Marquise Goodwin

Football Player

148 Quotes

I'm not limited to running or jumping or catching footballs.

I'm always hesitant to make any serious moves because you never know how the N.F.L. will treat you, you know?

If Deja wasn't my sister, I feel like I would still be motivated but not in the way that I am today. Having a disabled sister, that's a lot more motivation, especially when she tells you growing up that she wishes she can be out there with the kids playing and she wishes she can be out there running around.

What I do in long jump and track and field, it definitely correlates with what I do as a receiver. With being fast and being explosive and putting my foot down. It's the same mechanics that I use in football and track.

As long as I have the respect and understanding of my teammates, that's all that matters.

I'm looking to run the fastest, but I want to prove that I'm more than a speed guy.

I don't want to get too much on the football side and gain weight, so I'm as fast on the field.

I have the track label on me. I'm the track guy. So I have to go above and beyond the expectations of what other people will limit their bodies to.

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

I don't want to bring my personal issues to the field during game time. I don't want to take focus from anybody else.

I love long-jumping, and if I'm granted the opportunity without repercussions, then I will pursue it further, but I'm obligated to Buffalo Bills football and that's the main focus.

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.

I haven't quite mapped it out yet, but working out and training is my lifestyle.

Just because something that you wanted your whole life didn't quite work out as you planned it to - a lot of the times it's not supposed to work out how you want it to - it will grow you as a person and make you better.

My sister means the world to me.

People outside the organization or outside of football, they don't know how hard it is to win in this league, such a high-caliber athletes and elite group of people competing each week.

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

I knew when I met Morgan that she was the perfect girl because she was in college, she was an athlete and we had the same morals and beliefs and I knew that she would be a great mom.

I really don't focus on the competition at all. Like even on the football field it's me versus me.

At the end of the day, all I can focus on is doing what I need to do, as a player, to help the team win.

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