Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Aaron Donald
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
All I can do is play football, put it on film.
I still want to make more plays, but you know it's going to come. You gotta keep playing, playing hard, continue to study, continue to get myself better, working on my technique, and it will come. Just gotta keep working.
You never know what's going to happen in the draft. You just wait until your name gets called and then things happen.
I don't see myself as somebody special. I just see myself as Aaron, the same guy I've been all my life.
You always want to have success, but you never think it will be as big as it is.
God just blessed me with quickness and speed, I guess.
I'm going to try and do my job and try to make as many plays as I can and help my team win.
Obviously you've got God-given talent to do things that a lot of people can't do but I actually put the body of work in to get stronger, get faster, trying to work on my technique, trying to do little things that people usually don't do, just trying to improve my game.
You got to become a student of the game. You got to learn the game before you can go out there and play fast.
That's what you dream about. How you not going to think about making the big play, the game-changing play?
You never know what can happen.
The big-time player makes big-time plays in big-time games and that's what we need to keep doing.
All I can do is do my part and keep trying to open up eyes with what I did on the football field, what I did in my career. Just go out there and try to compete and shock a couple more people.
Anytime you're rewarded for the success you have, you're going to be happy because you put the body of work in. A lot of hard work. A lot of training. A lot of things you do behind the scenes.
Any time you win you're going to be happy. But any time it's a great divisional opponent, when it's a usual dog fight, to come out on top at their house is a really good feeling.
My main goal is trying to win the Super Bowl.
I want to be great, I want to be mentioned with the best to ever play the game.
I've got leverage on a guy that's 6-6, and I'm strong enough to push 600-plus pounds off on a double-team.
It's the same thing I have been doing since I was 5, playing the game of football. Going out there when my number is called and trying to make plays.
I was a big Steelers fan.
It doesn't ever hurt to try different stuff.
McVay is a great coach and I think that he's smart.
Big-time players make big-time plays in big-time spots. That's who I want to be.
I know you ain't gonna win every single one-on-one, but in my mind, I'm supposed to.
When my name is called I'm going to go in there and give it everything I've got.
It's my mindset that I'm not where I want to be. I still want to be better, and I just want to stay humble about it. It's not an act. It's just how I am.
It's a lot more fun when you're winning than losing.
I don't care if it was 2 o'clock in the morning after a night game. I had to break down the film by myself before I watched it with the team. I wanted to see everything I did wrong and did right or I wouldn't be able to sleep.
You've got to have positives and negatives about you. I think that's a good negative, that the only thing they could say about me is my size.
I grew up with a lot of friends that had a lot of abilities to do a lot of different things and chose different routes and it wasn't a great outcome for them.
It's a headache, chasing a guy around. I'd rather play against a quarterback that sits still.
Anytime you get rewarded for all the work you put into this game, you're going to be happy about it.
I'm always getting doubled; I just have to find ways to beat it. Can't use that as an excuse. Still got to get to the quarterback someway, somehow.
I've got a good team, got great agents that I know are going to handle the business side, and I trust those guys.
You have guys that are all over the field that are making a lot of plays, you'll win a lot of games in the NFL.
I feel I can rush the passer well. I feel like I can play the run even better than what I did starting off to when I got in my senior year as far as making plays in the backfield and just being able to break down film a lot better.
Pittsburgh's home. This is where it all started. This is always going to be home. I always have to get back to Pittsburgh and get some work done.
I've got family, people that really care and want to see me succeed and push me.
I'm just going out there and doing my job, so whatever it is - if it's a hard slide protection, if it's a double team, or even a triple team or a chip - whatever it is, I'm just finding ways to win, so that's about it.
It ain't just one guy, it's a team game, and I'll get myself better, I'll keep working on my technique and trying to find ways to free myself and keep making plays.
It was a dream come true to play for the University of Pittsburgh. My experience as a Panther is something that influences my life every day and I want to pay that forward.
I never let nothing ever get to me. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.
It's definitely tough on the pass rushers when they say you're taking a quarterback down and you fall on top of them and it's roughing the passer. Ain't really much you can say, it's just tough.
Leaving a legacy behind is huge.
It's what you work for and grind for. Just to get out there and play the game and try to help your team to win. And in doing that, you just help yourself.
It's not that hard to be good, you can be good off raw talent. But I feel like it's that extra step, doing work and putting a body of work in and doing things when nobody else is watching. When nobody else is telling you to do it, you're pushing yourself to do it.
I'm just a guy. There's nothing special about me.
It's always good to show that what you're doing is who you are, what you see on film in the regular season is what you're seeing at the Senior Bowl.
My senior year I felt I put a lot more time into the offseason to make a lot more happen. Going out my senior year, I felt like I did everything I wanted to do and more. I felt like I dominated and I feel comfortable going to the next level and that I'm ready.
The more experience you got the more things you are able to go through, and the ups and downs through a season that you had I don't think it can do anything but make you that much better.
You have to watch out because being an athlete and playing at the college level with the opportunity to go the NFL, you're under the microscope and everybody's watching. There are people that look up to us. So you have to watch out for what you do and who you're around.
At the end of the day you never know what team still wants what player. You just never know with the draft.
When plays present themselves, I can't miss 'em. I got to make 'em.
I'm just a football player.
I have experience at every position... I think that's a plus for me.
There's always room for improvement. That's my mindset.
Any time you go on the field, you want to dominate as a unit.
Any time you can get the ball back to the offense and they put points on the board, you can win games.
A lot of my success, and a lot of who I am now, is because of my dad, and the way he raised me and taught me how to have a work ethic.
I'm always going to be my worst critic.
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