Charles Woodson Quotes

You can put me in anything and I will make it better.

Father Time is definitely undefeated, that’s for sure. But does it feel good to have some people eat their words about what they said about me as a player? Yeah, that’s fun.

The one thing I do know about Oakland fans is it doesn’t really matter where they are, in my opinion, I still feel like they’re gonna be die-hard Raider fans because it’s in their blood, it’s in their DNA.

When you play for the Raiders and you play for Al Davis, it was always the talk that it was Al Davis against the rest of the league. Some of the calls that we would get, we would always say, ‘Oh we got that call because of Al’s relationship with the NFL.’

Me being able to move around, nickel, dime, safety, you don’t know where I’m coming from or if I’m coming, and that’s a positive.

I’ve been injured where you can’t play. But if I’m able to get up and move around, I’m not coming off the field.

When you’re a player, there is almost automatically a respect you have for a person that has been in that fight, who knows what it’s all about.

I don’t know how to be hurt.

To be honest, retirement has been good.

You can’t say Charles doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

I had the broken collarbone twice, but collarbones heal.

Would it be great to intercept Peyton? No question about it.

I never intended on playing as long as I have, but this is the way it’s happened and I’m so grateful for it.

When you have a guy that each week you can change up your game plan a little bit depending on what an offense does – you can put him at nickel, you can put him at linebacker position, Will or Sam or whatever they have him doing, he can create a matchup that the offense is not ready for.

Practice, training camps to me are fairly easy.

Eric Turner, may he rest in peace. When I first got in the league he was just a friend to me.

In 10th grade, I started playing defense. Mainly because we already had a great tailback. Once I started playing it, it just started growing on me. I liked it a lot.

If you love your job and you love what you do, you’ll just continue to go out there and work, and try to make whatever corrections you can.

When people still see me, even though I have been in Green Bay and Oakland, they still talk about Michigan.

I love competition, but my approach to the game was to never make it personal. It was business. It was what I did, so it didn’t matter who the opposing team was, or who the receiver was. I approached it as business and I never let myself get outside of that.

I just continue to fall in love with the game.

There’ll be some opportunities for other things post-playing, but it’s like, ‘Man, I don’t want to give this gig up.’

As a young player, I never looked this far ahead. I never thought about how long I was going to play.

We all know what Al Davis means to the NFL, what he means to the Oakland Raiders. He is the Oakland Raiders.

I’ve always wanted to be under the confetti as a champion, and the Packers beating the Steelers to conclude the 2010 season finally gave me that opportunity. It was so surreal, being able to bring my family onto the field, seeing my oldest son roll around in the confetti, having a chance to hoist the Lombardi Trophy.

I’m a champion. It’s all I ever wanted.

I know I haven’t been the greatest student, but I do intend to get my degree. Otherwise, my mother will kill me.

For a guy not to want to listen to a Jerry Rice, a Tim Brown, a Charlie Garner, doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

You have to go through a lot of trials and tribulations as a player to be able to grow and learn from ’em and to become better.

I try to not to step on any coach’s toes as far as what I’m telling the young guys or what I’m trying to give them.

The Raiders have been good to me, giving me a second chance to come back around and wear the silver and black.

I want to portray myself as myself.

It’s always great for a young guy to have those examples, even though you may not follow ’em right away, it’s great to have those guys in the locker room that you could look up to and see the right way to go about your business.

I’ve been to the top. I’ve also been at the bottom.

Practice don’t win games.

Jon Gruden just wants you to come to work, work hard and produce on Sundays. He’s not really too much worried about babysitting or holding somebody’s hand.

I’ve got that aggressive, winning attitude.

So, growing up myself, I played flag all the way up until seventh grade. So, we didn’t tackle until I was 12, 13 years old or whatever it was.

All lives matter when black lives matter and no lives are more important than black lives.

Eric Turner; man, that was my man a hundred grand.

No one can do anything by themselves. Sometimes you may need help and sometimes you will be offering it.

What Chris Webber and the Fab Five – Jalen, Juwan, Ray, Jimmy and those guys – they created a culture, and Michigan was a beneficiary of that. Chris Webber was a big part of it.

The way people connected with wine intrigued me and I wanted to be a part of it.

I grew up watching my older brother very closely who was a football player and a star in my hometown of Fremont, Ohio. My love of the game started early because of watching him. My neighborhood played a ton of football, pickup games outside in the backyards of the apartments where I grew up.

We need more people like me who are real and aren’t afraid to take a little criticism.

Green Bay is a blue-collar community, and it’s all about the Packers. I was able to go there, slow down and focus on the game.

The time that I spent out of camp, I made sure when I sat out that I was in tip-top condition.

Fifty career picks is a huge deal for me.

If you can utilize a guy’s talents and not let other parts of the game suffer, you’ve got a winning mix.

That’s the way I’ve always played the game from when I was a kid. It didn’t matter if we were up or down in the game, how it was going, how you felt, you played until the end.

Any time as a corner you feel like you’re in good position and the ball’s still coming, you don’t understand why, but you don’t care at that point. You just want to catch the ball and hold up your end of the bargain if they throw it to you.

I am a sore loser. I will be the first to admit that. When I get on video games I am not that good and when I play against somebody and they beat me, I want to rip the game out the wall, that type of thing. So, I really hesitate from playing them.

I’ve done a lot in this game.

You can’t talk about the NFL without the Raiders, the three Super Bowl championships, what Al Davis meant to the league.

Every player, when you get released, you feel like you still have a lot to offer. And that team is telling you, ‘No, you don’t have a lot to offer, so we’re moving on.’