Quotes from Devin McCourty

I think it's always good when you work out with your teammates. You just develop a stronger friendship, a stronger bond.

I think the more you can kind of decrease yourself and kind of increase other people's stories and give them the light, I think that's what it's all about. Whether it's community service or giving back to the community in different ways or helping people, it's not about yourself.

I think the biggest I learned when I got to the NFL is everyone is different. We have guys from all over. We believe in different things. We do different things. At the end of the day, we all come to the facility for work.

Like I always say, the goal every day is not to get fired.

We thought playing in the Super Bowl was nerve-racking until we went to the Massachusetts State House to testify for an education bill.

In the NFL you can't say this game is the biggest game ever and you get all pumped up and you go win and then you're like 'alright we did it' and then you go out and you play bad for the next two or three. Like every week you've got to be ready to go because they're all big games.

As a DB you're trained to never look for a flag.

Free agency is always interesting, exciting, sad. It brings all emotions.

That's always the biggest thing, especially in the secondary, is building not just communication and everything but friendships and bonds of off-the-field stuff and things like that.

Let all your moments of self-doubt, fear, or disappointment fuel your drive to be great.

There is always going to be a Super Bowl winner, a league MVP, a Super Bowl MVP, great defenses and offenses. But I think to be part of real change - you talk about athletes like Muhammad Ali or Bill Russell - when you are able to do things that truly affect not just the game, but people everywhere, you find true meaning.

I always tell people the hardest thing is competing against the guys you see every day because any of my strengths that I like to go to, they see that every day.

I think in this league, that's how it works. You're either getting better or you're getting worse.

At the end of the day, we try to get wins. We just go out there and play.

Film wise, I always just kind of watch the offense overall.

Players have already done a lot of groundwork trying to fight systems, I think we have to continue to do that, and as things happen to play out.

The power of positive thinking can change your life.

I think as you get older, you realize football as a whole isn't guaranteed.

I'm not a QB guru.

Davante Adams is a great receiver.

Don't just be successful, but redefine success and then do it again.

In the beginning of my Rutgers journey, I had to learn fast that I would have to continue to redefine success. I had to understand that things would not just come to me.

When you sign up for different jobs, you kind of discuss it as a family, the hardship of that.

Coming out of high school and college, I wasn't really the top guy.