Jason Pierre-Paul Quotes
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I feel like after my incident, it really made me realize football is not here forever. I'm all the more anxious to come out here and let my teammates know, 'Look, hey, this is the same JPP. Missing fingers aren't going to stop me from playing some ball.'
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I had a job to take care of my parents, to take care of some bills at the house, because my daddy wasn't working. I had to figure out how to make that all work at one time. I was working at Boston Market... I told my coach, 'I can't play football because I have to make money to help my mom.'
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The less thinking you do, the better you play.
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Football is a game of business. You don't work for free.
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You put in the work, you should get to the playoffs.
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I'm just god-gifted: I have a talent. Even when I played basketball, no one ever taught me the game. I just played it. And with football, I just converted basketball to football and just played.
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Talk is cheap; play the game.
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You just gotta do it, man. You can't count on the guy making the tackle in front of you.
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What I bring to the table to help my team is that I'm never going to quit.
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I think like that all the time: nobody can block me, nobody can stop me, nobody can play the run the way I can. You've got to think like that all the time.
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USF gave me a chance to show what I can do.
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Coming from a home like I did, I learned a lot about work ethic and determination.
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We need everybody to contribute as one and do what we've got to do to win. Football is not an individual game. In basketball, LeBron James can take over a game by himself.
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I'm just very fortunate that I'm alive. I look every day and see my hand and say, 'Thank you, Lord.'
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I just do my job; I'm out there to make plays and play football.
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Basketball was always my game.
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I feel like I'm just going to go full speed and tackle. If that means there is friendly fire on my guy, then that's what I gotta do. I try not to do that because I know I'll lay a big hit on them, but if that's what I gotta do, that's what I'll do just to make sure that tackle gets made.
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Whatever I can do to help me be a better player, I'll do it.
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If I'm tired, I'm coming out. I won't do that to my teammates and stay on the field when I know I'm not going to be able to do it.
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Once you touch that grass, you know in your head only one team is going to walk out of there with a win.