Top 35 Terry Crews Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I constantly get out of my comfort zone. Looking cool is the easiest way to mediocrity. The coolest guy in my high school ended up working at a car wash. Once you push yourself into something new, and whole new world of opportunities opens up. But you might get hurt. In fact you will get hurt. But amazingly when you heal – you are somewhere you’ve never been.”

— Terry Crews

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2. “Everybody says they’re trying to get their piece of the pie. They don’t realize that the world is a kitchen – you can make your own pie.”

— Terry Crews

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3. “Never let anyone define you. You are the only person who defines you. No one can speak for you. Only you speak for you. You are your only voice.”

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4. “Never stop! Slow down sometimes, but never stop!”

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5. “School is cool. Thats why it rhymes.”

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6. “You get better at working by working. And if you don’t work, you’re not getting better.”

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7. “It ain’t easy being cheesy!”

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8. “Never stop being YOU. I am out to be the best ME I can be. Do what you LOVE and you will be badass.”

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9. “The thing that you think is imperfect about you, is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else.”

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10. “You can’t be perfect, so enjoy your imperfections.”

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11. “It’s great to be strong but strength is nothing without having compassion.”

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12. “Trying to be cool is the easiest path to mediocrity.”

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13. “I’m actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I’ve never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That’s my kind of humor.”

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14. “I relax while I work. It’s really weird but my job doesn’t feel like work at all. That’s why I try to do as much as possible. When I’m on the set, learning lines and playing around, I’m relaxed. It’s so amazing.”

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15. “I want to be a man who mixes strengths and compassion. That’s my magic elixir, so to speak.”

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16. “The big thing with all parents is they just want to be left alone. I want no demands. That’s the best gift for Father’s Day, just leave them alone.”

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17. “Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I’m a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.”

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18. “I call myself the Amusement Park. That’s because I’m funny and scary at the same time.”

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19. “I’m African-American by my culture, not by my color. Race does not exist.”

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20. “I would always be painting and drawing. If I was stuck at home, I was in the basement working on a painting.”

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21. “My message to all men is that you have to kill pride. You’ve been taught that pride is a manly thing, that pride is a good thing. But the problem with pride is that it stops you from growth. When you’re so proud that you won’t change, you’ve got problems. Male pride causes wars; millions of people have died because of male pride, because one man would not back down. Male pride will say, “I’d rather blow up my whole family than have everyone look at me as though I’ve lost.” That is so dangerous.”

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22. “I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day – from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am.”

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23. “I always stay in the urban comedy genre because it just never gets old. It’s one of those things that people watch, again and again. This is that kind of movie. It gives you longevity.”

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24. “I feel like we need to make new superheroes, African-American superheroes, that people would accept.”

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25. “As a parent you walk around trying to be perfect, but you don’t have to be perfect. That’s the key. You just have to be faithful, and when I say faithful I mean you have to give your all.”

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26. “But think about how evil that is for one man to think that he’s actually more valuable than a woman, because as a human being your worth is immeasurable.”

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27. “Hollywood is a bit of a publicity game where it’s constantly trying to portray things and put up this image and I was not interested in that.”

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28. “And remember how he wrote the first Rocky in a few days, and wouldn’t sell the script even though he was starving, because they wanted to put somebody else in the lead role. To see what he’s accomplished, dog, that’s what it’s all about.”

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29. “You telling everyone what to do does not make you the boss. You doing everything you told yourself to do makes you the boss.”

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30. “Old Spice Body Spray will make you smell like power!”

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31. “The purpose of being tough is not to attack, but to protect. The purpose of being strong is not to dominate, but to support. The purpose of having power is not to rule, but to serve. What I’ve learned is that to be a true man is to be the ultimate servant. With any talent or advantage that life has give you, whether by birth or by circumstance, your duty is to use that advantage in the service of others.”

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32. “It’s impossible to love someone and control them at the same time.”

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33. “There is no right way to be black or white or anything else. There are literally thousands of different ways to be in this world, so ultimately all you can be is yourself.”

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34. “Learning to live without shame gave me genuine empathy for the first time. I look at every person in the world, and I understand that we’ve all got issues and we’re all in the process of becoming. If someone hasn’t vanquished their demons, or doesn’t know how to vanquish their demons, or isn’t even aware that they have demons to vanquish – I get it, because I lived that way for the first forty-two years of my life, and I’ve been unlearning it every day for the last ten.”

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35. “I took in all of the stuff I could absorb about how to be a better husband, how to be a better father. As I did, I was struck by something. As men, we will study how to be the best architect, the best football player, the best actor. We’ll spend all the time we can find on our careers. But we need to be spending more time studying how to be a great husband, how to be a great father, how to be a great man.”

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36. “A healthy faith empowers you by giving a sense of meaning and purpose to go out and be good and do good in the world. A cult does the opposite. A cult robs you of any agency and power you might have outside the group.”

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37. “I’m getting angry because I have an unrealistic expectation of how other person should be acting. I need to let that go.”

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38. “I had no use for anyone telling me the odds.”

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39. “When I was in the NFL, whenever I got cut from a team I would do paintings of the players, they would pay me $4,000 to $5,000 to do their painting of their family, and that’s how I survived until another team picked me up.”

— Terry Crews