You have to know what you're doing to help people and have an important stance in life. You can only do that by staying focused, and I can't lose focus for a second.

After the whistle, during the whistle. Guys try to sneak stuff in. I just have to be uncompliant with stuff like that. Guys feel they can get away with stuff. I have to just try to not get back at him but make sure I finish through him during the whistle and not do anything that can jeopardize the team or that series of downs.

I'm going to stay respectful. The team comes first. I'm not going to do anything to jeopardize them or myself, so I'll just make sure I speak lightly and carry a big stick.

As soon as I step on the field, totally different person. As soon as I step off, I go back to who I've always been.

If you go in there with a mindset that you're gonna turn things around and make that contagious, and people start to believe in it, you can turn into a winning program wherever you go.

It's nice to have a record, but it's even better to have a win. But it's team before self every time.

Some athletes take what we have for granted. They kind of feel, 'I'm here, and I earned this, so people who are not on this level should just give me what I want and move out the way.'

You play because you love it, not because you can make money from it.

You want to get the sack, but you want to get the forced fumble and the fumble recovery. And if you get the touchdown, that's the cherry on top. But you're looking for those three always.

When I'm doing sports, I don't feel anything at all. I enjoy the moment. It's a safe haven. But once you try to let someone inside your soul, you become vulnerable. You have to be comfortable in your own skin. I don't open myself up like that to a lot of people. It takes courage.

I've just been competitive all my life. That draws from a competitive family. We're all athletes, and we're all trying to win no matter what it is, whether it's Scrabble or basketball.

I'm just gonna make plays and bring a good atmosphere to your organization.

I like to speak to my family in person. I get a bad rap because I don't use my phone enough to talk to them, but I do love talking in person, and I don't mind FaceTime, but actually, like, calling and texting, not too big on that.

I don't want anybody to be like me. By the end of my career, I don't want to hear talk of another Myles Garrett.

I didn't know how this would play out when I was a kid. I knew I wanted to play ball, be a paleontologist, and write poetry. I thought, 'Heck, where will I find the time? Well, football comes first, and I'll just find some time for poetry, and paleontology can come at the end.' I made this plan at 14, and dang, it's all coming together.

I won't take bullcrap from anybody.

I love making the big play. I love being out there with my teammates. I love the camaraderie. I can't say I always love practice. But it's a means to an end.

Don't let anyone be close to how good you are, no matter what the division is - one, two or three. It doesn't matter, everyone plays football. It doesn't matter who the competition is.

From the very beginning, I wanted to be the best, whether it was sports or poetry.

Boxing is kind of like football in that you test each other's desire to be there.

I want to take care of my family for generations. I want to have my head turned into a bust in the Hall of Fame.

You have to have some fun playing this game.

Make sure, if you're willing to say something, that you worked hard enough and prepared well enough to back those things up.

If there's the opportunity to turn things around, that's what great players do. They don't complain or become complacent with losing. They just go back to work every day and try to turn things around and make wherever they are a great place to be.

'Faithfully' speaks to me. It's about a guy who's busy with his work, always on the road, but I'm still completely into you. If you just hold on, I'll completely give myself to you. Just stick along for the ride.

I want the single-season sack record.

I can't go out there and be gassed and trying to go out there and make a play just for individual stats. Got to do the best thing for the team, which is to put myself out there when it's most productive for us.

Nobody is 100 percent every play, you know - eight, nine plays down the drive. Sometimes you do look back at it and say, 'Dang, I could have gave more effort there, or I loafed it a little.' But you work on those things.

I grew up with Ray Charles playing in the car all the time or playing in the house.

More people should stand up and not be afraid to do things that mean something to them.

I want to be the greatest. The greatest that ever played, regardless of position or era.

I feel I'm athletically superior to most of the guys I go against.

Regardless of whether I'm sitting on the bench or out there participating, I'm going to give my all whatever I'm doing.

My dad gives me goals, and then I kind of go even farther beyond those.

I don't want to have to be taken out because I'm tired or I need a breather.

I want to be dominant from day one.

I'm trying to be better every single day.

Every play I give max effort because it can make the game.

Everything has a right to live.

I can give it my all and make plays and dominate my side of the field, but it takes all 11 guys with a certain thought process that we're going to go out there, and we're going to win.

I want to be more than prepared for the game, for the preseason, for the season.

I have to live up to my expectations - which is to break all the records that I can, dominate by a wide margin.

It's kind of hard with two moves. I feel like you can't always be so predictable. You can be as strong or fast as you want, but speed-chop and power move aren't always going to work.

Just to see how much time is consumed looking down at your phone when you could be reading, becoming better at your own language, or learning a new language - you could be doing so many productive things. You could becoming a better student-athlete.

When I'm traveling for away games, I'm reading.

You just gotta back up your words. Don't be scared from it, or don't shy from it.

You'll see me everywhere, inside, outside. Only place you won't see me is maybe safety.

I want to be the greatest player who has ever been at my position, the greatest player who has ever played.

I'm too competitive to try and ride on somebody's coattails to get a W.

You want to be Defensive Player of the Year.