100+ Emmitt Smith Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: - "Making another rush at history - Smith shooting for 1,000-yard season" by Rick Gosselin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, p. C8, August 10, 2003.

Topics: Care

Don't complain to others about your troubles. Half of them don't care and the other half are glad.

Topics: Complaining, Half, Care

Charles Haley changed the way the Cowboys played football in the 90s. And the reason why I say that is because he was such a dominant force coming off the edge, where it took two and three to block him.

Topics: Football, Block, Cowboy, Haley

I have been a Cowboys fan since I was a little bitty boy. And my dream has finally become a reality, of not only just playing a professional, becoming a professional athlete, but playing for the team that I always wanted to play for.

Topics: Dream, Team, Athlete, Professional Athlete

I've learned that football sometimes was an outlet. It was a way for me to release anger, release frustration.

Topics: Football, Anger, Frustration

Do not compare yourself. Find out what God has placed in your ability.

Topics: Nfl, Compare, Ability

Not only does he have the NFC East record for touchdowns, but also the team record.

Topics: Football, Team, Doe, Touchdowns

If you want to stay perfect, you cannot go undefeated with a blemish on your record.

Topics: Perfect, Records, Want, Undefeated

I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.

Topics: Morning, Texas, August

One thing I can say about the Dallas Cowboys: They have always had talent around them. They have been one of the most talented football teams in all of football.

Topics: Football, Team, Cowboy, Dallas Cowboy

Adrian Peterson is redefining the way teams defend the running ability.

Topics: Running, Team, Way, Redefining

I enjoyed being a teammate of Deion Sanders. He brings different elements to the game that many people would not even realize, and to watch and witness a superior talent like him and watch him prepare and train, and study the game is truly amazing.

Topics: Games, People, Different

You cannot change the stripes of a leopard.

Topics: Stripes, Leopards

I don't have to put on shoulder pads and run out there and let somebody hit on me a little bit.

Topics: Running, Littles, Pads

Every time fans turned on the television or watched the Dallas Cowboys, I wanted to give them the performance of a lifetime.

source: - FaceBook post by Emmitt Smith from Mar 11, 2014

Topics: Cowboy, Giving, Dallas, Dallas Cowboy

Consistency shows value. It breeds trust. You know that I'm going to show up every week.

Topics: Consistency, Week, Shows

Emmitt Smith is someone that I have great respect for - as a player, a competitor and a person. His contributions to the organization and the NFL speak for themselves.

Topics: Player, Organization, Nfl

I used to imagine what it would be like to do what Jim Brown was doing. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Tony Dorsett. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Walter Payton. I was imagining Emmitt Smith doing exactly what they were doing.

Topics: Would Be, Imagine, Used

I know how important it is to have your quarterback standing upright. Matter of fact, I know how important it is not to allow someone hit on him period because I want him to think that this pocket is completely safe, no one is going to get to me and I got all the time in the world to make whatever decisions I need to make.

Topics: Thinking, Decision, Important, Matter Of Fact

Consistency is one of the hallmarks of my career. You knew what you were going to get out of E-Smith every game, every year, no matter if I was 22, 21 or 35 years old.

Topics: Years, Games, Careers

We are all born naked into this world, but each of us is fully clothed in potential.

source: - Emmitt Smith (2011). “Game On: Find Your Purpose--Pursue Your Dream”, p.3, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Topics: Naked, World, This World

My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.

Topics: Mom, Married, Said

I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.

Topics: Next, Figures, Enigma

As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.

Topics: Football, Pain, Player, Aches And Pains, Ailments

Your attitude determines your aptitude!

Topics: Attitude, Aptitude, Determine

School is not easy for kids and football wasn't easy for me... but if it's something you truly believe in, it's something you've got to fight for and be willing to do what you need to do make it work.

Topics: Football, Believe, School

The leadership definitely have to come from the leaders.

Topics: Leader

There's a lot of dancing in football. You can see Victor Cruz doing a little bit of a cha-cha or samba move in the end zone. You can see Terrell Owens getting his popcorn ready. You can see Ochocinco doing the Riverdance. But not so much when it comes to ballroom.

source: - "Q&A: Emmitt Smith on Dancing with the Stars". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. October 8, 2012.

Topics: Football, Moving, Rivers, Ballroom

Don't worry about the game you just won or the team that we just blew out... or, um... blown... blowed out... Let's think about what we need to do going forward, and they had, uh... blown out.

Topics: Team, Thinking, Games

Some if it may seem hokey to some people, but if you traveled where I've traveled, done what I've done and seen the results that I've been getting, then you understand where I'm coming from. Playing in a football game is like being in 30-40 car accidents. You can find yourself in awkward positions. That stuff takes its toll. But if you take advantage of health care, balance your body back out, put it back where its supposed to be, you function better, and you recover faster.

Topics: Football, Games, Car

Marriage is not something that's easy, but nothing in life is easy.

Topics: Life Is, Easy, Life Is Easy

A lot of the issues of the Dallas Cowboys yesterday having pressure on Tony Romo, came from the outside pressure.

Topics: Cowboy, Yesterday, Issues, Dallas Cowboy

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