A biography for DeAngelo Williamshasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“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?”
“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.”
“As a football team, we don't have any backups. We don't consider anybody a backup.”
“There are always going to be questions - I know that. I'll let my playing answer my questions.”
“Why can't I just be a running back?”
“My mom was the strongest woman I know.”
“I grew up knowing the importance of breast cancer.”
“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.”
“There are a lot of people who don't know what metastatic breast cancer is.”
“We just want to win. It doesn't matter how the stats look.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Being the backup, as they call me, I have no pressure at all.”
“I want everyone to know there is always someone there for you.”
“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.”
“You don't love hockey for the scores, you love hockey for the fights, right?”
“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.”
“I grew up watching wrestling.”