Jim Kelly Quotes

My idol was Terry Bradshaw, but my role model was my father because I saw how much he worked and how much he focused on his trade. I was brought up the right way.

- Jim Kelly

Make a difference today for someone who's fighting for their tomorrow.

- Jim Kelly

Our president needs to focus on other countries - North Korea, Russia, and everything else that's going on everywhere else. I promote it; I like Donald Trump. I get sometimes what he says, and sometimes he needs to quit on Twitter. He needs to get off of it and focus on what's going on everywhere else instead of what's going on in the NFL.

- Jim Kelly

I don't worry anymore because there's only one person that knows when your day is, and that's the good Lord above.

- Jim Kelly

If tomorrow the good Lord decides that's my last day, then I'm not going to go down with a frown. I'm going down with a smile on my face, knowing that I've gotten everything out of life.

- Jim Kelly

When I decided to become a Christian and decided to change my life and just totally quit screwing up, it was like, 'Wow, why didn't I do this before?' No hiding anything. I just felt so much better, not only about myself, but my future, my family. It was awesome, and it didn't take me long to realize that.

- Jim Kelly

Anybody who has cancer, they take it one day at a time.

- Jim Kelly

The more I speak and travel, I realize I don't have it that bad. There are so many people that have it so much worse than I do.

- Jim Kelly

Never walk into a hospital crying. Have an attitude that you will make someone else's life better.

- Jim Kelly

I threw up before every single football game I played, and I did so up through my NFL career. It was good pressure. It was pressure to be good. It was pressure to be the best. It was pressure to want to win.

- Jim Kelly

I played football ever since I was a little boy. Coming from a family of six boys, I guess we learned the game of football from a very young age.

- Jim Kelly

I've been through so much. I just live each day, and whatever happens, happens. I've lived a very good life. My life has definitely changed, but the attitude is still the same.

- Jim Kelly

Where my cancer was, if it moves just a tiny bit... towards the area where there's no return, it stays, then there's no turning back.

- Jim Kelly

I just take it day by day, and I hope one day I can say I feel good - not just be cancer free, but just feel good. I'm just living every day to the fullest: I enjoy myself, I have fun, and I pray every day that it doesn't come back.

- Jim Kelly

Pain has been part of my life. I don't complain about much. When you grow up with six boys, you can't show your pain, and if you do, they'll give you another piece of pain.

- Jim Kelly

Number one is my faith, number two my family, number three is my friends, and number four, my fans.

- Jim Kelly

I started out real young as a tight end, but I was never getting the football. I knew when I played basketball, I loved to have control of the ball. When I played baseball, I was a pitcher. I always wanted to be the guy throwing the passes and making a difference, I guess.

- Jim Kelly

I've always been good at refocusing my attention away from something that was bringing me down.

- Jim Kelly