Darnell Dockett Quotes

I feel like I'm just like anyone else. I just happen to play football, and obviously with that comes responsibility, but I love that.

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'm a guy that can play three downs. You don't have to take me off the field. I value blocking.

And I think they loved me because I loved being part of their team, you know, and I quite often say to kids, that I was the worst player in the world's best football team - and that was good enough for me.

If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.

I really do try hard to be a good teammate. I can't run very fast, but I try to always run hard. I may strike out a lot, but I try to walk to set up the guys who are hitting after me.

I think you have regrets when you didn't give it everything you had, and I always felt like I did. Whether it was good enough or not, that has nothing to do with the fact that I tried my best to give my team a chance to win, year in and year out.

I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. When I was a kid, my friends would call me to go out with them, but I would stay home because I had practice the next day.

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

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.

My team-mates appreciate that I do the dirty work and I know it is necessary.

I look at the opportunity to play football as a blessing and I think what doesn't kill you certainly makes you stronger.

It is football. We need to be men, and it's not always possible to win.

I know I'm not the biggest guy or the fastest guy, but you've got to bring something to the table that someone else is not. I love football too much.

I tell people all the time that football taught me about life in every single aspect.

At Kentucky, you have to be a competitor. If you're not, you're going to look weak. You're going to look like you don't belong.

There are a lot of good football players in the league. You just try to keep yourself grounded.

Sometimes games may not go the way you plan it, and sometimes you have to do the dirty, gritty stuff well - you have to tackle; you have to run. I learned that when I was young, and it is a good feeling to work hard for the team, to get the ball back.

I just tried to go out there and play with attitude, doing what I was supposed to do and knowing my role on the team. Doing what my team expected me to do every night, not just once a week. It was all about work and I was just a tough guy who would knock somebody down.

You'll find out that nothing that comes easy is worth a dime. As a matter of fact, I never saw a football player make a tackle with a smile on his face. Never.

Football brings you lots of lovely things, but then you have to realise that it's actually a job.

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

I was not a very good football player when I started out.

We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.

Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.