Top 102 Quotes & Sayings by A. J. Green

Cincinnati will always be home.

I want to be a Hall of Famer. I think that's the ultimate goal and why a lot of people play this game.

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

I hurt my toe on turf and I hurt my ankle. I never got hurt on grass.

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 one of the guys that's always behind the scenes and always low-key.

I know what I'm capable of. I know when the game is on the line and we need a spark play, I'm going to make that play. But we've got to be smart about it. Can't be forcing a lot of things if I'm getting double-covered a lot.

I just try to do my job.

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.

Growing up in Ridgeville, South Carolina, pretty much all I saw was people working hard.

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

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.

Just leaving the brotherhood I have made at Georgia, the staff and all my coaches. They've prepared me for the real world. I'm really going to miss that. But I feel like they've prepared me for the real world, to be a man.

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

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

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

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.

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'm a level guy, so everything happens for a reason.

You practice something enough, it becomes second nature.

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

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 feel like I'm more of a slim guy.

I don't feel like I have anything to prove. I've played this game at a high level for a long time.

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

It's about respect and the morals and the value of life. And treat people how you want to be treated. That's the biggest thing I was brought up on from my parents.

I'm not really a big talker.

In elementary school, I didn't even play sports, I was just straight up on the juggling team. I started out with the floating scarves. Then I went to tennis balls and all that. Then by like the fourth grade I was doing the Chinese yo-yo. And I was good, man. I was like a master Chinese yo-yo person. I was top five Dead or Alive in South Carolina.

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.

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

I know what I'm capable of doing. Never a doubt in my mind.

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

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 have to be able to make plays when the ball is thrown to my side.

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

I want a tree house.

They pay me the big bucks to make the big plays.

I don't have to rely on my athletic abilities to get by. I actually understand the game. I know the game of football. I know how to read DBs, I know how to read defenses - little stuff like that, that I didn't have in 2011.

I get comfortable out at practice.

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

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

I want to be great and I accept the challenge.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I respect all my opponents.

I like to work, I like to feel comfortable.

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

There's never a perfect play for me.

I'm just blessed.

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.

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

I put a lot into my body on and off the field that really gets me ready for the next day.

I'm just happy to play the game.

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

I think the best cover corner I've faced is Patrick Peterson. He's been great so long that people really overlook him.