You control your own destiny. You go out there and work hard and show people that you come to work and earn your respect. All you can control is how you go out there and perform every day.
Derrick Henry
I'm being respectful to my elders.
If you believe it, you can achieve it and God will be there every step of the way. I am a living testament, man.
I feel like you gotta stay humble and keep working hard, never get complacent or satisfied.
I just appreciate my team, appreciate my coaches, appreciate everybody involved, from my coaches, my teammates, the training staff... people in the kitchen at the facility, people who clean the building.
I'm trying to run through you. I'm trying to make you feel everything that I'm bringing. That's the mentality you have to have as a running back. The defense is trying to knock the mess out of you, and I'm trying to do the same.
God has blessed me tremendously.
You got God on your side, anything is possible.
I just have to start fast and be consistent in everything I do.
My goal every year is I always want to be better than the year before.
You've got to know the defense by watching film and by how you've been coached. And then when you approach it, you've got to be real physical. You've got to deliver the blow, not let the blow be delivered to you.
I just think about running the ball and running down the field. I don't really worry about the miles.
In high school I carried the ball almost every play of the game.
Everybody always asks me about carries, what I thought about it, how I felt, but when you got teammates like that who love you and care for you, it don't matter how you feel or how bad it hurts, you've got to make sure you're making those guys happy by helping them win, getting a victory.
In college, I loved Darren McFadden. Just the way he ran the ball.
When you work hard, it's definitely going to show. That's why with any athlete, we have struggles, and we have adversity, but as long as you work hard and keep your head down, you will always prevail.
We have a lot of pride for Yulee, and with the football team we can help show that.
It's never going to be perfect, but you're shooting for it. You're just trying to be the best at what you do. That's just how I always think.
I feel like hard work pushes you over the limit and makes you who you are.
All I see is that grass and open field, and I just run like there's no tomorrow.
I just want to do my job very well. If I don't, I'm hard on myself. I just keep working until I get it right.
I'm just trying to play better every week.
If you have dreams, chase them.
Life is not always laughs and giggles.
My teammates and my coaches, I can't thank them enough.
My main focus is to get positive yards.
There's a lot of things I can get better at as far as my footwork, being quicker, getting in and out of the hole, getting north and south.
I feel like the more carries I get, the more flow I get and just keep it rolling with me and the whole offense.
I think running the ball effectively is the key to winning games in the playoffs.
It's football, you know the locker room is going to change.
I want to stay with the Tennessee Titans. They are the ones that took a chance on me - 31 teams passed on me on the draft and they selected me.
I have a lot of love for Tennessee.
I'm never really satisfied. But all I worry about it what I can control.
Coming into Alabama from Florida, they all accepted me, they all loved me and all supported me.
I want to make sure I have something I can lean on after football.
I am definitely hungry, not only to get better myself, but to win a Super Bowl.
As a running back, you always want to be physical.
As the game goes on, I get better and I can see the defense getting tired. That gets me hyped.
I wanna be the greatest to ever play my position. One of the best to ever play the game. Hopefully, be a Hall of Famer.
I have my own path.
I want to be a premier back in this league.
I have to run hard, finish runs, and be ready.
I just go out there and play my game, man.
I think in the playoffs you have to be able to run the ball to get to the Super Bowl.
I'm just glad people want to get my jersey.
For people to want my jersey, I'm honored and blessed.
I just think 24 is a good running back number.
That's part of growing up. You're away from home and you meet new people and adjust to new things. It's part of life.
I love being home.
There's always going to be adversity in life. I saw it growing up.
