Quotes from Luke Kuechly

Everybody runs routes a little bit differently.

If you can know a guy off the field, I think it helps you on the field. If all you're doing is talking football, maybe you can't get on the same page.

Speed creates space, it creates problems, it scares people.

Everything with the draft process, from the combine to visits to pro days, that's great but it's not football.

Just be nice to everyone because that's the right way to do it.

I think until we win a big bowl game or do something like that, I'm just a guy who came and played at BC.

I think when you're a kid you don't think about money or dollar signs. You think about when you wake up on Sunday mornings, it's NFL.

I always watched football on Saturdays and never did homework. On Sundays I had to do my homework. I didn't get a chance to watch games.

You go to the playoffs to win the Super Bowl. You don't go to the playoffs to win one game.

I worked in the warehouse, and I would pick up orders. I would go to the computer screen, print off the order from a customer and then it would have where all the stuff was located in the warehouse. I'd go get a big gray cart, and you had to fill up these bins with all the parts. And it wasn't air-conditioned in there.

We practice, we work out, we go to camp, we go to OTAs to win games. So all that work goes in and you want to win games.

There are a lot of guys that are really good at catching the ball.

Well being from Cincinnati I thought it would always be cool to play for the Bengals.

I love pizza as one of my favorite foods. Pizza and cheeseburgers.

I just play football. You understand what you are getting into. They're always trying to improve it, make it better and safer and more efficient. It is what it is.

I'm going to play football, that's what I do.

I think you win one game in the playoffs and then you don't go any further than that, it's obviously good but it's not like something that you're like, 'Yeah!'

Those are the guys that are the scariest. The guys that can beat you in the pocket and can also beat you running around.

When you're growing up you always like the commercials of the guys on the screen that you like watching.

Knowing the team is in your corner is comforting.

All the training for the combine was basically practicing for the different drills that we would see at the combine. Rather than football specific drills that we would do at BC.

I think I do a pretty good job preparing myself. That's something I take pride in - being prepared and knowing what each individual guy is responsible for. I can point at guys and let them know what they're doing if they have questions.

I do a pretty good job preparing myself. That's something I take pride in.

I'm one guy on an 11-man defence that needs to do his job.