Shannon Sharpe

You can't be a poor sport all the time.

I'm not uncomfortable with my looks.

I'm all in on 'Undisputed,' and that's where I was with football.

Most of the great players leave the game under their terms.

Some people think all I did was trash talk. But ask my teammates, coaches - they saw how hard I worked, how hard I prepared.

I didn't bother with trash-talking people's moms, wives, or girlfriends. I was like, 'Hold on, man, you mean to tell me you're making $10 million a year? That's $9 million, $999,999 too much!' That ate them up.

Guys would always start by saying, 'You ain't going to get nothing today, Sharpe!' And I'd say, 'Know what? Don't be surprised if your name is on the waiver wire tomorrow. It could have been prevented. But you wanted to go there. So now when you see your name on the wire, you'll know who put it there.'

The NFL is made up of 1,800 players, guys from different religious backgrounds, different upbringings. I love Peyton Manning. But I don't want 1,800 Peyton Mannings in the NFL.

Growing up on a farm, I saw that if I didn't go to the military or go to school, and I knew my mom and my family wasn't going to be able to send me to school out of their pocket, so it basically came down to athletics. I knew I didn't want to work on a farm. I knew I didn't want to do manual labor the rest of my life.

I like to think my teammates had a good time when I was around.

I could have never been a high diver or a gymnast because I don't like subjectivity. I love where I'm faster than you,, or I can jump higher or swim faster. I don't want you holding a card before I figure out whether I won or lost.

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

You're not going to win all the time.

A lot of guys are going to say, 'Look, if it meant me getting a Super Bowl ring, I'd run right over the top of my brother.' And I would have. But once it was said and done, I would have been very disappointed that I had to get the ring at my brother's expense.

Bill Belichick makes it real easy for you to root against the Patriots.

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

I love to work out.

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

Everything I am is because of my grandmother.

People say, 'Since you got rich and famous, you've become insufferable.' I say, 'That's not true. I've always been insufferable.'

I like to talk. I admit it.

I don't know if Rush Limbaugh knows the difference between a screen porch and a screen play.

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.

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.

Adrian Peterson has home-run speed.

When someone keeps doing something, you say that that isn't him, he is just making some bad decisions. Sometimes those decisions reflect the person.

When I went to the Pro Bowl, I went as a tight end. When I made the All Pro team, I made it as a tight end. When they introduced us and I ran out of the tunnel, they introduced me as a tight end. So how is that possible that now that my career is over, they say, 'Well, he put up stats like a wide receiver?' It's not my fault I was ahead of my time.

I can't for the life of me - and I've tried - love someone like I love my grandmother, my sister and my mom.

I'm just a skinny kid from Glennville, Georgia. I'm going to the Hall of Fame. Not to the Hall of Very Good. The Hall of Fame.

No matter what I do, unless I break his records, I'm still going to be Sterling's little brother.

I'll always respect that institution of the presidency, and I'll respect President Trump.

Most fans outside Denver don't like me, and for good reason. I give them every reason not to like me.

I was a talker back in elementary school. I used to get A's and B's in everything, but I got an F in conduct.

I was always a talker. You just don't wake up one morning and say, I think I want to talk a little more.' Some are better at it than others.

You have to do more than the coaches ask you, or you'll never be a great player in this league.

Talent is what wins games.

There's not a throw that Tom Brady can make that Aaron Rodgers can't, but there are several throws that Aaron Rodgers can make that Tom Brady only dreams of making.

We have never, ever, in the history of football seen a guy that possesses what Aaron Rodgers possesses. Nobody, no quarterback in history, has the touch, the accuracy, the ability to throw the ball moving left or right, throw the ball from the pocket, throw the ball from different plains.

To say someone is the greatest, I just don't want championships to define that greatness. Because under that theory, Robert Horry is one of the five or six best basketball players ever - he has seven championship rings. We know that not to be true.

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

You can get in front of the media and say, 'Yeah, I'm working hard.' You can't do it in front of those other 52 guys in the locker room. You can't fool your teammates, because they see you. They see you every day, and they see you more than your family sees you.

The guys that are serious serious about football - your Peyton Mannings, your Tom Bradys - I'm not saying don't advertise or do endorsements dollars. But there's a time and a place for everything.

Even through all those Pro Bowls, at the end of the day, I was always just a seventh-round pick.

I really carried that seventh-round tag with me my whole career, even at the end.

I want to make one thing crystal clear. The NFL does have a responsibility to make sure that their players are upstanding, law-abiding citizens.

I don't want to live in a society where we ask sporting leagues or place of employment to dole out harsher punishment than what the criminal justice system would.

The only thing I do is say what everyone else is thinking but doesn't have the guts to say.

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

I'm not a good talker, I'm a great talker because I do it so often over a long period of time.

You just don't wake up one morning and say, 'I'm going to be a talker. I'm going to be a braggart.' It's something you achieve over the years, and you get better at it. Obviously, I've gotten pretty good at it.