Peyton Hillis Quotes

I love being a Cleveland Brown.

Some people spend too much time with their job, not enough with their family. You’ve got to balance things out.

My football idol growing up, I was named after Walter Payton, but my idols at RB were Barry Sanders and Emmitt Smith.

If you can’t keep yourself in shape on your own without being told to, that’s a shame.

People just have no idea how strange and surreal a football life can be.

I want people to see that I’m not a one-hit wonder.

I had a tough career in college.

I’m a truly happy person.

In Denver, they just wanted me to play strictly fullback, nothing else. I wasn’t too happy about the situation, but I was trying to be a team player.

I didn’t run the ball very much in college. I sat out most of the time and played a little slot receiver, a little tight end, a little fullback but that’s pretty much about it.

I’m not a showy kind of player.

When I came to the NFL, I was just trying to make the team.

Cleveland fans are great. They really do support their team, and they back them up no matter what.

Tecmo Bowl’ was the best game ever.

You’ve got to go out there and play your best. It’s about what you do on the football field.

I’m just trying to go out and do what I can to help the team win.

I never was a guy who wanted to be in the limelight.

I am just here to serve God‘s will.

I feel I play hard every time I step on the field.

I’m a human being just like everybody else.

I really enjoyed my time in Cleveland.

You never can stay enough humbled.

Not only do you have 16 regular-season games, you also have four preseason games. Then if you make the playoffs, you can have four more games before you get to the Super Bowl. So you can already have 24 games without the 18-game season. And 24 games takes a real toll on somebody‘s body.

I loved Arkansas and I loved the program and I loved the people there. I love my state. I always wanted to stay loyal to my state.

I’ll carry a ball around with me all day and ask people to try to knock it out of my hand when I least expect it. I’ll give them some money and stuff, so people get pretty geeked up about that. It just helps me to take care of the ball without even thinking about it.

I’m 250 pounds, I’m not really fast.

It’s very humbling to move around from team to team. It shows how fast you can be out of the loop.

I kind of like to think I can do everything decently well. It’s just putting me in position to be a playmaker, blocking, special teams, no matter what it may be. Whenever I go out there, I’m going to do my best.

I think players are disciplined enough to work out on their own.

Everybody’s going to play in tough-weather games – snow, rain, sleet – but you’ve got to hold onto the football.

I’m not going to be happy until Cleveland wins a Super Bowl.

I think when coaches look at me, they don’t see a prototypical running back.

I like to look at it as things and people and whole society in general being uneducated about facts. There are a lot of stereotypes. But I don’t see color, I don’t see race.

Every team did it. They’ll say, ‘You white boy, you ain’t gonna run on us today. This is ridiculous. Why are you giving offensive linemen the ball?’ All kinds of stuff like that you hear on the field, but I use that to my advantage. I kind of soaked it in, ate it up a little bit, because I enjoyed it.

There are a lot of athletic trends that I don’t have. I feel like I have a bigger heart and desire than most people do.

I’ve always said of myself I can do mostly anything if I put my mind to it.

There’s no such thing as accidents.

Actually, I don’t even believe in curses.

You can love something too much, you can spend too much time with something – that’s when you’ve got to learn how to balance.

The Cleveland Browns fans really are the greatest fans.

I just try to do the best I can.

QB’s have it good. They don’t take any hits. They have the most pay. The most glamour.

I just feel people can see, when I’m 100 percent, I am running hard. I can do pretty good.

I’m doing yoga, MMA and things like that. I’m an unorthodox player, so I have to do things that fit my kind of game.

This is football; everyone gets hurt. If you run the ball 40 times a game, you’re going to get banged around and get nicks and bruises here and there, but I don’t pay too much attention to that.

One thing I have figured out: People don’t like different. People don’t like to see anything different. When you see something different, you are either scared or afraid or you feel threatened. And I feel that the way I play the game, it feels like I should have played 50 years ago. But it’s what I do.

I was always pretty much the biggest running back on the field at any given time.

I’m a simple man and success doesn’t go to my head.

You can do something if you put your heart into it.

That’s where I began was special teams and it’s probably where I’m going to end up is special teams. I try to embrace that and try to do the best I can at it.