Mike Daniels Quotes

I always feel as though I’ve made a significant improvement after every training session. It’s never S-O-S, same old stuff. It’s always something new.

It’s kind of crazy to say your home field is Lambeau Field.

I’ve had quite a few plays where I’ve just dominated the guy across from me.

Embrace the fact that you are different… Don’t think you’re alone. Embrace it. Love it.

I’m not going to get any taller, so I might as well get as strong and lean as I possibly can be.

Kevin Zeitler, who plays for the Browns, he watches quite a bit of anime.

A lot of these defensive linemen, they’re real whirling dervishes – they do all these fancy moves.

I’m an East Coast guy and always will be. But I’m always going to find my way back to Green Bay whether I’m living here or not. Green Bay is a great place. Green Bay is awesome.

I really wanted to be the biggest, baddest guy – not to mess with anybody, just so nobody would mess with me.

I know Geno Atkins is a big anime fan. Cameron Jordan, Larry Warford, my boy Adam Gettis is a big anime fan.

I am a bit sassy, with some sarcasm thrown into the mix, but stoic at the same time – and brash.

I’m hard on myself.

I was never motivated by a contract. I was motivated by being the best. So I just compete against myself every day and push to get better.

Some of those 10, nine-year vets, they know some things that your typical college senior wouldn’t. I’ve come across some guards in the NFL that know how to use their hands better than D-linemen in college. I guess they’ve learned from their enemies.

I’ve always just tried to be a guy who will lead by example, and I feel like if something has to be said, I will say it.

When something needs to get done and it doesn’t get done, I take it personally. And that’s just how you have to be.

In ‘Dragon Ball,’ the characters have a challenge. They know they have to push their bodies to the limit in their training so they can make sure to defeat their opponent, much like professional football players.

I got into the weights because I didn’t want anybody messing with me. I wanted people to say, ‘Oh, he’s so big, I don’t want to mess with him.’ And second of all, I wanted to be great at football. I wanted to be the baddest dude around because I knew what it was like to not be.

When I was in high school, I wasn’t thinking about getting a scholarship. I was thinking about trying to go and dominate. Same thing in college. I just have to focus on playing the best football I can.

How I go about my work is I like to stay consistent. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, and I have a really good program, and I like to stick to it.

Stats are for losers, really. You’ve just got to go and play better, flat out.

The second guy always gets caught, and that’s why you have to initiate it instead of retaliating.

I’m an emotional guy.

Being under-recruited coming out of Highland, I’ve carried that with me. I keep pushing forward, keep working hard every day, keep my head on straight every step of the way. I tried to keep the reality hat on, knowing I might not get to the NFL, but I also knew it was a great possibility if I kept myself hungry.

When you’re a defensive lineman, to get your hands on the ball, it’s a dream. It’s everybody’s dream.

Nobody wants to stay in Green Bay and run laps in the snow and go boxing in the gym. Everybody has what works for them, and I feel as though this works for me – it keeps me hungry, it keeps me with that edge. Other guys get a hard day’s work in, but they’re on the beach afterward.

You can’t run a team with one leader. You need multiple leaders.

The Big Ten has great offensive lines and great offensive-line coaching. It prepared me pretty well for the NFL.

This kind of stuff, it wasn’t the cool thing when I was growing up. Now, pop culture is comic books, super-hero movies, anime, manga, and I’ve been doing it for a long time.

I say I’m the strongest in the NFL, but the yoga has helped me to a point where I can’t be moved off the line, because I know how to get rooted in the ground and use the energy around me.

Nothing was ever handed to me. I mean nothing.

I really feel that if you impose your will on somebody, eventually they’ll break.

Look at the old Packers – those guys were mean. Reggie White would say, ‘Here comes Jesus,’ and then he’d club you into next week.

Whether you’re praying, meditating, you’re getting silent, relaxing your mind… and you definitely want to train hard – in the weight room, on the track. You need to do all of it.

When we’re on the football field, it’s me vs. him. Maybe it’s me vs. two of them. Maybe it’s me vs. three of them. It’s a fight. And you have to take that fighter’s mentality out there.