Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Devin McCourty
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American footballer Devin McCourty.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
Players have already done a lot of groundwork trying to fight systems, I think we have to continue to do that, and as things happen to play out.
You're not going to just trick Aaron Rodgers 80 percent of the time. It's just not going to happen.
As much as we love the game since we've been playing it since we were kids, it's still our job.
I don't think you ever come into the season and talk, 'Super Bowl, Super Bowl, Super Bowl.' It's about improving and winning games along the way as you improve.
I think you can't have swagger when you're giving up 30 points or four- or five-hundred yards.
It's always fun going back to Rutgers.
At the end of the day, we try to get wins. We just go out there and play.
I think the biggest I learned when I got to the NFL is everyone is different. We have guys from all over. We believe in different things. We do different things. At the end of the day, we all come to the facility for work.
Especially in the secondary, a lot of your tackles are usually going to be in the open field, one-on-one tackles, so you can't be out there thinking about making a pretty tackle or having the ground ooh and ahh.
You're not going to be as good as you're going to be at the end of the season in your first preseason game.
When you sign up for different jobs, you kind of discuss it as a family, the hardship of that.
The funny thing is everybody wants to win a Super Bowl, and it really doesn't change anything in your daily life.
You don't forget any time you play for a championship and you don't win it. It's just something that sticks with you.
There's been a lot of legends that I've gotten the opportunity to play against, some to play with. Those guys, sometimes they retire or different things, younger guys come up, they start over them.
To me, when you play in the middle of the field or when you play safety, you have to do so much communicating that you've got to kind of watch the whole offense. You can't just pick a guy or just pass plays.
I watch a little 'SportsCenter.'
You always want plays back; you want to do things differently. It doesn't control your day-to-day, but you always think about it.
Contract year isn't what everyone else talks about. For a player, it's just another year in the league.
In the NFL you can't say this game is the biggest game ever and you get all pumped up and you go win and then you're like 'alright we did it' and then you go out and you play bad for the next two or three. Like every week you've got to be ready to go because they're all big games.
You can't take momentum and how you played from a win and think you just carry it over to the next game, and you can't take a loss and how you felt after and think that you can just transfer that and that's going to help you play better.
Yeah, I mean, listen - anybody that's in the NFL is a good player.
I think the more you can kind of decrease yourself and kind of increase other people's stories and give them the light, I think that's what it's all about. Whether it's community service or giving back to the community in different ways or helping people, it's not about yourself.
Free agency is always interesting, exciting, sad. It brings all emotions.
I mean, I love New England. But after 10 years and winning three Super Bowls, something inside was telling me that I was ready for a new challenge. And I thought I might have to go elsewhere to find it.
I think that every guy who has come through New England would say that he gained a lot of knowledge and experience that made him a better football player. But they also learned what it means to be a better teammate, a better husband and a better father. I think cultivating that kind of atmosphere is something we take a lot of pride in here.
The power of positive thinking can change your life.
I think the NFL season starts with the first three or four games and all the predictions come out. You're either great on offense, bad on defense, great on defense, bad on offense. You're either going to have a Super Bowl chance or you won't. And I think after that, people kind of think everything's set in stone.
There are so many good players, so many good coaches.
It's just a tremendous feeling that you come from losing your father at 3 years old, to now, you and your twin brother in the NFL. A dream.
The reason I got into sickle cell was my aunt has the disease, my uncle has the disease, and then the more I looked into it, a lot of minorities have the disease and it just doesn't get covered. No one really talks about it, and I felt it was the same thing with the different social injustice issues and topics that I kind of dove into.
I always believe in servanthood. It's about not elevating yourself to a positon of power. It's about humbling yourself to the last guy on the roster and try to help him do his job better. That's what my approach has always been.
I think that's everybody - you want to win every game.
I think it's always good when you work out with your teammates. You just develop a stronger friendship, a stronger bond.
I'm not a big trash-talker.
I'm not a QB guru.
Two teams trying to win a football game at the end of the season is going to be chippy. It's going to be everything from pushing and shoving to fighting for extra yards.
All these systems are in place for the black race to fail, to always be underneath.
That's what coaching is: It's watching film and putting guys in the best position.
I don't know technique-wise, just I've always tackled the same. I've never even really thought about how I tackle or any of that.
When I think about the Patriot Way, I think about a team.
As you get later into the season, you always have to be prepared for if a guy is up or down, and that's something we talk about constantly.
Yeah, I think that's the best part of being nominated and receiving awards is whatever you care about that you have given time to, have served different people, you get to spotlight and highlight that.
The game slows down each game you play, the more you play.
There is always going to be a Super Bowl winner, a league MVP, a Super Bowl MVP, great defenses and offenses. But I think to be part of real change - you talk about athletes like Muhammad Ali or Bill Russell - when you are able to do things that truly affect not just the game, but people everywhere, you find true meaning.
I always tell people the hardest thing is competing against the guys you see every day because any of my strengths that I like to go to, they see that every day.
So much of my development as a football player and as a man has been here in New England, and it's an honor to hopefully be able to finish my career here and be a Patriot for life.
I think my goal is always to win as many games as possible.
We have to stop any offense when they're operating at their best.
I was actually a Cowboys fan growing up, so I didn't care much for the Jets or Giants.
The only thing that helps you play better is being ready to go against your next opponent.
I think a lot of trust is done even off the field. When you get to know guys and you see their story, you understand what they're about and what playing on a team means to them.
Coming out of high school and college, I wasn't really the top guy.
That's always the biggest thing, especially in the secondary, is building not just communication and everything but friendships and bonds of off-the-field stuff and things like that.
I think that's the cool thing about playing at home is your fans are going to come out, and then it's up to you.
You know, I think when I was young, I was just always worried about how I was going to fit in, what I needed to do to be better. I think now, as you get older, you kind of think more as a team concept of, 'How do I get everyone on the same page?'
Let all your moments of self-doubt, fear, or disappointment fuel your drive to be great.
It's always exciting to have a guy you played with in college as a teammate in the NFL.
I think as an away team, if you like that type of atmosphere where everybody's against you, you know it's going to be just you and your guys there for three hours trying to get a win. When you can get a win in that environment, I think it builds great character.
Davante Adams is a great receiver.
Film wise, I always just kind of watch the offense overall.
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