Bobby Wagner
In a business where it's cutthroat, it's cool to be able to play with one organization your whole career.
It's a little harder nowadays because of the way contracts are set up, the way the league is, to play with one team.
My goal is to really be a dominant player in this league and have nobody question that. That's what I strive for.
I strive for being great.
Whenever you go somewhere, you want to leave a mark.
I feel like I was always good at the run.
You've got to be by yourself at some point.
As a team you have to figure out what you want to do and who do you want to pay and that comes from the guys upstairs.
Every year they are making the game harder and harder for a defensive player to play.
If you don't have a defense this league don't exist. So I feel like defensive players do need to kind of stand their ground to kind of show that we are just as important. You see all the offensive guys getting paid and we are just as important.
If you are saving lives, I am willing to help.
I thought it was a really good thing to be a part of giving blood and saving lives.
I'm definitely a guy that yells at the TV. You call out plays and think they're going to hear you say what you called out.
I just don't like missing games.
If I'm being interviewed by a reporter, I take my time to answer the question.
Saying, 'I'll find the answer for you,' opens the door for people to still come to me with questions. Even if I don't have an immediate answer, I build trust by finding the answer.
I really want to stand out as a middle linebacker.
I don't really want acknowledgement or want people to pat me on the back or whatever. I just want to help the people I feel like I can help and if there's an opportunity where I feel like I can help, I do it.
It's from the heart. I don't really care if people see that I do it or notice that I do it or even recognize that it's me doing it. I just do it because I feel like there's a lot of people out there that need a hand, and I try to lend a hand.
At the end of the day, me representing myself shouldn't be a big deal.
Basketball - you don't get hit in basketball. That's a nice life over there.
I think that's what separates the NFL because they're so many different cultures in here that you get to learn from, that you get to experience that people from the outside don't get to experience. We don't live in a box. We understand that there's different type of views, different type of actions, and we have an open mind to listen to them.
Rookie year you get out there and want to make as many plays as possible, then second year you want to be perfect, and then you kind of find a combination between the two - making a lot of plays and trying to be as perfect as possible.
I think my rookie year I was just out there, I just wanted to be out there and have fun. Maybe my sophomore year I was thinking a little too much because I wanted to be perfect, but I think everybody goes through that stretch.
I'm really good at basketball.
I wish I could sing.
Is Adele embarrassing? I think she's dope.
I want to wake up in a Bugatti.
Some guys when they're catching the ball they'll tighten their gloves. The O-linemen have heavy stances in run verses pass is super light. There's all types of things that you can find on film that can give you an edge.
Well, there's one guy, when he runs the ball his head's really, really still - doesn't move whatsoever but then when it's a pass he's always, like how he's looking is like his head is almost going back and forth and back and forth because he needs to know who to block.
I feel like I finally got a routine with massages, and yoga and swimming, and all these different things that I do. I think it has helped me not get hurt.
I'm a huge fan of Jay Z. I listen to a lot of Nas, a lot of 2Pac. I like to listen to people that make me think.
To be in a position to help my family out and change the trajectory of the Wagner family it's a pretty dope feeling.
I just feel like that '90s era was pretty special from all aspects. Whether it was hip-hop, R&B, it was a lot of music back then that everyone could relate to and listen to.
When I was a rookie, I was kind of just flying, trying to make plays.
You've got to get what you've got to get while you can.
You've got to do what's right for you.
As soon as you can't play and they don't want you no more, it's over. So you've got to make the best of your opportunity.
A lot of companies feel like they have to go down to the Bay Area to get the money that they need to build their business, and we don't believe that's true.
I heard I wasn't a good linebacker, I was too small and all that other stuff.
Every game is different. Every week is different.
You can't do the same thing every game.
Coach Clune has been a great person to me, he taught me a lot, linebacker-wise.
Coming out of high school, I wasn't really highly recruited because I was still learning the game.
Everybody kind of passed up on me; a lot of the teams I played against said I was too short, I wasn't strong enough, I wasn't fast enough, I wasn't physical enough. The only team that believed in me was Utah State.
I worked hard and had support from my family, but it was a grind at Utah State.
My mom taught me, 'There are a lot of doubters out there.' It doesn't matter what everybody else thinks.
I've always been interested in trying to help people in anyway possible.