
"As you get to know me, you kind of figure me out, that I'm not as probably as bad of a guy that I've been reported to be. I'm not that jerk."
-- Owens to SI.com, October, 2004
"I'll watch the highlights every now and then but, as far as watching the game, I feel like I am the game."
-- Owens to SI.com, October, 2004
"At the end of the day, I don't have to worry about what people think of me, whether they hate me or not. People hated on Jesus. They threw stones at him and tried to kill him, so how can I complain or worry about what people think?"
-- Owens to Miami Herald, July, 2005
"I have said it all along. I have played with the greatest receiver in the game. When I played with him, he made me better because I had a chance to go one on one. I had a chance to exploit guys who were man-to-man with me because they doubled Jerry [Rice] a lot. I am basically fulfilling his role. I know what my role is and I am just doing the best I can do."
-- Owens to Phillyburbs.com, July 2005
"I'm smart enough to know when I've done something wrong, but I don't understand this. Guys are beating their wives, getting DUIs and doing drugs, and I get national attention for a Sharpie? People are personally attacking me, calling me a classless a------ because I did something creative during a game. Why?"
-- Owens to ESPN Magazine, November, 2002
"I feel like I'm a basketball player in a football uniform."
-- Owens to SI.com, October, 2004
"Like my boy tells me; if it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, by golly, it is a rat."
-- Terrell Owens on rumors former 49ers teammate Jeff Garcia was gay in Owens to Playboy, August, 2004
"To be honest, I think I'm a little better then [Randy] Moss. I bring a lot more to the table than he does."
-- Owens to St. Paul Pioneer Press, September, 2004
"The criticism that hurt me most is that I'm dishonoring the game, have no class, no respect. Who is Dennis Green to say that, when he couldn't control Randy Moss? I'm disrespecting the game? I'm not the one with the rap sheet. I've never taken a play off or not blocked. I guess walking off the ball and not blocking anyone like Randy is respecting the game, huh?"
-- Owens to ESPN Magazine, November, 2002
"Like I have said all along, I have the best doctor of all, and that is God. You can't argue with a guy like that."
-- Owens to reporters before Super Bowl XXXIX
"I came here with hopes of playing with a guy like Donovan who has obviously made me a better receiver. A receiver is only as good as his quarterback, and I thank God for Donovan. It started out when we played our first preseason game at the Linc. We showed the world and made a statement, and we're trying to finish it up here."
-- Owens to reporters before Super Bowl XXXIX
"Who's to say? I don't really think that it's OK. I think he feels a certain way, from what I've seen and heard in the media. When I'm around him, he tries to downplay it, like everything's cool, but I don't know if it is ... I'm an honest person. I'll say what I have to say."
-- Owens on Eagles QB Donovan McNabb in Philadelphia Daily News, July, 2005
"How can you justify hating me after I worked so hard rehabilitating from a broken leg to get back to the Super Bowl to help our team try to win? Really, you've got to look at who the villain really is in this thing."
-- Owens to Miami Herald, July, 2005