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 More Quotes by Michael Oher More Quotes From Michael Oher 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 encouraging dream motivational 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 helping mean people 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 important honor trying 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 next poor meals 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 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 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 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 myself hard-work work people 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
