Marquise Goodwin

Football Player

148 Quotes

After choosing football so many times, I feel like I'm inclined to make the right decision by finally choosing my family first, and that's real talk.

I went and played football so I can support my family like I wanted to. Track has been my real dream, to be an Olympic champion and God gave me another opportunity.

I don't think anybody in any sport ever sucks. You're an athlete. You're a professional.

When the ball is in the air, my job is to catch it, no matter where it's at, no matter how it is, no matter how difficult or how easy, you've just got to make it.

Dealing with injuries each year, it's kind of like a given that it'll happen. You've just got to push through it.

I really don't have to disprove anything - I'm in the NFL, so whoever is thinking of me as a track guy is worried about the wrong thing.

To me, no doctor can determine when it's your time to go. God really knows, and He's the only one who can really give you the day. You just have to keep the faith and live the best you can each day.

I'm thankful for the relationship that I established with guys here in my time in Buffalo.

A lot of sprinters aren't football players. I'm a football player. That's the difference between me and a sprinter. My knowledge of the game. I'm totally different than any other track guy.

With faith you can do anything and with love you can do even more.

It's either join the workforce or become a professional athlete, and I'd rather be a pro athlete.

I've always wanted to be what my father never was to me.

With faith you can do anything and with love you can do even more.

I don't think anybody in any sport ever sucks. You're an athlete. You're a professional.

I pray for everybody throughout the game, even my opponents. Outside of the game, we still have to live life, still have to lead normal lives, and we still need our bodies.

I get to see my baby's development. I get to change diapers, I get to be a real father, something that I didn't have growing up.

I hate missing practice and games, not being out here.

The number of really good athletes is decreasing. People don't want to work as hard anymore and they complain. In the future, there probably won't be as many good athletes because they won't work as hard. The world is getting lazy.

I told myself at some point that I've got to hold it down for my family. I can't let work and the check and the money dictate decisions that I truly want to make.

All I can focus on is what I can control and that's being happy. My own happiness.

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