Marquise Goodwin Quotes:
A lot of people don’t even know that about me, I grew up without a father.
Marquise Goodwin
A lot of people think track, you just run, that’s all you do. No. There’s a lot of technical aspects to it as well. A sprinter is not just going to get out of the blocks and start running. You do that, you’re going to get embarrassed every time.
Marquise Goodwin
A lot of sprinters aren’t football players. I’m a football player. That’s the difference between me and a sprinter. My knowledge of the game. I’m totally different than any other track guy.
Marquise Goodwin
All I can focus on is what I can control and that’s being happy. My own happiness.
Marquise Goodwin
As long as I have the respect and understanding of my teammates, that’s all that matters.
Marquise Goodwin
At the end of the day, all I can focus on is doing what I need to do, as a player, to help the team win.
Marquise Goodwin
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Dealing with injuries each year, it’s kind of like a given that it’ll happen. You’ve just got to push through it.
Marquise Goodwin
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Football has set me up to provide for my family, it has allowed me a better opportunity to do things in my life that track may have not.
Marquise Goodwin
I always dreamed of doing this, being able to do track and field and the NFL at the same time.
Marquise Goodwin
I always knew one day fatherhood would be great, I just didn’t think it would be this great.
Marquise Goodwin
I can’t dwell on something that has nothing to do with football at all – it will hold me back.
Marquise Goodwin
I chose to leave my wife at the hospital after prematurely birthing our first baby due to incompetent cervix, which resulted in a fatality, to play in a football game. I felt like I had to prove to my coaches and new team that I was dedicated to winning and I wouldn’t let anything keep me from that goal, not even my family.
Marquise Goodwin
I don’t compare myself with anybody.
Marquise Goodwin
I don’t think anybody in any sport ever sucks. You’re an athlete. You’re a professional.
Marquise Goodwin
I don’t want to bring my personal issues to the field during game time. I don’t want to take focus from anybody else.
Marquise Goodwin
I don’t want to get too much on the football side and gain weight, so I’m as fast on the field.
Marquise Goodwin
I get to see my baby’s development. I get to change diapers, I get to be a real father, something that I didn’t have growing up.
Marquise Goodwin
I graduated with a double degree, I speak well, I play two sports at an elite level, I volunteer, I do things the right way – I even got down on my knee to ask my wife to marry me! – and I can’t get sponsored? It confuses the hell out of me.
Marquise Goodwin
I have a lot of things going for me, I try to be a well-rounded role model.
Marquise Goodwin
I have definitely got more than a few pieces of cheetah in my wardrobe.
Marquise Goodwin
I have the track label on me. I’m the track guy. So I have to go above and beyond the expectations of what other people will limit their bodies to.
Marquise Goodwin
I haven’t quite mapped it out yet, but working out and training is my lifestyle.
Marquise Goodwin
I just believe in helping other people.
Marquise Goodwin
I led the world the whole year until the trials. I was in Birmingham, U.K. Broke the meet record, had the meet won already, beat the 2012 Olympic champion in long jump that day. It was a big moment. On the last jump, I blew it. Blew my hamstring.
Marquise Goodwin
I like track and field for the simple reason that I determine my own outcome. I don’t rely on my coach or the president or the CEO making a decision. I’m kind of like the CEO of my own corporation.
Marquise Goodwin
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