Top 30 Richard Sherman Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Work hard and believe in yourself even when nobody else believes in you.”

— Richard Sherman

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2. “If you put in the work, put in the time, put in the effort, you’re going to reap the benefits.”

— Richard Sherman

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3. “I kind of go to the beat of my own drum.”

— Richard Sherman

4. “The success doesn’t define you. The success isn’t what gave you the edge in the first place. The failure didn’t give me the edge, either.”

— Richard Sherman

5. “I’m the best corner in the game. When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that is the result you are going to get. Don’t you ever talk about me.”

— Richard Sherman

6. “If you want to judge me, I can handle it.”

— Richard Sherman

7. “I don’t care about people kissing my ass or telling me how great I am. I don’t really give a damn. I read the bad stuff a whole lot more than I read the good stuff. I read that because there are always going to be critics who are going to say how good you aren’t.”

— Richard Sherman

8. “I don’t want to be an island. I want to be more of a tourist attraction. You stop here, I take your money and you go.”

— Richard Sherman

9. “Don’t you open your mouth about the best!”

— Richard Sherman

10. “Good, bad or indifferent, I’m transparent with my opinions and what I believe. I just don’t think in politics you can be that way.”

— Richard Sherman

11. “I’m intelligent enough and capable enough to understand that you are ignorant, pompous, egotistical cretin. I’m going to crush you on here because I’m tired of hearing about it.”

— Richard Sherman

12. “Everybody is a critic, everybody has a voice, everybody can reach you. Everybody is an expert and that’s what makes it fun.”

— Richard Sherman

13. “I was making sure everyone knew Crabtree was a mediocre receiver. And when you try the best corner in the game with a mediocre receiver, that’s what happens. I appreciate that he knows that now.”

— Richard Sherman

14. “It’s an awesome feeling being a father, because you never think you can fall in love with something so quickly. It was almost immediate.”

— Richard Sherman

15. “He did look like the Monopoly man, but it was smooth. I thought he was going to pull a monocle out. That would have been awesome. And did you see the pocket watch? That was incredible.”

— Richard Sherman

16. “There are a lot of things my mother taught me and helped me and disciplined me and made sure I stayed on the right track. And there are a ton of things that only my father could have taught me.”

— Richard Sherman

17. “Both criticism and praise is part of putting yourself out there.”

— Richard Sherman

18. “But people find it easy to take shots on Twitter, and to use racial slurs and bullying language far worse than what you’ll see from me. It’s sad and somewhat unbelievable to me that the world is still this way, but it is. I can handle it.”

— Richard Sherman

19. “We’ve been in all the big games, we’ve been in small games, and we’ve treated them all the same and I think that mentality is what’s helped us get to the point where we are now.”

— Richard Sherman

20. “It’s hard coming in here talking a big game. It’s hard, it’s hard. It’s a lamb coming to the wolves and throwing meat at them.”

— Richard Sherman

21. “Depending on the story, I don’t feel that the music is disappearing. I feel if the story demands songs, they’ll have songs. If it doesn’t demand songs, you’ll have underscore.”

— Richard Sherman

22. “I think people somehow get a skewed view of Tom Brady. That he’s just a clean-cut guy that does everything right and never says a bad word to anyone. We know him to be otherwise.”

— Richard Sherman

23. “Sometimes, months elapse before we’ve completed the song completely. There’s no set rule. Something inside of you says – ‘now you can present it!’ If one of us feels it’s not quite right, lyrically or melodically, we don’t present it.”

— Richard Sherman

24. “If I don’t have the books to read, if I don’t have the information to study, how can I succeed? That’s a lot of the stuff I would focus on if I was elected because I think knowledge is power.”

— Richard Sherman

25. “Anytime you run a gimmick offence, you’re a little bit afraid – you’re not sound in what you’re doing in your base stuff.”

— Richard Sherman

26. “Go on and do it then, boy.”

— Richard Sherman

27. “Sometimes you have to be somebody you’re not.”

— Richard Sherman

28. “Education is fundamental to any success. That’s your baseboard.”

— Richard Sherman

29. “A lot of people have been asking whether I would ever go into politics. I’m not sure I would.”

— Richard Sherman

30. “You think, “Aw man, I would never want somebody else’s poop on my hand,” but when it’s your child, “Oh, it’s not that bad, I’ll just wash it off.””

— Richard Sherman

31. “Every TV timeout, I went up and said it right to Brady: ‘Please keep trying me. I’m going to take it from you.’”

— Richard Sherman