Ray Lewis Quotes

Don't walk through life just playing football. Don't walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone's life, that's the ultimate vision, that's the ultimate goal - bottom line.

- Ray Lewis

Life is about being a versatile athlete and training in all realms of life.

- Ray Lewis

Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies.

- Ray Lewis

You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're just looking at me with a football uniform on. That's a totally different person. That's my job, that's it.

- Ray Lewis

Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That's how God designed it.

- Ray Lewis

I don't train for football; I train more for a lifestyle.

- Ray Lewis

Some people take certain things and they try to forget what that pain felt like. I don't. I take that same pain and I chase it every time I walk in a weight room.

- Ray Lewis

I've got Pacman, Galaga, Galaxian, Daytona 500. Those are the games I grew up playing.

- Ray Lewis

There's nothing I'm doing to my body that a regular person is not doing to theirs outside of just running into somebody at full speed.

- Ray Lewis

You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91.

- Ray Lewis

No matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it.

- Ray Lewis

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.

- Ray Lewis

Because a football game is just sixty minutes, but I'm training six, seven hours in every day. So, going for sixty minutes becomes easy. More importantly, I think that your muscles mature and can move in all different directions.

- Ray Lewis

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

- Ray Lewis

Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.

- Ray Lewis

You have to be honest about who you are.

- Ray Lewis

I love watching the Serengeti, the way lions live. The only way the king lion loses his crown is by somebody physically defeating him.

- Ray Lewis

With all the things I've been through, the No. 1 thing that I've learned is that we're supposed to help people through this world.

- Ray Lewis

There's one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That's the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is.

- Ray Lewis

One thing about God's will, you can never see God's will before it happens. You can only see at the end of it.

- Ray Lewis

When I step on the field, it's on. I know it's time to go to work.

- Ray Lewis

I like to see honesty out of people. People who are trustworthy. I like to see people who are involved with The Lord.

- Ray Lewis

I don't believe a thing about a curse. I don't understand how we can talk about a curse. You have to remember, God is blessed and man can't curse, no matter how hard they try.

- Ray Lewis

If you clean your body out so that it is not fighting against you, you rest better, think better and you're always light on your feet.

- Ray Lewis

I don't care where we're going; I'm gonna wear a suit all day, every day.

- Ray Lewis

Even Rod Woodson will tell you his best year he had as a professional was when he was 36 years old. If you think about why, you're much wiser.

- Ray Lewis

You got to be willing to walk in a storm. That's what I tell people all the time.

- Ray Lewis

And that's my honour, that's what my goal is, to always keep my mum's name ringing, because I know what sacrifices she went through for me.

- Ray Lewis

You have to be careful of people who like to talk a big game but can't back it up.

- Ray Lewis

I'm a prideful person when it comes to competition.

- Ray Lewis

I honor God that much in the way I play. That's why I never believe in getting tired. I don't even know what that word means.

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If there's something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God's got to change it. Because if God's got to change it, you ain't going to like it.

- Ray Lewis

Whatever your path is, that's your path.

- Ray Lewis

God has never made a mistake. Ever.

- Ray Lewis