Top 60 Davante Adams Quotes

I’m real serious about my job.

I had two offers coming out of high school in football and with more resources and things like that it could have been 20.

Usually, when a DB is trying to catch up to you, he’ll run to your wake because his natural instinct is to trail you so you don’t get too much separation.

I just trust in myself in what I can do.

The biggest thing for me coming into the league was my last year in college I didn’t think about the NFL one time. I just played ball and went out there and did what I did and let everything take care of itself. It worked out great for me.

I think about scoring touchdowns a lot.

Aaron Rodgers has always been one of my favorite quarterbacks.

Even getting the Lambeau Leap right was a learning experience. The wall is a lot higher than people think. You have to jump as high as you can.

The way that I play is, I’m in the driver’s seat.

I’ve always been able to dunk a little bit; I’m a big basketball guy.

I’m always going to be optimistic.

It’s tough to have a guy – not hinting at anything; it wasn’t anything in the past – but when coaches are kind of on that roller-coaster ride, up and down, highs and lows, you never know what to expect. It makes it tough to come into work every day and be excited to go to meetings and things like that.

Aqib Talib has never seen a pass he didn’t think he could take to the house.

What drives me is getting the Super Bowl and ultimately trying to be the best receiver to play this game.

I’ll be running, the ball will be in the air and I’ll feel like I’ve been in that moment before. It’s basically deja vu, like an active deja vu, I guess you could say.

I’ve never had an ‘I’ve arrived’ moment. I don’t like that word, ‘arrived.’ If you say you’ve arrived, then you’ve achieved your dream. You’ve done all you can. ‘I’m the guy now.’ I don’t like that.

Some people just stick to what they do, and it comes back to bite them in the butt.

I’m from East Palo Alto, California. I grew up with zero dollars.

Obviously you want to be a No. 1 receiver when it comes down to contract time and things like that.

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.

The best way ideally to stop a wide receiver in the driver’s seat is to get a jam on him and slow up their timing. But it just so happens that’s literally my strongest tool in my bag. I just bank on me being faster and a little bit more technical than whoever it is that I’m playing.

I just want to get the respect that I deserve.

I’m a simple man. I work out. I live and breathe wideout play and I love my family.

This is a tough league to perform in consistently if you don’t have your mind right, especially at the position that I play. You’ve got to focused, man.

You’ll hit adversity, and the good teams find a way to get it done.

Going down to New Orleans, that’s where I end up with the best meals.

By running routes on air, with any quarterback, if I did routes on air with a D-II quarterback, I should catch most of the balls.

There’s no drill that you can do as a DB to get ready for what I do on the field.

There’s certain guys who dictate or change the way they play based off who they’re playing, and that still may translate to success for them, but the way that I play is, like I say, I’m in the driver’s seat.

I’ve got a great support system around me, helping me through the adversity, whether it’s us having a stretch of games where we’re losing or if I’m not playing as good as I want. I just try to stay focused and keep my head down and don’t look up until it’s over.

You’ve got to catch the ball. It’s football. So you’ve got to do what you’ve got to do when the ball’s punted to you.

It’s nothing against anybody else. I just don’t feel like anybody can guard me.

I pride myself on making plays and being open.

I can’t throw myself the ball. All I can control is running my routes and making my catches.

All I can do is keep getting open and keep scoring touchdowns.

You have to make sure you’re the best at whatever it is, and I pride myself on having good hands.

We all know this is a pretty intense business. There’s a lot that happens, a lot that goes on here. Just like any other job, you want to be happy, and once you’ve gained that respect, you want to be treated with that type of respect.

Why any playmaker if you get them the ball early, it helps with their confidence and their mojo and their momentum.

I’m able to just play fast, and that’s when the production comes.

Everybody growing up where I came from that was the designer shoe. Nobody had Balenciaga’s and all the stuff that we walk around in now. If you had Jordans, that was like a prize basically.

I want to be in the Hall of Fame.

I’m great at getting six points.

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.

Obviously you come in and you’re not as vocal when you’re a younger player just because that’s just how it goes.

I went under the radar my whole life.

That’s just a trait that I have. I feel like I’ve always been a leader.

That’s how I’ve had success my whole life. That’s the recipe for me, just locking in on the moment. But I start thinking about getting paid and all this other stuff, and my mind is not right. It makes it really tough to focus on what you’ve got to do.

I feel like I have a rare skill-set with my quickness and my size. It kind of throws people off. It’s deceptive with my speed.

When you start getting a little more confident in the playbook, you can think a little bit less and just play.

Being able to overcome obstacles and to demand the most out of yourself is a quality that everyone needs to be successful.

You can always get better and that’s what I’m trying to do.

That’s what we play this game for; the opportunity to go win the ultimate prize.

I would definitely say I have my head on straight, but that’s due to my parents.

I just block everything out. It’s not even something that I do. When the ball’s in the air, everything goes quiet. That’s how it is. I don’t really think about it much. That’s how I play. Tunnel vision.

When you’re running a route, timing is everything. You have an internal clock – a timer that goes off in your mind that tells you that you need to be ready for the ball – and you have to get to your spot on time.

I’m a confident player.

When you go up for the rebound, you can’t wait for the ball to come down. You have to go get the ball at the highest point. That’s how it is in football. If you want to win those jump balls and those 50-50 balls, you’ve got to go up and get it.

If I really make it look like I need to get outside, as a corner you have to respect that. If I run a slant and you stop it then you’re like, ‘Okay, great. I won.’ But what if I would have kept going?

I like to tell young athletes to make sure you’re taking care of business in all aspects of life.

People show love and things like that and I appreciate all of it, but you’re only as good as that week so you’ve got to make sure that you continue to spoil the fans and the rest of the people out there in the world.