Julius Peppers Quotes

Being on stage isn't so tough compared to the football pitch.

In baseball, you have to remain calm, cool, and collected. In football, you can let out a little anger sometimes. It was a fun game, and I liked it, but I knew in my heart I was going to play baseball.

I have a lot of competitive juices, and I want to go out and compete on the football field every day.

For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.

You see so many different personalities and mind-sets in the world of sports, just like you do with actors.

It's fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system.

Obviously, I don't want to be in the box for over a hundred minutes during the season, but at the same time I have to try to play with an edge and battle out there.

Matches are won and lost so many times in the locker room.

I never want to let my teammates or coaches down, so I always fight through the days when I am exhausted or experiencing discomfort with injuries and headaches.

What personality does it take to drive a car around a track 100 times or hit a ball back and forth. That's not very personality is it?

I feel like, at any given time, if I'm not playing my best football, if I'm not taking coaching points, if I'm not doing things right out there on the field, I feel I can be covered by anyone.

I'm just super competitive. Squash, tennis, water skiing, computer games... Even if I played you at pool, I'd have to win.

As I always say - you have no feelings when you are on the pitch. You are there to play, to give the best for your team.

I always look forward to playing great players, great scorers, because I pride myself on my defense.

I've always liked big challenges in football and playing against the best.

I think probably all of my determination and eagerness to want to play professional sport came from my family.

Some people seem to think football is like theatre and that everyone has to play the good guy. But I think that you transform when you cross the white line: you're not the same person as off it.

I don't have anything against United. Playing them won't make me run any faster or try any harder.

Once you get out there and start playing basketball, whether the NBA or college or whatever arena you are playing in or who you are playing in front of, the juices start going, and you want to just go out there and play to the best of your abilities.

Football can give everyone who loves the game their great moments and most dreadful disappointments. All it takes is a couple of bad injuries or decisions to turn a season and that's just the unforgiving nature of sport.

You always - as a basketball player, as a competitor - that's where you speak most: on the court.

You feel many things during a match. There are things that annoy you. During important games, I do not always touch the ball a lot.

It is very easy to make athletes, and it is very difficult to make rugby players with that rugby instinct. I would like to think I have got a bit of rugby instinct and have become more of a rugby athlete along the way.

I've learned that football is a stupid sport for intelligent people because the simplest things are truly also the most difficult to get right.

In high school I just loved to compete and play sports. I didn't have a sport that I was going to say, 'Hey, I'm going to play this at the next level.' Whatever my best opportunity was was what I was going to do.