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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As long as there is institutional inequality, hell, naw we can't all get along!

People will Keep Digging in Your Past to find Reasons to convince themselves of letting you go.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.

People first. Technology second.

The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined by his tolerance toward them.

One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.

I'm drawn again and again to relationships between people who really, really want to connect and just can't get out of their own way to do it.

For someone like me and my generation, you had to speak French to be sophisticated, you had to be lighter-skinned.