Ed Reed Quotes

"Everyone has their own greatness. Whether you reach your own greatness depends on your environment, your structure, the company you keep and your attitude."

"Not every officer is a bad police. I work with police officers. I know first responders."

"There will be good and bad, right and wrong. Your reaction of choice, good or bad, has consequences that affect you and those around you."

"Help each other, encourage each other, lift each other up."

"Monday night, there ain't a better time to showcase your talent."

"We always said it's not suit-and-tie on the football field."

"The old G's, or the gangsters, turned me away from the street because they knew my dad, and they had a lot of respect for my dad, but because I was an athlete."

"We are human and regular people at the end of the day. We're not immune from the trials and tribulations that go on through life."

"I was a two-star athlete. I got looked over."

"The game takes a toll on your body."

"The relationships I have in Baltimore will never change."

"There's no place like Baltimore."

"Baltimore, I love that city."

"We're all going to have our trials and tribulations, but you can work through them and everything will be all right."

"I always know how to play this game. It's about being smart."

"God gives you talent to nurture. God gives you talent to be something. Some people realize it and some people don't."

"The fact of the matter is that people don't understand that football players are regular people just like them. And half of them don't understand the business. And most of them just want you to entertain them."

"There's a lot of good fans out there, but there's also a lot of bad - I don't want to say bad people, but a lot of people who just want to try to get on your nerves and stuff like that, man."

"I'm not the kind of person to hold my tongue."

"I was a San Francisco fan when Joe Montana and Ronnie Lott and those guys where there. And I watched Joe Montana get cut and go to K.C. and still ball."

"I know everybody wants to make it to the NFL, but it doesn't happen like that."

"I tried to go and get my master's in-season. That's a tough cookie to try to eat, but it's just a great thing."

"We need more of our young youth graduating from college trying to get their education, and trying to be contributing members, positive contributing members to the community."

"I love Bill Belichick. He is a great coach, great man - raising men to do the right thing and win championships in this league."

"I've just been playing football for a long time. I've been playing football since I was a little kid, so it's just some natural blessings that God has blessed me with to get to the ball and understand what I've been doing over the years."

"Not everybody likes Ed Reed."

"If the youth has a good foundation, then I think they won't grow into the bad situations they get into."

"We've got to help our community out. We've got to help Baltimore out, because it's a lot of things that have been handed down in our society that we're dealing with."

"You don't hear about tradition in the NFL, but we have a tradition in Baltimore. It was just an awesome place to be."

"There's not many people - only really the great ones - who realize what they were born to do."