Top 110 Quotes & Sayings by Julius Peppers - Page 2

Tom Brady is a great player who can beat you.

You can be an emotional, high-strung guy, and that might work for you. I think I can be reserved and quiet and play as well as the next guy.

Each season and each team is different. It takes on a different personality every year.

Talking to your parents is a great idea - if you have that relationship with them.

Truth be told, that's really one of the small reasons that I wanted to get out; because everybody knows your business in Charlotte.

I want to get as good as I can possibly be.

Early in my career, I played with a guy in Mike Rucker who was a threat on the other side.

I live on a small town on the lake, and I mean people would get on their jet skis and just post up in front of my crib, trying to see who was there in my house.

After considering the ways that I might be able to help young college students, I decided to continue my support of the Light on the Hill scholarship. I would like to endorse this particular fund and encourage other former UNC students who have found success to reach back and assist the efforts of current and future Tar Heels.

You go to the Super Bowl in your second year and you're like, 'OK, cool. I'll be back next year or the year after that.'

You can try your best and do everything right for the most part and still not get sacks, and sometimes you can get sacks that fall into your lap.

I never said I had to be the highest-paid defensive player. That really wasn't the most important thing.

There's gonna be times where I don't get sacks, where other guys have two- and three-sack games.

I can assure everyone that there is no academic fraud as it relates to my college transcript. I took every course with qualified members of the UNC faculty and I earned every grade whether it was good or bad.

That's what this game is about; it's about relationships.

I think I was just born like that, a personality trait. I'm an observer.

I've always been a guy who's reserved my words for the right time.

I had games where I had better statistics than others, but it wasn't because I wasn't playing hard.

People that really know me know how I work.

I've always looked around and pretty much knew that I was built a little different.

My approach is going to be all about winning games. All the rest of that stuff will take care of itself.

To be honest with you, it really doesn't get me excited to see anybody get injured.

People who are given a lot, a lot is expected out of them. I realize that, but I also realize expectations are unrealistic sometimes.

You have to be a smart player as well as a hard worker.

You don't want to be one of these guys talking all the time, trying to say things all the time, because people start drowning you out.

That's something that I struggled with - talking to my mother about some of the problems that I had.

Hopefully I can be one of the better players to play in this league. That's what I'm working for.

In this game you only get a few opportunities.

In Charlotte, it was all about the Panthers.

As long as my body will allow me to play I'm going to continue to play.

Different teams put me in different situations.

There's a lot of games played, a lot of snaps played over the long haul.

It feels great to be a Packer.

A lot of people don't really understand that a statistic is an indicator, but it doesn't really give the full picture of the body of work. There's been time when I've had one sack or no sacks and controlled a whole game, and I've seen other cats get three or four sacks and it had no effect on that game.

When you get to the big games you never know when you are going to be back so you've got to try as best as you can to take advantage of those opportunities.

It's something I take a lot of pride in, that people compliment me and hold me in high regard.

Finding real friends - that's something that was an obstacle for me. And learning how to deal with my problems and talking about them.

I can honestly say I want to be one of the best to ever play the game.

I don't have a lot of close friends.

I tell you this: I'm not an outdoorsman. Actually, one of my things is to pick a little corner in Borders or Barnes & Noble and fall back and just read.

If you can't beat them (Packers), You might as well join them

I believe that if I committed to basketball, I could make an impact in the NBA. I now see football as my job and my greatest challenge.

I'm out to prove something-that I'm all for real and that I can do it on my own without any help.

Once I really maximize my potential-I don't know when that'll be, a year from now, three or four years from now-I think I can be one of the great ones.

I've wanted to hit Jay Cutler so hard for so long that this move just makes sense.

I want to be my own player. I want to be Julius Peppers. I don't want to be the next Lawrence Taylor. I don't want to have to live with his legacy.

Right now I feel like playing as long as I can, As long as my body will allow me to play I'm going to continue to play.

It's not important for me to be a star, but it is important for me to be one of the better players. I won't feel comfortable with not living up to my potential. I don't want to be spoken of as the player who had potential who never reached it, so I am going to work extra hard to try to be the best I can be.

I want to maximize my potential as a player. I want to be as good as I could possibly be. And if I do that, I think I could be one of the best players out there.

As a kid, I never thought I saw myself as unusual. I always thought that lots of people could do what I did. More and more I realized I was wrong.