Smells like bullshit. Anyone who followed those Tweets saw the casual back and forth nature of that conversation. I think the journalist took artistic liberties with the tone of the quotes.
"good morning world. i just woke up from this crazy dream. @OGOchoCinco came to Revis Island and disappeared." The above quote is from revis' twitter and personally i don't believe that a player who writes stuff like this on his twitter whines about not being respected to the media. Otherwise he would be somewhat of a hypocrite and i don't think revis is. FALSE ARTICLE
I potentially think that's true. To be great , you really need to feel that way, like Deion did. I think a little bit of hotheadedness is needed to really be great.
Depends what you mean by hotheaded. I don't think the true icons of sports over the last hundred years were, for the most part, hotheads in the Deion mold: Ty Cobb - maybe a bit Babe Ruth - no, not really Joe D - not at all Ted Williams - you really want to say that? Willie Mays - not at all Mantle - please Jim Brown - please Wilt Chamberlain - more than a little arrogant, but a hothead? No Dr. J - coolness personified; no Richard Petty - no Bobby Hull - no Johnny U - no Namath - swagger is not being a hothead in my book Marino, Elway, Montana, Aikman - no, although Marino could get frustrated and a bit hot Rice - nope Jordan - a hothead?!? Earnhardt - mostly no, sometimes a little bit That's my list of sports superstars. Maybe I tend to list people who are not hotheads. But I doubt you can put together a list like that with hotheads that is near as good.
Here's the link I found on google for the article http://www.northjersey.com/sports/OConnor_Darrelle_Revis_fire_lit_by_Chad_Ochocincos_mouth.html
Snobbiness? I don't see snobbiness, I see confidence and I see contempt for the enemy. Both components that are needed for a player to become great. Revis may know how good he is, but he isn't going to go the Kerry Rhodes route and rest on his laurels and become insufferably arrogant. There is a fine line between confidence and arrogance, and the great ones know how to navigate it. The other thing about Revis is that he seems also to be humble enough to know that he can become much better in terms of capitalizing on turnovers - and he wants the be the greatest, better than Deion. I think this is only the beginning of what we have to look forward to with Darrelle Revis.
