Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American footballer Leonard Fournette.
Last updated on November 20, 2024.
Leonard Joseph Fournette III is an American football running back for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the LSU Tigers, and was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars with the fourth overall pick in the 2017 NFL Draft.
I want to be one of the leaders that's going to keep the light shining bright.
Your mom's working 9 to 5 every day and might get a second job. So you're really raising yourself, and you've got nobody else, so you go outside, and the streets raised most of us.
Because I hate to lose. I've always had that instilled in me since I was a child. Racing. A game. You want to be in first place every time.
That is one of my biggest problems; I do get upset when we lose and it takes me a while to get over it.
My job is to come out here and compete the best I can, get in the playbook, understand what they want from me, and the rest will take care of itself.
I would like to thank the Jaguars organization for giving me the opportunity to fulfill a lifelong dream of playing in the NFL.
A lot of people don't see the vision, the dream you have. They're shortcutting you. I had to get them out of the picture. Totally.
I come from being poor to a millionaire and I've seen the way cops treated people in my neighborhood. If you have a name, or you have a face, the treatment is different.
Football is football. I've been playing the same game for 25 years.
You're from Louisiana - you're playing for Louisiana, man. You get so much love from everybody, especially from New Orleans, my city. Everywhere I go, they're rooting for me.
I'm not a jerk, but when it comes to football and winning, I'm all-in for that.
At the end of the day, I want to win.
That's how I was brought up. That's the first thing to kick in, you know? Your brother gets into it with somebody. You go help.
Me coming to Tampa made perfect sense. I felt like they had all the keys I needed and vice versa. I can help the team out and also they can help me.