198 Quotes by LaDainian Tomlinson

It was devastating, to be honest with you. I was a young player and didn't understand a lot about the business. I knew that he was a heck of a player and had many more years left. Of course as a young player you wonder why. Talking to him, he knew the business of it. He made me understand that it's a business first. After a while, I kind of got it.

People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.

You earn the respect of your peers that you play against, and they don't trash talk you.

It is what it is, ... I just try to do what I'm able to do whenever I'm called. I can't go over there and try to holler at everybody, tell them, 'Give me the ball.' You know that's not me.

People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.

It's tough to even think of Drew not being here. I guess my mind hasn't really grasped that possibility.

Sometimes when you're praised about something, sometimes it's deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved. Same thing with criticism. Sometimes the criticism is deserved, and sometimes it's not deserved.

I don't have to go to the weight room. I don't have to go work out if I don't want to.

It's not so much a disappointment, ... I've had a great run at it.