A biography for Minkah Fitzpatrickhasn’t been written yet.
“You never really think, like, you're gonna lose everything, you know what I'm saying? You might lose a person in your life. You might lose certain things. But what about when you lose everything, every aspect - your house, your car, your clothes?”
“If you play certain positions, you just do the same thing every snap or you don't get to move around.”
“I think if you want to be active in the community, it's really important to understand where people come from.”
“I've got opportunities to sit in the actual coaches meeting before with coach Saban as he's breaking down film and going through stuff as I was learning a new position, so I got to see the way that he broke the game down and the way that he thought about the game. I've also had the same opportunity with coach Tomlin.”
“Anybody is protective over their mother, but she's very protective over myself.”
“It's exciting for any professional athlete going through something to just stay true to who you are, keep your head down, keep working and, at the end of the day, you're going to get what you deserve.”
“After being drafted in the first round, it's not common that you get traded the following year. I had to make decisions and lock in and really try to turn things around.”
“Big plays come when they come.”
“Going into a game and not knowing where you're going to play at until the day of the game is not easy.”
“Learn from the bad days and keep pushing through the good days.”
“People hold me to a high standard because I hold myself to a high standard.”
“Me and Coach Saban are almost identical. I guess you can say we think alike.”
“Playing slot in the nickel is definitely the hardest position. It challenges you mentally and physically. You're kind of on an island. You gotta know where your help is and what everybody around you is doing. You're often covering the fastest and quickest guy.”
“I'm a big Anthony Hamilton, John Legend guy.”
“I think teams started taking less shots downfield, taking less shots wherever I was. So if I was in the middle of the field, they weren't going to be throwing it towards the middle of the field.”
“Troy was a play-maker. He was an extremely instinctive safety and moved around, could do whatever they asked him to do. I kind of see myself in a similar light. He's a guy that had a nose for the football.”
“It's more frustrating for a player on the defense when teams are doing whatever they want.”
“If the other team doesn't score and you score two or three touchdowns and a couple field goals, you're going to win the game.”
“Whether it's with the front, the secondary, the linebackers, everybody has to do their job.”