Quotes from DeAngelo Williams

You can't let injuries dictate the outcome of a football game. You have to persevere and keep fighting. That is how we are. If there is a blade of grass to defend or take, we do it.

It's always an emotional blow when you lose any guy, let alone a guy like Le'Veon Bell.

There are a lot of people who don't know what metastatic breast cancer is.

When breast cancer took my mom, it met its biggest enemy.

The biggest picture you see is making it to the Super Bowl and winning it. There are a lot of guys who have played 14, 15, 16 years and never been there.

I'm hunting one thing and one thing only, and that's the Super Bowl.

Pink is not a color - it's a culture to me.

I'm at that point in my career you can put up all the numbers you want to, you can swing whatever statistic you want to swing, but it doesn't matter if you don't get to the Super Bowl and win it.

I did start out quiet, and I found out you can change a person's life by simply saying, 'Hey,' or, 'How was your day?' Not everybody gets that opportunity with the way society views you or how you look or the way you dress or how you interact. You hear the weird cliches: socially awkward. I think we're all socially awkward.

Anything in between the white lines is deemed football.

I take pride in knowing the NFL is pink in October, sparking conversations everywhere about breast cancer and prevention, all in the spirit of my mom.

You go to a couple of teams, and some guys have never been to a playoff game.

On signing day, my mom brought me the national letter of intent to Arkansas. I should feel like I'm making the right decision. You get that many people telling you that. I had been dreaming about it. I signed 'No' where I was supposed to sign my name and put an exclamation point.

The University of Memphis didn't have the flashy profile or the national exposure. It's a great university. I love the offense. I love the atmosphere, the big city. They have everything I want. The only knock against them is they are not a great team.

Back in the States, women play flag football, but they have the same opportunities as the guys do.

As a football team, we don't have any backups. We don't consider anybody a backup.

Breast cancer, whether I like it or not, is part of my family's story. That's why I am so passionate about raising awareness, because I have seen firsthand how it can impact others.

My mom was the strongest woman I know.

I'm aware that if the ball is thrown in my direction, I'm expected to catch it because the media is going to be on my back.

You don't love hockey for the scores, you love hockey for the fights, right?

When it's your will versus another person's will, the worst thing you can do is smile in their face when you're competing. That's what I tell our guys. Go have fun.

I grew up knowing the importance of breast cancer.

I grew up watching wrestling.

I'm really shy, man. I don't really talk much. I just read, sit in my room and just read graphic novels because I don't have many friends and many people that like to talk to me.