Top 66 Derrick Henry Quotes

I think running the ball effectively is the key to winning games in the playoffs.

Everybody always asks me about carries, what I thought about it, how I felt, but when you got teammates like that who love you and care for you, it don’t matter how you feel or how bad it hurts, you’ve got to make sure you’re making those guys happy by helping them win, getting a victory.

You’ve just got to deliver the first blow. In football, you’re going to get hit. Don’t let someone deliver the hit to you. You’ve got to deliver the hit to them.

The more you’re at Alabama, you grow as a person and as a player learning from great coaches and great men and just growing with your teammates.

We just gotta finish drives and be efficient on drives just so we can get touchdowns.

My teammates and my coaches, I can’t thank them enough.

Coming into Alabama from Florida, they all accepted me, they all loved me and all supported me.

Competition is nothing that scares me away from nowhere.

You work hard, you’ll be rewarded.

You got God on your side, anything is possible.

As the game goes on, I get better and I can see the defense getting tired. That gets me hyped.

I’m never really satisfied. But all I worry about it what I can control.

In high school I carried the ball almost every play of the game.

I don’t get tired.

In college, I loved Darren McFadden. Just the way he ran the ball.

It’s never going to be perfect, but you’re shooting for it. You’re just trying to be the best at what you do. That’s just how I always think.

I just go out there and play my game, man.

I’m being respectful to my elders.

I love being around my teammates.

I’m a competitor and I love to compete.

You’ve got to make the teams want to draft you.

When your time comes, make plays.

I love competing.

My main focus is to get positive yards.

That’s the attitude you have to have on defense. You have to want to hit. You have to want to be physical.

There are a lot of kids who look up to me, and I want to do well.

I think in the playoffs you have to be able to run the ball to get to the Super Bowl.

I don’t really try to worry about what people talk about me.

I’m just trying to play better every week.

I’m going to push and work hard every day.

I have to be efficient and finish runs, run physical.

I just want to do my job very well. If I don’t, I’m hard on myself. I just keep working until I get it right.

It’s exciting to come back home.

Football is competition and that’s what I love.

God has blessed me tremendously.

I just appreciate my team, appreciate my coaches, appreciate everybody involved, from my coaches, my teammates, the training staff… people in the kitchen at the facility, people who clean the building.

I don’t model myself after anybody.

God is so good, man.

I mean, I just try to run hard all four quarters.

When you work hard, it’s definitely going to show. That’s why with any athlete, we have struggles, and we have adversity, but as long as you work hard and keep your head down, you will always prevail.

My approach is always the same against any defense.

I love getting the ball.

I just think about running the ball and running down the field. I don’t really worry about the miles.

My goal every year is I always want to be better than the year before.

If you have dreams, chase them.

I feel like as the game goes on, carry after carry, I get better and better.

Man, you can have all of the talent in the world, but the hard work overrules that.

I feel like the more carries I get, the more flow I get and just keep it rolling with me and the whole offense.

Nobody is going to outwork me.

Life is not always laughs and giggles.

I wanna be the greatest to ever play my position. One of the best to ever play the game. Hopefully, be a Hall of Famer.

That’s part of growing up. You’re away from home and you meet new people and adjust to new things. It’s part of life.

There’s always going to be adversity in life. I saw it growing up.

I actually met Adrian Peterson in high school. I look up to AP a lot. He’s a great running back and we all know what he can do. That’s definitely someone you want to model yourself after, especially at the running back position. He’s a great one.

I feel like hard work pushes you over the limit and makes you who you are.

From my coaches we’ve learned that you need to have a different work ethic to be different.

Records come and go.

I have to run hard, finish runs, and be ready.

I want to be a premier back in this league.

It’s football, you know the locker room is going to change.

You control your own destiny. You go out there and work hard and show people that you come to work and earn your respect. All you can control is how you go out there and perform every day.

As a running back, you always want to be physical.

Earl Campbell, he’s a beast. I got a chance to talk to him; he’s a legend in my eyes. To be mentioned along his name is a dream come true.

All I see is that grass and open field, and I just run like there’s no tomorrow.

I wouldn’t say I’m unique. I’m just a running back trying to make plays.

Anything you can do extra like be more focused, pay more attention to detail, be more fundamental, that leads to less mistakes.