What I do in long jump and track and field, it definitely correlates with what I do as a receiver. With being fast and being explosive and putting my foot down. It’s the same mechanics that I use in football and track.
Obviously, as a receiver, you want to go out there and make plays for your team to win.
I played a little football when I was really young, but I didn’t start until my junior year. My cousin, who was a big influence in my athletic career over time, said you should go out for receiver. I said let’s give it a shot. I went out and played a little and caught a couple balls over a couple dudes heads.
I didn’t play receiver my whole life. I played running back, and I liked a bunch of running backs coming up, but I never tried to emulate them.
Once you really understand your role… that’s why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I’ve been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don’t feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.
I was just hoping I’d be drafted in the first round. So to be able to be the first receiver, that was a big pride thing. I can always say now that I was the first receiver taken in my class.
I love the physical part of the game. But I wanted to be a receiver, not just a big guy playing receiver.
I want to go down as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, receiver of my era.
I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you’re up against a top receiver almost every minute of time. In college, maybe one comes along every third game.
I played a lot of football when I was younger. I’m a good receiver, actually.
There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn’t until I was a senior. I played wide receiver instead, and this ultimately helped me because I learned more about the game.
They drafted me in the third round to come play receiver, return some kicks and that’s my job. The Olympics are behind me and I’m just looking forward to helping the Bills.
Europe cannot be only the receiver of strategic decisions of others, that is China or the U.S.A. We have to be strong ourselves to shape the global rules.
I’d be the first to tell you that stats lie and at receiver more than any other position, stats lie.
It would have been a lot of fun as a receiver to play.
As a receiver, you want to run through contact. That’s the biggest coaching point that most coaches give them. You’re going to get grabbed and you’re going to get into adverse situations. But if you run through contact and do not confuse the quarterback, more than likely you’re going to get the football.
I’m a confident guy. But it’s surreal to hear my name called in the same breath as Randy Moss, my favorite receiver. That’s the cool thing about having some success.
I’m just a receiver. I don’t want to be labeled as a deep-threat guy, which is always going to happen because I’m always going to be able to run past people until I’m slow. I watch some guys who are very good at being deep threats, but it’s like people don’t respect them doing anything else.
I love competition, but my approach to the game was to never make it personal. It was business. It was what I did, so it didn’t matter who the opposing team was, or who the receiver was. I approached it as business and I never let myself get outside of that.
Obviously as a receiver, you want to go out there and make plays for your team and win.
Me, personally, I don’t really care about as far as being the highest-paid receiver, man. It’s a number.
My game, I just want to be a complete receiver.
Questions are like gifts – it’s the thought behind them that the receiver really feels. We have to know the receiver to give the right gift and to ask the right question. Generic gifts and questions are all right, but personal gifts and questions feel better.
People ask me who he reminds me of. The way he’s playing, I’d say he doesn’t remind me of anybody. I’ve never seen anybody – running back, quarterback, wide receiver – make the plays that Vince Young made today.
What defines greatness is when you hold all the records and what you mean to your fans, on and off the field, because that is who ranks you as the greatest receiver of all-time. The guy that holds all the records, the guy that has set the stage for all of us, you have to give it to Jerry Rice.
I felt, you know, coming from Philadelphia, the image they put out of me, I think I had three years to go out there and prove to everybody that no, he’s not that type of guy. He’s a team guy. He loves to obviously get the ball – what receiver do you know, or do you want, on your team that don’t want to get the ball?
I think I am capable of doing what any other elite receiver is capable of doing.
I want to be the best receiver to ever play the game. I feel like I can do it. I know I have the ability to do it. But it’s all about going out there and proving it.
I love when people think I’m not a good receiver.
If I wasn’t boxing I’d be a wide receiver or a running back for the Giants.
As a junior in high school, I had some injury problems with my arm and shoulder from baseball, so I didn’t play quarterback as a junior. I played a little wide receiver, linebacker, and safety.
You can’t be a tight end and just be viewed as a receiver.
Jimmy Graham over in New Orleans started a whole new type of position almost to where he was trying to get paid like a wide receiver. He was split out more than 50 percent of the time.
I feel like whatever team drafts me I’d fit into because they’re going to get the best receiver in the draft. Regardless of if they really need a receiver early or not, the way I’m going to come in and work, they’re going to get the guy they hoped they drafted and be excited about it.
Half of the time, it’s about winning, but as a receiver, you do want to score touchdowns. I do want to score.
Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.
When advice is freely given, the receiver is free to use it as he or she sees fit.
I didn’t run the ball very much in college. I sat out most of the time and played a little slot receiver, a little tight end, a little fullback but that’s pretty much about it.
When I was a wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings, I lost in Super Bowl XI. It was a crushing defeat. Now I don’t even think about it. It doesn’t even come to mind. Had we won, maybe it would’ve been in my head longer.
There’s a lot to it, but the bottom line as a receiver is to run the right route, get open and make plays.
The play that’s on top of the ball, where I’m on top of the receiver? If that ball is in the air and I can make it, I’m going to make it.
You wouldn’t do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn’t throw it.
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