Ezekiel Elliott Quotes

Unfortunately, I'm not 185 and 6-3 and can run and catch fade routes all game. I do the dirty work. I'm all good. I'm thankful for it. Somebody's got to do it.

We're not necessarily going to be more athletic than the other team, but we can outwork them, and we can be tougher than they are.

I'm tough. I have taken on hits, I've blocked. I even got MVP for blocking one game and I didn't even touch a ball that game.

I kind of like to think I can do everything decently well. It's just putting me in position to be a playmaker, blocking, special teams, no matter what it may be. Whenever I go out there, I'm going to do my best.

I make plays in the passing game, blocking, doing everything.

When training camp comes, all the guys in my running back room will see how hard I go every day.

Don't matter if I am playing on special teams, don't matter if I am playing linebacker: I want to be the best at what I am doing.

I don't have to put on shoulder pads and run out there and let somebody hit on me a little bit.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.

Don't matter what they throw at us. Only angry people win football games.

They'd better be physically tough when they start pulling on their football pants.

I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.

Whatever's asked of me, I'm just going to go out there and perform my routes and how I've been coached all week, perform in the running game, pass blocking, run blocking, whatever it is.

I want to play a big role on special teams, too.

Football was always my dream. I started playing at the age of five, and I'm still playing now.

I love the game of football so every time I step on the field I'm going to do me. I'm going to go hard for the guys in the locker room.

I feel I play hard every time I step on the field.

You're only out there for 90 minutes, and you have to give it everything you've got. It's a game of football, at the end of the day.

I think the biggest thing to being an elite-level bobsledder is grit. You have to really want it. It's a very blue-collar sport. We do a lot of the work ourselves; we sand the runners, we wash the sled, we help maintain the sled. Obviously, we have a sled mechanic that travels with us, but a lot of the work we do ourselves.

I understand how hard every guy in this NFL works, especially at the position, especially at the quarterback position.

I want to play football out on the pitch. I am not different to anyone else and the ambition never changes.

My main focus is playing football and giving it all I got. I'm trying to go out there and make plays and help my team win.

In my career, if you follow my career and watched everything that I've ever done from the time I was in high school to where I'm at now, I've always been able to reach the pinnacle. In football, I was able to win championships and go to bowl games in college, be an All-American linebacker, and there were a lot of things I was able to accomplish.

Being a tight end, you have to be able to do everything. You have to be able to run routes; you have to be able to block, pass-protect, and run with the ball after a catch. So, that's how I attack my workouts - focusing on doing everything.