Jamal Lewis Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

A team is a team.

As far as a guy like Ray Lewis is concerned, you know he's going to be around the ball all the time.

As long as I am staying north and south, I'm gaining ground, I'm moving out of the way.

As long as I can stay north or south, I'm gaining yards.

Coming out of high school, Florida State recruited me as a fullback, a lot of schools wanted me as a fullback, but I knew I could be a great tailback.

I also wanted to play with Peyton Manning because I thought he could teach me a lot, and he did.

I chose Tennessee because I thought they'd give me an opportunity to play.

I don't watch that much football... I really like to play it.

I feel like I have the advantage of size, speed, and being a little shifty at times.

I have a target on my back right now because of the rushing record and because of my accomplishments and what I've done.

I hope we can build our offense and go out there and win games.

I like to hit it downhill, that's the way I was taught to run.

I never did have a team that I watched in my younger days.

I really liked watching Bo Jackson run just because of his size and his speed.

I really thought that I had actually outgrown the college level. I was a 240-pound running back, had good speed, I knew what I could do on the next level.

I think that playing with them every day, Shaun Ellis and Thompson are going to be really great defensive guys.

I think that's why Baltimore picked me, to come in and to try to help out on offense and that's what I intend to do.

If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening.

Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday.

That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.

Watching Bo Jackson, seeing his size, his speed, a lot of his abilities, really drove me.

When your name is out there like that, guys are going to want to see what you're about.

You've had Junior Seau in his younger days, a Lawrence Taylor, a Mike Singletary, you knew you had to go and play against those kind of guys.