Quotes from DeAngelo Williams

In the NFL, if you make the play or you don't make the play, you're just a football player who did or didn't make the play. You don't get more yards or less yards based on what you're labeled as by society.

Why can't I just be a running back?

It ticks me off to hear people say, 'Hey man, at your age you don't look like you're slowing down a bit.' Like, can I just be a football player? Why does the 33 age have to coincide with me when you talking football?

People in Wynne told me I'd never win a game at Memphis and I'd never play in a bowl game. But I knew we'd turn it around.

I stand behind all my tweets. If I tweeted it and I said it, I am not apologizing for it.

Speak your mind; you don't have to be PC.

You'd be amazed how much attention $1 million will get you.

I'm going to stand up for what I need to do, not what everybody else wants me to do.

Being the backup, as they call me, I have no pressure at all.

You have to understand that in this league, we are all one play removed from being the starter or from being the backup, in any game.

When my number is called, nobody cares if I am a starter or not. They just care if I make plays or if I'm productive.

I didn't have the money to travel until I got to the NFL, so it's definitely opened doors for me in that capacity.

Any opportunity I can get to come back to Memphis, I try to get it.

The difference between the National Football League and college is this: In college, you are a broke college student.

Every veteran out there, veteran or rookie, they want to go to the Super Bowl and win it and get the best opportunity.

If you're in college, if you're in high school, if you're in elementary school, if you're in a youth league, if you're in the NFL, football's football.