Curtis Martin Quotes (36 Quotes)

It doesn't change our focus or our attitude. It's just one game. Most teams, this happens to them coming into a season. We hopefully got ours out of the way right now.

I would embrace that fully. Anyone who comes in here, they're going to have to work very hard to beat me out, and if they do that's going to make this team better and I'm all for it.

The defense was playing their butt off the whole game. As an offense we are not, in my opinion, holding up our end.

What's good is the fact that you always know when you are doing something wrong. A lot of teams don't have referees and get away with a lot of things in practice that hurt them in the game because they weren't warned.

I'm a very grateful man. So over the years, I've come to see how football has really enabled me to do what I really love to do, which is to impact people. I've gained such an appreciation for football that I feel I'm disrespecting it by not liking it because of what football has enabled me to do for other people.

I'm smart enough, I'm not just some gladiator or some moron who's going to do something stupid. I definitely take care of my body. I want to still be able to walk my kids to school when I'm not playing football. I'm always going to be smart about it.

I will play with Chad any day, I don't care what anybody says.

In that game, I don't think we were blue, white, black, or whatever collar. We didn't play well.

We had a little chip on our shoulder after what we did last week.

My main thought is all pain is temporary. It can't last forever. You can get through it for three hours in a game and then you can suffer and cry and everything afterward. That's the attitude I try to take. I often try to focus so hard on something else that it takes my attention away from the pain.

I have never been afraid to take a chance on myself. Since I started playing this game I have been taught and learned that this game is a team game and there are a lot of things more important than money. I believe I have always been a person that enjoys meeting challenges head-first.

Our Income and Growth Fund has a bias towards financial services companies. The performance of that particular sector over 2005 showed a greater reduction in value than any other sector for 2005.

There's something about the motivation and confidence you feel when you're in first place. We missed out on that opportunity.

Herm doesn't waste his words too much. It was necessary. To have him emphasize it and put the responsibility on us, I think was important.

I leave all the doubts up to the critics. I never doubted myself. I never doubted this team. I never doubted our ability to run the ball. Today was an example of what we're capable of. I know who I am. I know what I'm capable of. I don't let nobody me tell me anything different.

I look at it, that's what you're here to do. You're here to put yourself on the line like that unless it's just hideous to do it. That's what football's about. Most of the time you're not going to play healthy, you're going to be in some type of pain. I believe a lot of times your value and your legacy and consistency depends on how well you deal with things.

As an offense we're not, in my opinion, upholding our end.

We're trying to come together as a unit and turn this season around. It's getting late.

I think we're all ashamed of how we played today. We're all a little shocked that we came in here and got beat that way.

Football has helped me discipline myself in many ways.

He just has that natural born leader quality. There are certain guy you want to follow because of their attitude, because of the way they go about their job, and Chad is one of those guys.

I'm definitely going to bounce back, I don't doubt that one bit. The thing about this is you have to expect that when you're a back my age. You can't feel slighted if someone says that because it's a reality that it's abnormal for a guy my age to still be starting in the NFL. I can accept that. I still understand what the truth is to me, and that's what I believe. I don't really care what people say.

It's embarrassing. I think we are all ashamed of the way we played today. There are no excuses. I don't know exactly what happened. We just didn't play the way we are capable of playing.

This surgery, this is my first time in my career missing games like this. It feels like unfinished business. It's like inspired frustration that I have about it. I just can't wait to get back going.

It would be a great goal to accomplish. This is one that I think would be special. I have to understand that this would be special, not for myself, but just for everyone who's a part of it.

I think we accomplished our objective. I feel good, I'm going to go into the season as confident as I did last season.

Being in the league for 11 years, I've realized that sometimes you get out to starts like this. It doesn't mean that it will always be like that. For now, it is what it is, and I just hope to keep getting better.

I just think he's as smart a player as I've come across. I don't think he necessarily has the quickest feet x2014 he's not a Michael Vick x2014 and he may not throw like Dan Marino. But he's smart enough to get the ball where it needs to be at the right time.

I don't really care about that. My motivation comes from within myself. I put more pressure on myself than any media, or any person or any coach can put on me.

We had a little chip on our shoulder, losing the way we did last week.

He's not just a business adviser or agent, he's a friend. He really gets to know people.

I think we had fun out there. The last game (in Kansas City), it was obvious, we weren't having fun.

I wanted to resolve the matter quietly and never felt like it had to become an ugly situation. This was not a hard decision because of the belief I have in the leadership of this team and my teammates, and that I have in myself. I have already begun to prepare for the 2006 season and am anxious to get the bad taste that the season left me with.

Real estate was one of the few markets where we saw any real significant appreciation for 2005. That would have acted as an edge against declining stock market.

I talked to him a lot. I showed him around. I showed him where he would probably want to live. I told him he could have my place if he wanted it. I told him I'd do whatever it took to get him here.

I was always the one everyone wanted to pick on their football team, their basketball team and things like that.