Jason Witten Quotes

Jason Witten

Profession : Football Player

Birth : May 6, 1982

He could rush the passer, he could bull you, he could beat you speed inside and quickness. Those are long days when you had Michael Strahan lining up right over your head for 60 minutes, because most defensive ends are good at one or the other. Michael was really good at both.

Jason Witten

I have a deep desire to have success, to play a high level, and to win championships.

Jason Witten

You got to be able to listen to what the coaches are saying and not get your feelings hurt.

Jason Witten

I think you've got to have an unbelievable amount of passion and love for the game, even though it's a job and there's a lot of things that go on in the business side of it.

Jason Witten

That's what a team does is stay together.

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You've got to be able to compete and play at a high level.

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My job is to be able to perform for three hours or three and a half hours every Sunday and I've got to work my tail off to get to the point where I can do it, and that's what motivates me.

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We know it's a young man's game.

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When a new coaching staff comes in, there are a lot of changes that happen with that.

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I'm always going to be a Cowboy.

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I just want to be deliberate in the process of knowing what it takes to play.

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A big part of me has been tied to coaching and I want to get into coaching and make a difference that way.

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I know this: the opportunity to play, when that leaves, it is over.

Jason Witten

I have 16 years in Dallas. I would love finish it off there. But I also understand and am not naive enough to think that... it may need to be somewhere else. I think that's how this business works. So you have to be open to that idea, for sure.

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Those heartaches, those cries in your life that you go through, I thought that every kid goes through them. I knew I didn't have much, but I didn't know there was another side out there. I thought one present for Christmas was the way it is.

Jason Witten

My brother one time after a little league basketball game, I think he messed up or something had happened in the game, ends up getting in an argument with my dad. Ultimately he gets pushed down and he ends up cutting the back of his head. He had six or seven stitches over a 10-year-old basketball game. That was tough to watch.

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I've always felt like I know how much I've put into every offseason.

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Look, you cannot try to be somebody that you're not.

Jason Witten

In football there for a long time, I knew even if it was a bad day, a bad day at the office, it was still going to be really good in most cases.

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For me, I just focus on playing, playing at a high level. And when you can't do that any longer, you've got to get off the train.

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