Top 80 Terrell Owens Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’ll do whatever it takes to win.”

— Terrell Owens

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2. “For whatever reason, God has a plan for me.”

— Terrell Owens

3. “Yes, I am a narcissist. The best, too.”

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4. “If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.”

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5. “All that matters to me now is my family.”

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6. “Like my boy tells me; if it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, by golly, it is a rat.”

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7. “God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.”

— Terrell Owens

8. “You never know what a person is going through, regardless of how much money they make or however great a life you think they’re living.”

— Terrell Owens

9. “I’m not gonna waste your time, so I wouldn’t expect you to waste my time.”

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10. “God blessed me to play football.”

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11. “The only people that really matter are the people that are in my inner circle.”

— Terrell Owens

12. “Instead of me having a breakdown, I’m focusing on me having a breakthrough.”

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13. “I don’t need the recognition and I did not expect it.”

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14. “Get your popcorn ready, ’cause I’m gonna put on a show.”

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15. “A lot of emotional stress that people go through, some people figure out a way to handle it. They have a strong enough support system to keep going and keep moving forward. And some people, they feel like they don’t have that outlet.”

— Terrell Owens

16. “People have doubted me and criticized me my whole life, and that’s why I’m the way I am.”

— Terrell Owens

17. “Get your popcorn ready.”

— Terrell Owens

18. “Right is right and wrong is wrong.”

— Terrell Owens

19. “I feel now I can take my talent through the roof.”

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20. “I knew I was going to have success here.”

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21. “But I know in my heart what I’m doing is right.”

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22. “Terrell has 25 million reasons why he should be alive.”

— Terrell Owens

23. “A lot of people think I’m stuck up. Pretty much that I’m arrogant. I only do that when I’m on the field.”

— Terrell Owens

24. “I’ve never really thought of myself as having an ego. I’ve always found myself as having a lot of confidence. I know I have a lot of great ability. I know what I bring to the table.”

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25. “People forget that I’m a human being, just because I play a sport that everybody loves. We’re human. We’re not invincible. We share the same feelings and emotions that people on the outside feel. I don’t think people really understand that.”

— Terrell Owens

26. “I think there is something bigger in store for me.”

— Terrell Owens

27. “Don’t say I don’t get along with my teammates. I just don’t get along with some of the guys on the team.”

— Terrell Owens

28. “Ill watch the highlights every now and then but, as far as watching the game, I feel like I am the game.”

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29. “I feel like it was a little disrespectful but you know what I feel like, I have been successful, blessed and I keep my faith in God, man, and I just keep it moving.”

— Terrell Owens

30. “Life and death. At some point we’re gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.”

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31. “When I was a kid, I’d watch pro football on TV and I’d see someone make a play and I’d say, ‘I wish that could be me.’ But then I’d have to wonder, ‘Could I make that big play?’”

— Terrell Owens

32. “I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person.”

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33. “I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.”

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34. “Off the field I’m down to earth. I’m a very caring person. I’m a very giving person.”

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35. “I don’t see outside of me.”

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36. “This is a dirty business, that is why I go out and play with my heart. I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports. This is like a nine to five. No guaranteed contracts, and that is the worst thing about it.”

— Terrell Owens

37. “I think at some point during the course of the game, I will have an impact – whether it’s blocking or whether it’s catching the football.”

— Terrell Owens

38. “Everybody is not going to be squeaky clean.”

— Terrell Owens

39. “It doesnt matter what people say about me, I weather the storm.”

— Terrell Owens

40. “Like I have said all along, I have the best doctor of all, and that is God. You can’t argue with a guy like that.”

— Terrell Owens

41. “Once I step on the field, by the things I do in practice and the way I practice, you can’t tell that I don’t love the game. But I just know it deep down.”

— Terrell Owens

42. “You should know how to do your job.”

— Terrell Owens

43. “I just feel like I know what I bring to the game. Very confident in what I do.”

— Terrell Owens

44. “I didn’t know who my daddy was until I was 10 or 12. Surprising as it may seem, he was living right across the street.”

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45. “I never had any run in with the law.”

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46. “I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.”

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47. “I’m human; that’s what people don’t realize.”

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48. “You have a white guy as an announcer and sportscaster. Me, I’m black. I do it and I’ve already done some stuff in the past. We’re more expressive than the white guys. You look at the skill players. We’re the ones that get into the end zone. We get in the end zone more than they do.”

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49. “I feel like I know it is from my heart and God knows it is for a good cause, it is not necessary to be made public.”

— Terrell Owens

50. “But if you look at the big scheme of things, I have never failed, regardless of anything I have had to go through: from Dallas, to the sharpie, to me getting involved with a debate with my coach, a lot of people look to see my fail.”

— Terrell Owens