Shannon Sharpe Quotes

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Shannon Sharpe

Profession : Athlete

Birth : June 26, 1968

Some people retire and play golf. Some people hunt. Some people fish. I work out.

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I meet athletes from different backgrounds and see they share the same mentality and process as other athletes in other sports.

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I've got my bell rung, and when I first came in the league, the term wasn't 'concussion,' it was 'getting dinged' or 'had your bell rung.' So I had my bell rung a few times.

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Charles Barkley played in an era where he was never the guy. He always had to take a back seat to Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Isaiah Thomas, because what did they have that he never got? A championship.

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I'm not supposed to be phonetically correct or enunciate perfectly.

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I'm just a skinny kid from Glennville, Georgia - 3,500 people, two traffic lights - going to the Hall of Fame.

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I felt like I always had to fight to prove my worth.

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I'm big on green veggies: arugula, spinach, and kale.

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Of all the four major sports, whether you like Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, maybe you like Bobby Orr, or you like Larry Bird or Tom Brady - Bill Russell is the greatest athlete to play in Boston.

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I love the NFL. Everything that I really have is because of the NFL... but every idea that the NFL pitched is not a great idea.

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Everybody has an ego, and they don't like their athletic ability to be questioned.

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No one in my family graduated from college until my brother did, and then I did.

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Some guys get on the road, the first thing they do is look for the nearest golf course. I look for a gym.

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President Trump wouldn't stick to politics, so he got to jump into sports. So I feel very comfortable now, moving forward, jumping back and forth. Sports to politics, politics to sports.

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There's no other game like the Super Bowl.

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I have the utmost respect for Charles Barkley. He was a heck of a ballplayer... When it comes to basketball, please quote Charles Barkley. But when it comes to race in America? Please don't quote Charles Barkley.

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You're only great if you win. I mean, Alexander wasn't Alexander the Mediocre or Alexander the Average. He was Alexander the Great, and there's a reason for it.

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Everything I am I owe to Sterling Sharpe. He made me a better football player, a better father, and a better man. He was, and always will be, my hero.

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Racism is a disease. Go to your doctor with an ailment, and let the doctor tell you, 'Well, look, I'm not going to treat you; we're just not going to talk about it. It's going to go away.' You would look at him like he's crazy. By not talking about racism, it's not going to go away.

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I've said numerous times the hardest job in America isn't being a professional athlete. It's not being a matador or having some job that puts your life at risk. The hardest job in America is being black, because it's the one thing you can't outrun.

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