Top 35 Deion Sanders Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “If you look good, you feel good. If you feel good, you play well. If you play well, they pay well.”

— Deion Sanders

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2. “If your dream ain’t bigger than you, there’s a problem with your dream.”

— Deion Sanders

3. “If you don’t believe in yourself how will somebody else believe in you?”

— Deion Sanders

4. “I expect to be great. I expect to do what hasn’t been done. I expect to provoke change.”

— Deion Sanders

5. “Water covers two-thirds of the Earth. I cover the rest.”

— Deion Sanders

6. “Whenever you make a promise, you have a responsibility to that promise.”

— Deion Sanders

7. “What separates us is that we expect to be great.”

— Deion Sanders

8. “I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.”

— Deion Sanders

9. “Time is a wonderful storyteller.”

— Deion Sanders

10. “Look good, play good. Play good, eat good. Eat good, die good.”

— Deion Sanders

11. “There’s no class to manage people. There’s no class to teach on how to handle millions. There’s no class to teach us how to manage time.”

— Deion Sanders

12. “I don’t care what they say about me when I’m through with sports. I don’t want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.”

— Deion Sanders

13. “I’m married to football, baseball is my girlfriend.”

— Deion Sanders

14. “I would do this for free as long as you’re doing it for free.”

— Deion Sanders

15. “It’s gonna be a lot of zeroes in that contract. You gonna think it’s alphabet soup or something, all those zeroes in there.”

— Deion Sanders

16. “When we have public success we also have private struggles.”

— Deion Sanders

17. “If I don’t fish in the morning, I fish in the evening.”

— Deion Sanders

18. “I never wear the same shoe twice.”

— Deion Sanders

19. “Wives, girlfriends, fiancees – clean out your closets. I’m cleaning out my old bell bottoms. We can touch millions.”

— Deion Sanders

20. “I always wanted to make sure my parents didn’t have to work again for the rest of their lives.”

— Deion Sanders

21. “I was kinda scared. I thought Detroit was gonna take me. I would’ve asked them for so much money they would have to put me on layaway.”

— Deion Sanders

22. “Whenever you have to come to my house and convince me to leave my home and play football, deep down in my heart I really don’t want to play, but I really don’t want to let you down.”

— Deion Sanders

23. “When you say I committed adultery, are you stating before the marriage of 1996 or prior to?”

— Deion Sanders

24. “I felt like a deer with a hundred hunters after me.”

— Deion Sanders

25. “Bill Belichick is the best professional football coach I think ever lived. I’m upset that I played for a plethora of teams and never got an opportunity to play for Bill Belichick.”

— Deion Sanders

26. “I don’t think anybody in the game over the last several years has made more plays than Richard Sherman.”

— Deion Sanders

27. “Athletes know kids look up to them, and it’s important for athletes to be responsible.”

— Deion Sanders

28. “You don’t go from a Yugo to a Benz, back to a Yugo.”

— Deion Sanders

29. “Yes I would have been able to play for Bill Parcells.”

— Deion Sanders

30. “Jason Witten will go down as one of the best tight ends in history.”

— Deion Sanders

31. “Tom Brady rises up to the occasion and plays well. That is just who he is.”

— Deion Sanders

32. “I can really fish – I’ve been fishing since I was a kid.”

— Deion Sanders

33. “I think he supersedes Peyton Manning but let’s not throw Tom Brady in the category with Joe Montana, who was 4-for-4. He’s royalty.”

— Deion Sanders

34. “Bill Belichick and Tom Brady are the masters of finding something that you didn’t suspect.”

— Deion Sanders

35. “Marshawn Lynch is the heart of this team. If he’s not going, the Seahawks aren’t going.”

— Deion Sanders