Chris Long Quotes

Chris Long

Profession : Athlete

Birth : March 28, 1985

I'm a bit biased with my love for Kyle Long. I would say he's the best bald guard in football.

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Even when I was being recruited here to the University of Virginia, a lot of people in my own community didn't think I was Division I football material because I played at a small private school.

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At 33 years old, I think any player my age should take time to take inventory and see what their situation is and see how the body feels.

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The 25-year-old me would tell the 32-year-old me to take the two rings and go start the next chapter in life, but it's never simple when you still have gas left in the tank.

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I've dealt every day of my life with my dad's career, the comparisons to him, with people wanting me to live up to him. I just put that stuff out of my head, I don't even hear it after awhile - I just turn my ears off.

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My mother has been really instrumental in raising a lot of money through the Boys & Girls Club in my hometown.

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It's a team game, but at the end of the day, you gotta be happy, and you gotta enjoy playing football every day.

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Too often athletes think there's these norms that I have to fit into and there are people that I have to please.

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I don't know that I've gotten to the point where people know me more than my dad or that I ever will or even want to get to that point.

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My dad and I shared a lot of football memories.

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Everyone fears change. But what you'll find is that change breeds your most important accomplishments.

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I've been compared to my dad my whole life. That pressure I've learned to deal with.

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Playing eight years, never making the playoffs, you feel like you're running on a treadmill that's going nowhere. You're like, 'Is this it? Is this all football is?'

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I just like playing ball.

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The 24-hour news cycle is kind of insatiable. Players in the '80s and '90s didn't have to deal with that scrutiny.

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If teams focus on me, that will allow my teammates to make plays.

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One thing I take pride in is that I never cracked and stopped playing hard. There's something to be said for that, because life doesn't always throw the best situations at you.

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This is not supposed to be a fascist country, where you are forced to do things you don't want to do. This is a free country.

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I play in a league that's 70 percent black and my peers, guys I come to work with, guys I respect who are very socially aware and are intellectual guys, if they identify something that they think is worth putting their reputations on the line, creating controversy, I'm going to listen to those guys.

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If we're saying there are incidents of oppression in this country, systematically or individually in this country, I don't think saying, 'Well, in country X, Y or Z it's 10 times worse' is making things any better. I think that may be true, but why can't we improve?

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