A biography for Leonard Fournettehasn’t been written yet.
“I want to be one of the leaders that's going to keep the light shining bright.”
“I would like to thank the Jaguars organization for giving me the opportunity to fulfill a lifelong dream of playing in the NFL.”
“You're from Louisiana - you're playing for Louisiana, man. You get so much love from everybody, especially from New Orleans, my city. Everywhere I go, they're rooting for me.”
“A lot of people don't see the vision, the dream you have. They're shortcutting you. I had to get them out of the picture. Totally.”
“Me coming to Tampa made perfect sense. I felt like they had all the keys I needed and vice versa. I can help the team out and also they can help me.”
“Football is football. I've been playing the same game for 25 years.”
“I'm not a jerk, but when it comes to football and winning, I'm all-in for that.”
“Because I hate to lose. I've always had that instilled in me since I was a child. Racing. A game. You want to be in first place every time.”
“That is one of my biggest problems; I do get upset when we lose and it takes me a while to get over it.”
“At the end of the day, I want to win.”
“My job is to come out here and compete the best I can, get in the playbook, understand what they want from me, and the rest will take care of itself.”
“Your mom's working 9 to 5 every day and might get a second job. So you're really raising yourself, and you've got nobody else, so you go outside, and the streets raised most of us.”
“I come from being poor to a millionaire and I've seen the way cops treated people in my neighborhood. If you have a name, or you have a face, the treatment is different.”
“That's how I was brought up. That's the first thing to kick in, you know? Your brother gets into it with somebody. You go help.”