Ray Lewis famous quotes

Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day.
-- Ray Lewis

#Workout #Greatness #Done

When you try to help people become a better person, you're going to have to find out what's really going in their world.
-- Ray Lewis

#People #Trying #World

If there's something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God's got to change it. Because if God's got to change it, you ain't going to like it.
-- Ray Lewis

#Inspirational #Strong #Needs

No coach who is coaching kids should ever curse a kid.
-- Ray Lewis

#Kids #Coaching #Should

The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.
-- Ray Lewis

#Inspirational Life #Hard Work #Hardest

I love passion. I love for a coach to be passionate.
-- Ray Lewis

#Passion #Passionate #Love Passion

Don't let your alarm clock, be the only reason you wake up.
-- Ray Lewis

#Inspirational #Strong #Wake Up

Any game that you step on, you can get beat.
-- Ray Lewis

#Games #Steps #Beats

When you see tears in my eyes, you see it's not about the wins or the losses, It's about the opportunity.
-- Ray Lewis

#Eye #Loss #Opportunity

I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected. Because if you like me you can throw me away too quick. If you respect me, you may not even like what I was wearing, but you'll say, "I respect that."
-- Ray Lewis

#Want #May #Respect Me

Success is one thing, impact is another
-- Ray Lewis

#Impact

I've always had a problem with the things that people would say out of their mouths to other people. I've always had a problem with that, because a lot of people, they don't have enough information to speak to people a certain way or speak about people a certain way.
-- Ray Lewis

#People #Mouths #Information

Every day of my life, I'm trying to find a different way to get better.
-- Ray Lewis

#Inspirational Life #Trying #Get Better

Coaching is something I've been a part of my entire life. One of the things I've always been very passionate...
-- Ray Lewis

#Coaching #Passionate

What's the difference between you and the man sitting beside you? It's one percent. In my business, only one percent makes it. If everyone had the same dream, only 1 will make it from this crowd. Who will be that one?
-- Ray Lewis

#Inspirational #Dream #Men

I don't train for sports. I've never trained for sports. I train for life, and sport is just a part of that. So when I start training, that's lifestyle training and that's why I go through so many things, whether it's yoga, kickboxing, wrestling or swimming.
-- Ray Lewis

#Sports #Yoga #Wrestling

I like to see honesty out of people. People who are trustworthy. I like to see people who are involved with The Lord.
-- Ray Lewis

#Inspirational #Strong #Honesty

I've never stopped loving the game since day one. If it were a job to me it would be very hard for me to get up in the morning. And why leave something that you can never come back to? Realistically, whether you accept it or not, you only get one wave in this journey. Run at it as hard as you can.
-- Ray Lewis

#Running #Morning #Jobs

Effort is between you and you.
-- Ray Lewis

#Effort

There's no "I" on the football field. We have a total commitment to each other when we're out there. There is no doubt. It doesn't matter. The wins and losses of the game don't resonate with us. What resonates with us is "how much effort would you give for the man next to you."
-- Ray Lewis

#Football #Commitment #Loss

I prepare so no one can take what is mine, no one can replace my mind, my heart.
-- Ray Lewis

#Heart #Mind #My Heart

My game is me. I didn't try to pattern my game after nobody.
-- Ray Lewis

#Games #Trying #Patterns

There's one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That's the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is.
-- Ray Lewis

#Inspirational #Men #Differences

No weapon formed against me shall prosper
-- Ray Lewis

#Weapons

Effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. So that team that thinks it's ready to see you, they think what they've seen on film, they ain't saw what film shows, because every day is a new day. Every moment is a new moment. So now you've got to go out and show them that I'm a different creature now, than I was five minutes ago, cause I'm pissed off for greatness. Cause if you ain't pissed off for greatness, that just means you're okay with being mediocre, and ain't no man in here okay with just basic.
-- Ray Lewis

#Determination #Team #Mean

I fight for the man next to me. It don't matter about me, what matters about me is sacrificing for you; for the ultimate goal which is us.
-- Ray Lewis

#Sacrifice #Fighting #Men

I've been a fan of video games since the old school, I even have a lot of the old school arcade games at my house.
-- Ray Lewis

#School #Games #House

It’s simple: when God is for you, who can be against you?
-- Ray Lewis

#Simple

I think the fans, if you want to actually learn about us, I think you have to go way more intricate than just what you see on TV, because that's whatever they want to report. But it's just so much going on, and when you talk about being in our world you have to understand we're individuals too. We're not just athletes. No, we're fathers, we're sons. So when you put us through a job shortage you take away everything that we built.
-- Ray Lewis

#Jobs #Father #Athlete

What makes you grind?  You have to always be chasing something.
-- Ray Lewis

#Grind #Chasing

Regardless of how well you can be offensively, if you have a great defense, you can deal with any offense.
-- Ray Lewis

#Defense #Wells #Deals

We get one opportunity in life, one chance at life to do whatever you're going to do, and lay your foundation and make whatever mark you're going to make. Whatever legacy you're going to leave; leave your legacy!
-- Ray Lewis

#Inspirational Life #Opportunity #Legacy

In an era that's run on free agency, everybody's going where the dollars are. They go after the dollars and they forget that the game will always come down to brotherhood.
-- Ray Lewis

#Running #Games #Agency

I figured something out.  And it is no secret what I figured out.  Whatever the majority of people were doing, I found myself doing the opposite.  I wanted to chase something great.
-- Ray Lewis

#Opposites #People #Secret

Watching the season for me is about watching the chess matches.
-- Ray Lewis

#Chess

To be the best and stay there, sweat is necessary.
-- Ray Lewis

#Sweat #Being The Best

It's poetry to watch the game when the game is left alone, when there's not a bunch of flags on the ground.
-- Ray Lewis

#Games #Watches #Flags

My thing about camp is to come in and be who I am, which is the most dominant player in the game, That's who I am, and that's what I'm here for.
-- Ray Lewis

#Player #Games #Who I Am

The refs are so confused themselves because there's so many rules. It's like, 'Oh my gosh I've never seen this many rules in my life.' And everybody's trying to govern this and justify that.
-- Ray Lewis

#Confused #Trying #Refs

When something goes wrong, smile, cause there's always a next play.
-- Ray Lewis

#Play #Causes #Next

I've always said to the refs to not be the ones to decide the game. Let the players dictate the outcome.
-- Ray Lewis

#Player #Games #Outcomes

The only way to defeat pain is to recognize pain exists.
-- Ray Lewis

#Pain #Way #Defeat

Who knows what the future holds? It's all on parenting, one way or another. I don't care what level it is, it comes back to people learning how to deal with people.
-- Ray Lewis

#People #Levels #Care

Nobody’s as serious about health and fitness as me, and staying fit is my top priority.
-- Ray Lewis

#Priorities #Serious #Fit

I have so much respect for people that are my elders. You aren't going to hear me cursing around people that are 60 and 70 years old.
-- Ray Lewis

#Years #People #Cursing

If tomorrow wasn’t promised, what would you give for today?
-- Ray Lewis

#Giving #Today #Tomorrow

One of the things I've always said is that if you're given the ability to coach kids, then you're really given the ability to be a father or parent of some sort.
-- Ray Lewis

#Father #Kids #Parent

Let your name be worth more than your bank account
-- Ray Lewis

#Names #Bank Accounts #Accounts

Some of these kids are spending more time with the coaches than they are with their parents. The coach is supposed to be raising these kids, not belittling them and talking to them like the world is coming to an end.
-- Ray Lewis

#Kids #Talking #Parent

No matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it.
-- Ray Lewis

#Matter #May #Circumstances

You have to be careful of people who like to talk a big game but can't back it up.
-- Ray Lewis

#Inspirational #Strong #Games

It's a bad place when you see sometimes how coaches treat people. I don't even want to say players. I want to say people. They're people before they become a player.
-- Ray Lewis

#Player #People #Want

The only thing that follows work is results.
-- Ray Lewis

#Results

Somebody has to give a wakeup call to our coaching world to ask them real questions and show them that if you have kids, then you know there is no way you can talk to somebody else like that, because that's somebody's child.
-- Ray Lewis

#Children #Real #Kids

Never be comfortable.... .with just good enough.
-- Ray Lewis

#Good Enough #Enough

Parents needs to spend more time with who they're trusting their kids with. That's one of the nuggets going forward. Find out who these coaches are. Figure out their environment and what kind of problems they have, and see if you want your child involved with that.
-- Ray Lewis

#Children #Kids #Parent

You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's damn near impossible to turn this around.
-- Ray Lewis

#Inspirational Life #Together #Fists

We're in a tough place in this world. There are a lot of kids giving up very early. Scripture says it takes a village to raise one child, and that's what these coaches are going to have to go back and understand.
-- Ray Lewis

#Giving Up #Children #Kids

Greatness is a lot of small things done well, stacked up on each other.
-- Ray Lewis

#Inspirational Life #Greatness #Done

If you want to get something done, there is always an alternate route other than cursing somebody and belittling them. There's always an alternate route. If you want to get any message across. Everybody has an opinion, and everybody has their own way of doing things, but the bottom line is that when you affect someone else, you should pay closer attention to how you treat people.
-- Ray Lewis

#People #Attention #Done

There's a spirit that grabs me, and it's in every one of you guys, but the questions is, how much time are we wasting?
-- Ray Lewis

#Inspirational Life #Guy #Spirit

Parents may be always working, parents may be in and out. When you're dropping them off with coaches, the first thing kids should be coming back and saying is, 'Mom, guess what I learned today? Guess what coach taught me today?'
-- Ray Lewis

#Mom #Kids #Parent

I wasn't the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic.
-- Ray Lewis

#Work Ethic #Ethics #Strongest

I like college football a lot, because it's the dream that you're chasing. The dream of one day possibly making it, with the harsh reality that only one percent make it.
-- Ray Lewis

#Football #Dream #Reality

The locker room talk is always that about who can beat who.
-- Ray Lewis

#Lockers #Rooms #Beats

Sometimes I have no idea whats going on
-- Ray Lewis

#Ideas #Sometimes