Edgerrin James Quotations

He said he was tired of having everybody covering him. He said if we could just get a back, the team wants to win.

It is just part of the business. I don't have any hard feelings or any of that. This city is nice. You have a new dome, well not dome, but a convertible stadium. ... Hey, just drop the top and go play football.

It was the right situation. I felt like all they were missing was a back.

You've got to respect Kurt. He's an elder, so we've got to make sure that he's cool with everything. I don't want to step on toes too early.

They said they will do what it takes to start winning.

It's a great situation. All they really need is a back.

It's part of the business. I don't have any hard feelings.

I told coach I hoped this wasn't going to mess up my 100-yard games. I am used to getting 100 yards a lot and I like to make plays and I like moving the ball on offense. They said that we were going to do that there.

They just signed a new guy, so they are working to get better. As long as it is a priority ten it is all right.

I'm not scared to take a chance. I'm not scared to go out there on a limb and do something different. If I was nervous, I would probably have done whatever it took to stay back where I left.

I am not scared to take a chance.

Put me in any city, I'll end up doing something with kids. That's the time of your life when it's pure fun.

I take pride in whatever I do. If you told me to clean the room up, I'd clean it up real good.

I just want to live like a full-time tourist, to show up at the airport, pick a destination, walk up to the counter and say, 'Do you have any first-class seats?'

My total goal in life is to have fun. I just want to be out and around, chillin'.

To be the best of all time, you have to do it over and over. I want to keep it up, and then the numbers will speak for themselves.

I keep things real simple because I know where I came from and I don't ever want to go back to that way of living.

I hate getting yelled at, that'll get you on my bad side. My mom never yelled at me. She just told us what needed to be done and we did it.

I want to be remembered as a person who kept it real, who did what he wanted to do, but never did nothing stupid and never tried to offend nobody else. I'm always being myself.

All my life has been about proving myself.

My way has always worked. My way is what got me here.

My biggest fear in the world is going broke and having to depend on someone else again.

Trust me-the day I'm not into football, I'll walk away.

I want to make my mark in the NFL. This is the highest level, and this is where it goes down in history.

People underestimate me, maybe because of my look, maybe because of my speech, and I love that. I love to give the impression that I'm an easy victim. I ain't nobody's fool, believe that.

I want to be one of the best ever. It's important to me. Why can't I be? Who's faster than me? Not many. Who has the size and can move like me? Not many. Catch passes like me? Not many.

I was a man by middle school.

Too much of my family has messed with drugs. Addiction might be in my genes, so I ain't never tryin' it. It's something you can't control, and I don't like things I can't control. I worked too hard to have it taken away for something stupid. I ain't gonna be laughed at the way I used to laugh at those crackheads.

It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken

I never got into the gangs. Gangs are for followers.