LE'VEON BELL

I always feel like I can play better.

I love being a running back. But I really love being a football player.

I'm not a real greedy guy.

I just feel like the way that I play, you know, I'm such a patient runner that a lot of people look at me as slow. But I'm not a slow guy.

I want to continue to grow, and as long as I keep going out there doing what I'm doing and don't fall off from what I've learned already as they keep adding things on, I'll be fine.

When I carry the ball, I don't just take a direct hit. I get out of bounds when I can, get to the ground, try to avoid taking a pounding on my shoulders and legs. If I do that, I think I'll be fine.

Even before the partnership with New Era, I loved the hats. The fact that they even want to have a relationship with me means everything in the world to me.

The irony is, when people now compliment my ability to make something out of nothing on the football field, my mom is the one who's been doing so in real life all along.

I don't necessarily care about the money aspect of it. I just want to be valued where I'm at. If I am playing this game, I want to set standards for all the other running backs behind me, like Todd Gurley and Ezekiel Elliott, Melvin Gordon, guys like that.

I don't think I should settle for anything less than what I'm valued at.

I've always been a stubborn kid.

For me, I just like to play respectable football.

I feel I should be valued as a player, not so much my position.

If you just play your game, the stats will come.

I play this game to win Super Bowls and be a Hall of Famer.

When people come up to me and are like, 'I really like your music,' it feels good to know that it's not all about football for me anymore.

I think 'Shade Room,' it's a different me. You know, I think it's more on the lyrical side, talking about my life and how I really feel. You know, all these things outside of football. And people really get to look at how I feel about things or how I look at certain things. It's not just a song, more so me just telling people how I feel.

I just want to go out there and do whatever I can to win the game.

I always want to find something to get you to play with a chip on your shoulder.

I want to be remembered as, if not the best, then one of the best players ever. Not just running backs - players.

I work out with my trainer; he knows my body to a T. He knows the things that I'm great at, and he knows the things I'm not necessarily great at, and he'll try to help those things.

I used to be more of a bruiser. I wanted to run through people. Now I try to run around them.

Regardless of what happened off the field, that doesn't change what I do on the field and my performance.

I think I'm changing the game. In that sense, I'm what Steph Curry is to basketball. Don't get me wrong: I don't necessarily think Steph Curry is the best basketball player, but he changed the game, so he's going to always go down as being remembered. Now everyone wants to shoot the 3 and shoot it from deep.

I just think my work ethic really shows.