Devin McCourty Quotes

Devin McCourty

Profession : Football Player

Birth : August 13, 1987

When I think about the Patriot Way, I think about a team.

Devin McCourty

You don't forget any time you play for a championship and you don't win it. It's just something that sticks with you.

Devin McCourty

You always want plays back; you want to do things differently. It doesn't control your day-to-day, but you always think about it.

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We have to stop any offense when they're operating at their best.

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Contract year isn't what everyone else talks about. For a player, it's just another year in the league.

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You're not going to be as good as you're going to be at the end of the season in your first preseason game.

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Especially in the secondary, a lot of your tackles are usually going to be in the open field, one-on-one tackles, so you can't be out there thinking about making a pretty tackle or having the ground ooh and ahh.

Devin McCourty

To me, when you play in the middle of the field or when you play safety, you have to do so much communicating that you've got to kind of watch the whole offense. You can't just pick a guy or just pass plays.

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Film wise, I always just kind of watch the offense overall.

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I don't know technique-wise, just I've always tackled the same. I've never even really thought about how I tackle or any of that.

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I was actually a Cowboys fan growing up, so I didn't care much for the Jets or Giants.

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I think a lot of trust is done even off the field. When you get to know guys and you see their story, you understand what they're about and what playing on a team means to them.

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I think as an away team, if you like that type of atmosphere where everybody's against you, you know it's going to be just you and your guys there for three hours trying to get a win. When you can get a win in that environment, I think it builds great character.

Devin McCourty

There's been a lot of legends that I've gotten the opportunity to play against, some to play with. Those guys, sometimes they retire or different things, younger guys come up, they start over them.

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As you get later into the season, you always have to be prepared for if a guy is up or down, and that's something we talk about constantly.

Devin McCourty

The game slows down each game you play, the more you play.

Devin McCourty

Two teams trying to win a football game at the end of the season is going to be chippy. It's going to be everything from pushing and shoving to fighting for extra yards.

Devin McCourty

In the NFL you can't say this game is the biggest game ever and you get all pumped up and you go win and then you're like 'alright we did it' and then you go out and you play bad for the next two or three. Like every week you've got to be ready to go because they're all big games.

Devin McCourty

The reason I got into sickle cell was my aunt has the disease, my uncle has the disease, and then the more I looked into it, a lot of minorities have the disease and it just doesn't get covered. No one really talks about it, and I felt it was the same thing with the different social injustice issues and topics that I kind of dove into.

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Yeah, I think that's the best part of being nominated and receiving awards is whatever you care about that you have given time to, have served different people, you get to spotlight and highlight that.

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