I want to be my own player. I want to be Julius Peppers. I don't want to be the next Lawrence Taylor. I don't want to have to live with his legacy.

I've wanted to hit Jay Cutler so hard for so long that this move just makes sense.

I'm out to prove something-that I'm all for real and that I can do it on my own without any help.

How can you say you want to be somewhere when you're not really sure if they want you there because they're not even talking to you?

I want to be my own player. I want to be Julius Peppers. I don't want to be the next Lawrence Taylor. I don't want to have to live with his legacy.

Right now I feel like playing as long as I can, As long as my body will allow me to play I'm going to continue to play.

As a kid, I never thought I saw myself as unusual. I always thought that lots of people could do what I did. More and more I realized I was wrong.