Cam Newton is a NFL Quarter back for the American Football team the Carolina Panthers.  He has won the NFL Most Valuable Player Award for 2015 and played in Super Bowl 50.  Beyond his athletic accomplishments, Cam is admired as a positive role model in the sports community, regularly participating in outreach programs and developing his own clothing line.  A rising star in the league, Cam has a great future ahead of him.

Here are 30 of Cam’s best quotes:

1. “I’m an example of why people deserve second chances.” – Cam Newton

2. “Everything the world may bring, there’s a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.” – Cam Newton

3. “It’s a day-to-day learning process.” – Cam Newton

4. “Word of mouth travels faster than anything else.” – Cam Newton

5. “A person that says ‘losing is not difficult,’ I don’t even want to be around that person.  And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.” – Cam Newton

6. “Excuses are a disease” – Cam Newton

7. “Hindsight is always 50/50.” – Cam Newton

8. “The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react.  And if you’re thinking, you’re already a step behind” – Cam Newton

9. “When people see you do alright, then you start winning their hearts.  It’s not going to come easy, though.  It doesn’t matter how many people you do right, you’re still going to be hated by so many others.  You can’t live your life trying to make everybody happy.” – Cam Newton

10. “I think we all have unbelievable potential.  But a wise man once told me potential has never won a game.” – Cam Newton

11. “You don’t go into the game to compete.  You go into each game to win.” – Cam Newton

12. “You cannot make progress with excuses.” – Cam Newton

13. “I scratch my head sometimes and ask myself, ‘Why am I in this position?’ A lot of answers I come back with are, ‘Why not?’” – Cam Newton

14. “My pop always said, ‘one day you can be on top of the world, and the next day the world can be on top of you.’” – Cam Newton

15. “Everybody’s entitled to their own opinion.” – Cam Newton

16. “Genuine people, at this stage of my life, are very scarce.  That’s unfortunate.  Most of the time, I don’t really give people a chance.  I have a wall up.  I’m always protecting who I am.  Thinking about my brand.” – Cam Newton

17. “It’s no secret that I am not afraid to shine bright and be festive, and I like to encourage that in others.” – Cam Newton

18. “Not to sound arrogant, but what I did in one year, others couldn’t do in their entire collegiate careers.” – Cam Newton

19. “The only thing that’s going to get you away from all the talk is winning” – Cam Newton

20. “It has to be a contagious thing…one person is not going to just take this team to the promised land.” – Cam Newton

21. “Some people have certain beliefs, and I have my own belief, and we can agree to disagree on certain things.” – Cam Newton

22. “We’re just out here every single day trying to do the best that we can.” – Cam Newton

23. “I’m a living testament that anything is possible.” – Cam Newton

24. “My thing is to execute the given play, execute the game plan to the best of my ability.  If the option is for me to make a play when I have to, I will.  Or I’ll put myself in the best situation to do so.” – Cam Newton

25. “What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet?  It ain’t going to happen.  That’s the type of person I am.  I’m that lion.” – Cam Newton

26. “Winning excuses everything” – Cam Newton

27. “I’ve said numerous times that I play to have a stage that people will listen to, and I pray to God that I do right by my influence” – Cam Newton

28. “Winning is contagious, you know its a thought.  It’s not something that just happens on Sundays.  You know that’s something, like you have to live like a winner.  You have to think like a winner.  You have to eat like a winner.  Everything that you do with life, you gotta be a winner.” – Cam Newton

29. “I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I’m going hard.” – Cam Newton

30. “Control what you can control.  Don’t lose sleep worrying about things that you don’t have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won’t have any control over them” – Cam Newton

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