“Nobody can defeat you when you all are working together.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“My mom and dad taught me a lot. They kept me out of trouble and told me to go a better route. They taught me how to be a man, basically.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“You can’t predict injuries. That’s one thing you can’t do.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“Talk is cheap; play the game.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“My dad never quit no matter what. He couldn’t see, but he never let that stop him. Most people, when something like that happens, they just think their life is over. But that’s not true. My dad can still do things like a normal person. He still cooks; he still watches my sister and my brother’s baby when my mom’s not home.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“As far as fireworks, it’s very dangerous. You shouldn’t play with them.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I’m just very fortunate that I’m alive. I look every day and see my hand and say, ‘Thank you, Lord.’”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I think nobody can block me. Nobody can stop me.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I’m a vet. I know the game and know how to play the game.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“Your job is never secure as a football player – or coach.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“The only thing that can stop me from being me is me.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“You get older, you can’t stay the same. You can’t eat the same. You have to change things to get better.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“Without God and the strong heart that I have, I wouldn’t be able to make it.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“A good season for me is going to the playoffs and making a run for the Super Bowl and having a good record.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“Growing up, as a kid, my father was always there.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“Denard Robinson was my quarterback in high school. Never had his shoes tied. I don’t see how you can play like that.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“Basketball was always my game.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I guess you could say I took the hard route. That doesn’t work for everybody, but it’s worked out all right for me.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“Yes, I went the junior-college route, but I was playing at some very good junior colleges.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“The bottom line is I’m a football player, and I played three years of college football, and I produced all three years. I also got better every year, and I just felt like it was time to move on.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“Coming from a home like I did, I learned a lot about work ethic and determination.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“We had bills to pay. My dad wasn’t working, and it was tough for my mom. People were always raising the rent, so I had to work, too. Everybody in the house worked to pay the rent.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I had a lot of different jobs.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“We moved from place to place, and it was hard to adjust to different schools. But we made it.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I had a job to take care of my parents, to take care of some bills at the house, because my daddy wasn’t working. I had to figure out how to make that all work at one time. I was working at Boston Market… I told my coach, ‘I can’t play football because I have to make money to help my mom.’”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I want to get to the quarterback and stop the run.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“What I bring to the table to help my team is that I’m never going to quit.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I’m going to keep rushing the ball until the whistle blows and it’s the end of the game. That’s how I’m going to keep playing.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“USF gave me a chance to show what I can do.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“When I’m on the field, family-wise, family matters, whatever off-the-field issues, I’m not worried about.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“When it comes to the Cowboys, I always play great against them.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I just do my job; I’m out there to make plays and play football.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I don’t like Philly. I don’t care at all about Philly.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“Not every pass-rush move is going to work to perfection, so therefore, you’ve got to figure out what’s best for you.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I’m only going to get better and better. Not going to get worse.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I don’t have a go-to move, man; I just rush.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I don’t vote.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I just want to whup the man in front of me, play after play.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I am a great pass rusher. I’m not saying, ‘Do you think you can be?’ I know I am. I am.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I just want to go out there and play to my full potential, and play a healthy season, know what I’m saying?”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“In this game called football, we don’t know who’s going to the playoffs.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I feel like after my incident, it really made me realize football is not here forever. I’m all the more anxious to come out here and let my teammates know, ‘Look, hey, this is the same JPP. Missing fingers aren’t going to stop me from playing some ball.’”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I’m in the public eye. I’m a celebrity and a football player.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“When a role model tells you it’s going to be OK, it’s going to be OK.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I’m a role model.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“At the end of the day, media is going to say whatever they’re going to say.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I know when it’s time to joke and when it’s time to be serious. As far as football goes, I’m serious.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“Once you touch that grass, you know in your head only one team is going to walk out of there with a win.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I don’t like people knowing about my business, and my situation, so I try to keep out of people’s situations unless they come to me and ask for help.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I have a lot of people depending on me – even people I didn’t know depended on me.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I try not to put myself in horrible situations anymore.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I’m missing an index finger.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“Every team that goes into training camp thinks they’re a Super Bowl contender.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“Once I get on a roll, it’s hard to stop me.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“Football is a game of business. You don’t work for free.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“The Giants have a great organization, great fan base.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“Did I ever get booed? I don’t think I ever got booed.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I’ve been through worst, seen worst.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I can’t play ‘Madden’ without an index finger!”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“Every year, jobs are on the line.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“Every year you’ve got somebody coming in and trying to kick you off, so you have to prove yourself. Even for the coaches, too. Their jobs are always on the line.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“Whatever I can do to help me be a better player, I’ll do it.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I can do better, and if that’s consistently training even harder, then I’m going to do that.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“Being injured, nobody wants to be injured.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“Each year is a year for you to get better, so that’s what I’m trying to do.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“You’ve just got to have it, man. Like, in this game of football, you can tell when you look at film who’s more passionate about the game.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“To play this game, you’ve got to have heart, and a lot of guys don’t have it. I can sit here and say we all do, but we all don’t.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“We need everybody to contribute as one and do what we’ve got to do to win. Football is not an individual game. In basketball, LeBron James can take over a game by himself.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“Honestly, it is not all about attitude; it is all about heart. You can have the attitude, you can have the swagger, you can talk your way, but it is all about heart.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I didn’t think of football growing up. This wasn’t my career, something I chose. It was something I was picked in.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I was a basketball player. And my mother even wanted me to quit because I hurt my leg. But I didn’t know anything about football – from Pee-Wee on up, my friends would play, and I would never go with them.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“You just gotta do it, man. You can’t count on the guy making the tackle in front of you.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I feel like I’m just going to go full speed and tackle. If that means there is friendly fire on my guy, then that’s what I gotta do. I try not to do that because I know I’ll lay a big hit on them, but if that’s what I gotta do, that’s what I’ll do just to make sure that tackle gets made.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“The coaches can’t be out there to tackle for us; we have to do that, like I say, starting with myself.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“There is a certain way that I play. You just have to have a feel for it. That’s something you have to feel as a football player.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“That’s the whole part of playing football and having training camp. Coming in and recognizing how players play.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I’m not worried about sacks in the preseason.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“Hard work beats talent, and I live by that.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“You put in the work, you should get to the playoffs.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“If I ever catch a ball, I’m going to the end zone.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“There’s not really a guy like me out here doing it with 7 1/2 fingers – still.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. That’s why I play. If I made it in New York, you can make it anywhere.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“New York is the biggest city, biggest fan base, and they don’t sugarcoat nothing around here.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I teach some of the guys stuff that I’ve learned.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“The less thinking you do, the better you play.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“Me, personally, I’m going to be out there running full speed and chasing down running backs and chasing down quarterbacks. That’s what I do best.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“If I’m tired, I’m coming out. I won’t do that to my teammates and stay on the field when I know I’m not going to be able to do it.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I lead by example. Everybody sees it.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“It’s not about an individual. If I have a tip or a reminder for one of my teammates, I’ll help him out by doing that.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I think like that all the time: nobody can block me, nobody can stop me, nobody can play the run the way I can. You’ve got to think like that all the time.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“When other teams fear you, that’s a big difference.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I think I am worth a lot of money.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I’d love to be a Giant for the rest of my career.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“Anybody can be rattled. Tom Brady is a great quarterback, but at the end of the day, he is just a quarterback. It’s not like he is God.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“Anytime you have an injury, you’re going to be iffy about stuff.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“You never can stop learning.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I’m just god-gifted: I have a talent. Even when I played basketball, no one ever taught me the game. I just played it. And with football, I just converted basketball to football and just played.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I’m a great player; I’m one of the best defensive ends in the league, and I honestly think that.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“If I’m not capable of doing it, I won’t do it. But you’re going to get 120 percent of me every time I’m on the field.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
“I know what it takes to get to the Super Bowl, what Giants pride and that defense is really about.”
― Jason Pierre-Paul
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