Julius Peppers Quotations

When we go on the road, it's just us against the whole city.

When this offense is playing lights-out like that, it makes everything easy for us. Give us an early lead and look out.

Nobody expects more out of me than me, so it doesn't bother me at all to hear people complain that 'He's not making plays' or 'He's not getting sacks,'

Right now, he has it in his mind that nobody is going to stop him, no matter what. When a player is in that zone and he's feeling like that, there's really little that you can do.

Personally, I think I'm doing well. I'm still working on things to get better. I'm not where I want to be. I'll never get where I want to be. But I'm satisfied with where I am so far.

I felt comfortable with everything that was called. I am not a coordinator. I can't change anything, nor would I change anything if I could. I just play what I am told to do.

He has us on his back, and he's carrying us.

He looked like himself. He was running wild. I guess that's what he usually does.

Jordan (Carstens) has played and Kindal (Moorehead) has played, so we feel good about those guys. You have to go to be ready when someone goes down.

I think it's funny, because it just goes to show how much people think they really know but they really don't have a clue what they're talking about,

I think when we go on the road, it's just us against the whole city. You go to a city like New York and Chicago, where we only travel with 46 players and the coaches and the media guys through the organization, less than 100 people. It's us against the whole people, basically ... so I think we see the challenge. I think it brings us tighter when we're on the road because we know we're all we have in that city at that time.

It has been building up over the last couple of weeks. It's nothing major. There's no need to make any bigger than what it really is. They are using a little extra caution and letting it rest a little bit.

I think everybody has been focusing on Steve Smith. But nobody has stopped him yet.

Pittsburgh? Nah, I'm not surprised. Pittsburgh is a tough team, just like us. I'm not surprised by that. And Denver -- they're 13-3. And Seattle? Nah, no surprise. And yeah, we expected to be here.

I think since the first game I've been getting better, ... I think last week was my best game. I get better as the season goes. It's like that every year - I have a slow start and then pick it up.

I thought it was a fumble, but that's just my personal opinion. The call from the referee was his knee was down. So I guess that was the right call. They got instant replay and looked at it a few times, so evidently they saw something that I didn't see or they knew a rule that I don't know. I thought it was a fumble, but again, that's just my personal opinion.

That was a great performance by our offense. Who would have thought the vaunted Chicago defense would give up 29 points?

We've got people to come in when somebody goes down. Everybody on this team knows that they're one play away from someone getting hurt and having to come on to the field. If we lose one player, we should have someone else come in and be ready to go.

Well, right now I don't have any doubt I'll play.

The Patriots are going to be very disciplined. We have to work even harder to clean up the stupid mistakes we made.

We're just being smart because it's a long season and you have to take care of these little things to keep them from getting bigger.

Who would have thought that vaunted Chicago defense would have given up 29?

We love going to other people's stadiums and using the crowd against them.

But the important thing was to start fast in this game. We scored on that first drive and set the tone. That calmed everybody down and we were able to play our style.

We got a couple hits on Eli early. I think that kind of rattled him.

Brady does a great job of getting the ball out of there in a hurry and that is frustrating. But we have a lot of different things that we can do with blitzes. By Sunday, we will have something to throw them off.

There's only two spots for All-Pro and there are guys out there that had numbers better than mine.

I've seen him improve over the years, but I've never seen him play at this high of a level. He has us on his back, and he's carrying us. Right now, he has it in his mind that nobody is going to stop him, no matter what.

People think they really know, but they really don't have a clue what they're talking about, ... I could really care less about who's complaining about me not having sacks.

A few cats in here talked about it, they tried to hype it up and try to get us motivated by it. I'm self motivated and I don't need anybody to get me motivated. We'll play the game Sunday.

Once you do something, it makes it a little easier to do it again. Experience plays a part on it. I'm confident in our ability to go on the road and do well because we've done it before.

That's what they do and they are very good at it. Brady knows where he wants to throw the ball and he is very quick, so we just have to try to get there.

As Jake goes, we're going to go. And right now, he's going pretty good.

It's feeling good. A little soreness in there, but it's getting better day by day.

It's a challenge to stop (Seattle's) running attack. They definitely can run the ball and we have success stopping the run.

It really doesn't bother me when people focus on sacks, ... If you're just watching the game as a fan or watching TV, you can't really tell what's happening. It's moving so fast, you can't really say they're doing this or that because you don't know what's going on.

It's a little sore, but it's getting better day by day.

It just got a lot sorer after the game. I talked to the trainers and ... they don't want it to get any worse.

It's always good to have the fans leave early when you're on the road. That's one of our goals, to make them leave early.

It's an indicator of what's happening, but (the numbers) really don't tell the whole story,

It's been a long time since I've dunked in a real game, so I hardly remember what it feels like. But getting a sack, it's one of those things that can change the momentum of a game. So it is a rush to get one of those.

I know Crump, I've known him for about 10 years now. I know he didn't do it intentionally. It's part of the game. That's a play that happens. Everybody gets cut. It just happens that it was me he got on it.

I just looked at the tape and they kept the tight end in and they chip-blocked and all of that. But they can say whatever they want to say - we will see them again.

I just didn't have my hands ready to catch the ball. I could have caught that.

I don't know if it is (finished); I could care less if it is or not. We know we're a good football team in this locker room; who cares what everybody else thinks?

You can't rush it. You don't rush great things.

If you can't beat them (Packers), You might as well join them

It's not important for me to be a star, but it is important for me to be one of the better players. I won't feel comfortable with not living up to my potential. I don't want to be spoken of as the player who had potential who never reached it, so I am going to work extra hard to try to be the best I can be.

I want to maximize my potential as a player. I want to be as good as I could possibly be. And if I do that, I think I could be one of the best players out there.

I want to be my own player. I want to be Julius Peppers. I don't want to be the next Lawrence Taylor. I don't want to have to live with his legacy.

I'm out to prove something-that I'm all for real and that I can do it on my own without any help.

As a kid, I never thought I saw myself as unusual. I always thought that lots of people could do what I did. More and more I realized I was wrong.

I believe that if I committed to basketball, I could make an impact in the NBA. I now see football as my job and my greatest challenge.

Once I really maximize my potential-I don't know when that'll be, a year from now, three or four years from now-I think I can be one of the great ones.

Right now I feel like playing as long as I can, As long as my body will allow me to play I'm going to continue to play.

How can you say you want to be somewhere when you're not really sure if they want you there because they're not even talking to you?

I've wanted to hit Jay Cutler so hard for so long that this move just makes sense.