Top 35 Michael Strahan Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Believe it and it will happen.”

— Michael Strahan

2. “This is who I am. I’m not perfect. I don’t want to try to be perfect.”

— Michael Strahan

3. “If you’re not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef.”

— Michael Strahan

4. “The team that is the most focused and executes the best is the team that wins. That’s usually the team that can handle the pressure of the situation.”

— Michael Strahan

5. “I have the best memories as a kid eating ice cream. It was a family tradition that I had with my father. It was nice.”

— Michael Strahan

6. “That’s one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football’s on!”

— Michael Strahan

7. “I’m not an adulterer. I’m not gay.”

— Michael Strahan

8. “My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf.”

— Michael Strahan

9. “German women love American men. That’s why a lot of American servicemen go to Germany – and never come back.”

— Michael Strahan

10. “My craziest ambition is to take John Madden’s job and salary.”

— Michael Strahan

11. “Tim Lewis is great, he’s a great coordinator.”

— Michael Strahan

12. “Don’t ask anybody to give you anything, just ask them to give you an opportunity. You can be anything you want to be, just know you’re going to have to work for it.”

— Michael Strahan

13. “As the game gets bigger, it get bigger for the players.”

— Michael Strahan

14. “The fact that we’re in the playoffs doesn’t mean anything to us, to be honest with you. Hopefully, we can accomplish our goal of going into the playoffs on a winning note.”

— Michael Strahan

15. “Just thinking about it ain’t gonna make it happen. wanting it to happen, ain’t gonna make it happen. Expect it to happen, and work every day to make it so.”

— Michael Strahan

16. “We’re sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football’s football.”

— Michael Strahan

17. “I always have a lot of personal goals, but primarily my main goal each year is to obviously win a Super Bowl.”

— Michael Strahan

18. “I think this can be a championship team. But we do have to take it one game at a time. You can’t look at the end of the road before you get the next foot in.”

— Michael Strahan

19. “When I finish playing football, I would like to work with kids and sleep!”

— Michael Strahan

20. “Memorizing a playbook is like memorizing a script. When they change the script at the last minute it’s like changing a play in a game.”

— Michael Strahan

21. “I try to navigate my life as if it were a Ferrari. The more conscious I am, the more I process the information I’m given and readjust based on what I’ve learned, the smoother my ride in life becomes.”

— Michael Strahan

22. “My ultimate goal is for that next generation coming up, who didn’t see me play, go, ‘Oh, he used to play football?’”

— Michael Strahan

23. “Well, I’ve been a fan of videogames all my life.”

— Michael Strahan

24. “Few people know that I grew up in Germany and that my family still lives there.”

— Michael Strahan

25. “My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I’d go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I’m now resigned to the fact that this won’t happen.”

— Michael Strahan

26. “Camp is always all business.”

— Michael Strahan

27. “Other people can spark a vision for your life, but until you can hold that dream in your own head and your own heart, it’s never going to come true.”

— Michael Strahan

28. “I’ve learned how to turn self-doubt into an energy source and to metabolize fear into a result-producing adrenaline.”

— Michael Strahan

29. “When it comes to the camera, I can do my thing. But I’m bashful.”

— Michael Strahan

30. “With the players Madden is definitely king and that’s probably why it’s been one of the top selling games all these years and will probably continue to be.”

— Michael Strahan

31. “At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me.”

— Michael Strahan

32. “I definitely believe in marriage.”

— Michael Strahan

33. “So I’d rather have a defense that’s successful where everyone’s comfortable in their positions.”

— Michael Strahan

34. “I started playing Madden back in 1993 because that was the first year I actually made it into the game and that was a big thrill. When you’re in Madden, you’ve made it, baby.”

— Michael Strahan

35. “All camps are hard, that’s what they’re intended to be. They make you focus when you’re tired, when you don’t feel like doing things, and to see how long you can retain and pay attention.”

— Michael Strahan