Baltimore Ravens receiver Anquan Boldin says he’ll always be a Raven and nothing else even if that means leaving the league.  The veteran wide receiver shocked everyone when he said he’ll retire if the Ravens cut him.  Read more after the jump.

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Everyone knows the Super Bowl champion Ravens will have some changes to make in the upcoming season trying to stay under the cap and pay Joe Flacco the big pay day he has coming.

“For me that’s not something that I worry about,” Boldin told Erik Kuselias of Pro Football Talk.  “I think you go out and let your play speak for itself.  You deal with that if you have to, but, I think for m — I know for me — Baltimore is the only place I want to play.  It’s the last place that I will play.  For me, I’ll retire a Raven, I’m not putting on any other uniform.”

Boldin then reiterated the point.

“I won’t play in another uniform,” Boldin said.  “We have a saying, once a Raven, always a Raven, and I’ll always be a Raven.”

 Boldin has a $6 million base salary due for the 2013 season so we’ll have to wait and see if the Ravens are willing to pay it.  They should considering Boldin is still quite valuable and was one of the key factors in their Super Bowl victory as one of Flacco’s top targets.