Quotes from Aaron Donald

I don't see myself as somebody special. I just see myself as Aaron, the same guy I've been all my life.

Any time you're rewarded and can be a part of history, it's a special moment.

I'm just a guy. There's nothing special about me.

God just blessed me with quickness and speed, I guess.

It's a whole different world once you get into games. You have people actually trying to hit you, the speed of the game's a lot faster, you have a lot of different things you need to check and see. It's a whole different world up there once game time comes.

When my name is called I'm going to go in there and give it everything I've got.

Any time you go on the field, you want to dominate as a unit.

It was a dream come true to play for the University of Pittsburgh. My experience as a Panther is something that influences my life every day and I want to pay that forward.

Pittsburgh's home. This is where it all started. This is always going to be home. I always have to get back to Pittsburgh and get some work done.

The more experience you got the more things you are able to go through, and the ups and downs through a season that you had I don't think it can do anything but make you that much better.

It's my mindset that I'm not where I want to be. I still want to be better, and I just want to stay humble about it. It's not an act. It's just how I am.

It's an offensive league.

All I can do is do my part and keep trying to open up eyes with what I did on the football field, what I did in my career. Just go out there and try to compete and shock a couple more people.

I never let nothing ever get to me. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

I've got leverage on a guy that's 6-6, and I'm strong enough to push 600-plus pounds off on a double-team.

My family, ain't no more struggling to pay this bill, pay that bill.

I grew up with a lot of friends that had a lot of abilities to do a lot of different things and chose different routes and it wasn't a great outcome for them.

You got to become a student of the game. You got to learn the game before you can go out there and play fast.

It doesn't ever hurt to try different stuff.

If you play against a Peyton Manning, that's a great quarterback, but I'd rather have that quarterback that stays still. You have a better chance of getting to him. The mobile quarterbacks, they do a lot of different stuff.

I've got family, people that really care and want to see me succeed and push me.

That's what you dream about. How you not going to think about making the big play, the game-changing play?

Experience is everything in this league.