Junior Seau Quotes

• You can’t live on last year, you can’t live on the year before. I can’t bring in my 13 Pro Bowls in the locker room and say, look at me. No. That is gone. That is the best thing about the game of football is that everybody starts over.

  Junior Seau

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  Tags in Best, Live, Game

• When my TV show, ‘Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,’ assigned me to be a ‘Sports Illustrated’ reporter for a weekend, I didn’t realize I’d have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull.

  Junior Seau

  Topics in Job, Sports

  Tags in Reality

• When I first started playing football, a headache was called a ‘headache.’ And now it’s called ‘a concussion.’

  Junior Seau

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  Tags in Football, Playing, Started

• Too many athletes are living in a tiny window. They have no vision for themselves – what they can be outside of football and what they can mean to a community. They just don’t know any better. My hopes and dreams are unlimited.

  Junior Seau

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  Tags in Dreams, Better, Football

• To chase an athlete that really doesn’t want to speak with you and when you finally get him, gives you three words and you have to write a story based on three words of information he gave you, that’s pretty tough.

  Junior Seau

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  Tags in Words, Him, Pretty

• There’s a window in my life which is football. I try to remember that it’s not going to be there forever. That’s why staying humble is important; knowing who I am and the message I’m sending out. I always try to be a person first, before I’m No. 55 on the football field.

  Junior Seau

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Important, Humble

• The past isn’t going to get you to your goal.

  Junior Seau

  Topics in Goal, Past

• The goal of my Foundation is to give young people a chance to better themselves and establish a base for a successful future.

  Junior Seau

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Successful, Better

• The Boys and Girls Club taught me a lot about sportsmanship, humility, self-respect.

  Junior Seau

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  Tags in Humility, Taught, Club

• The best meal at my restaurant is the whole right side of the menu.

  Junior Seau

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  Tags in Best, Whole, Side

• Ryan Leaf is doing great now. If he progresses the way he is now, we’re going to have a quarterback that’s going to be reckoned with in the near future. And that’s not political.

  Junior Seau

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Great, Political

• Playing football and rugby is the Samoan sport. It’s part of the conversation at church. It’s part of the conversation in their barbershops, in the grocery stores. It’s what everyone is aware of and familiar with. They take a lot of pride in the beating you can take in the course of that sport.

  Junior Seau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Football, Pride, Everyone

• No, I want my kids to be Tiger Woods. And Serena Williams. I dig those two.

  Junior Seau

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  Tags in Two, Kids, Tiger

• No, I didn’t forget Samoan – I understand it when you talk to me but, you know, to put phrases together I sound like I do in English.

  Junior Seau

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  Tags in Forget, Together, Understand

• In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can’t just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.

  Junior Seau

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Order, Saturday

• I’ve tried to bring the mentality of the outside linebacker to the inside and the rough, tough style of an inside linebacker to the outside. The middle linebacker always has been known as kind of a big plugger. Outside guys are known to be able to run. I just try to make big plays wherever I am.

  Junior Seau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Try, Tough, Big

• I’m not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you’ll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain’t going to happen.

  Junior Seau

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  Tags in Graduation, Today, Live

• I’m living proof that you can make it out of the ghetto.

  Junior Seau

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  Tags in Living, Ghetto, Proof

• I’m basically a homegrown American.

  Junior Seau

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  Tags in American, Basically

• I’m afraid of being average. I have a real fear of being just another linebacker.

  Junior Seau

  Topics in Fear, Uncategorized

  Tags in Real, Another

Junior Seau (40)

Birth:	19th January, 1969
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Athlete

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