Ndamukong Suh Quotes

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Ndamukong Suh

Profession : Athlete

Birth : January 6, 1987

I wish that people had an opportunity to watch me 24/7, like on 'Big Brother.' You'd see a person who is quiet and reserved and very analytical - a huge observer.

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Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.

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A dirty player is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There's a huge difference. There's no gray in that. Like, you have no conscience, no nothing, no guilt. I don't have that mean streak in me. I don't play angry. It's not anger.

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I've always loved fast vehicles and looking at interesting cars.

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I've always been in love with Land Rovers and Range Rovers. I own one and was able to make it a little more exclusive.

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A couple of my teammates have the rare Ford F650 Super Truck, and they're kitted out with everything - even flat-screen TVs for movies and video-game systems in the back.

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I'm attracted to Ferraris and Bentleys, but I don't know if I'll ever have a chance to own one of those.

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Growing up, I always thought of Detroit as a basketball town because of the Pistons, but everyone says it's really, at its core, a football town.

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I remember watching Barry Sanders highlights as a kid, and the Lions always being a fun team. I, personally, really never had a real negative connotation with the team. And I didn't really listen to those who did after I was drafted.

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For whatever reason, Coach Schwartz and I weren't all that close at first. We didn't have that kind of relationship, really. I don't know why, maybe because I was a rookie, but I never felt real comfortable just popping my head in his office and sitting down to talk.

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Coach Cunningham's my guy. Without me saying a word, he can read my body language and facial expressions and tell me exactly what I'm thinking and feeling. We're actually very similar people.

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I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go insane.

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Mondays I sleep. I go in at ten, do my lift, watch the game from the day before. Tuesday is off, but I go in, lift, watch film. Then I have French toast with my sister.

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It's not the norm, I guess, to see someone as aggressive as me being more or less very athletic. You see me running, having a big, violent hit, it's going to look bad, but that's the natural ability I've been given. Why would I let it run to the wayside and not use it?

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You learn from your mistakes, or you go backward. I'm the kind of person who wants to move forward.

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If you find my aggressive and dominating play dirty, then that's your opinion. But I would assume most people want someone who is going to do anything and everything within the lines to win for their team, because I know I would.

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My job is to defeat the guy in front of me, do it until he quits, and then wait for them to send in the next guy.

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I understand there's damage control to do on my image, but people are always gonna have their opinion of me no matter what. I understand 100 people may like me and 1,000 people may hate me. That's fine.

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You continue to build and work on new things, and continue to beat offensive linemen, week in and week out.

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The game of football, especially in the NFL, is all about situations, and coming out on the big end of that stick.

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