Jerry Rice

I could still come back and catch 80 passes for the 49ers today.

I still got about 80 catches in me. So if the 49ers have a couple injuries, they can call me. I really do think I still could get out there. I played for over 20 years and I can still block [the pain] out and still play.

I would have cut my own finger off like Ronnie Lott to avoid missing any playing time

They told me that story man and I was like, wow, did he actually do that? For real? For real? Did he didn't want to miss any time. So he decided to tell them to just you know, nip the edge... [Big Cat: Would you have done the same?] Without any hesitation. No. Okay. There you go.

Modern NFL players do not commit to their craft as hard as players did in the past.

I think players, they thought I was crazy and they don't have to do [that training] anymore. It's a lot different now and I think guys they just don't—maybe that's not right for me to say—they just don't commit to their craft like we did back in the day.

I was running 4.2-second 40-yard dashes during games because I was scared

Probably doing a football game, I was running 4.2s... Because I was scared and I use that I used that to my advantage. Now if you lie me up just to run a straight 40, I'm not gonna run a good time.

It is harder to catch a spiral from a left-handed quarterback than a right-handed one.

It is harder to catch a spiral from a lefty. The ball spins a different direction. I had a trainer that was a lefty and he threw me so many balls... I had never caught a ball from a lefty and I had to retrain. It just became natural eventually.

Walter Payton is the greatest football player in Mississippi history

All time I love I love sweetness. Okay. Number one. I will say then myself. [Big Cat: That's a very smart classy move].

I am way above stickum accusations; I played the game the right way.

I'm not even gonna respond to [stickum] because I'm way above that. My thing is I played the game the right way and hopefully I was able to entertain a lot of people and I had fun and that's it. People going to have their own opinions and I feel like I'm way above that.