Steve Largent
Steve Largent
Stephen Michael "Steve" Largentis a retired American football player, enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and a former Republican politician, having served in the U.S. House of Representatives for Oklahoma, from 1994 until 2002. Prior to his political career, Largent was a wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks in the National Football League for his entire 14-season professional football career. He held several all-time receiving records when he retired...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth28 September 1954
CountryUnited States of America
I needed somebody to love me, and the people that I chose were my coaches. I would sacrifice my body to be successful for my coaches because I wanted them to love me, to respect me, to have positive feelings about me.
No culture that has ever embraced homosexuality has survived.
It's amazing, when I look back on my career, how often he was dead-on in his prediction of what we needed to do to be successful,
There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun.
It's still fun to come to games, and it's still fun to be in the Seattle crowd.
When you start thinking about taking pictures, sending an e-mail, receiving an e-mail, speaking into your phone and have it transcript voice into text and then sent as an e-mail, it's mind-boggling.
If people ... don't believe that, but still, for the most part, are Republican otherwise, they can be with us. But we're not going to change the course that this party was founded on,
I might not be a great athlete, but I think I'm a real good football player.
It sure made me feel good to be here today, and have so many people say so many kind things.
I never dreamed I'd be in Congress, or even in the NFL, for that matter. Well, I guess I dreamed about being in the NFL, but I didn't believe it would happen. I'm not the biggest guy. But I guess that's the story of my life.
The more studies that come out that talk about concussions and so forth, it makes me wonder. I wonder, more importantly than the stroke, the impact that concussions have had on my life, particularly as I get older.
I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.
A child can escape the shadows.