A biography for Derrick Henryhasn’t been written yet.
“When your time comes, make plays.”
“I wanna be the greatest to ever play my position. One of the best to ever play the game. Hopefully, be a Hall of Famer.”
“Ain't no quitting in me.”
“Coming into Alabama from Florida, they all accepted me, they all loved me and all supported me.”
“Football is competition and that's what I love.”
“Competition is nothing that scares me away from nowhere.”
“My main focus is to get positive yards.”
“I love getting the ball.”
“Always be about business and come prepared to work and work hard.”
“I don't really try to worry about what people talk about me.”
“Nobody is going to outwork me.”
“I feel like the more carries I get, the more flow I get and just keep it rolling with me and the whole offense.”
“That's part of growing up. You're away from home and you meet new people and adjust to new things. It's part of life.”
“My teammates and my coaches, I can't thank them enough.”
“There's a lot of things I can get better at as far as my footwork, being quicker, getting in and out of the hole, getting north and south.”
“For me, the NFL was a little bit faster than college because you've got guys who played five, six, seven years and knew all the ins and out of the league.”
“Earl Campbell, he's a beast. I got a chance to talk to him; he's a legend in my eyes. To be mentioned along his name is a dream come true.”
“That's the attitude you have to have on defense. You have to want to hit. You have to want to be physical.”
“I have a lot of love for Tennessee.”
“It's football, you know the locker room is going to change.”