A biography for Julius Peppershasn’t been written yet.
“I'm not living my life out there trying to make everybody happy. I'm doing things that I feel like are right and things that I believe in.”
“I think everybody would like to play a little more.”
“How can you say you want to be somewhere when you're not really sure if they want you there because they're not even talking to you?”
“You don't want to be one of these guys talking all the time, trying to say things all the time, because people start drowning you out.”
“It's one thing to play football in this league and make a living, but it's a totally different thing to come to a place with a rich tradition like the Bears.”
“Sometimes, you're on the field, you get tired. If I'm not playing as hard on play 66 as I was on play number 1, then... come on.”
“Early in my career, I played with a guy in Mike Rucker who was a threat on the other side.”
“I was sad to leave Green Bay, and I don't think I would have left to go anywhere but home to Carolina.”
“Truth be told, that's really one of the small reasons that I wanted to get out; because everybody knows your business in Charlotte.”
“You need a certain type of balance in life and I know where to put football in its proper place. But my love for the game, I have it just like everybody else. If you don't, you're going to get yourself hurt out there.”
“A guy like Drew Brees is a guy that knows how to undress a defense. Most of the time he knows where he's gonna go before he even gets the ball. So he's ready to deliver that ball almost as soon as it comes to his hands.”
“You think about it sometimes. I try not to think about it too much. You think about you can't play forever.”
“I was so sheltered as a kid that when I went to college, it was like taking the chains off. That's where the trouble came from. It was the first time for me being by myself, and I got into everything you could think of.”
“I just live day to day, in the present. And I try to just be that best version of myself every day - I don't look too far behind, I don't look too far forward.”
“I've always looked around and pretty much knew that I was built a little different.”
“I didn't want to do media or appearances. You've got to do this and that, fly here to film something. I didn't want to cut into my time for that. You can't pay for your peace of mind and your sanity.”
“People will hear one thing and just run with it.”
“I was lucky because growing up in tiny little Bailey, North Carolina, we had a satellite dish, so we got WGN. Which meant we got almost every Bulls game.”
“At the end of the day, the wins are the wins and the losses are the losses. But the relationships are everything.”
“People change teams all the time. People might not go from Green Bay to Chicago or from Chicago to Green Bay all the time, but people change teams all the time.”