Chris Long Quotes

Chris Long

Profession : Athlete

Birth : March 28, 1985

I do believe that clean water is the most efficient way to change the world.

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My dad taught me to work hard and to be the same guy every day. If that's going 100 miles per hour and working hard, then that's what I'll do.

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My first big paycheck - this is kind of funny - I bought a Cadillac DTS. I thought it looked really comfortable.

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I want to squeeze every drop out of my potential as far as affecting the world around me.

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I'm a big guy and I can't have any tiny tattoos.

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I've been through nine camps, and they're all a little bit different, but at the end of the day, it's just football.

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I do respect a man who doesn't settle.

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I've had to work and scratch and claw for every inch of what I've gotten as a football player.

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I think a lot of times with football players, we're just head down, grinding away, maybe not enjoying it as much as we should.

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I like that outlaw crossover rock 'n' roll-country sound.

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I'm open for whatever any team asks me to do.

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Do I get irritated by the no-Pro Bowl thing, never making a Pro Bowl? Yeah, I do.

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I've been lucky, man. I've been very lucky for 10 years, made a lot of money playing a game, a kids' game.

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Educational equity was my way of giving my salary. It's not $10 million or anything. I'm not going to act like I'm the first guy to donate $1 million to something, but it has been good.

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I think of myself as a complete person, not just a football player and athlete.

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I've heard a lot of people say you need white athletes to get involved in the anthem protests. I've said before I'll never kneel for an anthem, because the flag means something different for everybody in this country, but I support my peers.

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And I respect the anthem. I would never kneel for it. We all come from different walks of life and think differently about the anthem and the flag and what that means.

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Actually, I wanted to play baseball. Honestly, I just think with a kid developing, playing a lot of sports, it's just kind of whatever you're good at.

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A mullet is something that takes time and effort.

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There was a time when I was injured and playing really bad and cut, rightfully so, that I wasn't sure what my future in football was.

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