Top 60 Luke Kuechly Quotes

Hopefully I can find a way to stay involved in football somehow.

It doesn’t matter who it is, everyone wants to compete, everyone wants to win and you have to do your best because if you let up for one second something bad will happen to you.

Knowing the team is in your corner is comforting.

I’ve been competitive my whole life.

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.

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.

When you’re loose you play better.

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.

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 until we win a big bowl game or do something like that, I’m just a guy who came and played at BC.

Putting on weight and keeping it on is important, so I’m a big post-workout protein and branch-chain guy.

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 think things I want to be good at, I really push myself.

With a big, strong athletic guy like Gronk who can go up and get the football, the key is staying in position.You have to play with leverage, know where your help is.

You look tight on camera, it sees it. The camera can see everything.

I’m open to whatever is best for the team.

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.

You can get a young guy and he comes in and he’s athletic, he can hit and he can run, but if they don’t know what they’re doing, they’re a step behind.

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.

Knowing what everyone is doing, you can play faster.

You go to the playoffs to win the Super Bowl. You don’t go to the playoffs to win one game.

What’s heavy for me when I lift, probably isn’t actually a lot of weight.

All of the linebacker spots are pretty similar, they just have different intricacies.

When you’re growing up you always like the commercials of the guys on the screen that you like watching.

As the game progresses and people throw the ball more often, the tight ends have become more and more difficult to guard.

There are a lot of guys that are really good at catching the ball.

I think when you’re a kid you don’t think about money or dollar signs. You think about when you wake up on Sunday mornings, it’s NFL.

There’s only one way to play this game since I was a little kid – play fast, play physical, play strong.

With all these teams spreading it out and throwing the ball, that’s more my style of play.

I like being able to run around. That’s my game.

I think I’m a smart player.

I just want to win.

The more you’re yourself, the better you can play in the game.

Watching routes and studying routes, you can learn stuff that way or you can learn blocking schemes on blitzes. You never know what you can learn just sitting back from behind and watching.

You’ve got to be smart with what you have; it’s not going to be there forever.

I think football is a lifestyle more than anything. It’s how you eat, it’s how you sleep, it’s how you conduct yourself. It’s just everything you do you have to keep in mind, is this going to help or have a positive impact on how my practice is going to be, how my workout is going to be, how the game is going to be.

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.

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.

I don’t need a nickname. My name is Luke.

A football career is a finite career.

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 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.

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.

I do a pretty good job preparing myself. That’s something I take pride in.

If you can’t play with your hands you can’t play.

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.

There are a lot of guys that are really good at running the ball.

I really enjoy fishing. It’s one of those things you have to get in your element for.

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 one guy off the field, but when you get on the field the competitive aspect of who you are takes over.

Speed creates space, it creates problems, it scares people.

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.

I don’t like talking about myself. I would rather talk about other people.

I played football for my whole life, and I love the game, I love everything about it and I love the Panthers organization.

Aaron Rodgers is on a different planet.

I play the game and I understand what’s going to happen; you get banged up. But you signed up for it.

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.

I’m one guy on an 11-man defence that needs to do his job.

I just try to go out there and have fun and just get to the ball. That’s kind of my goal: just get to the ball and make something happen.