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“I believe I've got to speak up for my people.”
“It's funny, you'll probably find me more often watching soccer than a football game, because I get enough football in my daily schedule.”
“I think players on all teams are close.”
“I think that's awesome to have a former player in the GM role, somebody that not only understands the game of football but has played the game of football.”
“The game of football has changed for me. It was a personal goal for me at first. But now it's a way to provide for my family. It's a way to provide for my daughter. I'm just ecstatic that I can do that.”
“There's always opposition when you speak on topics like I'm speaking on. But I'm a black man in America. I grew up black in America. You can't tell me that what I've experienced and what I've seen is not true.”
“I played a ton of special teams at LSU. I'm familiar with it, I'm comfortable doing it.”
“I try not to look too far ahead.”
“Everybody evaluates their own situation as far as playing this game.”
“I have a Mercedes, which is a pretty fast car. It's not a Lamborghini.”
“We know that racism and white privilege are both very much alive today.”
“Three of my uncles served in the Armed Forces.”
“I'm from Louisiana, and I'm used to having space and a yard.”
“I can't imagine how traumatic it must be to have a gun pointed to your head for no reason at all.”
“You can't serve God and money.”
“It's important to discuss the issues that we have in our country.”
“When I'm on the field, I just do my job.”
“The goal is to talk about the issues that are happening in this country with the ultimate goal of making change.”
“Obviously I descend from Africa.”
“Faith without works is dead.”