Top 106 Quotes & Sayings by Jason Pierre-Paul - Page 2

You get older, you can't stay the same. You can't eat the same. You have to change things to get better.

I didn't think of football growing up. This wasn't my career, something I chose. It was something I was picked in.

You never can stop learning.

That's the whole part of playing football and having training camp. Coming in and recognizing how players play.

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.

Hard work beats talent, and I live by that.

I'm a great player; I'm one of the best defensive ends in the league, and I honestly think that.

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.

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.

I'd love to be a Giant for the rest of my career.

I'm not worried about sacks in the preseason.

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.

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.

I can do better, and if that's consistently training even harder, then I'm going to do that.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Whatever I can do to help me be a better player, I'll do it.

Each year is a year for you to get better, so that's what I'm trying to do.

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.

To play this game, you've got to have heart, and a lot of guys don't have it. I can sit here and say we all do, but we all don't.

The less thinking you do, the better you play.

The coaches can't be out there to tackle for us; we have to do that, like I say, starting with myself.

You just gotta do it, man. You can't count on the guy making the tackle in front of you.

You've just got to have it, man. Like, in this game of football, you can tell when you look at film who's more passionate about the game.

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.

I lead by example. Everybody sees it.

If I ever catch a ball, I'm going to the end zone.

You put in the work, you should get to the playoffs.

I teach some of the guys stuff that I've learned.

There's not really a guy like me out here doing it with 7 1/2 fingers - still.

Anytime you have an injury, you're going to be iffy about stuff.

New York is the biggest city, biggest fan base, and they don't sugarcoat nothing around here.

Your job is never secure as a football player - or coach.

Being injured, nobody wants to be injured.

I think I am worth a lot of money.

When other teams fear you, that's a big difference.

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.

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.

Set your goals and go out and do what you need to do to get it.

However many snaps I play for, when I'm on the field I go 120 percent.

Every quarterback can be rattled. There's no guy who can't be.

It feels good to get sacks and to know I can do it.

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.

Turning the corner is the most important, but first play the run.