I want to do a good job. I'm just learning and I just want to have fun with it.

Coming from the South, I just felt you had to work just a little bit harder. It was not going to be handed to you. I’d get the letters from all the major schools but no one came out to talk to me face to face until this small, dominant black school, Mississippi State Valley University sent a coach out to me. I had a chance to talk to him and he said, ‘Hey Jerry, we’re going to be doing some great things at Mississippi Valley State University and we would love to have you there.’

To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't.

I was always in search of a perfect game and I never got it.

My first experience with football was not very good because I didn't plan on playing football. I was just playing hookie one day and I was a sophomore and decided not to go to class. And the principal - normally he does his rounds and I thought I had him down pretty good where he was going to be - he sort of walked up behind me and scared me. He noticed I could run real fast. So that's how I got introduced to football.

I feel like I'm the best, but you're not going to get me to say that.