Top 66 A. J. Green Quotes

I’m one of the guys that’s always behind the scenes and always low-key.

As an athlete, our platform is so high. A lot of people look up to us. So if they see us doing something positive, it can change the world.

I get comfortable out at practice.

I just try to do my job.

When I was a kid, I used to be like a professional juggler in training. That’s funny, right?

I usually go out there and play relaxed and play free and usually let the game come to me.

I always leave for the stadium on the second bus. Never the first. And I have to have new shoes – brand new shoes – for every game. Same with gloves. But I don’t use my gloves in pregame, so the first football I catch with my new gloves each game is the first ball I catch in the game.

I love the game and there’s no need to make a fuss about it.

My game is not always built off speed, it’s just my craft to where I can run routes and get in-and-out of my breaks as a big guy keeps me at a consistent level for a long time.

Every defense’s game plan is to take me away.

There’s never a perfect play for me.

When you play this game long enough, everything is not going to be smooth sailing.

It’s a process of trying to be great. You play this game long enough, you’re going to have these bumps in the road and you have to keep fighting.

I feel I have proved myself as one of the best receivers in college football from Day 1. I believe I can easily make that next step to the NFL and do the same.

I think it’s very hard to find a big corner who can run and who also can play the ball very well.

Everything that I’ve done in my life is always I wanted to be the best in everything I do. I want to be the best husband, the best dad, the best receiver.

I’m never one to put my personal stats up front, I just go out there and play.

You practice something enough, it becomes second nature.

I’ve never been the type of guy to be somebody I’m not.

I want a tree house.

One of my best friends is Justin Houston.

I hate turf. I feel like turf has always hurt me.

From Day One I always wanted to be a role model. For me, that’s who I am.

In my neighborhood, people were truckers and teachers and store clerks and bus drivers and everything else under the sun. But what they all had in common was that everyone was dependable and worked really hard. We all got what we needed, but it didn’t always come easy.

My dad? He worked at a steel plant over in Charleston. Night shift. Nine at night to nine in the morning, no joke.

I’m just blessed.

When I’m done playing, when I seem like I’m retiring, I don’t love the game anymore.

When the game is on the line, I want to be the go-to guy. I feel like that separates the good from the great receivers.

It’s a roller-coaster league, man.

The NFL stands for ‘Not For Long,’ so you gotta get it while it lasts.

I respect all my opponents.

My job is to go out there and win one-on-ones and make plays whenever it’s called.

That’s the ultimate goal is to win the championship.

I used to go out there and play relaxed and play free and just let the game come to me.

You go through all the training camps, all the blood and sweat and tears. I think you play for the guys in the locker room. We don’t play for anybody else.

Some guys want to sit out preseason games and stuff like that. For me, I need my reps to feel comfortable.

I don’t believe you have to throw the ball 80 yards every play.

A trade’s not going to change who I am. I’m still going to play. I’m still going to be A.J.

You can’t take anything for granted so I have to keep working.

There’s always something – especially after a loss – that you look back and think you could’ve done better, whether it’s running routes or getting some extra yards after a catch.

We can’t be afraid to make mistakes.

I just try to go about my business, love the game, prepare every week and play football.

A lot of people can’t say that they’ve got three contracts in this league.

I’m striving to be the best ever.

My game, I just want to be a complete receiver.

Being there for my son, being there for my wife, just being a better man. That’s all I know.

A lot of players are scared to talk because a lot of people aren’t financially stable to where they can make comments on how they feel about things and not feel like they will get cut or something like that.

I always show loyalty to the people who gave me a chance from the get-go, and Cincinnati gave me that chance.

In 2015, I felt like I had a good season, but we had all the weapons. I didn’t have that many targets, but I still had good yardage.

I love hot dogs. That’s the only thing I can’t get rid of.

You just have to take a deep breath, relax and let the game come to you.

Nobody can hold me back when it’s time to play.

With a lot of bigger corners, you can get an advantage on them by exploiting their agility. For example, you can run a lot of double moves where you get way down in your breaks. You can try to make the game more about the stop-and-start.

I think what pushes me every day is that I’m so afraid to fail. I think it comes from what I went through in school growing up and not being great in the classroom and having to work harder than everybody else.

I play this game not just because of the money, man. I play because one day I want to put on that Hall of Fame jacket. Also, I want a Super Bowl. The money is just going to come anyway. But if you’re not happy, the money really doesn’t mean anything.

My game is not talking. I just go out there and play. I don’t care who’s across from me.

Whatever God has planned for me, that’s what’s going to happen.

I’m always talking to people and they’re always telling me bad times never last so long. Good people last longer.

I didn’t have to be somebody I wasn’t coming into the league. I had a great foundation from my family.

I wanted to be great, that’s from day one.

I have a son, and I’m not going to teach him to back down from anybody.

I’m a guy that leads from example, but sometimes I need to speak up.

Revis is a first-ballot Hall of Famer. It’s just an honor going against him.

I’m just happy to play the game.

I need all the energy I can to go out and make plays.

My mom worked at Walmart for 33 years straight. Thirty-three years! Day in and day out.