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'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.

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.

Tree is tree.

If you gave a bag of potato chips to the guy who invented Pringles, he'd look at you like you were trying to hand him an abortion.

How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country.

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

John Lee Hooker became a friend of mine and I love all of his work. He was truly an icon. He lived the life. I miss him.

By day I was a slave; by night, I was a prince.

The celebrity syndrome. When people forget who they are and start to believe what other people say about them.

I've always loved improv. It's my thing.

If you are afraid of making mistakes, you won't learn anything and you won't make much money.

People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.