Le'Veon Bell Quotes

I wasn't the most technical player. But I was fast, and if I push the ball past a player, I can get there. Everyone always made fun of me in a good way for that.

A lot of different things go into calling the run game - especially at the line of scrimmage.

I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.

The tag that I was too small and too slow just made me work that much harder. Besides, quickness is more important than flat-out speed. How often does a receiver run 40 yards straight down the field? Not very often. Lateral speed is what counts. How quickly can you get in and out of a cut? I can do that as well as anyone.

People have no idea how hard football is, absolutely no idea. It's all about pace. You can say, 'Yeah, you've got speed of thought' - but you've got to have a little bit of a zip.

Remember that. I ran from the line of scrimmage.

I even steal bases. I hear all the time that I'm slow, but hey, I have 66 stolen bases.

I've always prided myself on being a football player.

I think I play well getting up and down the court.

I think when you're running through a hole and you're hit in certain, different ways, you have to be able to move and change and make people miss.

I rate Dave Luiz as a top defender. He's very clever. But I don't know if he's as quick as me. And if he kicks me, he kicks me. It's fine. I can't react to anything.

I'm not limited to running or jumping or catching footballs.

This is football; everyone gets hurt. If you run the ball 40 times a game, you're going to get banged around and get nicks and bruises here and there, but I don't pay too much attention to that.

I see myself as a pretty mobile big man.

To be able to run routes, that's like the greatest thing to me. It's kind of like an art to me. It's like a painter drawing or something like that. That's how I feel every time I run a route.

Speed has always been there in college football.

Football is a physical strenuous sport. These guys are running all of the time.

A lot of people know me for my speed and my flexibility. I like to jump, but I'm not really the best jumper. I'm more of a spinner.

If you can put your hands on the receiver and get to him fast, that messes up everything for them. If I don't put hands on him, he's probably going to beat me on the route.

Playing football helped me a lot. Just reading the quarterback's eyes and reading receivers, figuring out what they want to do.

I learned how to defend the ball with my body and to be faster than my opponents.

If they want to kick the ball up in the air, I will challenge all day long.

College lacrosse can be pretty brutal at times, so that definitely helped me with the toughness. It's a fast-paced game, so that helped me kind of translate over to the game speed of playing in the NFL. I think just the one-on-one aspect of trying to beat the guy in front of you definitely helped me as being a receiver.

I like to attack the spaces, move around a lot and make cuts.

Football is a very instinctual game, and it's very fast-paced.