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For all the evils in the world, I think apathy is one of the most dangerous.
— Chris Long
It's an accomplishment to play in the NFL.
— Chris Long
A mullet is something that takes time and effort.
— Chris Long
America's an awesome country, man. Everybody knows that.
— Chris Long
I think of myself as a complete person, not just a football player and athlete.
— Chris Long
Too often athletes think there's these norms that I have to fit into and there are people that I have to please.
— Chris Long
My dad was able to give me everything through football.
— Chris Long
Educational equity was my way of giving my salary. It's not $10 million or anything. I'm not going to act like I'm the first guy to donate $1 million to something, but it has been good.
— Chris Long
Michelle Obama has also done a lot of work in the scope of educational equity and being able to work with her on some of her initiatives has been awesome. I'm very honored.
— Chris Long
This is a wonderful country, and I think everyone agrees on that, but there are things in our country that can improve.
— Chris Long
Tom Brady blew me away. Who's the most famous athlete of our generation: Tom Brady? LeBron? Messi? Ronaldo? Serena Williams? Maybe I haven't been around enough to know how the biggest stars really act. But Brady is a normal guy.
— Chris Long
I love Philadelphia.
— Chris Long
Do I get irritated by the no-Pro Bowl thing, never making a Pro Bowl? Yeah, I do.
— Chris Long
The 25-year-old me would tell the 32-year-old me to take the two rings and go start the next chapter in life, but it's never simple when you still have gas left in the tank.
— Chris Long
Earlier in my career, I wanted to do a lot of things under the radar because I felt uncomfortable in engaging with the fans because then they're thinking, 'Well, you're doing it for publicity,' or whatever.
— Chris Long
I came to Philly not only because of the quality of the team and the organization, but also the fans, the passion - it's really palpable in that city.
— Chris Long
I think a lot of winning a Super Bowl is being at the right place at the right time. It's sacrifice, it's making team plays and being an impactful player is part of it.
— Chris Long
In my training in the summer, back in the day, I used just go, go, go! I wouldn't take any days off, I would do whatever I wanted, as much as I wanted of it.
— Chris Long
I want to squeeze every drop out of my potential as far as affecting the world around me.
— Chris Long
At 33 years old, I think any player my age should take time to take inventory and see what their situation is and see how the body feels.
— Chris Long
I'm open for whatever any team asks me to do.
— Chris Long
I'm always trying to play for respect. I don't play the game for much else.
— Chris Long
For Laura Ingraham to go after LeBron for speaking out politically is ridiculous.
— Chris Long
My first big paycheck - this is kind of funny - I bought a Cadillac DTS. I thought it looked really comfortable.
— Chris Long
I love charity. Ask anyone.
— Chris Long
When I grew up, I had everything you could ask for, and I kind of didn't appreciate it. Because it was a given for me. Everybody that grew up in my neighborhood was going to have an opportunity to go to college. I took that for granted. I always regret that.
— Chris Long
If we're saying there are incidents of oppression in this country, systematically or individually in this country, I don't think saying, 'Well, in country X, Y or Z it's 10 times worse' is making things any better. I think that may be true, but why can't we improve?
— Chris Long
I play in a league that's 70 percent black and my peers, guys I come to work with, guys I respect who are very socially aware and are intellectual guys, if they identify something that they think is worth putting their reputations on the line, creating controversy, I'm going to listen to those guys.
— Chris Long
My mother has been really instrumental in raising a lot of money through the Boys & Girls Club in my hometown.
— Chris Long
In New England, I learned so much about football. I always thought I was a smart player, even though I never thought about anything but the six inches in front of my face. In New England, I was forced to learn so many schematic concepts.
— Chris Long
Any football player will tell you that in July you get this dark cloud over you if you know camp's coming.
— Chris Long
The 24-hour news cycle is kind of insatiable. Players in the '80s and '90s didn't have to deal with that scrutiny.
— Chris Long
The older you get, it is harder to prepare physically, even if you have all the experience in the world. You're more sore the next day, you can't pack in as much, and you have to train smarter. You have to pay attention to more subtle things like your warmup routine or core work.
— Chris Long
Continuity is one of the hardest things to come by in the NFL.
— Chris Long
I've had to work and scratch and claw for every inch of what I've gotten as a football player.
— Chris Long
When I entered free agency, I said whatever team I end up on, I'm going to work.
— Chris Long
I've been through nine camps, and they're all a little bit different, but at the end of the day, it's just football.
— Chris Long
I think preparing every week like it's the most important game in the world makes things a little easier once you get in situations where a lot more people are watching and it might be a lot more important for people outside of the building.
— Chris Long
I do believe that clean water is the most efficient way to change the world.
— Chris Long
There was a time when I was injured and playing really bad and cut, rightfully so, that I wasn't sure what my future in football was.
— Chris Long
I've been compared to my dad my whole life. That pressure I've learned to deal with.
— Chris Long
It's unbelievable how far my career has taken me.
— Chris Long
I've been lucky, man. I've been very lucky for 10 years, made a lot of money playing a game, a kids' game.
— Chris Long
I've always believed there are inequities in our country.
— Chris Long
I don't think football is enough for me.
— Chris Long
And I respect the anthem. I would never kneel for it. We all come from different walks of life and think differently about the anthem and the flag and what that means.
— Chris Long
In my career playing football, nobody asked me to do as much as Bill Belichick did.
— Chris Long
I'm a rhythm player. I need to set people up, I need to be in the flow of the game.
— Chris Long
It's a team game, but at the end of the day, you gotta be happy, and you gotta enjoy playing football every day.
— Chris Long
I'm a big guy and I can't have any tiny tattoos.
— Chris Long
I think if you show a player an avenue to make a difference, he's going to bring that same intensity he brings on the field in his community.
— Chris Long
I like that outlaw crossover rock 'n' roll-country sound.
— Chris Long
Robert Quinn. He's ridiculous. He can do anything a DB can do... at three hundred pounds!
— Chris Long
I'm not somebody that's been a natural at anything.
— Chris Long
I look at the opportunity to play football as a blessing and I think what doesn't kill you certainly makes you stronger.
— Chris Long
Actually, I wanted to play baseball. Honestly, I just think with a kid developing, playing a lot of sports, it's just kind of whatever you're good at.
— Chris Long
At the end of the day, Coach Belichick does a great job of bringing in people he knows that will fit well.
— Chris Long
I am honored to be named the 2018 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year and to join the long line of men who have received this prestigious honor.
— Chris Long
The lead initiative of my foundation is clean water, but not far behind it is military appreciation.
— Chris Long
I do have great memories from when my pops got inducted. Obviously, knowing him and knowing how hard he worked in pro football for so long and what he sacrificed, the physical side of it, the injuries, and the grinding and now eight years into the NFL you know what hard work that is.
— Chris Long
I am incredibly thankful that football has provided me with a platform to give back and I am proud that so many of my colleagues have decided to use this stage to create positive and impactful change in our local communities and around the world.
— Chris Long
Some people are tired of hearing me tweet because they want me to stick to football but I like to use social media like I was a regular guy because I think I am.
— Chris Long
You'll learn that the most worthwhile exercises are preceded by this very human phenomenon, fear. Marriage, parenthood, relationships.
— Chris Long
I never mean to make a headline where it's like, 'Chris Long unsure.' I never try to make it sound like I'm under the impression it matters either way if I play or anybody cares.
— Chris Long
Football, for me, wasn't a foregone conclusion. My parents didn't force me into it, and quite the opposite happened.
— Chris Long
I was a Panthers fan growing up, being close to Carolina.
— Chris Long
I think a lot of times with football players, we're just head down, grinding away, maybe not enjoying it as much as we should.
— Chris Long
Even when I was being recruited here to the University of Virginia, a lot of people in my own community didn't think I was Division I football material because I played at a small private school.
— Chris Long
I'm very proud of my dad. To me, there are comparisons, but there aren't comparisons. We kind of play two different positions. He's a Hall of Famer, I'm not a Hall of Famer.
— Chris Long
I'm a bit biased with my love for Kyle Long. I would say he's the best bald guard in football.
— Chris Long
Baseball was always my favorite sport, and I thought it would be the sport I'd pursue for the long term. But I guess about my sophomore year in high school, I started really getting into football, and then it just took off from there.
— Chris Long
If teams focus on me, that will allow my teammates to make plays.
— Chris Long
I'm a worker. I'm a grinder.
— Chris Long
Wherever I go and whoever I go play for, I'm a football player. I enjoy playing football, I enjoy the game, I enjoy being a teammate.
— Chris Long
My wife and I have been passionate about education being a gateway for upward mobility and equality.
— Chris Long
I've heard a lot of people say you need white athletes to get involved in the anthem protests. I've said before I'll never kneel for an anthem, because the flag means something different for everybody in this country, but I support my peers.
— Chris Long
You may doubt the significance of your work, but work faithfully anyways.
— Chris Long
Playing eight years, never making the playoffs, you feel like you're running on a treadmill that's going nowhere. You're like, 'Is this it? Is this all football is?'
— Chris Long
It wasn't like I loved football from 12 on. It took time.
— Chris Long
One thing I take pride in is that I never cracked and stopped playing hard. There's something to be said for that, because life doesn't always throw the best situations at you.
— Chris Long
I wouldn't be anywhere close to where I am today without my pops. I think a lot of a football player's makeup is mental, and I've been blessed to have someone to learn from. Not just from a technical standpoint, but everything he taught me about being a hard worker, a teammate and just being a football player.
— Chris Long
I like having my dad around.
— Chris Long
I've noticed that right tackles have gotten better in pass pro throughout my career.
— Chris Long
There's no secret about it: Every team does things differently. Seattle runs their program one way. New England runs it another way. Philly runs it another way.
— Chris Long
The great thing is my dad was OK with whatever I wanted to do. He always supported me, and once I showed I was serious about football, that's when he really started to get involved and give me pointers.
— Chris Long
I just like playing ball.
— Chris Long
This is not supposed to be a fascist country, where you are forced to do things you don't want to do. This is a free country.
— Chris Long
Everyone fears change. But what you'll find is that change breeds your most important accomplishments.
— Chris Long
Before I was a champion, I failed, and I was afraid.
— Chris Long
If I never got cut, I wouldn't have the Super Bowl ring.
— Chris Long
I joke that every time I'm in the playoffs, it feels like I'm in the Super Bowl.
— Chris Long
There are always more people to prove wrong.
— Chris Long
I think the one commonality between the two Super Bowl teams I've been on is great, great teammates. I can honestly say that guys in Philly could definitely thrive in New England and vice versa - if you throw out the scheme differences.
— Chris Long
I don't know that I've gotten to the point where people know me more than my dad or that I ever will or even want to get to that point.
— Chris Long
I've dealt every day of my life with my dad's career, the comparisons to him, with people wanting me to live up to him. I just put that stuff out of my head, I don't even hear it after awhile - I just turn my ears off.
— Chris Long
My dad taught me to work hard and to be the same guy every day. If that's going 100 miles per hour and working hard, then that's what I'll do.
— Chris Long
Ties in the NFL absolutely suck. Trust me, I was involved with a tie against the San Francisco 49ers when I was with the Rams in 2012 and it felt pointless.
— Chris Long
I do respect a man who doesn't settle.
— Chris Long
I think that's just the way football is supposed to be played, at a high speed.
— Chris Long
My dad and I shared a lot of football memories.
— Chris Long
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