Curtis Martin
Curtis Martin
Curtis James Martin Jr.is a former American football running back who played in the National Football Leaguefor the New England Patriots and New York Jets over the span of 10 years. Martin began his professional career with the Patriots, who selected him in the third round of the 1995 NFL Draft. As a free agent in 1998, he joined the Jets where he finished his career in 2006 due to a career-ending knee injury. He retired having amassed the fourth...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth1 May 1973
CityPittsburgh, PA
achievement achieve persons
It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements.
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I don't think you'll ever talk to Chad and he'll say that he's at his best, ... because he's always pushing it.
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I have never been afraid to take a chance on myself. Since I started playing this game I have been taught and learned that this game is a team game and there are a lot of things more important than money. I believe I have always been a person that enjoys meeting challenges head-first.
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Herm doesn't waste his words too much. It was necessary. To have him emphasize it and put the responsibility on us, I think was important.
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What's good is the fact that you always know when you are doing something wrong. A lot of teams don't have referees and get away with a lot of things in practice that hurt them in the game because they weren't warned.
anyone beat embrace hard team work
I would embrace that fully. Anyone who comes in here, they're going to have to work very hard to beat me out, and if they do that's going to make this team better and I'm all for it.
became came financial
When I came into the NFL, it was an escape. It became my way to survive, not just in a financial way.
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One more game and we're probably out of it.
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I just think he was wanting to go down with guns blazing.
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Being in the league for 11 years, I've realized that sometimes you get out to starts like this. It doesn't mean that it will always be like that. For now, it is what it is, and I just hope to keep getting better.
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I'm a very grateful man. So over the years, I've come to see how football has really enabled me to do what I really love to do, which is to impact people. I've gained such an appreciation for football that I feel I'm disrespecting it by not liking it because of what football has enabled me to do for other people.
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I don't really care about that. My motivation comes from within myself. I put more pressure on myself than any media, or any person or any coach can put on me.
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I don't know how you describe it or what words you put to it. It's almost unbelievable.
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He's not just a business adviser or agent, he's a friend. He really gets to know people.