Top 70 LeSean McCoy Quotes

I think you build a team and a roster around the depth. That’s what makes a team really good.

I’m a big fan of Barry Sanders and I respect him a lot. He’s a guy that a lot of people talk about. He retired early and fans would have loved to see him, like myself, play three or four more years.

I want to win and be with a winning team.

There are so many great things about this country, but certain things we can’t take over and over and over again.

As long as I’m productive, staying healthy and doing the right things, I should be fine.

Certain guys are different. A guy like Marshawn Lynch, he’s more of a running through a guy. Mine is to get a guy off balance and going through an arm tackle, go through a shoulder, those types of things. Get them going one way and try to hit the other side.

I only can control what I can control.

People get messed up because they have a million guys they have to take care of. I don’t have that.

When my number’s called, I’ll perform.

I feel like every game is an opportunity to prove myself as a guy who is kind of underrated.

Just to be honest, like I always am, I tip on my service. I think it’s a difference between good service and bad service, and just having a bad day.

I’ve been playing this game since I was 5 years old, so I look forward to playing.

I play with leverage.

I think each player has a fight in them, wants to be considered as one of the best players in this league.

Any restaurant that I go around in Philadelphia, I tip very well. And I’m very respectful.

Harrisburg, it’s small, man, but it’s like a big family. Everybody knows each other, kind of, because in some way or another, they’re related. There’s a lot of talent, a lot of support.

We all ain’t perfect.

You gotta be the right size, height, speed – all those are a big factor in what position you play.

I try to simulate as much as possible what we do on the field in my workouts, so when I get with the team I’m somewhere close.

I’m trying to leave a legacy, man. I’m trying to get a gold jacket someday. That’s my mindset.

You know, that’s what every player strives to do is have a great career.

Sproles has the quickest feet I’ve ever seen out of any player.

I love my country, but there are so many things we could do better.

I love this game. I’ve been playing this game all my life. It’s brought me a lot. I have fun with it.

I think when you come off the bench, you know you’re going to play, but you don’t know really when, what time in the game, what quarter, so it’s kind of different.

Sometimes you do want linemen to cut-block. It depends. It’s all about what they feel.

I do love the Eagles’ fans.

If I could be that guy to help that young superstar to emerge into that superstar superstar, I would love to do that.

I can’t let distractions get in the way.

If you look on tape, as a back, I do everything.

I like Jim Kelly.

Just being a Pennsylvania kid, I’ve played in the snow before. I don’t know. I can still cut and run, like it’s not snow.

I try and do things the right way.

I never leave the field. I block. I catch. I never leave the field. I don’t have anybody do my job. I do it myself.

I don’t want to be one of those players that gets the contract and the main focus is on him.

I think any system I can do well in.

Nobody’s perfect from a player to the media to fans.

The only thing you know about Buffalo is, it’s cold. I mean, that’s about it. Until you get here and you see the players in the locker room… But I will say this, once I got here and met the team and people around, there’s a lot of good people around here. They love their football.

When somebody says you can’t do something, or ask can he still do something… that makes you want to go.

I got love for my Philly people. Those fans are about as crazy as you’ll find anywhere.

I let my numbers speak for themselves. I really do. I mean, all of these one-cut runners, you put their numbers up against mine, they’re not even close.

I’m going to retire as an Eagle.

It’s a copycat league.

There’s never nothing wrong with taking the right advice.

The more confidence you have, the more swagger you play with.

I think sometimes fans or people kind of get confused. They think these athletes or superstars aren’t human, but they are.

Buffalo has a great fan base, they go crazy man.

My last two years at Buffalo, I’ve had so many trade requests. Rumors every year.

You’re going to either make plays or you’re not.

You’ve got to make sure the field condition is great for the players, because we’re the guys out there running, putting our life on the line, playing hard.

We all make mistakes.

Dallas is always a fun place to play.

I make plays. In the air, on the ground, one cut or a million cuts – I don’t think it matters.

I look at a lot of players that left the game, I’m sure they think about if they should have stayed.

I’ve been All-Pro first-team twice.

Being explosive, quick, elusive and fast helps my game, so I do tons of lunges, leg press and different explosion type of runs.

I actually had the chance to meet Jay-Z once.

Philly fans are more emotional, but the Buffalo fans are a bigger crowd I think.

I love to battle with the best of them.

The pro game is about confidence.

It’s hard to care about stats when you’re not winning.

When I come into a camp, a team, I look to be the best player every snap.

I’m nowhere near Barry Sanders. But that doesn’t take anything away from my game.

Running, catching, blocking, third-down guy. There’s nothing that you can ask me to do that I won’t want to do or that I can’t do.

I feel like I’ve done a lot in this league.

I do think about them things, life after football. What type of person I want to be.

I’m going to have a great career when I’m done. But when people talk about me, I want them to say, ‘Yo, not only was Shady McCoy really good, but he was a solid person in the locker room. He helped us out.’

I think that a lot of times we get wrapped up in just our career – we play ball, we make good money. As a kid you probably grew up a Lakers fan, a Clippers fan or whatever it is because sports is just a thing when you’re a child. But, when you really look at the overall picture, we have a platform and a voice.

Any time you go out there and compete, you want to do your best.

That’s what this game is about: for records to be broken.