Greg Olsen Quotes

I’m not usually a beard guy.

There’s a lot that goes into being able to play every game and every practice and take every rep. Every year it gets a little bit harder, but I also enjoy that challenge.

We don’t live our life on panic.

In 2012, I had a son born with very severe congenital heart defect that was life-threatening and required him to go through a series of open-heart surgeries, as young as two days old, and subsequent other procedures.

We’ve learned a lot about ourselves as a family about perseverance and continuing to be mentally strong and continue to take the good with the bad and wake up the next day and do it all over again.

Both productivity and all things considered, there’s nobody that’s been more productive or more consistent than I have. And I’ll stand on that until the cows come home.

Guys every year across the league look for new contracts. That’s just the business in the NFL.

Don’t dive into the weeds of mock drafts and rumors, because that’s all that they are. They’re just rumors.

I actually played in Chicago with DK Metcalf’s father.

The thing about the NFL is nobody cares. Nobody feels bad for you. Nobody feels sorry for you… They don’t care if you’re hurt. They don’t care if you don’t feel good. You have a bad call. Play goes against you? No one cares. You’ve got to play. You’ve got to win.

I think I’ve shown that I can get up the middle, create some separation, and catch the ball.

If I can stay healthy, I know what I’m able to do.

You’ve got to sustain drives in this league.

My family obviously takes up a lot of my time and that’s by choice.

I’ve had a few bad plays, but who hasn’t?

We can’t make or break our whole season on the first game.

I never want to see active or retired players ever struggle. The basic human being in me wants to see guys leave the game as healthy as possible.

Sometimes when you struggle as a team, everyone starts to look to the future.

I feel like if you start taking a lot of days off, you start taking breaks from training, you start taking breaks because you use the ‘I’m getting old’ excuse, that’s the fastest way to a decline.

From the strength involved, the jumping, to body positioning and control, there are similarities. Playing basketball at a pretty good high school level, in a state where there were strong programs, definitely helped make me a better tight end.

I would argue there’s not a lot of guys that has to do more than just catch the ball like me.

Every year, you try to evolve a little bit. You try to introduce new elements to your offense.

I think there’s no greater impact on a young kid’s life than high school sports.

I don’t mind being with a bunch of chicks. I’m around boys non-stop. I’m totally cool having a break from dudes.

With my size and receiving skills, I would hope I could cause some matchup problems for defenses, and that some team sees that.

It’s hard to run the ball with 8-9 guys in the box.

It takes two sides to put things together.

With digital and podcasting and the amount of radio outlets – traditional stations but with satellite radio – there’s a billion ways to get your voice out.

If you ask every team, they want to win every game, obviously.

Personally, I really approach every year the same way. I take my offseason training seriously.

Typically in training camp, especially as I’ve gotten older, we were always very selective with the plays. If it was a pass or a look I needed to get in the run game or pass protection, I was always in there to get it.

Workouts are a little different when you’re 31 versus 21.

I probably have the longest pre-game warm-up in the NFL – it’s actually gotten longer over the years.

I think you get a lot of life experiences and they all get dumped in a locker room and they say ‘Hey, spend 10 months a year with each other.’ That’s a great example that just because you have different backgrounds and you may be staunchly on the other side on different issues, it doesn’t mean that you can’t cohabitate.

There are certain memories and specific days that you can never get out of your head no matter how hard you try. I’m talking about everything, including the feelings you had at the time.

I try to be pretty in tune with my body. If you play this game long enough, you’re going to wake up and one day your knee is going to hurt or your back is going to hurt.

Be durable. Play every game. That’s a lot that goes into that.

I wear a composite non-stick glove.

There are a lot of issues where I feel I have room to learn more about and possibly as a result have a change in opinion.

I’ve had some good games and some not so good games, hopefully all the fans remember the good ones.

I just love information.

For anyone who knows me, I’m usually relatively cleanshaven most times.

I could turn Russell Westbrook into an All-Pro free safety.

In the football world, we throw around words like ‘sacrifice,’ ‘hard work’ and ‘hero.’

I’ve always been a stroller guy. I love pushing them.

For as much fun as I have out there with my teammates, nothing will ever compare to the joy I get from running around and laughing with my kids.

Obviously, ESPN, that Monday Night gig is a big deal. You don’t just easily dismiss that.

In the offseason the priority is for us to get healthy, to best try to optimize our physical qualities, get faster, stronger – make sure our body is prepared for this long run and in a good place to try to prevent injuries.

I think you don’t take things for granted. You don’t think you’re going to just show up, because you’ve won in the past, thinking that all of a sudden that means that it’s going to happen again.

Being told that your child will be born with HLHS is absolutely heartbreaking.

My body type and physique has allowed me to be pretty dynamic and allowed me to do multiple things, both in the run game and the pass game.

Be productive, but be productive consistently.

It’s a brutal game. It requires a certain type of person to play it. Once you make the decision to play it, that’s your decision. I know what I signed up for. It allows me to provide for my family.

For a young kid to be expected at 15, 16, 17 years old to know what to do – it’s hard. It’s a tough ask.

The reality of going to the Super Bowl was beyond words, as was the disappointment of falling short.

Our main efforts for our foundation is our HEARTest Yard program that we run here in Charlotte at Levine Children’s Hospital.

We have an amazing family and our kids and just so much to look forward to for our life. You just don’t want to ever take that for granted because we found out pretty fast that it’s pretty fragile.

I want the Carolina Panthers to be successful.

Player safety’s important.

I think everybody thinks I’m a little crazy.

I played a lot of games with this body, so I’ll take it.

Everyone always thinks the grass is greener. That’s sports.

At the end of the day, no one has won more games than Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks to start a guy’s career, right. So success there has also made them a little, you know, it’s almost spoiled them a little bit.

The hardest thing about winning is to continue to win, and I think human instinct says ‘OK, I’ve done this before. I got it, let’s just keep doing what we’re doing.’

The city of Charlotte has become our family and this forever will be home.

That’s not my position to compare myself to other guys. I look at it as can I be productive, can I get the job done?

I think we’ve learned in our society that people are scared sometimes of something that’s different.

During the offseason, when you don’t have the worries and the grind of the games and the wear and tear of your body, you can really attack the training element a lot harder. More load on your body, more stress – whether that be through running or in the weight room with the lifting program that you’re doing at the time.

Something I’ve always prided myself on is not only can you be highly productive, but can you be highly productive continuously.

I had the opportunity to go up to New York and be on the ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ show with Michael Strahan and Vernon Davis and those guys. That was an opportunity that presented itself, and it was something different and fun. I had a great time. Those guys are really good dudes, and she’s obviously incredibly talented.

I take a lot of pride in impacting the game with or without the ball. That’s something that only a few guys in the league can do that.

To be in complete control of the game in the fourth-quarter and just self-destruct, it’s tough.

In this league, you make your own luck, you make your own fate.

Proud of what I was able to accomplish in this league, proud of the relationships and everything that the game has given me.

You look at the skills involved, especially with things like lateral movement or change of direction, and there’s definitely a strong correlation between playing basketball and playing tight end.