Quotes from Devin McCourty

I try to be an example for guys who first come into the league of how you can have a huge impact off the field and on the field. For me, I'm going to continue to try to do that.

I always believe in servanthood. It's about not elevating yourself to a positon of power. It's about humbling yourself to the last guy on the roster and try to help him do his job better. That's what my approach has always been.

Rutgers didn't want me at first, but they wanted Jay. So I did what any smart sibling would do - I rode his coattails all the way onto the banks of the ol' Raritan.

Don't lose sight of what made you who you are.

I think you can't have swagger when you're giving up 30 points or four- or five-hundred yards.

Two teams trying to win a football game at the end of the season is going to be chippy. It's going to be everything from pushing and shoving to fighting for extra yards.

You can't take momentum and how you played from a win and think you just carry it over to the next game, and you can't take a loss and how you felt after and think that you can just transfer that and that's going to help you play better.

I was actually a Cowboys fan growing up, so I didn't care much for the Jets or Giants.

We've been playing football for so many years that people kind of forget we're also college-educated, so we know how to get something, study it, go out there and try to inform people.

You're not going to just trick Aaron Rodgers 80 percent of the time. It's just not going to happen.

It's just a tremendous feeling that you come from losing your father at 3 years old, to now, you and your twin brother in the NFL. A dream.

Something so simple as breakfast and eating the right things and making sure you eat breakfast was key to us, and it helped me specifically when I got to college to gain weight and get on the right nutritional plan.

The reason I got into sickle cell was my aunt has the disease, my uncle has the disease, and then the more I looked into it, a lot of minorities have the disease and it just doesn't get covered. No one really talks about it, and I felt it was the same thing with the different social injustice issues and topics that I kind of dove into.

All these systems are in place for the black race to fail, to always be underneath.

Yeah, I think that's the best part of being nominated and receiving awards is whatever you care about that you have given time to, have served different people, you get to spotlight and highlight that.

When you go into a different stadium, you know there's no home crowd, there's no energy coming from the crowd for your side.

I mean, I love New England. But after 10 years and winning three Super Bowls, something inside was telling me that I was ready for a new challenge. And I thought I might have to go elsewhere to find it.

It's the NFL. It's simple. You either get it better or you have to look for a new job, so I think we all understand that.

At the end of the day, when you have more points than the other team, you win. So, defensively, it's all about not giving up touchdowns. It's about trying to keep them off the board.

You don't forget any time you play for a championship and you don't win it. It's just something that sticks with you.

To me, when you play in the middle of the field or when you play safety, you have to do so much communicating that you've got to kind of watch the whole offense. You can't just pick a guy or just pass plays.

My father was in the Army. My older brother was in the Army. Those men and women go out there and put their life on the line. I respect that.

We have to stop any offense when they're operating at their best.

The only thing that helps you play better is being ready to go against your next opponent.