Top 66 Devin McCourty Quotes

I think my goal is always to win as many games as possible.

Something so simple as breakfast and eating the right things and making sure you eat breakfast was key to us, and it helped me specifically when I got to college to gain weight and get on the right nutritional plan.

As much as we love the game since we’ve been playing it since we were kids, it’s still our job.

To me, when you play in the middle of the field or when you play safety, you have to do so much communicating that you’ve got to kind of watch the whole offense. You can’t just pick a guy or just pass plays.

You can’t take momentum and how you played from a win and think you just carry it over to the next game, and you can’t take a loss and how you felt after and think that you can just transfer that and that’s going to help you play better.

At the end of the day, we try to get wins. We just go out there and play.

I mean, I love New England. But after 10 years and winning three Super Bowls, something inside was telling me that I was ready for a new challenge. And I thought I might have to go elsewhere to find it.

As we’ve gotten older, we’ve used resistance bands more and more.

Coming out of high school and college, I wasn’t really the top guy.

Especially in the secondary, a lot of your tackles are usually going to be in the open field, one-on-one tackles, so you can’t be out there thinking about making a pretty tackle or having the ground ooh and ahh.

We’ve been playing football for so many years that people kind of forget we’re also college-educated, so we know how to get something, study it, go out there and try to inform people.

Losing sucks.

I’m proud to be a part of the NFL.

I think that’s the cool thing about playing at home is your fans are going to come out, and then it’s up to you.

I think a lot of trust is done even off the field. When you get to know guys and you see their story, you understand what they’re about and what playing on a team means to them.

Let all your moments of self-doubt, fear, or disappointment fuel your drive to be great.

Obviously Massachusetts has one of the best public school systems in the country. But there are schools, like in Brockton, where kids are struggling because they just need more funding.

When you go into a different stadium, you know there’s no home crowd, there’s no energy coming from the crowd for your side.

When chasing success, you never know where it will take you.

It’s the NFL. It’s simple. You either get it better or you have to look for a new job, so I think we all understand that.

I never thought I could play safety in the NFL.

I’m a physical guy. I’m not scared to compete.

That’s always the biggest thing, especially in the secondary, is building not just communication and everything but friendships and bonds of off-the-field stuff and things like that.

The game slows down each game you play, the more you play.

We thought playing in the Super Bowl was nerve-racking until we went to the Massachusetts State House to testify for an education bill.

If you’re trying one thing and that’s not working, try something else.

When you sign up for different jobs, you kind of discuss it as a family, the hardship of that.

When I think about the Patriot Way, I think about a team.

I think you can’t have swagger when you’re giving up 30 points or four- or five-hundred yards.

I believe in this country. I love this country.

Like I’ve always said, there’s a lot that goes into being a football player that isn’t the playbook and being on the field, but having everything worked out in your personal life.

I try to be an example for guys who first come into the league of how you can have a huge impact off the field and on the field. For me, I’m going to continue to try to do that.

It’s always exciting to have a guy you played with in college as a teammate in the NFL.

It’s just a tremendous feeling that you come from losing your father at 3 years old, to now, you and your twin brother in the NFL. A dream.

I always believe in servanthood. It’s about not elevating yourself to a positon of power. It’s about humbling yourself to the last guy on the roster and try to help him do his job better. That’s what my approach has always been.

Every time I’ve played in the postseason, it’s another huge accomplishment that I want to take full advantage of and go out there and play my best for the team.

You’re not going to just trick Aaron Rodgers 80 percent of the time. It’s just not going to happen.

The only thing that helps you play better is being ready to go against your next opponent.

Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result.

It’s always good to get back to football.

Rutgers didn’t want me at first, but they wanted Jay. So I did what any smart sibling would do – I rode his coattails all the way onto the banks of the ol’ Raritan.

I think in this league, that’s how it works. You’re either getting better or you’re getting worse.

I was actually a Cowboys fan growing up, so I didn’t care much for the Jets or Giants.

I watch a little ‘SportsCenter.’

Don’t lose sight of what made you who you are.

Contract year isn’t what everyone else talks about. For a player, it’s just another year in the league.

I think that’s everybody – you want to win every game.

You know, I think when I was young, I was just always worried about how I was going to fit in, what I needed to do to be better. I think now, as you get older, you kind of think more as a team concept of, ‘How do I get everyone on the same page?’

The funny thing is everybody wants to win a Super Bowl, and it really doesn’t change anything in your daily life.

I think it’s always good when you work out with your teammates. You just develop a stronger friendship, a stronger bond.

I’m not a big trash-talker.

I think as an away team, if you like that type of atmosphere where everybody’s against you, you know it’s going to be just you and your guys there for three hours trying to get a win. When you can get a win in that environment, I think it builds great character.

As you get later into the season, you always have to be prepared for if a guy is up or down, and that’s something we talk about constantly.

I don’t think you ever come into the season and talk, ‘Super Bowl, Super Bowl, Super Bowl.’ It’s about improving and winning games along the way as you improve.

I think the NFL is always going to put their interests in front of everything.

There are so many good players, so many good coaches.

I truly believe what we do off the field has a way bigger impact than going out there and winning games.

I think as you get older, you realize football as a whole isn’t guaranteed.

Don’t just be successful, but redefine success and then do it again.

You’re not going to be as good as you’re going to be at the end of the season in your first preseason game.

I’m not a QB guru.

My mom has done an awesome job with all my brothers of instilling in us how to give back, how to make a difference. Everything I do is to try and make her proud.

There’s no individual that’s bigger than the team.

I don’t know technique-wise, just I’ve always tackled the same. I’ve never even really thought about how I tackle or any of that.

So much of my development as a football player and as a man has been here in New England, and it’s an honor to hopefully be able to finish my career here and be a Patriot for life.

As a DB you’re trained to never look for a flag.