Charles Woodson Quotes

If you want to make a great wine that can stand the test of time, then you must put the time and the work into it.

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

When I started trying wine, I started drinking merlot, and that’s all I had. I would go to dinner, and I’d see people drinking wine, and if I ordered anything, it would just be a merlot.

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.

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

I’ve been through my fair share of injuries.

If you lose a game, you lose a game. You’ve got to deal with it.

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

I just continue to fall in love with the game.

To be honest, retirement has been good.

I was kind of wild. I enjoyed myself as a young man. I was moving 100 miles per hour – on and off the field.

It’s the only way you’re able to play as long as I have, is to go out there and perform.

When the time comes to retire, I think I’ll know. I really do.

The hot tub is my best friend.

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.

I don’t know how to be hurt.

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.

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

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.

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.

The wine business is intense. It’s not just bottle it and sell it. It’s really a process.

I never wanted to be that guy that acted like I wasn’t in the locker room and then all of a sudden I was an analyst. I played the game. I’ve been through the bumps and bruises, the politics. When I give an opinion, I want it to be real.

For the Raiders, I’m always going to be ready and willing to go there and talk to those players about whatever.

People don’t last long in this game. I feel blessed that I’ve been able to stick around and play at a high level for my entire career, which is another hard thing to do. That’s the only way you stick around – if you’re out there and you’re able to produce and make plays.

I’m a firm believer in that you’ve got to strike the iron when it’s hot.

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 don’t win games.

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.

Nobody can determine what your life means or how much your valued. You are your value.

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.

A lot of hard work goes into making a great wine. It requires that same type of dedication and discipline that goes into getting to the Super Bowl as an NFL player.

If a player hears me make a statement, I don’t want them to be able to deny it.

I’ve got that aggressive, winning attitude.

I’ve done a lot in this game.

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.

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.

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

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

I think when guys watch me play, I think that raises the level of other guys because of the way I play the game.

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.

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 think as long as you’re authentic, people will relate to that.

For both the wine business and in football, if you want longevity, you must work hard.

You could look at Tim Brown, you walk in the locker room and you knew you were going to get consistency with him as a person and as a player.

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

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.

There’s always going to be love between me and Green Bay.

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.

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

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