Offensive linemen don’t get looked at, nobody is paying attention to the offensive line. But me ? I ’m getting watched for everything. I know what type of player I am. Everybody else that I know knows what type of player I am. So that kind of stuff does n’t worry me.

Michael Oher

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Don't ever allow yourself to feel trapped by your choices. Take a look at yourself. You are a unique person created for a specific purpose. Your gifts matter. Your story matters. Your dreams matter. You matter.

Michael Oher

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It’s true that we can’t help the circumstances we’re born into and some of us start out in a much tougher place than other people. But just because we started there doesn’t mean we have to end there.

Michael Oher

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It's never been about football, but about becoming the best and fullest person I could be. And to think that I went from the kid with a GPA in the basement to going to college on a football scholarship-I was thankful and humbled by how far I'd come in just a few years. I knew that miracles really do happen.

Michael Oher

college football kids

If you die trying for something important, then you have both honor and courage, and that's pretty good.

Michael Oher

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When I was little and something awful was happening my Mama would tell me to close my eyes.She was tryin' to keep me from seeing her do drugs or other bad things. And then when she was finished or the bad things were over she'd say, “now when I count to three, you open your eyes and the past is gone, the world is a good place,and it's all gonna be okay.

Michael Oher

drug eye past

Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or mistake but you’re not supposed to question adults or your coach or your teacher because they make the rules. Maybe they know best but maybe they don’t. It all depends on who you are, where you come from.

Michael Oher

mistake teacher ideas

I came so far- from nothing to a Super Bowl championship

Michael Oher

bowls championship super-bowl

If you know where your next meal is coming from, you are not poor.

Michael Oher

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That’s why courage is tricky. Should you always do what others tell you to do? Sometimes you might not even know why you’re doing something. I mean, any fool can have courage. But honor, that’s the real reason you either do something or you don’t. It’s who you are and maybe who you want to be.

Michael Oher

real honor mean

You should hope for courage and try for honor. And maybe even pray that the people telling you what to do have some, too.

Michael Oher

honor trying people

I ’m not trying to prove anything, people look at me, and they take things away from me because of a movie. They don’t really see the skills and the kind of player I am. That’s why I get downgraded so much, because of something off the field.

Michael Oher

entertainment

Anything is possible. My background is a bad background, but a lot of people said I couldn't do it. You can do anything if you put your mind to it.

Michael Oher

bad you mind people

Do what's best for you, and do it to the best of your ability - go after your goals like nobody's business.

Michael Oher

goals best you business

There's a big difference between where I came from and the NFL. Things like this don't happen to people from there often. It just took a lot of hard work and dedication, staying on the right path, believing in myself, and having an inner drive.

Michael Oher

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People who watch 'The Blind Side,' they're not going to have a chance to get to know me. People I'm close to, as long as they know me, know who I am, I don't have a problem with it.

Michael Oher

i-am me long people

For me, I was always just a down-to-earth guy. From Day 1 my rookie year, I've been the same. As an offensive lineman, we just want to be under-the-radar, humble guys, just like to do our work and not be noticed.

Michael Oher

day me humble work

Obviously I'm not to where Michael Jordan is, but trying to get to some level where he was and just striving for the best. That's what got me here.

Michael Oher

some best me trying

People mess up all the time. Michael Vick, he made some mistakes. He surrounded himself around the wrong people. And you've got to be careful with that. But he's redeemed himself and came back.

Michael Oher

mistakes you time people

I've learned not to buy into what other people say. I've learned not to put dreams in other people's hands.

Michael Oher

people-say dreams hands people

I'm not dumb, I just wasn't educated.

Michael Oher

just educated dumb