Julian Edelman Quotes

Football is a reaction sport.

The game of football requires attention constantly. If you miss one play, you can miss a lot of action - unlike some other sports.

I like contact sports like football. I like collisions, and I was good at it.

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday.

Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he's got to play from the ground up - from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.

We had to play both ways on the field, so I was offensive center and defensive end.

I love being a running back. But I really love being a football player.

I believe my strengths are my pace and reading of the game.

I've always prided myself on being a football player.

I hate running. Only if I have to, but my job is to get the ball to the receivers, the tight ends, running backs.

Football is always moving and you've got to keep up with it.

I just loved the kind of people who play football. Definitely takes courage to play this game.

I think that's just the way football is supposed to be played, at a high speed.

Playing football helped me a lot. Just reading the quarterback's eyes and reading receivers, figuring out what they want to do.

I'm a great player. I play fast; I'm a great tackler.

I've always been someone who said that football is a contact sport.

You have to be smart as a football player.

In football, there is always friction, collisions, contact. But I am used to that.

We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime.

I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life.

Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don't know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.

I would still like to get more athletic and have players that can really cover what's going on in the game.

You know, I played football, I was offensive tackle in college.

In football, I need full concentration even though I really enjoy it.