1. “I feel like I’m the best, but you’re not going to get me to say that.” – Jerry Rice
2. “As a fan, you want to be able to go to a football game, you want to feel secure, you want to be able to just watch the game, root for your team, and that’s the way it should be.” – Jerry Rice
3. “I think I just went into a system that was willing to utilize me and gave me opportunities and I felt fortunate to be able to go to Oakland and put the silver and black on. I wanted to prove to everybody that I could still play.” – Jerry Rice
4. “I think with my hands, it was catching a lot of footballs and working with my father during the summer because he would always make me. My father was a bricklayer so I was a helper. My job was to make sure that he had bricks to lay.” – Jerry Rice
5. “The Enemy of the best is the good. If you’re always settling with what’s good, you’ll never be the best.” – Jerry Rice
6. “I’m used to performing under pressure, but that’s playing football.” – Jerry Rice
7. “When you begin to lose the fire a little bit and if you’re not giving 100 percent out there, then it’s time for you to leave because you’ll end up getting hurt – I want to be able to walk away on top.” – Jerry Rice
8. “Most injuries require chiropractic care. It works better for me than anything else.” – Jerry Rice
9. “I think my secret is that there are no shortcuts for hard work, determination, and having that ‘don’t give up’ attitude.” – Jerry Rice
10. “I think what people might not really know about me is that I’m really a shy individual.” – Jerry Rice
11. “I want people to know if they have any hurting in their back, or any tingling or anything like that, go see a chiropractor and help yourself feel better about your body and take some of that pain away.” – Jerry Rice
12. “Not wanting to disappoint is what pushed me to be successful.” – Jerry Rice
13. “I went out there to play my game for the fun of it and never based my career around records.” – Jerry Rice
14. “I was always in search of a perfect game and I never got it.” – Jerry Rice
15. “The same thing I applied to football, I applied to trying to be an actor and hopefully it came off well.” – Jerry Rice
16. “My first experience with football was not very good because I didn’t plan on playing football. I was just playing hookie one day and I was a sophomore and decided not to go to class. And the principal – normally he does his rounds and I thought I had him down pretty good where he was going to be – he sort of walked up behind me and scared me. He noticed I could run real fast. So that’s how I got introduced to football.” – Jerry Rice
17. “My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn’t want to let them down.” – Jerry Rice
18. “The absolute worst thing a receiver can do is worry about not catching the ball or about getting hit.” – Jerry Rice
19. “The chemistry between a quarterback and a receiver is almost like a dance.” – Jerry Rice
20. “Monday Night Football. That was everything to me because you get a chance to show everybody what you’re capable of. It’s only two teams on that Monday night.” – Jerry Rice
21. “They never clocked me on my way to the end zone. They never caught me because I ran scared.” – Jerry Rice
22. “The game of life requires the edge that chiropractic care provides.” – Jerry Rice
23. “Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.” – Jerry Rice
24. “I will do today what others won’t, so I can do tomorrow what others can’t.” – Jerry Rice
25. “There is still a lot of football in me and I enjoy watching the players go out there and be the best players they can possibly be.” – Jerry Rice
26. “People would look at me weird. You know, like, ‘Why is this guy’s hands always in his pockets?’ But I was embarrassed by the size of my hands.” – Jerry Rice
27. “I want to do a good job. I’m just learning and I just want to have fun with it.” – Jerry Rice
28. “I don’t diet. I’ll eat fish; I’ll eat baked chicken, pasta, beans. When the body is telling you, ‘You need to indulge in something,’ you need to give the body what it wants.” – Jerry Rice
29. “To me, it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.” – Jerry Rice
30. “I do a lot of running, and I do it every day. I run on a track, I run hills and I work the stair-stepper extremely hard. I do some type of cardio every day. In addition, I have a passion for golf, and that helps me stay fit, too.” – Jerry Rice
31. “I played the game for 20 years, and I think that kept me on the football field, being adjusted. Getting hit so many times, being all out of whack, and going in to see my chiropractor kept me back on the football field.” – Jerry Rice
32. “Once you get your education it’s going to open up so many doors for you. And the sky’s the limit. So that’s what I want to deliver to students.” – Jerry Rice
33. “Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work.” – Jerry Rice
34. “I think it was fantastic being in the 49ers Hall of Fame.” – Jerry Rice
35. “Coming from the South, I just felt you had to work just a little bit harder. It was not going to be handed to you.” – Jerry Rice
36. “I had that hunger, that desire, to be successful and I wasn’t going to let anything stand in my way.” – Jerry Rice
37. “You know, I never looked down the road and said, ‘Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.’ It’s always about playing each and every game 100 percent and I thank my teammates for getting me into the Hall because football is a team sport, not an individual sport.” – Jerry Rice
38. “If I should get selected into the Hall of Fame, I’d be able to say ‘thank you’ to all the legends that are in the Hall of Fame. And also say thank you to my teammates, and also to all the fans. It’s going to be like a dream come true.” – Jerry Rice
39. “I was just a small boy from Mississippi, and now little kids are going to identify with me through this game.” – Jerry Rice
40. “I have been blessed with a long and healthy career as a professional athlete and as I move forward into the next stage of my life, chiropractic care will continue to be an important part of my game.” – Jerry Rice
41. “I just want the same thing Joe Montana got when he was MVP. He got respect. He got commercials. He got everything.” – Jerry Rice