I Want To Do A Good Job.

Defensive Backs Are The Best Players On The Field. But When You Get An Exceptional Player Like A Deion Sanders Or A Darrell Green - These Guys Are Fast And They Have Very Good Technique. You Have To Work A Little Harder.

I Think With My Hands, It Was Catching A Lot Of Footballs And Working With My Father During The Summer Because He Would Always Make Me. My Father Was A Bricklayer So I Was A Helper. My Job Was To Make Sure That He Had Bricks To Lay.

To Me, It Was Never About What I Accomplished On The Football Field. It Was About The Way I Played The Game. I Played The Game With A Lot Of Determination, A Lot Of Poise, A Lot Of Pride And I Think What You Saw Out There...was An Individual Who Really Just Loved The Game.

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.’

Not Wanting To Disappoint Is What Pushed Me To Be Successful.