something that you can never come back to? Realistically, whether you accept it or not, you only get one wave in this journey. Run at it as hard as you can.

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

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.

Life is about being a versatile athlete and training in all realms of life.

Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies.