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Football Quotes by Julius Peppers

37 Football quotes by Julius Peppers

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Julius Peppers’ 37 snippets draw on a career that spans football and basketball, delivering observations on agility, toughness, and the mental grind of professional sport. His dual‑sport experience colors each quote with a broad athletic perspective.

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I know I can make plays.

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Tom Brady is a great player who can beat you.

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In Charlotte, it was all about the Panthers.

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

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I can honestly say I want to be one of the best to ever play the game.

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

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Sometimes you have to protect players from themselves.

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As a pass-rusher, 100 sacks is a big milestone. My 100th sack was on Joe Webb.

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

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

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

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

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Right now I feel like playing as long as I can, As long as my body will allow me to play I'm…

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

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

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You go to the Super Bowl in your second year and you're like, 'OK, cool. I'll be back next year or the…

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I believe that if I committed to basketball, I could make an impact in the NBA. I now see football as my…

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The Super Bowl ring eluded me, but I don't need that to validate me. I would have loved to have helped deliver…

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It's one thing to play football in this league and make a living, but it's a totally different thing to come to…

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Sometimes you've got to just dig down deep and be accountable for the role that you have on the team.

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You need a certain type of balance in life and I know where to put football in its proper place. But my…

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I want to have an impact on the game. Instead of a sack, how about an interception for a touchdown? I could…

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A lot of people don't really understand that a statistic is an indicator, but it doesn't really give the full picture of…

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A guy like Drew Brees is a guy that knows how to undress a defense. Most of the time he knows where…

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I love the game just as much as anybody else. But at the same time, I also understand that life is more…

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You know, I think sometimes certain players - and I don't name names - but certain players have a certain haircut, they…

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Each season and each team is different. It takes on a different personality every year.

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I guess more than anything, Green Bay just felt like home. You know, small town, good people who love their football... it…

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

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When you get to the big games you never know when you are going to be back so you've got to try…

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

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

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I want to be my own player. I want to be Julius Peppers. I don't want to be the next Lawrence Taylor.…

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

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I was lucky because growing up in tiny little Bailey, North Carolina, we had a satellite dish, so we got WGN. Which…

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

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

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Right now I feel like playing as long as I can, As long as my body will allow me to play I'm going to…

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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…

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

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

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It's one thing to play football in this league and make a living, but it's a totally different thing to come to a place…

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Different teams put me in different situations.

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

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

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

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I want to maximize my potential as a player. I want to be as good as I could possibly be. And if I do…

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

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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…

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You need a certain type of balance in life and I know where to put football in its proper place. But my love for…

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I've always been a guy who's reserved my words for the right time.

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