Top 66 Julius Peppers Quotes

You know, I think sometimes certain players – and I don’t name names – but certain players have a certain haircut, they have certain sack celebrations. They draw a lot of attention to themselves.

Sometimes you have to protect players from themselves.

I didn’t grow up playing football. I wanted to be a basketball player.

I don’t have a lot of close friends.

To be honest with you, it really doesn’t get me excited to see anybody get injured.

I’m not living my life out there trying to make everybody happy. I’m doing things that I feel like are right and things that I believe in.

You can be an emotional, high-strung guy, and that might work for you. I think I can be reserved and quiet and play as well as the next guy.

That’s my thing. Pass rusher, yeah, you can call me a pass rusher.

As long as my body will allow me to play I’m going to continue to play.

I want to try to execute my role to help the team in the best way possible.

There’s gonna be times where I don’t get sacks, where other guys have two- and three-sack games.

My stepdad was a farmer, so growing up, during summer breaks, I woke up every morning and went to work. Harvesting tobacco, picking cucumbers, gathering watermelons from the patch, pulling up sweet potatoes… stuff like that.

You don’t want to be one of these guys talking all the time, trying to say things all the time, because people start drowning you out.

People who are given a lot, a lot is expected out of them. I realize that, but I also realize expectations are unrealistic sometimes.

There are only a few times in a man’s life where you have the chance to stand up for something that you believe in and make a statement.

I know I can make plays.

I don’t know too many pass rushers playing at 40.

It’s something I take a lot of pride in, that people compliment me and hold me in high regard.

That’s what this game is about; it’s about relationships.

I’ll always love the city of Chicago.

People change teams all the time. People might not go from Green Bay to Chicago or from Chicago to Green Bay all the time, but people change teams all the time.

Hopefully I can be one of the better players to play in this league. That’s what I’m working for.

I love the game just as much as anybody else. But at the same time, I also understand that life is more than football, too. People might get that misconstrued sometimes, too, that I don’t care because I’m not die-hard football, eat, sleep and drink it all day and all night.

I guess more than anything, Green Bay just felt like home. You know, small town, good people who love their football… it was a really great experience being a part of that culture.

I can assure everyone that there is no academic fraud as it relates to my college transcript. I took every course with qualified members of the UNC faculty and I earned every grade whether it was good or bad.

The tough times never lasted and the tough people inspired me to be better and give more. I hope I did the same.

Tom Brady is a great player who can beat you.

As a player, I don’t want to come off the field.

I got booed a lot of places.

I was never focused on winning individual awards. I just tried to help the team out and do all that I could do.

It feels great to be a Packer.

You have to be a smart player as well as a hard worker.

My approach is going to be all about winning games. All the rest of that stuff will take care of itself.

There comes a time when you can’t play as much.

Truth be told, that’s really one of the small reasons that I wanted to get out; because everybody knows your business in Charlotte.

I just live day to day, in the present. And I try to just be that best version of myself every day – I don’t look too far behind, I don’t look too far forward.

I didn’t want to do media or appearances. You’ve got to do this and that, fly here to film something. I didn’t want to cut into my time for that. You can’t pay for your peace of mind and your sanity.

People that really know me know how I work.

Sometimes you’ve got to do things you don’t want to do. Doing the right thing is not always comfortable; it doesn’t always feel good.

I had games where I had better statistics than others, but it wasn’t because I wasn’t playing hard.

People will hear one thing and just run with it.

At the end of the day, the wins are the wins and the losses are the losses. But the relationships are everything.

Finding real friends – that’s something that was an obstacle for me. And learning how to deal with my problems and talking about them.

I never felt like my effort was a problem.

When you get into the game, you’re trying to win games. So you want your best players out there.

I was so sheltered as a kid that when I went to college, it was like taking the chains off. That’s where the trouble came from. It was the first time for me being by myself, and I got into everything you could think of.

I didn’t know I was different athletically for a long time. I thought everyone did the sort of things that I can do.

I think everybody would like to play a little more.

I’ve been doing that since college. I like to run. That’s my thing.

I never said I had to be the highest-paid defensive player. That really wasn’t the most important thing.

I want to get as good as I can possibly be.

Talking to your parents is a great idea – if you have that relationship with them.

I was lucky because growing up in tiny little Bailey, North Carolina, we had a satellite dish, so we got WGN. Which meant we got almost every Bulls game.

I was sad to leave Green Bay, and I don’t think I would have left to go anywhere but home to Carolina.

In Charlotte, it was all about the Panthers.

I’m not above criticism.

You need a certain type of balance in life and I know where to put football in its proper place. But my love for the game, I have it just like everybody else. If you don’t, you’re going to get yourself hurt out there.

There’s a lot of games played, a lot of snaps played over the long haul.

Sometimes, you’re on the field, you get tired. If I’m not playing as hard on play 66 as I was on play number 1, then… come on.

It’s tough to find the words to say to someone who has lost everything. I can’t imagine how it feels.

I tell you this: I’m not an outdoorsman. Actually, one of my things is to pick a little corner in Borders or Barnes & Noble and fall back and just read.

You can try your best and do everything right for the most part and still not get sacks, and sometimes you can get sacks that fall into your lap.

Every game, well most of them, come down to turnovers and the turnover battle.

I live on a small town on the lake, and I mean people would get on their jet skis and just post up in front of my crib, trying to see who was there in my house.

You think about it sometimes. I try not to think about it too much. You think about you can’t play forever.

If you’re playing 55 to 60 snaps, you have opportunities to pace yourself, pick spots. When you’re not playing as many and you don’t know necessarily when you’re going to be in, you do have to sometimes make it happen when you’re out there.