Curtis Martin
Curtis Martin
Curtis James Martin Jr.is a former American football running back who played in the National Football Leaguefor the New England Patriots and New York Jets over the span of 10 years. Martin began his professional career with the Patriots, who selected him in the third round of the 1995 NFL Draft. As a free agent in 1998, he joined the Jets where he finished his career in 2006 due to a career-ending knee injury. He retired having amassed the fourth...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth1 May 1973
CityPittsburgh, PA
fact game good hurt practice teams
What's good is the fact that you always know when you are doing something wrong. A lot of teams don't have referees and get away with a lot of things in practice that hurt them in the game because they weren't warned.
chip last losing
We had a little chip on our shoulder, losing the way we did last week.
chip last shoulder
We had a little chip on our shoulder after what we did last week.
emphasize responsibility waste words
Herm doesn't waste his words too much. It was necessary. To have him emphasize it and put the responsibility on us, I think was important.
chad pushing talk
I don't think you'll ever talk to Chad and he'll say that he's at his best, ... because he's always pushing it.
anyone beat embrace hard team work
I would embrace that fully. Anyone who comes in here, they're going to have to work very hard to beat me out, and if they do that's going to make this team better and I'm all for it.
game
One more game and we're probably out of it.
afraid believe challenges chance enjoys game learned meeting playing since taught team
I have never been afraid to take a chance on myself. Since I started playing this game I have been taught and learned that this game is a team game and there are a lot of things more important than money. I believe I have always been a person that enjoys meeting challenges head-first.
season together trying turn unit
We're trying to come together as a unit and turn this season around. It's getting late.
high stairs top
It's like 288 steps, and they are the steepest set of stairs you'll probably ever see in your life. You can't even see the top from the bottom. That's how high they are.
year
It's been very tough. This has been one of my more challenging if not my most challenging year physically.
certain decision envision future walk
No. Because a person makes a certain decision for their future, you can't walk in their shoes. You don't know what they're thinking, how they see their future or how they envision themselves.
ashamed capable exactly played
It's embarrassing. I think we are all ashamed of the way we played today. There are no excuses. I don't know exactly what happened. We just didn't play the way we are capable of playing.
anxious bad begun belief decision felt hard leadership left matter prepare quietly resolve season taste team ugly
I wanted to resolve the matter quietly and never felt like it had to become an ugly situation. This was not a hard decision because of the belief I have in the leadership of this team and my teammates, and that I have in myself. I have already begun to prepare for the 2006 season and am anxious to get the bad taste that the season left me with.