Yeah, you make some tackles or you meet the ground and you feel the pain. Ain’t no question about it. Whether it is the shoulder, the back, making the wrong plant when you fall – yeah, you’ll feel it. You get right up. You go back to the huddle. You can’t show weakness out there. You try not to. You don’t want to give a sign. Charles Woodson Read Quote
If you want to make a great wine that can stand the test of time, then you must put the time and the work into it. Charles Woodson Read Quote
For both the wine business and in football, if you want longevity, you must work hard. Charles Woodson Read Quote
When I talk about the early years in Oakland, I don’t want to take anything away from who that player was, because that player was still a heck of a player, that player was just young. I played off the field the same way that I played on the field. Charles Woodson Read Quote
Whenever you play the game, you just want the game to be on the up and up. You don’t want to ever lose a game because you felt like it was stolen from you. Charles Woodson Read Quote
When you play for the Raiders and you play for Al Davis, it was always the talk that it was Al Davis against the rest of the league. Some of the calls that we would get, we would always say, ‘Oh we got that call because of Al’s relationship with the NFL.’ Charles Woodson Read Quote
The wine business is intense. It’s not just bottle it and sell it. It’s really a process. Charles Woodson Read Quote
I fell in love with wine in Napa Valley. I fell in love with the culture and the restaurants and the way the wood tastes when you’re drinking wine. Charles Woodson Read Quote