Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Jason McCourty
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American footballer Jason McCourty.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
I didn't think I'd be playing football at 31 so it's a blessing just to be able to come out here and compete.
We all should realize the significance of a human life and how we all should be treated.
As I prepared for the 2009 draft, I vividly remember meeting with a prospective agent that told me if I put in the work, I could be a good special teams player in the league for a little bit. On one hand, thanks for the honesty, I guess. But I thought I might be capable of more.
I think that's the unique thing about our league is each year is a new opportunity for anybody to step up and make something of themselves.
My two brothers and myself never had to look outside of our house in search of a hero. We got to witness one up close every day.
Being able to put a smile on someone's face is way bigger than any amount of games you can win.
I think for the rookies, stick to what you've been doing, stick to fundamentals.
Like, I've had full interactions with fans as my brother and they don't notice. Pretending to be Dev is easy. I just act like myself except much louder.
That's kind of what motivated us our entire lives, to be able grow up and be able to give back and do things for my mother.
There's always something that's motivating you. There's doubt about something that's going on with you. Maybe it's not individually, maybe it's your position group, maybe it's your side of the ball. There's just always something that's going to push you.
As you get older in the league, being around younger guys who come in hungry and just flying around every day energizes the whole group. It gets you going. It gets you ready to practice.
In New England, winning isn't some bigger goal, it's part of a process. It's the expected result.
You're always going to have somebody that's saying something about you in a negative form or fashion. I think for each and every individual you try to use that to push you, to motivate you whether it really meant something to you, whether it didn't.
Everyone in the NFL is an NFL player.
It's so hard to compare one organization to another, just because there's a different way of doing things.
Let all your moments of self-doubt, fear or disappointment fuel your drive to be great. Because it will be in those moments of fear that we have to realize we must redefine success and what it means to us.
I think ultimately to be able help with the holidays for somebody who might be a little less fortunate I think is the main thing and the best part of all.
Corner is probably different from safeties and linebackers, but I think the important part is coming out each and every day competing, not only trying to get yourself better but also for us on defense pushing the offense as much as we possibly can so we can just improve totally as a team.
I think it's important, no matter your profession, to never become complacent and always strive for greatness.
Whether you're in year one or you're in year 12, every day you've got to show up with a willingness to compete and to prove that you belong there and a willingness to get better and listen to coaching.
I think that's each and every week, you're always gonna start with the basics, the fundamentals. One, stop the run. I think beyond that once you start there you're always looking out what their personnel is, in which ways can they beat you and then you have to adapt and adjust during the course of the game.
I just want to be somewhere where I'm wanted and an opportunity to compete and help the guys around me.
Nobody cares what anyone did last year, whether you were good, whether you were bad, everybody has ambitions and aspirations for this year. But it really doesn't matter until you go out there and prove it and you go out there and do it.
The opportunity to play next to my brother is really a dream come true. As kids you dream it.
There's not one year to the next that you don't go through a number of changes, whether it's personnel, whether it's coaching, whether it's scheme.
Devin's a drama queen.
One thing I really believe is control what you can control so for me, each and every day I get an opportunity, no matter what if I'm with the ones, twos, threes, fours. If your number is called and you get a rep, make the best of the rep.
Honestly, I'm not a soccer fan. I'm not a golf fan.
When I first came into the league, I was in Tennessee and I had guys like Courtland Finnegan, Chris Hope, Michael Griffin - a ton of guys that were willing to pour into me and help me figure out how to be a pro, whether it was the defense, whether it was life off the field.
Everyone always says, 'Oh Jason helped Devin so much.' I think they say that so I don't feel bad he was a first-round pick.
People often speak about legacy. And when they mention our legacy, I sure hope they don't only mention football.
The reality of the matter is I'm blessed to be able to do what I can and to have this platform. For me, I'm going to try and do everything that I can to use that platform to help those who don't have the ability to spread their voice that people will hear them.
We know that we carry the sickle cell trait, and we know we want to have kids, we want to reproduce, and the partner that we find, those are the questions we have to ask.
Understand who you are and what you're passionate about, and move in that direction.
For every negative comment you see on social media based upon standing up for something, there's somebody from back home that's telling me, 'Hey, I'm proud of you, man. Continue to do what you're doing.' Of course, you don't do it for that, but sometimes it's tough, man.
Brothers, inherently, are competitive, and twins take it to the next level.
I had older guys take me in under their wing, make me come get in the cold tub with them, make me stay after and watch film with them, of just continuing to try to push me, and talk to me all throughout practices and games, trying to get my technique right, my knowledge and all of that.
I'm nervous before every game.
Our father passed away when we were young so mom was the mom and the dad.
I'm nervous before a preseason game I think. There's those same pregame jitters.
I'm paid to play the sport I love.
When you're twins, everyone's always looking for differences. The ones they see are usually wrong.
I've been blessed with health and an incredibly supportive circle of friends and family.
Before you have kids, you can blow up and get mad, then you have kids and they teach you the opposite. You have to be patient when you're helping - whether it's with school work or potty training, it's a whole other level of patience.
I think for us as people, when we can help someone with a blood transfusion, when we can help somebody with a monetary donation that can go towards research, to know that you can possibly save a life, it's huge.
As we search for change and seek for our voices to be heard, completing the census will help get us the resources we need.
There's always going to be something from one season to the next that's going to be a challenge, that's going to have change, that's going to force people to step up, force different roles on people.
It's been crazy to not only learn about the criminal justice system, but to see how it starts so young.
Mom, I guess for us, has been number one from day one.
I mean, I think from the competitive side, especially as a defensive back, you don't mind that pressure, going out there on fourth-and-15 or whatever the down and distance.
Us being twins, growing up extremely close like we did, the one thing you kind of always wish is the maximum amount of success for your brother.
I think that type of mindset, no matter if you're 16-0, you're rolling through the playoffs, no matter what the situation is, there's always going to be somebody that's doubting you or saying something about you. I think for certain guys individually, it may be something that kind of gives you that extra kick.
Daniel Jones is a guy who has some escapability, can get outside the pocket.
That's honestly one of the blessings of having a twin who shares your interests. You kind of get this mirror view of what you're capable of.
I'm very comfortable playing off-technique, playing press technique. I've just had to do it in so many different systems and switch up.
I've probably exceeded every expectation I had for myself, going into my rookie year of what my NFL career would be.
I got drafted by the Titans in the sixth round. So I got drafted, but not by much. There's nothing guaranteed for a sixth-round draft pick.
I feel like I've been able to learn to get along and be able to connect a lot of people.
When you can attack legislation and get laws and the system changed, that's going to bring a real impact, but we can't expect that to happen overnight.
We work extremely hard here to get better each and every day to put ourselves in a position to win games when the season starts.
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