Quotes from Derrick Henry

You've got to know the defense by watching film and by how you've been coached. And then when you approach it, you've got to be real physical. You've got to deliver the blow, not let the blow be delivered to you.

Whatever I have to do to help my team win. I don't care how many carries it is. As long as it's successful and we've got the ball, I'm all for it.

Anything to help the team win, I'm willing to do. Whether its 32 carries or 10 carries, I'm willing to do it.

My teammates and my coaches, I can't thank them enough.

I love being around my teammates.

The more you're at Alabama, you grow as a person and as a player learning from great coaches and great men and just growing with your teammates.

Anything you can do extra like be more focused, pay more attention to detail, be more fundamental, that leads to less mistakes.

For me, the NFL was a little bit faster than college because you've got guys who played five, six, seven years and knew all the ins and out of the league.

I have a lot of love for Tennessee.

If you believe it, you can achieve it and God will be there every step of the way. I am a living testament, man.

I feel like hard work pushes you over the limit and makes you who you are.

We have a lot of pride for Yulee, and with the football team we can help show that.

Everybody always asks me about carries, what I thought about it, how I felt, but when you got teammates like that who love you and care for you, it don't matter how you feel or how bad it hurts, you've got to make sure you're making those guys happy by helping them win, getting a victory.

I mean, I just try to run hard all four quarters.

There's a lot of things I can get better at as far as my footwork, being quicker, getting in and out of the hole, getting north and south.

Ain't no quitting in me.

In college, I loved Darren McFadden. Just the way he ran the ball.

Life is not always laughs and giggles.

God is so good, man.

From my coaches we've learned that you need to have a different work ethic to be different.

When you work hard, it's definitely going to show. That's why with any athlete, we have struggles, and we have adversity, but as long as you work hard and keep your head down, you will always prevail.

You control your own destiny. You go out there and work hard and show people that you come to work and earn your respect. All you can control is how you go out there and perform every day.

I feel like you gotta stay humble and keep working hard, never get complacent or satisfied.

I love the weight room, and I love working hard.