Myles Garrett

Don't let anyone be close to how good you are, no matter what the division is - one, two or three. It doesn't matter, everyone plays football. It doesn't matter who the competition is.

I like to speak to my family in person. I get a bad rap because I don't use my phone enough to talk to them, but I do love talking in person, and I don't mind FaceTime, but actually, like, calling and texting, not too big on that.

I think everybody enjoys a little bit of Drake.

I go back to, like, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, Elvis. I listen to everything.

I think I was born in the right era. But I missed out on some great music.

You played 'Snake' on it. That's what we had a cell phone for, when my mother would let us use it. When you had it, you set it down at the table, you set it down in the other room, we ate, and you enjoyed your time with your family.

I like to go and take pictures.

I like to take long drives.I like to just enjoy the world and know what it is.

I didn't have a cell phone for awhile, until I was, like, 13 or 14, and before then, even if I did have one, it didn't work.

Accidents happen on the field.

I've just been competitive all my life. That draws from a competitive family. We're all athletes, and we're all trying to win no matter what it is, whether it's Scrabble or basketball.

I love my teammates. I'm never going to try and let them down.

Every play I give max effort because it can make the game.

I want to be a paleontologist, whether it's amateur or professional. And I want to be a humanitarian.

I have to live up to my expectations - which is to break all the records that I can, dominate by a wide margin.

I don't want to have to be taken out because I'm tired or I need a breather.

I want to be more than prepared for the game, for the preseason, for the season.

Everything has a right to live.

You want to get the sack, but you want to get the forced fumble and the fumble recovery. And if you get the touchdown, that's the cherry on top. But you're looking for those three always.

You want to be Defensive Player of the Year.

Regardless of whether I'm sitting on the bench or out there participating, I'm going to give my all whatever I'm doing.

I want to be the greatest player who has ever been at my position, the greatest player who has ever played.

I'm going to love whatever team and organization that I'm a part of.

I've already said I like the Cowboys because that's my hometown team. Everybody knows you're going to like your hometown team.

If there's the opportunity to turn things around, that's what great players do. They don't complain or become complacent with losing. They just go back to work every day and try to turn things around and make wherever they are a great place to be.

A great team versus another great team, your performance is going to go down. But my job is to improve my consistency where, when I dominate against the lesser teams, go and do well and do the same amount of work when I'm going against the Alabamas and the LSUs, and it will come.

I want to be the best. The only thing holding me back is me.

If I hope for four or five sacks, and I only get two or three, that's still a good week for me, so I gotta go out there with those high hopes, those high expectations, and try to achieve them.

I can always do better. I can always find a way to make more plays and be more effective.

It's nice to have a record, but it's even better to have a win. But it's team before self every time.

Can't force anything. Can't try and make a play that somebody else is supposed to make.

Nobody is 100 percent every play, you know - eight, nine plays down the drive. Sometimes you do look back at it and say, 'Dang, I could have gave more effort there, or I loafed it a little.' But you work on those things.

If I have to play every snap for us to have a chance to win, I'm going to do that.

If I can get some time off and still be productive and go 85-90 percent of the plays, that's fine with me.

I can't go out there and be gassed and trying to go out there and make a play just for individual stats. Got to do the best thing for the team, which is to put myself out there when it's most productive for us.

That's my goal: to be on the field as much as possible so I can make as big of an impact as possible.

I want to be great, and that's holding myself to my standards, not anybody else's.

I'm not satisfied with doing well or doing good.

More people should stand up and not be afraid to do things that mean something to them.

I'm just a person that played a game in the spotlight.

I'm not great until I'm the best.

I'm a regular person. I'm a regular guy. As a kid, I played games. As a kid, I liked poetry. As a kid, I liked drawing. And I never felt the need to stop doing anything. I never lost interest in them.

I can't be a savior. But I can be the best I can be.

I grew up loving dinosaurs, digging up things.

I'll be a difference maker from Day 1.

My dad gives me goals, and then I kind of go even farther beyond those.

I'm not really a numbers guy, but I always have a goal in mind.

Whatever happens, if I don't make any plays that game, hopefully I can have an effect where I'm distracting two or three blockers, or I'm getting my hands up so I can bat down balls.

My goal is to be the best player on the field every down and every game. If I achieve that, then I will achieve any goal I set forth.

I want to go around the world just helping people.