As a football team, we don't have any backups. We don't consider anybody a backup.
You have to understand that in this league, we are all one play removed from being the starter or from being the backup, in any game.
In the NFL, if you make the play or you don't make the play, you're just a football player who did or didn't make the play. You don't get more yards or less yards based on what you're labeled as by society.
I didn't have the money to travel until I got to the NFL, so it's definitely opened doors for me in that capacity.
There are a lot of people who don't know what metastatic breast cancer is.
When breast cancer took my mom, it met its biggest enemy.
The University of Memphis didn't have the flashy profile or the national exposure. It's a great university. I love the offense. I love the atmosphere, the big city. They have everything I want. The only knock against them is they are not a great team.
You'd be amazed how much attention $1 million will get you.
You can't let injuries dictate the outcome of a football game. You have to persevere and keep fighting. That is how we are. If there is a blade of grass to defend or take, we do it.
Why can't I just be a running back?
It ticks me off to hear people say, 'Hey man, at your age you don't look like you're slowing down a bit.' Like, can I just be a football player? Why does the 33 age have to coincide with me when you talking football?
I did start out quiet, and I found out you can change a person's life by simply saying, 'Hey,' or, 'How was your day?' Not everybody gets that opportunity with the way society views you or how you look or the way you dress or how you interact. You hear the weird cliches: socially awkward. I think we're all socially awkward.
If you're in college, if you're in high school, if you're in elementary school, if you're in a youth league, if you're in the NFL, football's football.
The difference between the National Football League and college is this: In college, you are a broke college student.
I kind of push myself through my words and how I carry myself.
When it's your will versus another person's will, the worst thing you can do is smile in their face when you're competing. That's what I tell our guys. Go have fun.
You don't love hockey for the scores, you love hockey for the fights, right?
Anything in between the white lines is deemed football.
Pink is not a color - it's a culture to me.
It's always an emotional blow when you lose any guy, let alone a guy like Le'Veon Bell.
