Top 120 Ray Lewis Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

53. “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

54. “Sometimes I have no idea whats going on.”

— Ray Lewis

55. “In any war who pulls their general out? No one.”

— Ray Lewis

56. “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

57. “I just came out of the gym from three hours this morning. I got five hours of sleep. That’s it. Every day of my life, I’m trying to find a different way to get better.”

— Ray Lewis

58. “With all the things I’ve been through, the No. 1 thing that I’ve learned is that we’re supposed to help people through this world.”

— Ray Lewis

59. “Every day, we’ve got to do something physical. It’s mind, body and spirit.”

— Ray Lewis

60. “You don’t have to win it, just don’t lose it.”

— Ray Lewis

61. “The more you know about your opponents, the more you learn how to beat them. Where the holes open to run through, blocking schemes, even down to player tendencies and what hand they like to carry the ball with.”

— Ray Lewis

62. “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

63. “Will you be remembered, how would you be remembered, why wouldn’t you fight for the greatest achievement ever?”

— Ray Lewis

64. “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

65. “I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him.”

— Ray Lewis

66. “I honor God that much in the way I play. That’s why I never believe in getting tired. I don’t even know what that word means.”

— Ray Lewis

67. “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

68. “When you think about Peyton Manning, you think about numbers. When you think about Tom Brady, you think about championships.”

— Ray Lewis

69. “Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.”

— Ray Lewis

70. “It’s simple: when God is for you, who can be against you?”

— Ray Lewis

71. “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

72. “The journeythe journey, I promise you, is the greatest thing ever. The destination always takes care of itself.”

— Ray Lewis

73. “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

74. “With the mindset that I give everything I’ve got for the man that’s next to me, not me, cause I know what I got while I’m by myself, but when I step on the field, when I step on the turf, what am I willing to sacrifice?”

— Ray Lewis

75. “I love passion. I love for a coach to be passionate.”

— Ray Lewis

76. “My game is me. I didn’t try to pattern my game after nobody.”

— Ray Lewis

77. “Success is one thing, impact is another.”

— Ray Lewis

78. “You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91.”

— Ray Lewis

79. “Even Rod Woodson will tell you his best year he had as a professional was when he was 36 years old. If you think about why, you’re much wiser.”

— Ray Lewis

80. “I don’t train for football; I train more for a lifestyle.”

— Ray Lewis

81. “A leader puts himself last then he sticks out.”

— Ray Lewis

82. “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

83. “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

84. “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

85. “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

86. “You don’t care if I’m guilty or not. You gonna make sure I go to jail for life.”

— Ray Lewis

87. “No coach who is coaching kids should ever curse a kid.”

— Ray Lewis

88. “Regardless of how well you can be offensively, if you have a great defense, you can deal with any offense.”

— Ray Lewis

89. “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

90. “There’s some things you can cover up. And there’s some things you can’t.”

— Ray Lewis

91. “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

92. “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

93. “You can talk about what you see from the outside; it’s hard to tell me who I am when you’re just looking at me with a football uniform on. That’s a totally different person. That’s my job, that’s it.”

— Ray Lewis

94. “The locker room talk is always that about who can beat who.”

— Ray Lewis

95. “And I love Evander Holyfield to death!”

— Ray Lewis

96. “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

97. “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

98. “All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don’t even realize they’re being exploited.”

— Ray Lewis

99. “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

100. “Outside of these doors, it is the real world. Someone tries to get you to do something wrong, run.”

— Ray Lewis