Terrell Owens
Terrell Owens
Terrell Eldorado Owensis an American football wide receiver who last played for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League. A six-time Pro Bowl selection, Owens holds or shares several National Football League records. His 15,934 career receiving yards rank second in NFL history, and his 153 receiving touchdowns are third...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth7 December 1973
CityAlexander City, AL
CountryUnited States of America
This is a dirty business, that is why I go out and play with my heart. I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports. This is like a nine to five. No guaranteed contracts, and that is the worst thing about it.
This is Gods world this is not the medias world.
Ill watch the highlights every now and then but, as far as watching the game, I feel like I am the game.
It doesnt matter what people say about me, I weather the storm.
But if you look at the big scheme of things, I have never failed, regardless of anything I have had to go through: from Dallas, to the sharpie, to me getting involved with a debate with my coach, a lot of people look to see my fail.
I have done a lot of things off the field but I feel like in my heart I dont really have to publicize what I do for people because it is from my heart.
Say I had been with a guy like Tom Brady, Peyton Manning or Drew Brees all of my career. Are you kidding me?
But [Sunday] as you saw, it was obviously [the media] took some more than initiative to try to get me to kind of go down the wrong path. I know the last two teams that I've been on, I felt like I left those teams prematurely due to media interviews that I've done and things kind of taken out of context and they created sort of a media whirlwind in the locker room and things kind of went downhill from there. I'm just trying to do the best job I can do as far as answering the questions and trying to be a better teammate and not try to throw people under the bus.
I think at some point during the course of the game, I will have an impact - whether it's blocking or whether it's catching the football.
People forget that I'm a human being, just because I play a sport that everybody loves. We're human. We're not invincible. We share the same feelings and emotions that people on the outside feel. I don't think people really understand that.
Off the field I'm down to earth. I'm a very caring person. I'm a very giving person.
Like my boy tells me; if it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, by golly, it is a rat.
It doesn't matter what people say about me, whether they're in Philly, or whether they're in San Francisco... all across the world.
It doesn't matter what any of my teammates have said about me.