Ray Lewis
- Country : United States
- Profession :American Football linebacker
- DOB: 1975-05-15
Ray Lewis is a former American football linebacker known for his illustrious career with the Baltimore Ravens in the NFL. Born on May 15, 1975, in Bartow, Florida, Lewis attended the University of Miami, where he showcased his immense talent on the field. The Ravens selected him in the first round of the 1996 NFL Draft, and he went on to become the team’s heart and soul for 17 seasons. Lewis was a two-time Super Bowl champion, earning MVP honors in Super Bowl XXXV. He was a 13-time Pro Bowler and a two-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year. His fiery leadership and exceptional skills left an indelible mark on the sport. Lewis retired in 2013 and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2018.
One of the things I’ve always said is that if you’re given the ability to coach kids, then you’re really given the ability to be a father or parent of some sort.
Author: Ray LewisI’ve got kids that are always watching and I taught them to always finish something you started.
Author: Ray LewisI like college football a lot, because it’s the dream that you’re chasing. The dream of one day possibly making it, with the harsh reality that only one percent make it.
Author: Ray LewisThe game will fade one day. I realize that success is one thing; impact is another. I live to impact people.
Author: Ray LewisI’ve always said to the refs to not be the ones to decide the game. Let the players dictate the outcome.
Author: Ray LewisWho knows what the future holds? It’s all on parenting, one way or another. I don’t care what level it is, it comes back to people learning how to deal with people.
Author: Ray LewisI like to see honesty out of people. People who are trustworthy. I like to see people who are involved with The Lord.
Author: Ray LewisThe journeythe journey, I promise you, is the greatest thing ever. The destination always takes care of itself.
Author: Ray LewisSome people take certain things and they try to forget what that pain felt like. I don’t. I take that same pain and I chase it every time I walk in a weight room.
Author: Ray LewisCoaching is something I’ve been a part of my entire life. One of the things I’ve always been very passionate.
Author: Ray LewisTo come into camp and have my defensive coordinator say you won’t be touched, I feel like a kid all over again.
Author: Ray LewisMy thing about camp is to come in and be who I am, which is the most dominant player in the game, That’s who I am, and that’s what I’m here for.
Author: Ray LewisAll the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don’t even realize they’re being exploited.
Author: Ray LewisOutside of these doors, it is the real world. Someone tries to get you to do something wrong, run.
Author: Ray LewisThe refs are so confused themselves because there’s so many rules. It’s like, ‘Oh my gosh I’ve never seen this many rules in my life.’ And everybody’s trying to govern this and justify that.
Author: Ray LewisI’ve been a fan of video games since the old school, I even have a lot of the old school arcade games at my house.
Author: Ray LewisEven Rod Woodson will tell you his best year he had as a professional was when he was 36 years old. If you think about why, you’re much wiser.
Author: Ray LewisYou can talk about what you see from the outside; it’s hard to tell me who I am when you’re just looking at me with a football uniform on. That’s a totally different person. That’s my job, that’s it.
Author: Ray LewisRegardless of how well you can be offensively, if you have a great defense, you can deal with any offense.
Author: Ray LewisWhen you try to help people become a better person, you’re going to have to find out what’s really going in their world.
Author: Ray LewisSome of these kids are spending more time with the coaches than they are with their parents. The coach is supposed to be raising these kids, not belittling them and talking to them like the world is coming to an end.
Author: Ray LewisIt’s poetry to watch the game when the game is left alone, when there’s not a bunch of flags on the ground.
Author: Ray LewisSomebody has to give a wakeup call to our coaching world to ask them real questions and show them that if you have kids, then you know there is no way you can talk to somebody else like that, because that’s somebody’s child.
Author: Ray LewisIt’s a bad place when you see sometimes how coaches treat people. I don’t even want to say players. I want to say people. They’re people before they become a player.
Author: Ray LewisI have so much respect for people that are my elders. You aren’t going to hear me cursing around people that are 60 and 70 years old.
Author: Ray LewisYou have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91.
Author: Ray LewisWith the mindset that I give everything I’ve got for the man that’s next to me, not me, cause I know what I got while I’m by myself, but when I step on the field, when I step on the turf, what am I willing to sacrifice?
Author: Ray LewisI’ve never stopped loving the game since day one. If it were a job to me it would be very hard for me to get up in the morning. And why leave something that you can never come back to? Realistically, whether you accept it or not, you only get one wave in this journey. Run at it as hard as you can.
Author: Ray LewisLet me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.
Author: Ray LewisWill you be remembered, how would you be remembered, why wouldn’t you fight for the greatest achievement ever?
Author: Ray LewisWhen you see tears in my eyes, you see it’s not about the wins or the losses, It’s about the opportunity.
Author: Ray LewisWhen you think about Peyton Manning, you think about numbers. When you think about Tom Brady, you think about championships.
Author: Ray LewisThe more you know about your opponents, the more you learn how to beat them. Where the holes open to run through, blocking schemes, even down to player tendencies and what hand they like to carry the ball with.
Author: Ray LewisIn an era that’s run on free agency, everybody’s going where the dollars are. They go after the dollars and they forget that the game will always come down to brotherhood.
Author: Ray LewisI honor God that much in the way I play. That’s why I never believe in getting tired. I don’t even know what that word means.
Author: Ray LewisWith all the things I’ve been through, the No. 1 thing that I’ve learned is that we’re supposed to help people through this world.
Author: Ray LewisI just came out of the gym from three hours this morning. I got five hours of sleep. That’s it. Every day of my life, I’m trying to find a different way to get better.
Author: Ray LewisI love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him.
Author: Ray LewisWe’re in a tough place in this world. There are a lot of kids giving up very early. Scripture says it takes a village to raise one child, and that’s what these coaches are going to have to go back and understand.
Author: Ray LewisThere’s one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That’s the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is.
Author: Ray LewisAnd that’s my honour, that’s what my goal is, to always keep my mum’s name ringing, because I know what sacrifices she went through for me.
Author: Ray LewisI figured something out. And it is no secret what I figured out. Whatever the majority of people were doing, I found myself doing the opposite. I wanted to chase something great.
Author: Ray LewisWhat’s the difference between you and the man sitting beside you? It’s one percent. In my business, only one percent makes it. If everyone had the same dream, only 1 will make it from this crowd. Who will be that one?
Author: Ray LewisThere’s a spirit that grabs me, and it’s in every one of you guys, but the questions is, how much time are we wasting?
Author: Ray LewisDon’t walk through life just playing football. Don’t walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone’s life, that’s the ultimate vision, that’s the ultimate goal – bottom line.
Author: Ray LewisIf there’s something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God’s got to change it. Because if God’s got to change it, you ain’t going to like it.
Author: Ray LewisMan doesn’t dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have your faith in him. That’s where my faith lies.
Author: Ray LewisOne thing about God’s will, you can never see God’s will before it happens. You can only see at the end of it.
Author: Ray LewisIf you clean your body out so that it is not fighting against you, you rest better, think better and you’re always light on your feet.
Author: Ray LewisI wasn’t the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic.
Author: Ray LewisI fight for the man next to me. It don’t matter about me, what matters about me is sacrificing for you; for the ultimate goal which is us.
Author: Ray LewisBottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That’s how God designed it.
Author: Ray LewisYou gotta be hungry for it. You’ve got to put everything you got on it. EVERYTHING! Every second. You have to be the first one in line. That’s how leaders are born.
Author: Ray LewisI don’t want to be liked. I want to be respected. Because if you like me you can throw me away too quick. If you respect me, you may not even like what I was wearing, but you’ll say, I respect that.
Author: Ray Lewis