It started with my mom; she always wanted me to get my degree and graduate.

I'm a southern boy raised in Gainesville, Georgia, so it's natural for me to want fast food and sweet tea, but those are the things I've had to cut back on.

I try to do the right things. I was always raised that if you do the right thing and obey the law, you won't have problems. I really believe that. But that's just me; that's what I've tried to do because that's how my mother raised me.

As a rookie, I worked with my agent and the training staff to figure out what diet works for my body naturally.

I think about my mom and the things she went through, and things could always be a lot worse.

I'm a competitor. I'm going to compete each and every day to get better.

At first, after my freshman year, it was kind of a joke, going into my sophomore year like, 'Hey, I wanna graduate in three years, two-and-a-half.' And we were just kind of playing with it, added some extra classes in, and then once I finished that following spring going into that next summer, it was just like, 'Hey, I can actually do it.'

No one can beat Momma. She made me the person I am today - the way I think and act and move and talk and speak. It's all because of her.

You correct the mistakes, and you move on.

Clemson was the best three years of my life.

When we get in the red zone, we have the mentality that we're trying to get points. We're not satisfied with three points. We're trying to get touchdowns each time we get in there.

When I'm on the field, I'm locked in, focused on my job. I try to have a positive play and try to get points on the board.

I have some muscle on me where I can take those hits.

Between lunch and dinner, I try and snack on fruit and granola.

Depending on who we're playing, it's just kind of, like, a little starstruck. You know, because these are guys that... I'm playing against Tom Brady or Russell Wilson, Andrew Luck, guys like that that I've been watching since high school, that's been doing crazy things.

I'm self-motivated. I'm motivated for myself to be the best I can be - for me to do that, I have to have my own motivation, my own positive energy.

My mom said it's always positive vibes. I love good vibes, and that's what I get off people all of the time. That's what I want to give out to other people is those vibes and to have hope and dreams and to build that confidence and be encouraged to do whatever they want in life if they put their mind to it.

I love the work, love the grind. I love what I have to go through to get what I want.

I grew up with pretty much nothing - in the hood, the ghetto - whatever you want to call it.

Ain't no quitting in me.

My approach is always the same against any defense.

You've just got to deliver the first blow. In football, you're going to get hit. Don't let someone deliver the hit to you. You've got to deliver the hit to them.

The more you're at Alabama, you grow as a person and as a player learning from great coaches and great men and just growing with your teammates.

I mean, I just felt like Alabama fit me the best. What Coach Saban preaches about it all the time and what his players represent, I wanted to be a part of that.