Alvin Kamara

“That's something that isn't talked about - the mental health of children and the effects it has on children.”

“I took a step back and was like, 'All right, well, if I want to be the best, then I've got to know what the best knows.'”

“It's an honor to be able to team up with NASCAR and be their first-ever Growth and Engagement Advisor. I'm excited to use my passion as a fan to help shape their long-term efforts to grow the sport.”

“I don't eat mushy foods.”

“I hear the play call and I'm like, 'Oh, yeah. Come on. Give me that. I need it right now. I'm gone. It's over with.'”

“That's where the anxiety comes from with me; it's not a bad anxiety, but a good anxiety - like, I'm anxious to see: What else? Where else could I line up? What else could I do? How else could I be successful?”

“I ain't ever held out in my life.”

“I look at things like a puzzle, and it's just got to fit. If you put the wrong puzzle piece in the wrong place, it doesn't work. That's how I look at everything.”

“I never wanted to be famous. I wanted to be successful.”

“I'm not about to go over the top, I'm not gonna live beyond my means.”

“I don't know how much you play fantasy football for; I've never played it.”

“I don't need the ball every play.”

“My mindset as a running back is to go no matter what. You've got to have a fight in you, something extra in you to keep getting up and going back at it.”

“We get paid to play and obviously we want to be available but when you can't do it, it's certain things you got to be smart about.”

“A lot of people think I'm little. They think I'm just a smaller back. That's until they meet up with me.”

“Obviously, when you think about it, being able to go 200 mph for 300 laps, there's a lot that goes into it.”

“Your health is your wealth.”

“I'm not about to pay you $30 to take me four or five lights down the street. Like, it's not happening.”

“There are no hard feelings with me and Alabama. A lot of people had a negative perception on me because I was not playing. People were saying I was a cancer to the team, I was a crybaby, I was not playing so I was not all-in, this and that. Really, with me not playing it kind of gave me a way to look at it from a different perspective.”

“I think the league is moving towards running backs that can do more catching out of the backfield and that can do more things in the offense and I think that's what my game displays.”