Marshawn Lynch quotes:

Growing up in Oakland, we did things like white t-shirt, blue jeans and Nikes. That was my get down, how I was going to rock. And if you look at me right now, I'm pretty much black tee, blue jeans and some sneakers.

My old school hip-hop would probably consist of Bad N-Fluenz, The Dangerous Crew, Seagrams, Mr. ILL, RBL Posse, Rappin' 4-Tay.

If you are in your everyday life, and you feel like you just accomplished something big that you had going on, then that's Beast Mode. It's an accomplishment, that you put yourself through something to get something better out of it. I feel that that's Beast Mode.

As a running back, it takes five offensive linemen, a tight end, a fullback and possibly two wide receivers, in order to make my job successful.

To learn to do backflips and front flips, you had to fall and bump your head a couple times. I've been doing them since I was a little one, though. Just something I've enjoyed doing, just flip.

Being from Oakland, you see a lot of thing. You see friends turn on friends all the time. You see family turn on family.

I've been pretty good at reading people. If you rockin' with me cause you're just a solid individual, then we're rockin'. But if you got a motive or something, I am going to probably see right through that.

I like to go home and get involved in my community.

I ain't got nothing to say. I just wanna play football.

My favorite college experience was probably leaving college.

It doesn't matter what you all think, what you all say about me, because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face, my family that I love, that's all that really matters to me.

What's my favorite thing about Seattle? It's Ho Ho's Restaurant.

I'm cool with my body, I love my body. I wouldn't trade it for no other body.

Dej Loaf's solid.

The Seahawks, their front office gets in the media; they talk a lot.

I don't know what story y'all trying to get out of me. I don't know what image y'all trying to portray of me. But it don't matter what y'all think, what y'all say about me because when I go home at night, the same people that I look in the face - my family that I love, that's all that really matter to me.

I'm just here so I won't get fined.

Michael Phelps wouldn't have been on the Wheaties box if I stuck with swimming. I've been swimming since I was a little kid. I still swim. I'm the best.

I just like beautiful women. They don't have to be a celebrity, though... I mean, if they're beautiful, they're beautiful.

You never want to be the one who everyone is going to bust jokes on. The only way to prevent that is to be good at something.

When I go speak to these kids through my foundation and am able to sit down and tell them some of the things that I've been through, they can look up and relate to me, and they can understand the feelings I had that are similar to what they're going through and feeling.

all about that action boss

But I'm gon' get mine more than I get got.

I'm blessed. I'm blessed every day I wake up. So I just try to maximize every day to the fullest.

I'm just about that action, boss. I ain't ever see no talking win me nothin'.

I'm just 'bout that action boss.

The so-called right to privacy, as it were, is no longer a right inasmuch as it is now a privilege, to be enjoyed until it is torn away at a moment's notice.

When you get to practice against the best, it brings the best out of you.

You find out what's in you when it comes out