Latest Ray Lewis Quotes from Interviews

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• You never judge a person if they're going through their downs because you always stick with them when they're going through their ups. If you stay in football business long enough, you're going to have some bad games and you're going to have some bad seasons.

  Ray Lewis

  Football, Judging, Long

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• When you try to help people become a better person, you're going to have to find out what's really going in their world.

  Ray Lewis

  People, Trying, World

  "Ray Lewis Exclusive: On His New Show and How He Hopes It Will Improve Lives". Interview with Alessandro Miglio, bleacherreport.com.

• I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected. Because if you like me you can throw me away too quick. If you respect me, you may not even like what I was wearing, but you'll say, "I respect that."

  Ray Lewis

  May, Want, Respect Me

  "Ray Lewis Exclusive: On His New Show and How He Hopes It Will Improve Lives". Interview with Alessandro Miglio, bleacherreport.com. January 30, 2015.

• No coach who is coaching kids should ever curse a kid.

  Ray Lewis

  Kids, Coaching, Should

  "Ray Lewis Exclusive: On His New Show and How He Hopes It Will Improve Lives". Interview with Alessandro Miglio, bleacherreport.com. January 30, 2015.

• I love passion. I love for a coach to be passionate.

  Ray Lewis

  Passion, Passionate, Love Passion

  "Ray Lewis Exclusive: On His New Show and How He Hopes It Will Improve Lives". Interview with Alessandro Miglio, bleacherreport.com. January 30, 2015.

• I've always said to the refs to not be the ones to decide the game. Let the players dictate the outcome.

  Ray Lewis

  Player, Games, Outcomes

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

• It's poetry to watch the game when the game is left alone, when there's not a bunch of flags on the ground.

  Ray Lewis

  Games, Watches, Flags

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

• The refs are so confused themselves because there's so many rules. It's like, 'Oh my gosh I've never seen this many rules in my life.' And everybody's trying to govern this and justify that.

  Ray Lewis

  Confused, Trying, Refs

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

• In an era that's run on free agency, everybody's going where the dollars are. They go after the dollars and they forget that the game will always come down to brotherhood.

  Ray Lewis

  Running, Agency, Games

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

• Watching the season for me is about watching the chess matches.

  Ray Lewis

  Chess, Chess Match, Seasons

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

• Who knows what the future holds? It's all on parenting, one way or another. I don't care what level it is, it comes back to people learning how to deal with people.

  Ray Lewis

  People, Levels, Care

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

• Regardless of how well you can be offensively, if you have a great defense, you can deal with any offense.

  Ray Lewis

  Defense, Deals, Wells

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

• I like college football a lot, because it's the dream that you're chasing. The dream of one day possibly making it, with the harsh reality that only one percent make it.

  Ray Lewis

  Football, Dream, Reality

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

• I have so much respect for people that are my elders. You aren't going to hear me cursing around people that are 60 and 70 years old.

  Ray Lewis

  Years, People, Cursing

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

• If you want to get something done, there is always an alternate route other than cursing somebody and belittling them. There's always an alternate route. If you want to get any message across. Everybody has an opinion, and everybody has their own way of doing things, but the bottom line is that when you affect someone else, you should pay closer attention to how you treat people.

  Ray Lewis

  People, Attention, Done

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

• Parents may be always working, parents may be in and out. When you're dropping them off with coaches, the first thing kids should be coming back and saying is, 'Mom, guess what I learned today? Guess what coach taught me today?'

  Ray Lewis

  Mom, Kids, Working Parents

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

• We're in a tough place in this world. There are a lot of kids giving up very early. Scripture says it takes a village to raise one child, and that's what these coaches are going to have to go back and understand.

  Ray Lewis

  Children, Giving Up, Kids

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

• Parents needs to spend more time with who they're trusting their kids with. That's one of the nuggets going forward. Find out who these coaches are. Figure out their environment and what kind of problems they have, and see if you want your child involved with that.

  Ray Lewis

  Children, Kids, Parent

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

• It's a bad place when you see sometimes how coaches treat people. I don't even want to say players. I want to say people. They're people before they become a player.

  Ray Lewis

  Player, People, Want

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

• Somebody has to give a wakeup call to our coaching world to ask them real questions and show them that if you have kids, then you know there is no way you can talk to somebody else like that, because that's somebody's child.

  Ray Lewis

  Children, Real, Kids

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

• One of the things I've always said is that if you're given the ability to coach kids, then you're really given the ability to be a father or parent of some sort.

  Ray Lewis

  Father, Kids, Parent

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

• Some of these kids are spending more time with the coaches than they are with their parents. The coach is supposed to be raising these kids, not belittling them and talking to them like the world is coming to an end.

  Ray Lewis

  Kids, Talking, Parent

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

• Coaching is something I've been a part of my entire life. One of the things I've always been very passionate.

  Ray Lewis

  Coaching, Passionate

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

• I've always had a problem with the things that people would say out of their mouths to other people. I've always had a problem with that, because a lot of people, they don't have enough information to speak to people a certain way or speak about people a certain way.

  Ray Lewis

  People, Mouths, Information

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

• I don't train for sports. I've never trained for sports. I train for life, and sport is just a part of that. So when I start training, that's lifestyle training and that's why I go through so many things, whether it's yoga, kickboxing, wrestling or swimming.

  Ray Lewis

  Sports, Yoga, Wrestling

  Twinlab Interview, www.facebook.com. May 16, 2011.