Jason Pierre-Paul
Every team that goes into training camp thinks they're a Super Bowl contender.
I think nobody can block me. Nobody can stop me.
Once I get on a roll, it's hard to stop me.
Football is a game of business. You don't work for free.
The Giants have a great organization, great fan base.
Did I ever get booed? I don't think I ever got booed.
I can't play 'Madden' without an index finger!
I'm a vet. I know the game and know how to play the game.
You can't predict injuries. That's one thing you can't do.
Every year, jobs are on the line.
Every year you've got somebody coming in and trying to kick you off, so you have to prove yourself. Even for the coaches, too. Their jobs are always on the line.
Your job is never secure as a football player - or coach.
Whatever I can do to help me be a better player, I'll do it.
I can do better, and if that's consistently training even harder, then I'm going to do that.
Being injured, nobody wants to be injured.
Each year is a year for you to get better, so that's what I'm trying to do.
You've just got to have it, man. Like, in this game of football, you can tell when you look at film who's more passionate about the game.
To play this game, you've got to have heart, and a lot of guys don't have it. I can sit here and say we all do, but we all don't.
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.
I didn't think of football growing up. This wasn't my career, something I chose. It was something I was picked in.
I was a basketball player. And my mother even wanted me to quit because I hurt my leg. But I didn't know anything about football - from Pee-Wee on up, my friends would play, and I would never go with them.
You just gotta do it, man. You can't count on the guy making the tackle in front of you.
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.
The coaches can't be out there to tackle for us; we have to do that, like I say, starting with myself.
There is a certain way that I play. You just have to have a feel for it. That's something you have to feel as a football player.
That's the whole part of playing football and having training camp. Coming in and recognizing how players play.
I'm not worried about sacks in the preseason.
You get older, you can't stay the same. You can't eat the same. You have to change things to get better.
Hard work beats talent, and I live by that.
If I ever catch a ball, I'm going to the end zone.
There's not really a guy like me out here doing it with 7 1/2 fingers - still.
New York is the biggest city, biggest fan base, and they don't sugarcoat nothing around here.
I teach some of the guys stuff that I've learned.
The less thinking you do, the better you play.
Me, personally, I'm going to be out there running full speed and chasing down running backs and chasing down quarterbacks. That's what I do best.
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.
It's not about an individual. If I have a tip or a reminder for one of my teammates, I'll help him out by doing that.
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.
When other teams fear you, that's a big difference.
I think I am worth a lot of money.
I'd love to be a Giant for the rest of my career.
Anybody can be rattled. Tom Brady is a great quarterback, but at the end of the day, he is just a quarterback. It's not like he is God.
Anytime you have an injury, you're going to be iffy about stuff.
You never can stop learning.
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.
I'm a great player; I'm one of the best defensive ends in the league, and I honestly think that.
If I'm not capable of doing it, I won't do it. But you're going to get 120 percent of me every time I'm on the field.
I know what it takes to get to the Super Bowl, what Giants pride and that defense is really about.
Set your goals and go out and do what you need to do to get it.Collection: Goal