A lot of people expect to see the same type of character that they see on the field off the field, and that throws them for a loop.
A lot of people think I'm stuck up. Pretty much that I'm arrogant. I only do that when I'm on the field.
All I can tell everybody is, I'm the same guy, just on a different team.
All that matters to me now is my family.
As you get to know me, you kind of figure me out, that I'm not as probably as bad of a guy that I've been reported to be. I'm not that jerk.
But I know in my heart what I'm doing is right.
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.
Everybody is not going to be squeaky clean.
Everything that I have done that the media sees as an obstacle, I have over come it.
For whatever reason, God has a plan for me.
God blessed me to play football.
God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.
Growing up as a little kid, I wasn't always this size. I got picked on a lot.
I am sure I lost out on a few million or more in money but I am happy with the team that I am on and the quarterback that I am with.
I am the Terrell off the field who is laid back and this is me.
I don't have to play football.
I don't have to play for the Eagles.
I don't need the recognition and I did not expect it.
I feel like football players are overworked and underpaid compared to any other sports.
I feel like I know it is from my heart and God knows it is for a good cause, it is not necessary to be made public.
I feel like I'm a basketball player in a football uniform.
I feel like it was a little disrespectful but you know what I feel like, I have been successful, blessed and I keep my faith in God, man, and I just keep it moving.
I feel now I can take my talent through the roof.
I had my family before I played football.
I have donated money to the kids overseas, the open hand project and the homeless.
I have done a lot of things off the field but I feel like in my heart I don't really have to publicize what I do for people because it is from my heart.
I just feel like with God you can't be defeated.
I knew I was going to have success here.
I left a lot - a lot - of touchdowns on the field throughout the last two or three years.
I may not say it all the time or I may not pray as much as I need to, but I am not forgetting where I came from and how I got to be where I am today.
I never had any run in with the law.
I think there is something bigger in store for me.
I wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to achieve that.
I would not have gone to Philly if I really did not have my free agency right, if I did not have a case, period.
I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.
I'll watch the highlights every now and then but, as far as watching the game, I feel like I am the game.
I'm going to have my family after I play football.
I've only been on one vacation ever. I just went to Acapulco before training camp.
It doesn't matter what any of my teammates have said about me.
It doesn't matter what people say about me, I weather the storm.
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.
Like I always said, if I'm one of the top players in the game, pay me like I'm one of the top players in the game.
Like my boy tells me; if it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, by golly, it is a rat.
Off the field I'm down to earth. I'm a very caring person. I'm a very giving person.
Right is right and wrong is wrong.
That goes with the saying that you call on God a lot of times and you pray for things and it may not happen at that moment.
The only people that really matter are the people that are in my inner circle.
There has to be a beginning somewhere and my thing is that I am going to give it all I got.
This is a dirty business, that is why I go out and play with my heart.
This is God's world this is not the media's world.
We just got to take it one game at a time.
What you see on the field is my job.
When I go out there and play I just play.
You have not seen my face go across the screen for any off the field problems, period.
You should know how to do your job.
Terrell Owens caught 5 catches for 45 yards and 3 TD's on October 15, 2006 against the Houston Texans.
On November 17, 2003, the 49ers hosted the Pittsburgh Steelers in a Monday night game, and Owens wore a wristband with the words "The Answer" emblazoned on it. Just over eight minutes into the game, he caught a 61-yard touchdown pass from Tim Rattay (who was starting at quarterback because Jeff Garcia was injured), and excitedly pointed to the wristband after reaching the end zone to draw attention to it. After the game (won by San Francisco 30-14), Owens was asked by a sideline reporter the significance of the slogan on the wristband, and he replied: "Because I am The Answer."
After scoring a touchdown, thrown from Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb during a game against the Cleveland Browns, Owens ran through the end zone to tear down hand-made signs, made by Browns fans, that criticized him and the Eagles.
On December 15 2002, Owens celebrated a touchdown with a cheerleaders pom-pom.
On September 24 of 2000, Terrell Owens made a controversial celebration on the Dallas Cowboys star.
In Only 14 games in 2002, Owens had 100 catches.
Terrell Owens Played for the Philadelphia Eagels from 2004-2005.
Terrell Owens has a new book called T.O.
Terrell Owens:"Just ask yourself self would the Eagles have gone 0-2 last year if they had T.O.?"
In only 7 games during the 2005 season he had 763 yards.
Has had seven 1,000 yard seasons, including five consecutive (2000-2004)
He led the League in receiving touchdowns for two consecutive seasons.
Played for the San Fransicso 49ers from 1996-2003
Terrell Owens:"You can hate me all you want to, but you can't stop me."
Terrell Owens:"Yes, I am a narcissist. The best, too."
Led his team to the Superbowl in 2004.
Owens biography,"Catch This," was on the NY Times "Best Seller" list in 2004.
Owens won the celebrity slam-dunk competition at the 2000 NBA All-Star Game.
Basketball is one of Terrell's favorite sports.
He was drafted in the 1996 NFL draft to the San Fransicsco 49ers.
Terrell Owens had a huge birthday party.
Appeared in a skit for Monday Night Football with Nicollete Sheridan ("Desperate Housewives") in 2004.
Earned First Team All-Southern Conference as a senior.
Holds the Record for most catches in a game(20 vs. Chicago, 12/17/00)
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