Top 55 Bobby Wagner Quotes

You know, when you look at it, a lot of the time you have guys that have one or two good years – you know, really, really special years – but then they don’t do anything after that. But, like, to be at the top of the game year in and year out consistently has really always been the goal.

When you’re around somebody for a long period of time, they know you and you know them. So, there’s a lot of nonverbal communication that happens.

Well, there’s one guy, when he runs the ball his head‘s really, really still – doesn’t move whatsoever but then when it’s a pass he’s always, like how he’s looking is like his head is almost going back and forth and back and forth because he needs to know who to block.

When I started to go out there and listen to different startups or different CEOs talk about how you build this company from a two-person team to a team of 500, I really just stepped back and was like, ‘Well, it’s not necessarily a business, but football has a lot of similarities to that.’

I heard I wasn’t a good linebacker, I was too small and all that other stuff.

You just get into a routine and you allow that routine to become consistent. So if your routine off the field becomes consistent, then your play on the field will become consistent.

As a team you have to figure out what you want to do and who do you want to pay and that comes from the guys upstairs.

Honestly, I pride myself on finding a great routine and I feel like I’ve got a great routine down – from the way I eat to the way I prepare to the way I approach the game.

A lot of companies feel like they have to go down to the Bay Area to get the money that they need to build their business, and we don’t believe that’s true.

Every game is different. Every week is different.

Is Adele embarrassing? I think she‘s dope.

Saying, ‘I’ll find the answer for you,’ opens the door for people to still come to me with questions. Even if I don’t have an immediate answer, I build trust by finding the answer.

If you are saving lives, I am willing to help.

I think that the consistency on being great and a top player, you know, it’s always been the goal because it’s not too many people that can sustain greatness for a long time.

That’s how my mom was. She did that. She went out of her way to say hi to people or to speak to people. She was a people person.

It’s an honor to support the Black College Football Hall of Fame and HBCU Legacy Bowl in their efforts to provide more opportunities for students attending historically black colleges and universities.

There is a lot of things happening that are bigger than football.

You can follow your passion and your play doesn’t have to fall off.

Back when my mom passed, I thought about quitting football. I didn’t want to play no more. So for me to be in this position on my third contract, something that statistically nobody gets to do, I’m grateful.

Rookie year you get out there and want to make as many plays as possible, then second year you want to be perfect, and then you kind of find a combination between the two – making a lot of plays and trying to be as perfect as possible.

I really kind of hate the idea that players have to solely focus on their sport.

I want people to understand how money works and how people invest.

Utah State stayed with me, so I stayed loyal to the people loyal to me.

I’m really good at basketball.

Yeah, I’ve gotten to know the many sides of Richard Sherman as the years have passed. There’s a lot going on with that guy.

You’re never happy with not being the best.

We should take the time to learn and understand how to make the money work for us versus working for the money, and do your due diligence and understand what it is that you’re investing in.

All the knowledge that I get, all the access that I get, I try to pass that down. And not open a door, and close it behind me. But open a door and see how many people behind me that I can pull in with me, and start showing the value of diversity, the value of having that different perspective than yours.

My goal is to really be a dominant player in this league and have nobody question that. That’s what I strive for.

I’m blessed and there’s nothing that anybody can say to me that’s going to take that away from me.

I want to wake up in a Bugatti.

I don’t really want acknowledgement or want people to pat me on the back or whatever. I just want to help the people I feel like I can help and if there’s an opportunity where I feel like I can help, I do it.

I appreciate my teammates.

I always try to be a consistent player.

I really want to stand out as a middle linebacker.

I’m a professional.

I know my value. Nobody has to tell me my value. I know my value, so no team, no person, no agent, can tell me my value, and I believe in myself.

At the end of the day, me representing myself shouldn’t be a big deal.

To be in a position to help my family out and change the trajectory of the Wagner family it’s a pretty dope feeling.

I think you have to have an environment where people want to come and work, feel they’re appreciated and are aligned on the same path or same goal. And then they have got to believe in the leader.

My mom taught me, ‘There are a lot of doubters out there.’ It doesn’t matter what everybody else thinks.

Anybody who wears slippers everywhere he goes can’t be that intense.

You watch guys like Ray Lewis, you watch guys like Brian Urlacher, everything they accomplished was dope. But it was cool to see them do it for one team, one city and really cement their legacy where they were at.

I feel like I was always good at the run.

I feel like I’m a very simple man.

A lot of Utah State when I was there, there was a lot of California guys. So, you get a lot of Cali music, you got a lot of dance music, I think the Jerk was popular back then. It was a lot of the music that you can dance to with your teammates. A lot of hip-hop, rap, R&B, it was really fun. It was live in there.

It’s from the heart. I don’t really care if people see that I do it or notice that I do it or even recognize that it’s me doing it. I just do it because I feel like there’s a lot of people out there that need a hand, and I try to lend a hand.

Some guys when they’re catching the ball they’ll tighten their gloves. The O-linemen have heavy stances in run verses pass is super light. There’s all types of things that you can find on film that can give you an edge.

When I was a rookie, I was kind of just flying, trying to make plays.

You can’t come in and value your company at $10 billion if you don’t have any sales, or you don’t have anything to justify why your company is worth that much.

Coach Clune has been a great person to me, he taught me a lot, linebacker-wise.

I do feel like the quarterback of the defense is pretty important, so not having that piece would put a damper on the defense.

I pride myself on taking care of my body. I make some sacrifices. I might not go out as much as everybody else or I might not… I don’t drink.

I’ve always been interested in trying to help people in anyway possible.

If you don’t have a defense this league don’t exist. So I feel like defensive players do need to kind of stand their ground to kind of show that we are just as important. You see all the offensive guys getting paid and we are just as important.