Nnamdi Asomugha Quotes

Nnamdi Asomugha

Profession : Actor

Birth : July 6, 1981

My position in football was cornerback, and what your job is as a cornerback is to read the person that's in front of you - read their body language and anticipate what's going to happen next.

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I think any time you're able to humanize the plight of the wrongfully incarcerated, then you're doing your job.

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I always go back to the fact that one man can make a difference. No matter what the issue, we always have the power to change it.

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The beauty of football is you have to perform through ups and downs in a public form with a team and the discipline and the pushing through it and the preparation that it takes to be great - all of those things have served me well.

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I don't think you can ever get bored or lose focus as a competitor.

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I'm one of the guys that thinks you have to spend a lot of time at whatever your craft is in order to sustain it, and in order to get better at it.

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In high school, my dream was to go to the NBA. But when recruiting came around, the letters for football compared to basketball were like 25 to one, and my one wasn't from Duke.

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In high school, you can just go out there and play. In the NFL it was so much more mental.

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When you're playing to get into the playoffs, your contract is the last thing on your mind.

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You kind of have to be secretive about what you're doing post-football because if you're really outward and everyone knows about it while you're playing football then the rap on you is, 'Oh, you don't care about the game.'

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Months after I retired, the Kings won the Stanley Cup and I was there for that game... I happened to be there with a buddy of mine and I was like, 'Oh, I miss this.'

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Oh man, you miss it so much when you finish playing, especially when you play for most of your life. You miss just being a part of a team and being a part of the guys. So I definitely think producing brought that back for me. A bunch of people working together for a common goal.

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Luckily enough for me I reached a level in the game where no one questioned my work ethic or my ability and then I was like, I don't care. Every off-season I might do a scene in a TV show or something just to keep that going.

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When you go into free agency and have options, any team is up for you to be on - and the Raiders, obviously with me having been there for so long, have a great shot at it.

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Seven straight years of losing isn't fun for anyone.

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It takes time to change a system and to change a mindset.

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My favorite piece of clothing as a boy was a purple Magic Johnson jersey from the Los Angeles Lakers.

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My parents were among the first families from their area to leave Nigeria and come to America, the land of the free.

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It doesn't matter how well you play individually if the team isn't winning.

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When football is your job, a lot of what you feel about yourself and about life can become attached to the outcome of those games. That's probably true about a lot of jobs, but we suffer our losses pretty publicly. When you're not getting the results you want, it becomes easy to get depressed.

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