Johnny Manziel Quotes

The Heisman is the biggest award I've ever won.

To the Heisman voters, I'm truly honored and humbled to be the 2016 Heisman Trophy winner.

I feel blessed that I had an opportunity to be in the Big Ten for four years as a player and be in the Big Ten as a coach for eight years. To get 12 years in a conference like the Big Ten - it's a first-class league with great towns and great fans.

The Heisman Trophy is such a special award.

The Heisman Trophy equivalent in collegiate wrestling is named the Dan Hodge Award, which illustrates just how Dan is perceived within that culture.

I wanted to go down as one of the best running backs to ever play at Penn State.

The Heisman is often a career award. Chris Weinke, Michael Vick, Eric Crouch and Drew Brees have all had a more than one great year.

I want to bring a Big 12 championship to Tech.

I've been very fortunate and blessed to have been able to play football at LSU.

I think it's nice to win awards, but my goal is not to win the Heisman: it's to get to the Rose Bowl.

On the field, I went from an anonymous redshirt to a short-yardage specialist to a Heisman Trophy candidate. Off the field, I showed up as a wild kid and grew up.

Whether you like it or not, you're a national figure after five games at Notre Dame.

I want the University of Florida to be successful. I'm always going to be a Gator, unless I'm on the other sideline.

You're looking at a guy who grew up in the state of Alabama, and my dream was to play there.

At the end of the day, I grew up wanting to play in the SEC.

Coming out of college, I got a lot of notoriety for being the old-school center.

I knew if I got an offer from Alabama, that's where I wanted to go... just because I liked what they stood for. I liked that they were winning.

For so many years, I wished it could have been different. I wished I could have gotten the opportunity sooner. I would have loved to see what had happened had I got to the NFL right out of college and all of those different things.

I think every young man's goal is to be a professional athlete, whether it's the NBA, MLB, or the NFL.

It's a dream come true. I mean, when I was a kid, I used to dream about playing college football one day, and now I'm playing in the best conference, and I truly believe that.

When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.

I was a three-star recruit, went to Texas A&M, and no one really talked about me there.

It was always my dream to go to LSU and play football.

I always knew I wanted to be in the NBA and play myself in a video game. That was my goal when I was a kid.

The bottom line is I'm a football player, and I played three years of college football, and I produced all three years. I also got better every year, and I just felt like it was time to move on.