Marshawn Terrell Lynch is the full name of one of the most famous American football running backs, Marshawn Lynch. He is an unrestricted free agent who was drafted by the Buffalo Bills. The Buffalo Bills drafted him in the first round of the 2007 NFL Draft, shortly after he graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
He spent three seasons with the Bills before joining the Seattle Seahawks in the middle of the 2010 season. After joining the Seahawks, he was named to four Pro Bowls and won Super Bowl XLVIII against the Denver Broncos. After the 2015 season, he announced his retirement.
In terms of his childhood, he was reared in Oakland, California, with three older siblings. His mother, Delisa, who formerly set a 200-meter track record at Oakland Technical High School, provided all of his care.
- “I ain’t got nothing to say. I just wanna play football.”― Marshawn Lynch
- “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.”― Marshawn Lynch
- “I don’t know what’s in store for me. I don’t know what tomorrow is going to bring.”― Marshawn Lynch
- “I just like beautiful women. They don’t have to be a celebrity, though… I mean, if they’re beautiful, they’re beautiful.”― Marshawn Lynch
- “If you are in your everyday life, and you feel like you just accomplished something big that you had to go 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.”― Marshawn Lynch
- “To learn to do backflips and front flips, you had to fall and bump your head a couple of times. I’ve been doing them since I was a little one, though. Just something I’ve enjoyed doing, just flip.”― Marshawn Lynch
- “I don’t play ball because I want attention. I do it because it gives me the opportunity to bust somebody’s head. And I just love to do it. I love what I do.”― Marshawn Lynch
- “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.”― Marshawn Lynch
- MY FAVORITE COLLEGE EXPERIENCE WAS PROBABLY LEAVING COLLEGE.”― MARSHAWN LYNCH
- “I ain’t never seen any talking winning nothing. Been like that since I was little. I was raised like that.”― Marshawn Lynch
- “When a defender comes up to tackle me, I want him to feel that ground.”― Marshawn Lynch
- “I’m cool with my body, I love my body. I wouldn’t trade it for no other body.”― Marshawn Lynch
- “My old school hip-hop would probably consist of Bad N-Fluenz, The Dangerous Crew, Seagrams, Mr. ILL, RBL Posse, Rappin’ 4-Tay.”― Marshawn Lynch
- “Being from Oakland, you see a lot of things. You see friends turn on friends all the time. You see family turn on family.”― Marshawn Lynch
- “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 doesn’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 – the family that I love, that’s all that really matters to me.”― Marshawn Lynch
- “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.”― Marshawn Lynch
- “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.”― Marshawn Lynch
- “I’ve been a Nike athlete since day one.”― Marshawn Lynch
- “I listen to some Kevin Gates, Rick Ross, Fabolous.”― Marshawn Lynch
- “I’ve never seen anybody win the game in the media. But at the same time, I understand what it could do for you if you wanted to be someone who talks a lot.”― Marshawn Lynch
- “I like to go home and get involved in my community.”― Marshawn Lynch
- “Dej Loaf’s solid.”― Marshawn Lynch
- “The Seahawks, their front office gets in the media; they talk a lot.”― Marshawn Lynch
- “I got dogs. I’m a dog guy.”― Marshawn Lynch
- “What’s my favorite thing about Seattle? It’s Ho Ho’s Restaurant.”― Marshawn Lynch
- “THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY TIMES I CAN SAY, ‘I OWE IT TO MY OFFENSIVE LINEMEN,’ OR, ‘THE CREDIT SHOULD GO TO MY TEAMMATES,’ BEFORE IT BECOMES RUN DOWN.”― MARSHAWN LYNCH
- “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.”― Marshawn Lynch
- “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.”― Marshawn Lynch
