Top 95 Quotes & Sayings by Adam Thielen - Page 2

I played college football for free. I had to pay to play, really.

I have a lot of things to work on, a lot of things to get better at, which is good.

We put everything we have into the offseason.

The guys who play at a high level probably think they are better than they are, and that's all right.

I don't care if people think I'm one of the best receivers or one of the worst receivers. I don't really care.

I think there's a lot of people that still don't believe in me, and obviously, I love proving people wrong and helping the football team win games any possible way I can.

I want to be respected based on how I play.

In high school I just loved to compete and play sports. I didn't have a sport that I was going to say, 'Hey, I'm going to play this at the next level.' Whatever my best opportunity was was what I was going to do.

It doesn't matter what play is called, you have to run that play and you have to be successful on it. It just comes down to execution, all 11 players doing the right thing.

As a competitor, as an athlete, you want the ball to come to you.

A lot of people can talk about their faith. When you live it every day and act on the word of God, it's pretty cool to see.

As a competitor, when you have a bad play, all you want is to get the ball again and get going.

For us, we're homebodies. My wife and I like to be at home with family.

There's a lot of guys out there that can play at this level, and sometimes they might be discouraged because they come from a small school or a tough situation.

I love when people think it's going to be easy to guard me.

I love when people think I'm not a good receiver.

I think everybody individually does things a little differently. As a quarterback, every quarterback has their strengths and their weaknesses.

When we go out, we have our favorite places, and the great thing about Minnesota is that most Minnesotans are pretty respectful of your time when you're with your family.

I wouldn't take back having a kid for the world.

I just want to make sure that I'm competing every day and giving my best effort, because everything else just falls into place.

In the NFL, there's never really that moment where you're like, Hey, I made the team. Or: Hey, you made the practice squad. You just kind of show up the next day and go to work. Nobody really says anything. You just kind of go to work.

For me there is so many factors in football, that's why it's the greatest team game. There are so many things that lead into having success, just like when you have a ton of success and when you have no success, it's not just you.

When there are things I see on tape that I think I can get better at, it frustrates me.

I do get recognized every once in a while.

Just trust that good things will happen if you're working hard and making plays.

I don't think it's much different at this level. It just feels like playing high school football, college football. It's the same games, the same routes.

I would not be in the NFL, 100 percent, if it wasn't for basketball. I probably wouldn't be where I am without golf and baseball. Golf, for the mental side of the game, being able to focus on the now and take one shot at a time.

When I was early in my career, I really followed Twitter, seeing what people were saying about me. I definitely saw them talking about Mr. Mankato and all that. It was fun for me to have a little bit of extra support from outside people. I definitely helped me build confidence, that's for sure.

I had a coach when I was getting recruited say maybe you should play basketball at a Division III level, because you're not good enough to play football in college.

You know, the media always tries to twist things and make things into what they're not.

Cris Carter and Randy Moss - they're the guys who made me want to play football and be a receiver.

My wife and I are breakfast people.

We actually had a toilet on the sideline in college. We had like a little mini-toilet; we'd go and flush it.

The whole goal was to get an opportunity to go somewhere for OTAs because OTAs in this league are extremely important, especially for undrafted guys and guys who are on the bubble. You don't get a lot of opportunities in preseason games and training camp, so OTAs are huge.

I think that everybody should have the same opportunities.