Derrick Henry

“I love football, and I love practicing.”

“Always pray; don't be afraid to pray.”

“I'm trying to run through you. I'm trying to make you feel everything that I'm bringing. That's the mentality you have to have as a running back. The defense is trying to knock the mess out of you, and I'm trying to do the same.”

“I just appreciate my team, appreciate my coaches, appreciate everybody involved, from my coaches, my teammates, the training staff... people in the kitchen at the facility, people who clean the building.”

“From my coaches we've learned that you need to have a different work ethic to be different.”

“I think in the playoffs you have to be able to run the ball to get to the Super Bowl.”

“You've just got to deliver the first blow. In football, you're going to get hit. Don't let someone deliver the hit to you. You've got to deliver the hit to them.”

“Whatever I have to do to help my team win. I don't care how many carries it is. As long as it's successful and we've got the ball, I'm all for it.”

“It's all about the team, the team, the team, the team.”

“I'm working hard every day.”

“We just gotta finish drives and be efficient on drives just so we can get touchdowns.”

“You got God on your side, anything is possible.”

“I just want to do my job very well. If I don't, I'm hard on myself. I just keep working until I get it right.”

“I have to be efficient and finish runs, run physical.”

“I just have to start fast and be consistent in everything I do.”

“Man, you can have all of the talent in the world, but the hard work overrules that.”

“I mean, I just felt like Alabama fit me the best. What Coach Saban preaches about it all the time and what his players represent, I wanted to be a part of that.”

“It's never going to be perfect, but you're shooting for it. You're just trying to be the best at what you do. That's just how I always think.”

“When you work hard, it's definitely going to show. That's why with any athlete, we have struggles, and we have adversity, but as long as you work hard and keep your head down, you will always prevail.”

“The more you're at Alabama, you grow as a person and as a player learning from great coaches and great men and just growing with your teammates.”