Quotes from Julius Peppers

A guy like Drew Brees is a guy that knows how to undress a defense. Most of the time he knows where he's gonna go before he even gets the ball. So he's ready to deliver that ball almost as soon as it comes to his hands.

I get bashful in the spotlight. Even at home or at a birthday party, I hate that stuff.

If you're playing 55 to 60 snaps, you have opportunities to pace yourself, pick spots. When you're not playing as many and you don't know necessarily when you're going to be in, you do have to sometimes make it happen when you're out there.

There are only a few times in a man's life where you have the chance to stand up for something that you believe in and make a statement.

A lot of people don't really understand that a statistic is an indicator, but it doesn't really give the full picture of the body of work. There's been time when I've had one sack or no sacks and controlled a whole game, and I've seen other cats get three or four sacks and it had no effect on that game.

I had games where I had better statistics than others, but it wasn't because I wasn't playing hard.

I tell you this: I'm not an outdoorsman. Actually, one of my things is to pick a little corner in Borders or Barnes & Noble and fall back and just read.

Bears fans... man... I could not have chosen a better place to make my first stop outside of North Carolina.

People who are given a lot, a lot is expected out of them. I realize that, but I also realize expectations are unrealistic sometimes.

That's something that I struggled with - talking to my mother about some of the problems that I had.

You don't want to be one of these guys talking all the time, trying to say things all the time, because people start drowning you out.

You need a certain type of balance in life and I know where to put football in its proper place. But my love for the game, I have it just like everybody else. If you don't, you're going to get yourself hurt out there.

You can try your best and do everything right for the most part and still not get sacks, and sometimes you can get sacks that fall into your lap.