Richard Sherman
Richard Sherman
Richard Kevin Shermanis an American football cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League. He played college football at Stanford, both as a wide receiver and as a cornerback, and was drafted by the Seahawks in the fifth round of the 2011 NFL Draft...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth30 March 1988
CountryUnited States of America
people
People don't talk much about my punt returns.
cooler people
I've always been a square, a nerd. Kind of odd, kind of awkward. I still am to this day. People just think I'm a lot cooler 'cause I play football.
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A lot of people are like, 'Don't read your news clippings.' I read them every day. Anything negative somebody said about me, I find it and use it as fuel.
bad few people quite
There may be a lot of people out there who don't like me who don't even know me. But there are quite a few people who like me because they know me. I'm not a bad guy by any means. I can't do anything about people hating me for no reason.
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I don't think college athletes are given enough time to really take advantage of the free education that they're given, and it's frustrating because a lot of people get upset with student-athletes and say, 'They're not focused on school and they're not taking advantage of the opportunity they're given.'
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But people find it easy to take shots on Twitter, and to use racial slurs and bullying language far worse than what you'll see from me. It's sad and somewhat unbelievable to me that the world is still this way, but it is. I can handle it.
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A lot of people have been asking whether I would ever go into politics. I'm not sure I would.
kissing giving people
I don't care about people kissing my ass or telling me how great I am. I don't really give a damn. I read the bad stuff a whole lot more than I read the good stuff. I read that because there are always going to be critics who are going to say how good you aren't.
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I was on Memorial Bridge heading home when I saw the black smoke pouring out from the trees. I called 911 and headed toward the house. I thought a house was on fire. It was pure black.
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Sign language was a great experience. I have a deaf aunt that I am able to communicate with because of that class.
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The playoffs, everybody gets a little frustrated. You lose, your season's over.
fit painted
To be painted a villain, you have to do something, I guess, evil or something heinous, and I don't know if I fit that description.
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You can know a person is a good person or a bad person by who they are, not by what they look like.
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To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field - don't judge a person's character by what they do between the lines. Judge a man by what he does off the field, what he does for his community, what he does for his family.