Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Luke Kuechly
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American footballer Luke Kuechly.
Last updated on September 16, 2024.
The kids who would go to parties, I wasn't friends with them. I was cool with them at school, but I didn't hang out with them.
Hopefully I can find a way to stay involved in football somehow.
We practice, we work out, we go to camp, we go to OTAs to win games. So all that work goes in and you want to win games.
I'm open to whatever is best for the team.
I was so fortunate to have the opportunity to play the game for eight years and the people around me were fantastic, everybody in the Carolina Panthers organization treated me well, they taught me a lot.
Everyone's always asking, 'How do you get there so fast ?' I'll make a play in a game, go back, watch the film and even I don't know how I get there.
All of the linebacker spots are pretty similar, they just have different intricacies.
Just be nice to everyone because that's the right way to do it.
You've got to play hard. The moment you slow down, then that's when you get hurt.
I'm going to play football, that's what I do.
I try to stay clean on the field and off the field.
You play with guys who are big-name guys, and you grow up watching them and it's fun to play with those guys.
I think you look at a lot of sports, it starts with the guys up front. Your defensive line and offensive line in football and your big man in basketball, different stuff like that.
Putting on weight and keeping it on is important, so I'm a big post-workout protein and branch-chain guy.
There are a lot of guys that are really good at running the ball.
There are inherent risks playing football, but I think the guys understand it, and the guys not willing to take the risk, who are retiring, that's fine.
Well being from Cincinnati I thought it would always be cool to play for the Bengals.
You don't play the game and ever think about getting hurt, because that slows you down and increases the likelihood of getting hurt. I don't think about it. You just go out there and play.
For me, you play the game to win, and it's only as simple as that.
I think you win one game in the playoffs and then you don't go any further than that, it's obviously good but it's not like something that you're like, 'Yeah!'
Cam is incredible. Playing against guys like him and a great center like Ryan Kalil - I noticed him right away - is something that can only make me better.
I think things I want to be good at, I really push myself.
Aaron Rodgers is on a different planet.
I think a lot of people know I like the outdoors, and I like to hunt and fish, and a lot of that has to do with the fall.
Speed helps a lot of things. It can cover up mistakes. I think with the evolution of the offense, with spreading things out more, the better you can run, the better you can be.
We've been some cool places fishing. My parents and my family all went up to Alaska. We fished for king salmon, and that was really neat.
I always watched football on Saturdays and never did homework. On Sundays I had to do my homework. I didn't get a chance to watch games.
My thing is, if you're going to put stuff in your body, it's going to be beneficial. Clean carbs, complex carbs, good proteins, a balanced diet. It's difficult to do it on a consistent basis, but it's pretty straightforward: fish, chicken, lean red meat, vegetables, fruits, complex carbs. The hardest part is putting on the work.
We've fished down in Naples, Florida. We've fished out in Idaho. We've been everywhere fishing, and I think the best part of it is that it brings my family together and it gives us an opportunity to be around each other.
You never know when you're gonna find yourself around the ball, and if you give effort, you're going to find yourself around the ball more than you won't.
I play the game and I understand what's going to happen; you get banged up. But you signed up for it.
If you can't play with your hands you can't play.
It's difficult to put weight on.
There's only one way to play this game since I was a little kid - play fast, play physical, play strong.
If you can know a guy off the field, I think it helps you on the field. If all you're doing is talking football, maybe you can't get on the same page.
You can be as nice as you want off the field, but when you're on the field, you're going to do everything you can to win.
I don't really go out. I don't know, it just doesn't really do anything for me. Being around a loud environment with a bunch of people is just not my thing.
You've got to be smart with what you have; it's not going to be there forever.
There are a lot of guys that are really good at catching the ball.
The lifestyle I grew up with is still the lifestyle I live now: things in moderation, be smart with what you have.
What's heavy for me when I lift, probably isn't actually a lot of weight.
I get frustrated with myself very easily.
I've been competitive my whole life.
Nutrition and fluids play a big part in what you're doing. You can work as hard as you want inside a facility, and your program can be great, but if you don't balance it with a quality nutrient plan, you're going to have some issues.
I think when you play a contact sport there's always inherent risk and inherent risk to injury. At what point do you tolerate it, and at what point is it enough?
I played football for my whole life, and I love the game, I love everything about it and I love the Panthers organization.
I try to get most of my stuff in so during the week everything is kind of laid out and I understand why our coaches are calling certain defenses, what the game plan looks like in reference to what the other team is doing.
All the training for the combine was basically practicing for the different drills that we would see at the combine. Rather than football specific drills that we would do at BC.
As the game progresses and people throw the ball more often, the tight ends have become more and more difficult to guard.
I love pizza as one of my favorite foods. Pizza and cheeseburgers.
Everybody runs routes a little bit differently.
A football career is a finite career.
Everything with the draft process, from the combine to visits to pro days, that's great but it's not football.
It's the right thing to do to help out and give your time, I think that's something that everybody's got the same amount of time and it's, how do you use that time.
A lot of what I do is try to watch tape and understand how guys come out of breaks - what their footwork looks like, or how they look at the top of a pass route. Guys have tendencies. I try to understand what they do, which allows me to be successful.
I worked in the warehouse, and I would pick up orders. I would go to the computer screen, print off the order from a customer and then it would have where all the stuff was located in the warehouse. I'd go get a big gray cart, and you had to fill up these bins with all the parts. And it wasn't air-conditioned in there.
You go to the playoffs to win the Super Bowl. You don't go to the playoffs to win one game.
I try to take a lot of pride in what I can do in terms of knowing the defense.
I love the game of football, I love everything about it, I love the studying aspect, I love the team aspect... I'm gonna miss the interaction, the guys, you know, every day.
I think David Johnson is getting better, if that's possible. I think he's a really good player. I think he can do a lot of things. He's big. He's explosive. He can catch the ball out of the backfield. You can line him up out wide. I think he's a very dynamic player.
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