Top 87 Quotes & Sayings by Peyton Hillis
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Whenever you're having a down year, it's always tough, especially when you expect a lot from yourself.
I'll carry a ball around with me all day and ask people to try to knock it out of my hand when I least expect it. I'll give them some money and stuff, so people get pretty geeked up about that. It just helps me to take care of the ball without even thinking about it.
Everybody's going to play in tough-weather games - snow, rain, sleet - but you've got to hold onto the football.
I never one time mentioned anything to any coach about retirement or joining the CIA or anything like that.
Whatever it takes to get on the field and get that starting spot to get the carries. I've always worked hard.
I believe that the Lord is going to take care of me. I know His will is the only way that can judge me or put me in my place.
I feel like I've been doing what I need to be doing to make me better at the game.
I just try to do the best I can.
You can do something if you put your heart into it.
This is football; everyone gets hurt. If you run the ball 40 times a game, you're going to get banged around and get nicks and bruises here and there, but I don't pay too much attention to that.
When you walk around Cleveland, the fans are starving for a winner and a successful team, and you saw how upset they were when LeBron left. You just want to win it for them.
I really enjoyed my time in Cleveland.
I never was a guy who wanted to be in the limelight.
Everybody's going to have troubles and problems.
My football idol growing up, I was named after Walter Payton, but my idols at RB were Barry Sanders and Emmitt Smith.
There are a lot of athletic trends that I don't have. I feel like I have a bigger heart and desire than most people do.
I didn't notice pain in the way that most guys would.
It's really sad how many people believe in curses.
I'm a truly happy person.
I've always said of myself I can do mostly anything if I put my mind to it.
I really enjoyed my time playing in a Browns uniform.
That's where I began was special teams and it's probably where I'm going to end up is special teams. I try to embrace that and try to do the best I can at it.
In Denver, they just wanted me to play strictly fullback, nothing else. I wasn't too happy about the situation, but I was trying to be a team player.
I'm 250 pounds, I'm not really fast.
I went through a couple of years there just mad at the world. I put my faith in the world and the world let me down. And I should have known that. The world's always going to let you down. Put your faith in God.
There is a lot to do in Cleveland. It's just those December, January, February months that are tough. But there is a lot to do there.
I have an open mind and I'm willing to do whatever.
I like to look at it as things and people and whole society in general being uneducated about facts. There are a lot of stereotypes. But I don't see color, I don't see race.
I'm a guy who is going to go out there and do his best, and I'm a guy who has always gone out there and proved people wrong.
Football in general is just fun.
One thing I have figured out: People don't like different. People don't like to see anything different. When you see something different, you are either scared or afraid or you feel threatened. And I feel that the way I play the game, it feels like I should have played 50 years ago. But it's what I do.
I like a good challenge, and I'm always up for anything.
If you can't keep yourself in shape on your own without being told to, that's a shame.
I think players are disciplined enough to work out on their own.
I always find competition in each and every thing I do, and it will bring competition - no doubt about it.
There's no such thing as accidents.
I'm a human being just like everybody else.
I like the Albino Rhino. That was kind of cool. Of all the other nicknames people give out, I thought it was really unique.
I read Psalms 18 before every game.
I was always pretty much the biggest running back on the field at any given time.
I just feel people can see, when I'm 100 percent, I am running hard. I can do pretty good.
I'm just trying to go out and do what I can to help the team win.
I want people to see that I'm not a one-hit wonder.
I guess when you get paid over 100 million dollars by one team, it's kind of easy to point the finger at other guys and try to hate on them for trying to get another contract.
I think when coaches look at me, they don't see a prototypical running back.
The Cleveland Browns fans really are the greatest fans.
Not only do you have 16 regular-season games, you also have four preseason games. Then if you make the playoffs, you can have four more games before you get to the Super Bowl. So you can already have 24 games without the 18-game season. And 24 games takes a real toll on somebody's body.
Actually, I don't even believe in curses.
QB's have it good. They don't take any hits. They have the most pay. The most glamour.
I've been very blessed.
Cleveland fans are great. They really do support their team, and they back them up no matter what.
As a kid, you'd look at all these guys in the NFL and almost idolize them.
I pretty much keep my mouth quiet and go about my business.
I'm a Christian man, and I don't believe anything could be put in front of me that God can't take away.
I'm not a showy kind of player.
If I meet somebody and they ask me what position I play, I always just say an 'athlete' or that I do a lot of things.
I kind of like to think I can do everything decently well. It's just putting me in position to be a playmaker, blocking, special teams, no matter what it may be. Whenever I go out there, I'm going to do my best.
In my career, I've found that anything can happen.
I'm doing yoga, MMA and things like that. I'm an unorthodox player, so I have to do things that fit my kind of game.
I am just here to serve God's will.
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