Quotes from Christian McCaffrey

When they take you with the eighth pick, I don't want to say pressure, but you've got a lot of people counting on you.

I play with a chip on my shoulder always, I feel like people don't always give me credit for my skills and talents and that's just the way it is. I also don't care too much, I don't feel like I'm crazy disrespected. I have a chip on my shoulder at all times.

I prepare so I can be in the whole game.

If I'm not playing football, I'm preparing to play football. That's kind of how I kind of view my life.

Sometimes you'll have 30, 40 touches in the game, and you'll feel better than if you had 22. It depends on where you get hit and how you get hit.

It's a team game. Not every game is going to be an all-star game.

I don't care if I get no carries and just play special teams. I'm there to try to win football games and help that team win.

Yeah, I worked with a chef when I first got into the league. We did all my blood work and found out exactly what I'm sensitive to, what I'm deficient in, what my body needs. I had to cut out a lot of things - chicken, tuna, wheat, and soy.

We all see color. We do. And anyone who says he doesn't see color is confused or isn't telling the truth. Except... and I know how this sounds, but I can't remember any point in my life where I saw other people and thought of their color.

Football is a very instinctual game, and it's very fast-paced.

The faster I can get, the better as well.

You can always get bigger, faster, stronger. I don't have any choice. I have to.

You can't try to make something crazy happen when nothing is there. You've just got to keep pushing.

I'm wherever coach puts me.

We're here to win football games, so whatever that means, whatever that takes, that's what we're going to do.

I've always prided myself on being a football player.

I'm someone who believes in having motivation at all times, win or lose, individual awards.

I am beyond blessed and humbled to be named the Paul Hornung Award winner.

For the guys who feel like they are glued to one position or one sport, don't do it man, do whatever you want to do.

Maybe at some level, even at an early age, without ever being aware of it, I was reacting to something. To people judging me based on how I looked instead of what I could do.

You get fan mail and you see the reaction when you write someone back. It's kind of shocking. You can make someone's day and be a positive influence on the world when you're in a position like that.

Sometimes a 1-yard gain on third-and-1 is a big play. People take that for granted.

I go to class every day with the future Facebook and Twitter and Google employees, the future innovators and entrepreneurs who might have the next big thing. Knowing that and seeing their success and work ethic makes you want to be successful. It impresses me every day. It humbles me, too.

Obviously, teams start wearing down. But that's kind of when you thrive, when the other team starts to get tired.