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I'm just very fortunate that I'm alive. I look every day and see my hand and say, 'Thank you, Lord.'
The coaches can't be out there to tackle for us; we have to do that, like I say, starting with myself.
Once you touch that grass, you know in your head only one team is going to walk out of there with a win.
You get older, you can't stay the same. You can't eat the same. You have to change things to get better.
When I'm on the field, family-wise, family matters, whatever off-the-field issues, I'm not worried about.
I just want to go out there and play to my full potential, and play a healthy season, know what I'm saying?
A good season for me is going to the playoffs and making a run for the Super Bowl and having a good record.
That's the whole part of playing football and having training camp. Coming in and recognizing how players play.
I didn't think of football growing up. This wasn't my career, something I chose. It was something I was picked in.
I guess you could say I took the hard route. That doesn't work for everybody, but it's worked out all right for me.
Denard Robinson was my quarterback in high school. Never had his shoes tied. I don't see how you can play like that.
If I'm not capable of doing it, I won't do it. But you're going to get 120 percent of me every time I'm on the field.
It's not about an individual. If I have a tip or a reminder for one of my teammates, I'll help him out by doing that.
If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. That's why I play. If I made it in New York, you can make it anywhere.
I'm going to keep rushing the ball until the whistle blows and it's the end of the game. That's how I'm going to keep playing.
There is a certain way that I play. You just have to have a feel for it. That's something you have to feel as a football player.
If I'm tired, I'm coming out. I won't do that to my teammates and stay on the field when I know I'm not going to be able to do it.
Anybody can be rattled. Tom Brady is a great quarterback, but at the end of the day, he is just a quarterback. It's not like he is God.
My mom and dad taught me a lot. They kept me out of trouble and told me to go a better route. They taught me how to be a man, basically.
Me, personally, I'm going to be out there running full speed and chasing down running backs and chasing down quarterbacks. That's what I do best.
I don't like people knowing about my business, and my situation, so I try to keep out of people's situations unless they come to me and ask for help.
I think like that all the time: nobody can block me, nobody can stop me, nobody can play the run the way I can. You've got to think like that all the time.
Every year you've got somebody coming in and trying to kick you off, so you have to prove yourself. Even for the coaches, too. Their jobs are always on the line.
Honestly, it is not all about attitude; it is all about heart. You can have the attitude, you can have the swagger, you can talk your way, but it is all about heart.
We need everybody to contribute as one and do what we've got to do to win. Football is not an individual game. In basketball, LeBron James can take over a game by himself.
We had bills to pay. My dad wasn't working, and it was tough for my mom. People were always raising the rent, so I had to work, too. Everybody in the house worked to pay the rent.
It comes a time in your life that you will no longer live for yourself anymore. You never know how much a person can mean to you until one comes into your life, and changes it for the best.
The bottom line is I'm a football player, and I played three years of college football, and I produced all three years. I also got better every year, and I just felt like it was time to move on.
I'm just god-gifted: I have a talent. Even when I played basketball, no one ever taught me the game. I just played it. And with football, I just converted basketball to football and just played.
I was a basketball player. And my mother even wanted me to quit because I hurt my leg. But I didn't know anything about football - from Pee-Wee on up, my friends would play, and I would never go with them.
I feel like after my incident, it really made me realize football is not here forever. I'm all the more anxious to come out here and let my teammates know, 'Look, hey, this is the same JPP. Missing fingers aren't going to stop me from playing some ball.'
It’s not a playoff game, it’s like the Super Bowl. … This is going to be a blood bath out there. I know they’re going to be ready to play. This is going to be a physical game. I’m sure that I’m going to be ready and I know my boys are going to be ready to back it up.
I feel like I'm just going to go full speed and tackle. If that means there is friendly fire on my guy, then that's what I gotta do. I try not to do that because I know I'll lay a big hit on them, but if that's what I gotta do, that's what I'll do just to make sure that tackle gets made.
I had a job to take care of my parents, to take care of some bills at the house, because my daddy wasn't working. I had to figure out how to make that all work at one time. I was working at Boston Market... I told my coach, 'I can't play football because I have to make money to help my mom.'
My dad never quit no matter what. He couldn't see, but he never let that stop him. Most people, when something like that happens, they just think their life is over. But that's not true. My dad can still do things like a normal person. He still cooks; he still watches my sister and my brother's baby when my mom's not home.