Julius Peppers Quotes

I always try to find something to motivate me to be a better player.

I'm sick at myself for not winning more. But I am always trying to find ways to make myself a better player. I am not just turning up to make up the numbers.

The great thing about this is, and not to pump my own tires, but I feel like I'm not maximized yet. I feel like I can still run faster, jump higher, which I think makes it special. Hopefully, going to London, I'll be welcomed into the decathlon community.

I have a drive to get more steals and improve my game and stats overall every year.

We put pressure on ourselves because we want to be so great; we want to be the best team possible that we can be.

The biggest thing is becoming a better player and proving your doubters wrong.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

I'm always trying to improve, always trying to be at my top, trying to push the limit.

I really thought to myself, 'If I'm going to do anything in this world, I am going to be the best I can be.' I have a tennis coach that has taken me as far as my body can go. I hired a private skiing coach during my birthday week. I have a private yoga instructor. I just don't understand why you wouldn't give yourself every advantage.

I want to be one of the best.

One of my goals is to become the perfect player but you'll never reach that goal if your mindset is not right, I think.

In a healthy way, I'm super competitive. I want to do everything to the best of my ability. If I'm not giving 110 percent, then it's not worth doing. That's really been the whole thing of my career so far, even down in NXT. I want to be the best I can physically be.

If a player wants to be the best, then they also need to give themselves a talking-to. You need to look inwards.

Knowing that guys are out there improving and trying to take it to that next level, that gives me fire to improve my play and work on these little things that can keep me from dominating a game.

You cannot get complacent because there's someone out there working harder than you. So you got to keep pushing yourself to be an elite player.

I wanted to challenge myself to reach my full potential as a player.

I want to be a player that does everything he can to reach his ability, and I'll do that.

All I do is challenge the players to push themselves to their limit.

I've tried to improve - defending, attacking, pressing, trying to think before a game, to be more clever, do something before the defender can think of it, to become a better player. That makes me feel good, that hunger to improve in every way.

I think you can never be a complete player.

I want to maximize my potential as a player. I want to be as good as I could possibly be. And if I do that, I think I could be one of the best players out there.

If you want to be the best, find out what the top people do & do it yourself.

Sometimes I'm not even satisfied when I got 6 points and 22 rebounds, because I'm always looking to do more.

Early in my career, I had no consistency. Now I'm the most consistent player on the tour. It feels pretty good.

I was a better player at 50 than I was at 30.