Perception is reality. People take what they want to from things.
— Peyton Hillis
I am stubborn and I am hardheaded.
It's very humbling to move around from team to team. It shows how fast you can be out of the loop.
I want people to see I can do a variety of roles, not just tailback.
Some people spend too much time with their job, not enough with their family. You've got to balance things out.
If I meet somebody and they ask me what position I play, I always just say an 'athlete' or that I do a lot of things.
I'm not a little, shifty guy who likes to make moves. I like to be a straight-line guy, run over somebody if I can.
My high school didn't really have a good training program, so I did it on my own.
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.
I've kind of found out that things in life come full circle anyway.
Football in general is just fun.
I want people to see that I'm not a one-hit wonder.
In my career, I've found that anything can happen.
QB's have it good. They don't take any hits. They have the most pay. The most glamour.
I am just here to serve God's will.
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.
Actually, I don't even believe in curses.
I feel I play hard every time I step on the field.
I'm not going to be happy until Cleveland wins a Super Bowl.
I firmly believe I never had too much of an opportunity after I left Cleveland. I was behind Jamaal Charles at Kansas City. I didn't get too much playing time. I felt when I got in I did well. And then I was in Tampa and never really got to touch the field because of Doug Martin. He's pretty good.
When I came to the NFL, I was just trying to make the team.
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.
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 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.
People just have no idea how strange and surreal a football life can be.
I'm a simple man and success doesn't go to my head.
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.
I'm a truly happy person.
I just feel people can see, when I'm 100 percent, I am running hard. I can do pretty good.
I'm not a showy kind of player.
There is a lot to do in Cleveland. It's just those December, January, February months that are tough. But there is a lot to do there.
My football idol growing up, I was named after Walter Payton, but my idols at RB were Barry Sanders and Emmitt Smith.
I believe that the Lord is going to take care of me. I know His will is the only way that can judge me or put me in my place.
If you can't keep yourself in shape on your own without being told to, that's a shame.
You've got to go out there and play your best. It's about what you do on the football field.
You never can stay enough humbled.
As far as my athletic ability, I can pretty much do it all. You can put me at linebacker and I'll do a good job.
I had a tough career in college.
A guy like me, it's probably pretty hard for somebody to pinpoint what position to have me do, where to put me all the time.
The more versatile you can be, the longer you'll be in the NFL.
I love being a Cleveland Brown.
No one in a normal walk of life flies into a new city unknown and unemployed and ends up doing their job on national television a few days later. I love the game, but it's crazy sometimes.
Tecmo Bowl' was the best game ever.
I'm just trying to go out and do what I can to help the team win.
There's no such thing as accidents.
Everybody's going to have troubles and problems.
Cleveland fans are great. They really do support their team, and they back them up no matter what.
I read Psalms 18 before every game.
You can do something if you put your heart into it.
It's really sad how many people believe in curses.
