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Terry Bradshaw quotes

Ocupation: Football player

Life: b. September 2, 1948

Birthday: September 2

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When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.

Topics: Athlete, Challenges, Prove, Prove Myself, Athlete Motivational

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You have to understand, now, I'm a momma's boy. I'm from the south. My way of being raised is totally different than the big city life. I truly was a country boy.

Topics: Country, Boys, Cities, Country Boy

Bad attitudes will ruin your team.

Topics: Teamwork, Attitude, Nfl, Bad Attitude

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

Topics: Brain, Used, Obvious

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

Topics: Sports, Motivational Sports, Worst, Lack Of Confidence, Confidence In Others

You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.

Topics: Fighting, Winning, Nfl

I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.

Topics: Wish, Care, Accepted, Being Accepted

I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while.

Topics: Hurt, Long, Half

I don't like confrontation.

Topics: Confrontation

I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.

Topics: Real, Reading, People

The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you.

Topics: Tired, Lost, Credibility

I'm taking memory power boost tablets to help me every day and doing the puzzles to help me stay focused.

Topics: Memories, Tablets, Helping

I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer.

Topics: People, Dying, Miserable

You can't have 'yes' people around you.

Topics: People

If I'm not the sexiest man alive, explain why so many women married me.

Topics: Men, Alive, Married

I didn't respond well to a firm hand and insults.

Topics: Hands, Insult, Firm

I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give me a basketball, give me something I can bounce and throw.

Topics: Basketball, Baseball, Kids

There really has been only one thing in my life that has made me feel complete, and that is the game of football. The ability to throw a football was my God-given talent. That was my blessing and my passion; that was my calling in live, and everything that I've accomplished has derived from that.

Topics: Football, Passion, Blessing, My Blessing, God Given Talents

I must have been a really tough kid to corral. I got disciplined quite frequently. I guess that would be the best way to say it. The rod, I wore out the rod. You know, Spare the rod and spoil the child? Well, I wore out the rod.

Topics: Children, Kids, Way

I didn't know I was depressed until years later. Actually, I went to the Minirth-Meier Clinic for ADD. I got tested for ADD. So, that's nice. It's nice to know you got ADD. So, that puts you on medication. Did that for years. Then got tested for clinical depression. So, finally when they tell you this, you go, 'ahhh, this is great.' So, now this explains events in your life and how you handle them. But our society frowns on it and they don't want their heroes to have these issues, but unfortunately I do.

Topics: Nice, Hero, Years, Clinical Depression, Clinicals

I had learned so much about marriage from Missy that I only had to get divorced two more times.

Topics: Two, More Time, Divorced

Football used to be my god but no longer is. I still love it, I'm still aggressive, I still want to be very successful at it, I want to win a lot of football games. And my job is to be the best football player in the world, because it affords me a life; it pays, it's my job, and so it hasn't dulled my senses for the game or the love or the great excitement I get from the game. It's just that I'm very much at peace with myself because of my faith.

Topics: Football, Jobs, Successful

After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced.

Topics: Marriage, Three, Failed Marriage, Joey

I'm on national TV in front of millions and I hate making mistakes.

Topics: Mistake, Hate, Tvs

When I was labeled stupid, that scarred me forever.

Topics: Stupid, Forever

People ask me all the time would I like to still be playing? No. I'm glad I played when I played.

Topics: People, Ask Me, Glad

The only thing I care about is my family.

source: - Source: espn.go.com

Topics: Care, My Family, I Care

I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids my older parents and my preachers and everybody.

Topics: Kids, Parent, Answers

When I played for the Steelers and I got my bell rung, I'd take smelling salts and go right back out there.

Topics: Salt, Bells, Steelers

I'm just in an unfortunate business where if you ask me a question I have to answer it honestly and if I don't answer it truthfully then I'm not respected.

Topics: Answers, Ask Me, Honestly

I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at.

Topics: Public Speaking, Enjoy

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.

Topics: Book, Writing, People

I really don't care that I'm ranked.

Topics: Care

If you play in the NFL and start for 10 years, it's not good. It is not good.

Topics: Nfl, Years, Play

For an athlete, there's no time off until it's over.

Topics: Athlete, Time Off

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.

Topics: Hurt, Years, Dodge, Sometimes It Hurts

Pain is one of life's great lessons. You need to know how you'll react to the negatives in your life. Only then will you learn from the pain, and the next time it happens, you can speed up your healing process.

Topics: Hurt, Pain, Healing, Healing Process

The best thing you can say about any coach is his players play hard for him.

Topics: Football, Player, Coaches

Fans are fans. I hated and loved them, hated and loved them, hated and loved them.

Topics: Football, Fans, Best Football

Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far more failures are due to lack of will than lack of ability.

Topics: Softball, Sports, Motivation, Small Parts

I want to help people, give hope to all. Humor is the foundation of our lives.

Topics: Humor, People, Giving

I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family.

Topics: Golf, Technology, Names, Bulldogs, Golf Tournaments

Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up to your level.

Topics: Team, Nfl, Levels

I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back.

Topics: Divorce, Bounce, Anxiety Attacks, Bad Games

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

Topics: Funny, Pain, Giving, Really Like You

As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's something about winning a Super Bowl.

Topics: Motivational, Winning, Boys, Super Bowl

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

Topics: Football, Country, Play, Playing Football

I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.

Topics: Football, Stupid, Nfl, Not Stupid, Sports Football

Ride it when you retire.

source: - "Steelers Quarterback Roethlisberger Seriously Injured in Motorcycle Crash". www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2006.

Topics: Football, Best Football, Retiring

I always wanted everyone to like me. I wanted the city of Pittsburgh to be proud of me. But my first few seasons, I could to count the number of people on my bandwagon on one finger.

Topics: Football, Cities, Numbers, Proud Of Me, Bandwagon

The life of a winner is the result of an unswerving commitment to a never-ending process of self-completion .

Topics: Commitment, Self, Winner, Never Ending, Completion

While Bradshaw applauded McNabb for playing hurt, he offered this dose of reality for the Eagles If he doesn't stay healthy, it's over, ... What are you going to do You roll the dice.

Topics: Hurt, Reality, Eagles, Dose Of Reality

I kept hearing I'd be traded to San Francisco. Man I would love that. I even went so far as to go into the locker room singing 'I left my heart in San Francisco'. Nobody laughed or said a word. I figured maybe I'd get my wish

source: - Song: (I Left My Heart) In San Francisco, 1962

Topics: Heart, Men, San Francisco, My Wish

I'm going to tell it straight, that yes, I'd love to be traded

James Davison took me out to show me where Karl is living right now and where hes going to build. Karl wasnt at home. He was out there somewhere in the woods riding on some Caterpillar or some kind of tractor. But I figured wed at least knock on the door to see if he was there. His wife answered the door. So we got to meet Kay before Karl.

Topics: Home, Doors, Wife, Living Right Now, Tractors

After three failed marriages, I know what its like to be replaced. So thats kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today. ... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like hes going to be a bust in Detroit.

Topics: Choices, Three, Looks

Everybody handles things differently.

Topics: Handle

Imagine yourself sitting on top of a great thoroughbred horse. You sit up there and you just feel that power. That's what it was like playing quarterback on that team [the Pittsburgh Steelers]. It was a great ride.

Topics: Football, Horse, Team, Thoroughbreds, Pittsburgh Steelers

No one will ever win four [Super Bowls] in six years again. It won't happen. You can chisel that sucker in stone.

Topics: Football, Winning, Years, Chisels, Bowls

Depression is a physical illness.

Topics: Illness

I’m always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed.

Topics: People, Lucky, Looks, Happy Go Lucky

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