Quotes from Spencer Paysinger

I never wanted football to be my highest peak.

Miami gave me an opportunity to grow. I wanted to see if I was really a one-team guy, or if I picked up my suitcases and set up shop somewhere else, would I be able to make the team?

I wear the same socks after I wash them, and I like to eat the same meal the morning before a game.

I've been in places that have been robbed.

There's a rich family culture in South Central. The block that I grew up on, all the kids were best friends. They hung out at each other's houses. I can knock on the person's house two doors down and grab some food and just hang out or go into the backyard and play basketball when they're not there.

The coaches can only put us in the right position, but it's up to the players to take the action.

Coach Coughlin, he's one of the best coaches I've ever had. He's one of the best coaches in the NFL, hands down.

No matter what schemes you have, if you're not in condition to run, you can't succeed.

Obviously, if you are playing against a guy who is known for an up-tempo offense, you'll probably tailor your practice a little bit to say, 'Hey, let's get a couple of fast-paced plays back to back to back to try to simulate that.'

Beverly Hills didn't save me from anything. It exposed me to a whole new world of problems I didn't know existed.

I pride myself on that, even though I'm kind of under the radar, when I step on the field, I try to do an admirable job.

I don't think there's anywhere else better than the Giants in terms of organization and history.

I don't want this to be, 'Hey, you're the guy who had that one show. What are you doing now?' I want it to be a career.

We prided ourselves at Oregon, where teams said they were going to try to beat us down and try to manhandle us, and maybe in the first quarter they were running with us, but it was just, 'Let's see how they are come the fourth quarter when they're tired, and they've had 70 to 80 plays coming at them non-stop.'

I definitely had a gang influence with friends and family growing up in South Central, and people might think that Beverly Hills definitely shielded me from some problems. But in actuality, it only opened up a whole new can of worms.

I've seen Jay-Z and Kanye West. I've seen actors like Tom Hanks and Nicholas Cage.

I don't get hyped when I see stars now because it's like second nature to me.

It's easy to look at South Central and say, 'That's a bad place,' and it's easy to look at Beverly Hills and say, 'It will be a cakewalk,' but it just exposed me to a different set of problems. Both sides relate to each other more than they think.

Just growing up on 'Friday Night Lights,' other dramas, that kind of shaped my childhood. The fact that I can have one talking about my life - it's insane.

That L.A. traffic is no joke.

I don't bad-mouth football, but I also know that it has a long trail of tears and heartbreak and animosity built up by past players who feel that they put so much into the game and didn't get a lot out of it after.

I wish football, as a culture, bred more than just a football player. It has the ability to be an incubator and transition players properly.

They say that when it comes to the depth chart, it can change any day and that we dictate how the depth chart goes. If one person has a great day, he might be going with the 'ones.' If a person slips up a little bit, he might be going with the 'twos' and 'threes.'

South Central's been portrayed so many different ways in the media for however long.