Quotes from Austin Seferian-Jenkins

Once you get into the NFL, it doesn't matter what draft pick you are, what round you are, if you're undrafted or not. It's football time again. The draft, all of that doesn't matter anymore.

I think that people that don't really understand the game of football and are just fans that think people just show up on Saturday and go, I don't think they understand the work that we put in here and what our schemes are and what we're trying to do.

People in Seattle and Tacoma know who I am as a person, and I don't think I am a character risk or have a character issue at all.

I have to hold up my end of the bargain and do what's expected of me.

I really have a love and passion for football. I enjoy basketball, but it's not something I love. You have to let things go that are not for you.

I don't pay attention to stats or anything like that. I just pay attention to how I play and the intensity that I play with.

I'm really blessed to have an amazing family.

It's not about me. I think people are too caught up with what I'm doing. It's just numbers. I'm trying to win.

Last time I checked, no one is perfect.

I love my coaches. Coaches love me.

I'm a player, the coaches coach.

I'm who I am. I'm confident. I think it's weird if you're not confident.

You've got to invest your own time, invest your own resources into creating a better world, not only for yourself but for the people you surround yourself with.

I don't want to try to sell myself or portray something that I'm not.

Being 300-some pounds is not always healthy. You can say what you want about it, I don't want to do it.

My thing of not playing offensive tackle is the health issue. I don't want to be that big. That could end up not being good for your health.

I need to take care of my mom and making sure she's financially OK. She's done so much for me, it's the least thing I can do.

My dad showed me a football and would throw it up and have my dog - a German Shepherd - chase me around when I went after the ball. I caught it because I was scared of that dog. The next year, my dad talked to the commissioner of a local league and convinced him to let me play as a first grader with third graders.

I want to play defense. I want to get sacks.

I don't really care where I go because wherever I go, they're going to get a very talented, driven guy that's going to get every inch of his potential out, max everything I have in my body out.

When you lose things like football, which is the game I love - and this is the most important thing in my life - it really puts everything in perspective.

I think people make a really big deal that I'm this big character-issue guy, and I've got red flags. I'm not.

Texas is a great program. The respect they gave me was amazing.

Quite frankly, I just want to be playing at the highest level of football. That's the most important thing to me.