Richard Sherman

You rest better coming off of a win.

The past is what the past is.

The goal has always been to stay in Seattle and continue to play for the Seahawks.

There's always been adversity, wherever I've gone.

A lot of coaches have come up to me and liked the way I played.

There may be a lot of people out there who don't like me who don't even know me. But there are quite a few people who like me because they know me. I'm not a bad guy by any means. I can't do anything about people hating me for no reason.

Being physical is something I pride myself on.

You can know a person is a good person or a bad person by who they are, not by what they look like.

My teammates would never say anything bad about me, even if they thought it. That's the kind of locker room we have.

To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field - don't judge a person's character by what they do between the lines. Judge a man by what he does off the field, what he does for his community, what he does for his family.

I would love for a regular student to have a student-athlete's schedule during the season for just one quarter or one semester and show me how you balance that. Show me how you would schedule your classes when you can't schedule classes from 2-to-6 o'clock on any given day.

There's a lot of racism still alive and still active.