Every play I give max effort because it can make the game.

Everything has a right to live.

I can give it my all and make plays and dominate my side of the field, but it takes all 11 guys with a certain thought process that we're going to go out there, and we're going to win.

I want to be more than prepared for the game, for the preseason, for the season.

I have to live up to my expectations - which is to break all the records that I can, dominate by a wide margin.

It's kind of hard with two moves. I feel like you can't always be so predictable. You can be as strong or fast as you want, but speed-chop and power move aren't always going to work.

Just to see how much time is consumed looking down at your phone when you could be reading, becoming better at your own language, or learning a new language - you could be doing so many productive things. You could becoming a better student-athlete.

When I'm traveling for away games, I'm reading.

You just gotta back up your words. Don't be scared from it, or don't shy from it.

You'll see me everywhere, inside, outside. Only place you won't see me is maybe safety.

I want to be the greatest player who has ever been at my position, the greatest player who has ever played.

I'm too competitive to try and ride on somebody's coattails to get a W.

You want to be Defensive Player of the Year.

Whoever picks me up, I'm going to try and play my best for, to be the best player on the field at any given time.

One person can't win games.

I just like to have fun on the field and make plays and have fun with my teammates.

Whatever happens, if I don't make any plays that game, hopefully I can have an effect where I'm distracting two or three blockers, or I'm getting my hands up so I can bat down balls.

I feel like everybody's on the same level. Nobody's done anything more important than any other. People have gifts in other areas. You weren't blessed with them; they were blessed with them.

I can never get tired of helping people.

A great team versus another great team, your performance is going to go down. But my job is to improve my consistency where, when I dominate against the lesser teams, go and do well and do the same amount of work when I'm going against the Alabamas and the LSUs, and it will come.

If I hope for four or five sacks, and I only get two or three, that's still a good week for me, so I gotta go out there with those high hopes, those high expectations, and try to achieve them.

That's my goal: to be on the field as much as possible so I can make as big of an impact as possible.

I gotta win. Winning is just not enough. I have to do my best.

It doesn't matter who picks me up, I'm going to try and be a franchise player for them.

When I'm sitting in my hotel room, I'm reading. If I've got some time after class, I'm reading. If I can get away with it while I'm doing treatment, I'm reading.

I'm going to love whatever team and organization that I'm a part of.

I'm not really a swagger guy.

You played 'Snake' on it. That's what we had a cell phone for, when my mother would let us use it. When you had it, you set it down at the table, you set it down in the other room, we ate, and you enjoyed your time with your family.

I've already said I like the Cowboys because that's my hometown team. Everybody knows you're going to like your hometown team.

If I'm not the best D-lineman, it's not good enough for me.

I'm a regular person. I'm a regular guy. As a kid, I played games. As a kid, I liked poetry. As a kid, I liked drawing. And I never felt the need to stop doing anything. I never lost interest in them.

I think I was born in the right era. But I missed out on some great music.

I'm always going to be passionate about the guys we have in the locker room because they've always been OK with me - they've always done right by me - so I have no problem playing with them, going out there and sweating, bleeding, and winning with them.

People might say, 'They're this; they're that,' or I made a comment on cold weather, and they kind of pointed towards Cleveland with that. It doesn't matter to me. I'll play wherever they put me.

Sometimes you have to stutter step; sometimes you have to spin inside. You have to run some games.

Knowing that guys are out there improving and trying to take it to that next level, that gives me fire to improve my play and work on these little things that can keep me from dominating a game.

It doesn't matter if it's preseason or a scrimmage. I'm trying to have a dominant performance, whether it's preseason first series or whenever I get out there.

I'm a Peyton Manning fan.

I love my teammates. I'm never going to try and let them down.

Accidents happen on the field.

I didn't have a cell phone for awhile, until I was, like, 13 or 14, and before then, even if I did have one, it didn't work.

I like to take long drives.I like to just enjoy the world and know what it is.

I like to go and take pictures.

I go back to, like, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, Elvis. I listen to everything.

I think everybody enjoys a little bit of Drake.

I want to be a paleontologist, whether it's amateur or professional. And I want to be a humanitarian.

I want to go around the world just helping people.

It does not matter if I have 10, 12 sacks: I want better, and I want more.

My goal is to be the best player on the field every down and every game. If I achieve that, then I will achieve any goal I set forth.

I'm not really a numbers guy, but I always have a goal in mind.