“I didn’t know how this would play out when I was a kid. I knew I wanted to play ball, be a paleontologist, and write poetry. I thought, ‘Heck, where will I find the time? Well, football comes first, and I’ll just find some time for poetry, and paleontology can come at the end.’ I made this plan at 14, and dang, it’s all coming together.”
― Myles Garrett
“You just gotta back up your words. Don’t be scared from it, or don’t shy from it.”
― Myles Garrett
“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.”
― Myles Garrett
“Boxing is kind of like football in that you test each other’s desire to be there.”
― Myles Garrett
“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.”
― Myles Garrett
“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.”
― Myles Garrett
“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.”
― Myles Garrett
“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.”
― Myles Garrett
“If I’m not the best D-lineman, it’s not good enough for me.”
― Myles Garrett
“I love my teammates. I’m never going to try and let them down.”
― Myles Garrett
“I’ve just been competitive all my life. That draws from a competitive family. We’re all athletes, and we’re all trying to win no matter what it is, whether it’s Scrabble or basketball.”
― Myles Garrett
“I grew up loving dinosaurs, digging up things.”
― Myles Garrett
“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.”
― Myles Garrett
“If you go in there with a mindset that you’re gonna turn things around and make that contagious, and people start to believe in it, you can turn into a winning program wherever you go.”
― Myles Garrett
“You have to have some fun playing this game.”
― Myles Garrett
“I’m too competitive to try and ride on somebody’s coattails to get a W.”
― Myles Garrett
“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.”
― Myles Garrett
“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.”
― Myles Garrett
“Sometimes you have to stutter step; sometimes you have to spin inside. You have to run some games.”
― Myles Garrett
“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.”
― Myles Garrett
“I’m a Peyton Manning fan.”
― Myles Garrett
“You play because you love it, not because you can make money from it.”
― Myles Garrett
“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.”
― Myles Garrett
“It doesn’t matter who picks me up, I’m going to try and be a franchise player for them.”
― Myles Garrett
“One person can’t win games.”
― Myles Garrett
“Make sure, if you’re willing to say something, that you worked hard enough and prepared well enough to back those things up.”
― Myles Garrett
“I gotta win. Winning is just not enough. I have to do my best.”
― Myles Garrett
“I’m just gonna make plays and bring a good atmosphere to your organization.”
― Myles Garrett
“From the very beginning, I wanted to be the best, whether it was sports or poetry.”
― Myles Garrett
“I want to be dominant from day one.”
― Myles Garrett
“I want the single-season sack record.”
― Myles Garrett
“’Faithfully’ speaks to me. It’s about a guy who’s busy with his work, always on the road, but I’m still completely into you. If you just hold on, I’ll completely give myself to you. Just stick along for the ride.”
― Myles Garrett
“I don’t want anybody to be like me. By the end of my career, I don’t want to hear talk of another Myles Garrett.”
― Myles Garrett
“I want to be the greatest. The greatest that ever played, regardless of position or era.”
― Myles Garrett
“You’ll see me everywhere, inside, outside. Only place you won’t see me is maybe safety.”
― Myles Garrett
“I feel I’m athletically superior to most of the guys I go against.”
― Myles Garrett
“I won’t take bullcrap from anybody.”
― Myles Garrett
“After the whistle, during the whistle. Guys try to sneak stuff in. I just have to be uncompliant with stuff like that. Guys feel they can get away with stuff. I have to just try to not get back at him but make sure I finish through him during the whistle and not do anything that can jeopardize the team or that series of downs.”
― Myles Garrett
“When I’m doing sports, I don’t feel anything at all. I enjoy the moment. It’s a safe haven. But once you try to let someone inside your soul, you become vulnerable. You have to be comfortable in your own skin. I don’t open myself up like that to a lot of people. It takes courage.”
― Myles Garrett
“I love making the big play. I love being out there with my teammates. I love the camaraderie. I can’t say I always love practice. But it’s a means to an end.”
― Myles Garrett
“I want to take care of my family for generations. I want to have my head turned into a bust in the Hall of Fame.”
― Myles Garrett
“I grew up with Ray Charles playing in the car all the time or playing in the house.”
― Myles Garrett
“I’m going to stay respectful. The team comes first. I’m not going to do anything to jeopardize them or myself, so I’ll just make sure I speak lightly and carry a big stick.”
― Myles Garrett
“I’m trying to be better every single day.”
― Myles Garrett
“You have to know what you’re doing to help people and have an important stance in life. You can only do that by staying focused, and I can’t lose focus for a second.”
― Myles Garrett
“Some athletes take what we have for granted. They kind of feel, ‘I’m here, and I earned this, so people who are not on this level should just give me what I want and move out the way.’”
― Myles Garrett
“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.”
― Myles Garrett
“I’m not really a swagger guy.”
― Myles Garrett
“I just like to have fun on the field and make plays and have fun with my teammates.”
― Myles Garrett
“I can never get tired of helping people.”
― Myles Garrett
“When I’m traveling for away games, I’m reading.”
― Myles Garrett
“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.”
― Myles Garrett
“More people should stand up and not be afraid to do things that mean something to them.”
― Myles Garrett
“If there’s the opportunity to turn things around, that’s what great players do. They don’t complain or become complacent with losing. They just go back to work every day and try to turn things around and make wherever they are a great place to be.”
― Myles Garrett
“I’ve already said I like the Cowboys because that’s my hometown team. Everybody knows you’re going to like your hometown team.”
― Myles Garrett
“I’m going to love whatever team and organization that I’m a part of.”
― Myles Garrett
“I want to be the greatest player who has ever been at my position, the greatest player who has ever played.”
― Myles Garrett
“Regardless of whether I’m sitting on the bench or out there participating, I’m going to give my all whatever I’m doing.”
― Myles Garrett
“You want to be Defensive Player of the Year.”
― Myles Garrett
“You want to get the sack, but you want to get the forced fumble and the fumble recovery. And if you get the touchdown, that’s the cherry on top. But you’re looking for those three always.”
― Myles Garrett
“Everything has a right to live.”
― Myles Garrett
“I want to be more than prepared for the game, for the preseason, for the season.”
― Myles Garrett
“I don’t want to have to be taken out because I’m tired or I need a breather.”
― Myles Garrett
“I have to live up to my expectations – which is to break all the records that I can, dominate by a wide margin.”
― Myles Garrett
“Don’t let anyone be close to how good you are, no matter what the division is – one, two or three. It doesn’t matter, everyone plays football. It doesn’t matter who the competition is.”
― Myles Garrett
“Every play I give max effort because it can make the game.”
― Myles Garrett
“Accidents happen on the field.”
― Myles Garrett
“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.”
― Myles Garrett
“I like to take long drives.I like to just enjoy the world and know what it is.”
― Myles Garrett
“I like to go and take pictures.”
― Myles Garrett
“I think I was born in the right era. But I missed out on some great music.”
― Myles Garrett
“I go back to, like, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, Elvis. I listen to everything.”
― Myles Garrett
“I think everybody enjoys a little bit of Drake.”
― Myles Garrett
“I like to speak to my family in person. I get a bad rap because I don’t use my phone enough to talk to them, but I do love talking in person, and I don’t mind FaceTime, but actually, like, calling and texting, not too big on that.”
― Myles Garrett
“I want to be a paleontologist, whether it’s amateur or professional. And I want to be a humanitarian.”
― Myles Garrett
“I want to go around the world just helping people.”
― Myles Garrett
“It does not matter if I have 10, 12 sacks: I want better, and I want more.”
― Myles Garrett
“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.”
― Myles Garrett
“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.”
― Myles Garrett
“I’m not really a numbers guy, but I always have a goal in mind.”
― Myles Garrett
“My dad gives me goals, and then I kind of go even farther beyond those.”
― Myles Garrett
“I’ll be a difference maker from Day 1.”
― Myles Garrett
“I can’t be a savior. But I can be the best I can be.”
― Myles Garrett
“As soon as I step on the field, totally different person. As soon as I step off, I go back to who I’ve always been.”
― Myles Garrett
“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.”
― Myles Garrett
“I’m not great until I’m the best.”
― Myles Garrett
“I’m just a person that played a game in the spotlight.”
― Myles Garrett
“I’m not satisfied with doing well or doing good.”
― Myles Garrett
“I want to be great, and that’s holding myself to my standards, not anybody else’s.”
― Myles Garrett
“That’s my goal: to be on the field as much as possible so I can make as big of an impact as possible.”
― Myles Garrett
“I can’t go out there and be gassed and trying to go out there and make a play just for individual stats. Got to do the best thing for the team, which is to put myself out there when it’s most productive for us.”
― Myles Garrett
“If I can get some time off and still be productive and go 85-90 percent of the plays, that’s fine with me.”
― Myles Garrett
“If I have to play every snap for us to have a chance to win, I’m going to do that.”
― Myles Garrett
“Nobody is 100 percent every play, you know – eight, nine plays down the drive. Sometimes you do look back at it and say, ‘Dang, I could have gave more effort there, or I loafed it a little.’ But you work on those things.”
― Myles Garrett
“Can’t force anything. Can’t try and make a play that somebody else is supposed to make.”
― Myles Garrett
“It’s nice to have a record, but it’s even better to have a win. But it’s team before self every time.”
― Myles Garrett
“I can always do better. I can always find a way to make more plays and be more effective.”
― Myles Garrett
“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.”
― Myles Garrett
“I want to be the best. The only thing holding me back is me.”
― Myles Garrett
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