Athlete

You have to watch out because being an athlete and playing at the college level with the opportunity to go the NFL, you're under the microscope and everybody's watching. There are people that look up to us. So you have to watch out for what you do and who you're around.

Any time you're rewarded and can be a part of history, it's a special moment.

I've got family, people that really care and want to see me succeed and push me.

I'm just a guy. There's nothing special about me.

I'm always going to be my worst critic.

Anytime you get rewarded for all the work you put into this game, you're going to be happy about it.

When I'm retired someday, when I'm done playing football, that's when I'll be relaxing and look back at some things.

You never know what can happen.

Experience is everything in this league.

You've got to have positives and negatives about you. I think that's a good negative, that the only thing they could say about me is my size.

I feel I can rush the passer well. I feel like I can play the run even better than what I did starting off to when I got in my senior year as far as making plays in the backfield and just being able to break down film a lot better.

It's my mindset that I'm not where I want to be. I still want to be better, and I just want to stay humble about it. It's not an act. It's just how I am.

It's a lot more fun when you're winning than losing.

It's a whole different world once you get into games. You have people actually trying to hit you, the speed of the game's a lot faster, you have a lot of different things you need to check and see. It's a whole different world up there once game time comes.

Pittsburgh's home. This is where it all started. This is always going to be home. I always have to get back to Pittsburgh and get some work done.

You've got to try to find ways to dominate in any way - it ain't about getting sacks, it's about making the big plays. If that's pressing the quarterback, making them throw a pick - whatever you've got to do to try to dominate the game.

You can never be satisfied until you are done playing this game. So I'm just working.

I know you ain't gonna win every single one-on-one, but in my mind, I'm supposed to.

That's my main goal: to win a world championship.

It's not that hard to be good, you can be good off raw talent. But I feel like it's that extra step, doing work and putting a body of work in and doing things when nobody else is watching. When nobody else is telling you to do it, you're pushing yourself to do it.