Ndamukong Suh
Ndamukong Suh

I definitely want to be known as an educated person as well as being a good football player.

Ndamukong Suh
Ndamukong Suh

I definitely see myself as a leader. One of the ways I've been lucky enough to lead and likely to continue to lead is just my actions and the way that I approach the game and working hard and being a player that steps up in big-time situations when plays need to be made.

Ndamukong Suh
Ndamukong Suh

A lot of players have told me they see me as a protector of my teammates, that, side by side, I'm there when something goes down, and I step up beside them and for them when things get nasty. I play the game hard, and I play it physical.

Ndamukong Suh
Ndamukong Suh

A great guy who is no longer in the league right now who is retired, Kyle Vanden Bosch, I learned a lot from him, and I owe him a lot for my success in the NFL.

Ndamukong Suh
Ndamukong Suh

Outside of my parents, it's my older sister, Ngum. She lives with me in Detroit and helps me with my day-to-day stuff. She's somebody I've always looked up to. When she was leaving high school and going to college, I wanted to follow in her footsteps.

Ndamukong Suh
Ndamukong Suh

I guess I'm a fun-loving teddy bear. I've got two sides to me. Obviously, there's the football side that a lot of people see - the mean, ferocious, coming-after-the-quarterback guy. But off the field, I'm a calm, cool, collected guy.

Ndamukong Suh
Ndamukong Suh

My job is to defeat the guy in front of me, do it until he quits, and then wait for them to send in the next guy.

Ndamukong Suh
Ndamukong Suh

Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.

Ndamukong Suh
Ndamukong Suh

I've always loved fast vehicles and looking at interesting cars.

Ndamukong Suh
Ndamukong Suh

I've always been in love with Land Rovers and Range Rovers. I own one and was able to make it a little more exclusive.

Ndamukong Suh
Ndamukong Suh

A couple of my teammates have the rare Ford F650 Super Truck, and they're kitted out with everything - even flat-screen TVs for movies and video-game systems in the back.

Ndamukong Suh
Ndamukong Suh

I'm attracted to Ferraris and Bentleys, but I don't know if I'll ever have a chance to own one of those.

Ndamukong Suh
Ndamukong Suh

Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.

Ndamukong Suh
Ndamukong Suh

I remember watching Barry Sanders highlights as a kid, and the Lions always being a fun team. I, personally, really never had a real negative connotation with the team. And I didn't really listen to those who did after I was drafted.

Ndamukong Suh
Ndamukong Suh

For whatever reason, Coach Schwartz and I weren't all that close at first. We didn't have that kind of relationship, really. I don't know why, maybe because I was a rookie, but I never felt real comfortable just popping my head in his office and sitting down to talk.

Ndamukong Suh
Ndamukong Suh

Coach Cunningham's my guy. Without me saying a word, he can read my body language and facial expressions and tell me exactly what I'm thinking and feeling. We're actually very similar people.

Ndamukong Suh
Ndamukong Suh

I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go insane.

Ndamukong Suh
Ndamukong Suh

Mondays I sleep. I go in at ten, do my lift, watch the game from the day before. Tuesday is off, but I go in, lift, watch film. Then I have French toast with my sister.

Ndamukong Suh
Ndamukong Suh

It's not the norm, I guess, to see someone as aggressive as me being more or less very athletic. You see me running, having a big, violent hit, it's going to look bad, but that's the natural ability I've been given. Why would I let it run to the wayside and not use it?

Ndamukong Suh
Ndamukong Suh

Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.