Ray Lewis
Ray Lewis
Raymond Anthony Lewis Jr.is a former American football linebacker who played his entire 17-year career for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League. He played college football for the University of Miami, and earned All-America honors. Drafted by the Ravens in the first round of the 1996, Lewis was the last active player from the team's inaugural season...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth15 May 1975
CityBartow, FL
CountryUnited States of America
The 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.
It'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.
I already believe I am the best linebacker in the game. Now, I have to show one more thing ? that I am the most dominating, influential person in the game and the best football player to ever put on a pair of cleats.
I've always said to the refs to not be the ones to decide the game. Let the players dictate the outcome.
My 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.
The scheme's got to fit your players. My thing is bashing running backs. That's what I want to get back to, just having fun and letting them deal with me. That's what the 46 package and the defense does.
Probably what Jonathan's seeing that I'm seeing, now that I'm older, is that I can read the guards, read the tackles, read the backfield, ... As a young guy, that's probably what he's looking at, more of my position, how I'm always in position to strike.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. It's a very easy method with us. We run the football very well, we play hard-nosed defense,
You can actually go play quarterback for them this week, and go hand the ball off to Curtis Martin,
Man, all the great ones do, so just go out and play.
We can't have a play like they had on the touchdown when we play the Colts. Rex and the coaches will fix that.
We can't have a play like they had on the touchdown when we play the Colts.
I've got Pacman, Galaga, Galaxian, Daytona 500. Those are the games I grew up playing.
So, if I give any credit, besides giving all credit to God, for being totally healthy, it's just my workout and how much torture I put my body through in the offseason.