I want to be the best. The only thing holding me back is me.
— Myles Garrett
It's nice to have a record, but it's even better to have a win. But it's team before self every time.
If I have to play every snap for us to have a chance to win, I'm going to do that.
That's my goal: to be on the field as much as possible so I can make as big of an impact as possible.
A great team versus another great team, your performance is going to go down. But my job is to improve my consistency where, when I dominate against the lesser teams, go and do well and do the same amount of work when I'm going against the Alabamas and the LSUs, and it will come.
I'm a regular person. I'm a regular guy. As a kid, I played games. As a kid, I liked poetry. As a kid, I liked drawing. And I never felt the need to stop doing anything. I never lost interest in them.
I grew up loving dinosaurs, digging up things.
I'm not really a numbers guy, but I always have a goal in mind.
It does not matter if I have 10, 12 sacks: I want better, and I want more.
I like to speak to my family in person. I get a bad rap because I don't use my phone enough to talk to them, but I do love talking in person, and I don't mind FaceTime, but actually, like, calling and texting, not too big on that.
I think I was born in the right era. But I missed out on some great music.
I like to take long drives.I like to just enjoy the world and know what it is.
I've just been competitive all my life. That draws from a competitive family. We're all athletes, and we're all trying to win no matter what it is, whether it's Scrabble or basketball.
Don't let anyone be close to how good you are, no matter what the division is - one, two or three. It doesn't matter, everyone plays football. It doesn't matter who the competition is.
I want to be more than prepared for the game, for the preseason, for the season.
You want to be Defensive Player of the Year.
I'm going to love whatever team and organization that I'm a part of.
If I hope for four or five sacks, and I only get two or three, that's still a good week for me, so I gotta go out there with those high hopes, those high expectations, and try to achieve them.
Can't force anything. Can't try and make a play that somebody else is supposed to make.
If I can get some time off and still be productive and go 85-90 percent of the plays, that's fine with me.
I want to be great, and that's holding myself to my standards, not anybody else's.
I'm just a person that played a game in the spotlight.
As soon as I step on the field, totally different person. As soon as I step off, I go back to who I've always been.
I'll be a difference maker from Day 1.
Whatever happens, if I don't make any plays that game, hopefully I can have an effect where I'm distracting two or three blockers, or I'm getting my hands up so I can bat down balls.
I want to go around the world just helping people.
I think everybody enjoys a little bit of Drake.
You played 'Snake' on it. That's what we had a cell phone for, when my mother would let us use it. When you had it, you set it down at the table, you set it down in the other room, we ate, and you enjoyed your time with your family.
I didn't have a cell phone for awhile, until I was, like, 13 or 14, and before then, even if I did have one, it didn't work.
I love my teammates. I'm never going to try and let them down.
I have to live up to my expectations - which is to break all the records that I can, dominate by a wide margin.
Everything has a right to live.
Regardless of whether I'm sitting on the bench or out there participating, I'm going to give my all whatever I'm doing.
I've already said I like the Cowboys because that's my hometown team. Everybody knows you're going to like your hometown team.
I can always do better. I can always find a way to make more plays and be more effective.
Nobody is 100 percent every play, you know - eight, nine plays down the drive. Sometimes you do look back at it and say, 'Dang, I could have gave more effort there, or I loafed it a little.' But you work on those things.
I can't go out there and be gassed and trying to go out there and make a play just for individual stats. Got to do the best thing for the team, which is to put myself out there when it's most productive for us.
I'm not satisfied with doing well or doing good.
I'm not great until I'm the best.
I can't be a savior. But I can be the best I can be.
My dad gives me goals, and then I kind of go even farther beyond those.
My goal is to be the best player on the field every down and every game. If I achieve that, then I will achieve any goal I set forth.
I want to be a paleontologist, whether it's amateur or professional. And I want to be a humanitarian.
I go back to, like, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, Elvis. I listen to everything.
I like to go and take pictures.
Accidents happen on the field.
Every play I give max effort because it can make the game.
I don't want to have to be taken out because I'm tired or I need a breather.
You want to get the sack, but you want to get the forced fumble and the fumble recovery. And if you get the touchdown, that's the cherry on top. But you're looking for those three always.
I want to be the greatest player who has ever been at my position, the greatest player who has ever played.
