Quotes By Terry Bradshaw

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

For an athlete, there's no time off... until it's over.

There's a company that wants to put hair on me! I don't know if it's plugs, I'm sure it is. I laughed and said, 'You gotta be kidding.'

I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.

People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes.

I don't like confrontation.

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.

As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's something about winning a Super Bowl.

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

I was not used to criticism.

If you play in the NFL and start for 10 years, it's not good. It is not good.

I really don't care that I'm ranked.

I'm on national TV in front of millions and I hate making mistakes.

You find out in life that people really like you funny. So what do you give 'em? Humor. And then if you show them the other side, they don't like you as much. I find, too, that I can hide behind the idiot's mask being funny, and you never see the sorrow or the pain.

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.

Why would anyone want to read what I have to say?

Bad attitudes will ruin your team.

I'm always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed.

Depression is a physical illness.

I could not bounce back from my divorce - emotionally - I just could not bounce back.

I got a family I got to answer to. I got kids... my older parents and my preachers and everybody.

I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.

Bottom line is, if you turn the ball over to a team that isn't as good, you then have brought them up to your level.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

People ask me all the time would I like to still be playing? No. I'm glad I played when I played.

I didn't respond well to a firm hand and insults.

I'm taking memory power boost tablets to help me every day and doing the puzzles to help me stay focused.

You can't have 'yes' people around you.

Any team can win.

I'm against people reading statements. When you read statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.