Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Le'Veon Bell

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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Le'Veon Bell

Le'Veon Andrew Bell Sr. is an American football running back who is a free agent. He played college football at Michigan State and was drafted 48th overall by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the second round of the 2013 NFL Draft. He has also played for the New York Jets, Kansas City Chiefs, Baltimore Ravens, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

What I've been doing over the course of my career - everybody's been seeing me be my best self.
I just think my work ethic really shows.
I can't take nothing for granted. I have to really protect myself - either get out of bounds or continue to finish the play. — © Le'Veon Bell
I can't take nothing for granted. I have to really protect myself - either get out of bounds or continue to finish the play.
I always want to find something to get you to play with a chip on your shoulder.
I always feel like I can play better.
I love the city of Pittsburgh.
I want to be the best that I can be because I want to win a Super Bowl.
As fresh as I can be in the games, the better.
I think I'm changing the game. In that sense, I'm what Steph Curry is to basketball. Don't get me wrong: I don't necessarily think Steph Curry is the best basketball player, but he changed the game, so he's going to always go down as being remembered. Now everyone wants to shoot the 3 and shoot it from deep.
I never feel like I'm in a rush. I'm controlling the pace. If I have the ball and hit the hole right now and get 3 yards, I feel like I can be patient, work for something, knowing I can still get the 3. It's something that's hard to be coached on. I just feel I've perfected it over time.
I used to go to Dairy Queen all the time. It always brings back a little bit of memories. As kids, we always used to go get ice cream.
I want to make sure I do everything in my power to be a better teammate and player.
I've made a lot of money, I'm happy where I'm at. I've got a good family - I don't really need to play football. — © Le'Veon Bell
I've made a lot of money, I'm happy where I'm at. I've got a good family - I don't really need to play football.
I don't play football just for money or things like that.
In football, when I break the line of scrimmage, I see a player in front of me, a defender, and already in my head I'm thinking, 'I'm going to make him miss.' So I'm already looking at the next defender like, 'OK, how can I set this guy up to get him out of position, too?'
I want to continue to grow, and as long as I keep going out there doing what I'm doing and don't fall off from what I've learned already as they keep adding things on, I'll be fine.
I don't necessarily care about the money aspect of it. I just want to be valued where I'm at. If I am playing this game, I want to set standards for all the other running backs behind me, like Todd Gurley and Ezekiel Elliott, Melvin Gordon, guys like that.
When I have my mind set, that's what I'm going to do.
When I used to drop the ball, it was because of concentration, trying to run before I caught the ball.
If I only get eight carries, and we win the game, I'm fine with that.
If I have 38 touches and we win the game, that's enough. If I have 38 touches and we lose, then I didn't get enough.
My mom tried to get me on ballet. 'Walter Payton did it! Walter Payton did it!' I'm just not messing with ballet.
I just feel like I try to get out of each game healthy.
If you just play your game, the stats will come.
Being in my rhythm, I can never tell whether I got 15 carries or 25 carries. It's never really a difference to me. I just go out and play.
I gotta go play with people who want to see me succeed, who want me to be great.
I work out with my trainer; he knows my body to a T. He knows the things that I'm great at, and he knows the things I'm not necessarily great at, and he'll try to help those things.
For me, I just like to play respectable football.
I just don't like when guys come and do dirty plays.
I have a chef for my main meals, but when he's not there, rather than go to the store and grab chips, I will eat grapes or a banana or egg whites.
I don't want to go out there and jeopardize myself getting hurt in camp.
I take pride in staying in the game.
It's about leaving a legacy. People will always remember what you did. That's why I run the way I run.
I love being a running back. But I really love being a football player.
I run my routes like a crossover dribble. It's about taking angles, faking one way but going the other, and being savvy. And then, instead of running to the basket, I'm running away from the defender.
Regardless of what happened off the field, that doesn't change what I do on the field and my performance.
Quarterbacks are leaders; it is what it is.
I know, when I'm 30 or 31 years old, I know I'll be productive because I don't depend solely on my athletic ability to get open and get yards. It's more my mind. — © Le'Veon Bell
I know, when I'm 30 or 31 years old, I know I'll be productive because I don't depend solely on my athletic ability to get open and get yards. It's more my mind.
I play this game to win Super Bowls and be a Hall of Famer.
I'm not a guy who will budge off how I feel about my work.
My family grew up Pittsburgh Steelers fans, and it's crazy I even got drafted there.
My go-to, I eat a lot of boiled eggs, egg whites.
Obviously, I want to be a Steeler for my whole life.
It was never a thing that bothered me, being cold or if there's snow. It never fazed me.
I practice so hard, Sundays are easy.
I feel like a lot of runners in the NFL: the more they get the ball, the more they get into a rhythm.
I don't want to just be the guy to dump the ball off to or the guy who can do the checkdowns.
I've always been a stubborn kid. — © Le'Veon Bell
I've always been a stubborn kid.
I want to be remembered as, if not the best, then one of the best players ever. Not just running backs - players.
It is okay to play tough and try to hit guys hard in the course of the play - that's fine - but I don't like unnecessary roughness or things that happen after the play.
There are a lot of running backs who see the first level, the D-linemen, and they can't really see the second level.
I feel like I wanted to run differently than everybody else did. And I want to do things that everybody else hasn't done.
I always try to find something to motivate me to be a better player.
I used to be more of a bruiser. I wanted to run through people. Now I try to run around them.
When I'm running, I tend to see a lot.
I don't think I should settle for anything less than what I'm valued at.
I'm not really worried about how many carries I get or anything, I just want to make sure we win the game. So if I need 50 carries to win the game, I'm going to get it.
I'm not a real greedy guy.
I don't think there are a lot of backs who can do the things that I can do.
A lot of guys are just as fast, just as strong, or just as big as me. But they're not going to be able to think the way I do on the field.
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