Top 104 Quotes & Sayings by Amari Cooper

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Last updated on December 5, 2024.
Amari Cooper

Amari Cooper is an American football wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at the University of Alabama, where he was the Biletnikoff Award winner as the nation's top receiver and a unanimous All-American in 2014. Widely considered the top wide receiver prospect of the 2015 NFL Draft, Cooper was selected with the fourth overall pick by the Oakland Raiders.

Obviously, if you go to the playoffs you have an opportunity to go to the Super Bowl.
I haven't played with too many guys like Dak Prescott, so I think he definitely deserves everything that's coming to him. He definitely deserves to be paid amongst the highest-paid quarterbacks in the league.
I don't look at it like I've had a lot of success. I'm always hungry to do more, break records, and things of that sort. — © Amari Cooper
I don't look at it like I've had a lot of success. I'm always hungry to do more, break records, and things of that sort.
Growing up, every team that I've played on, I was a pretty important piece to the team.
Just keep being me, just keep doing me, stay true to who I am and the ball will find me.
I don't think you have to be flamboyant to be a great player.
I played with a lot of foot injuries.
Michael Irvin, he's definitely a legend, but I don't know if some of the guys my age and younger really know about him.
Obviously, you want to score every game, but you just have to be patient.
I just play, man. Try to play good every week, but if it doesn't happen, I just move on. But if I do play good, I do the same thing.
I love being a Dallas Cowboy. I love everything about it. I think about it every day.
I don't really have a shell. I'm really not as quiet as people think I am. I'm really not that quiet. But I don't know, I would say I'm more observant.
I think I proved that I was a polished receiver. — © Amari Cooper
I think I proved that I was a polished receiver.
I like to be moved around a lot because the defense can never know or expect me to be in just one place. They can't really key on me. I can be freed up.
I just try to work on my craft. Try to be as complete a player as possible, and I've just been focusing on being a consistent player.
Yeah, I just handle my business.
When you do something, you want to be the best.
When someone's playing you man-to-man coverage, they're basically saying that guy's better than you. So that's why a lot of receivers feed off of that.
I can stretch the defense.
You can never really get away from the fundamentals of anything that you're doing.
If you're a highly touted free agent, you're going to get paid a lot of money no matter where you go.
That is the type of player I think I am, and the type of player I want to be - a big-play guy.
I don't want to prove the Raiders wrong. I just want to prove the Cowboys right. They traded for me, and I'm going to be a good player for them.
I wanted to play running back, but they would never put me at running back. I started loving receiver and as I kept growing older, we kept throwing the ball more and I kept liking it more and more. It's something I've played all my life. It's something I've gotten better at each year.
A lot of guys go through ups and downs in their careers, and sometimes those downs are like horrific and they can really change you. A lot. And so when you go out there and do something like score a touchdown and have a good game, you appreciate it so much more when you've been through those valleys in life.
I try to come out every day in the summer and work my hardest because I know consistency will lead to success.
Is it worth a million dollars more a year or two million dollars more a year, especially if you're taking care of your money investment-wise, is it worth that two being in an environment that you don't want to be in?
I really don't like talking about the contract. I feel like it's one of those things that will naturally happen.
If you just look at the numbers, you pretty much have to get 10 wins to get into the playoffs, sometimes more than that.
It feels great to be wanted by any team in the NFL.
I like the way Michael Crabtree plays the game. He's strong, he goes up for the ball, he has that mentality to just make plays.
I know that I have the skillset to be one of the highest-paid receivers. I'm just all about going out there and proving it.
I respect every NFL team because it was a dream I've had since I was a little kid.
Talk about a foot injury, you can't release how you want to, you can't come out of your breaks how you want to.
Obviously, as a receiver, you want to go out there and make plays for your team to win.
I bring a lot of playmaking ability.
You never want to put yourself in that position where you don't control your own destiny.
I want to be a Cowboy for life. — © Amari Cooper
I want to be a Cowboy for life.
Most of the balls that I've dropped have been from a result of trying to run before I actually catch the ball. It's frustrating. I just have to go and fix them.
Sometimes you can line up with a quarterback after getting traded or going to a new team, whether it's the draft or whatever, and it not go smooth.
I had 1,000 yards when I played on plantar fasciitis before.
There is something to be said about making a big play at any time.
I've been playing football all my life.
All the small things matter. Communication. It doesn't matter what you are doing. You have to be on the same page.
I wasn't really happy in Oakland or anything like that.
That's what teammates are for. They encourage you through the good and the bad times.
I mean the first thing you think about when you hear the Cowboys is that star, 'America's Team,' and all of that. It's a great franchise.
I don't really care who I play for. I just want to play ball. — © Amari Cooper
I don't really care who I play for. I just want to play ball.
You don't want to give the defensive back any signals about what route you're going to run.
Just the aura of being a Dallas Cowboy, you can't beat it.
Every time I run a route, I try to make it seem like I'm running a different route than I'm actually running so I can get open.
I overheard one of my friends say, 'If Amari scores, I bet he's real happy and he'll get real excited.' I just so happened to score, and since I heard him say that, I was like, 'Nah, I'm not going to get really excited.' And for some reason, that felt like the right thing to do. I been the same way since.
I played with high ankle sprains.
You can only get open in two ways, off of the line or out of your breaks.
I take good pride in the way I release off the line and coming out of my breaks.
When you're the underdog, you just lay low and work.
I've always kept in mind, team first.
I knew if I got an offer from Alabama, that's where I wanted to go... just because I liked what they stood for. I liked that they were winning.
Anytime that anyone can create some explosive plays, get first downs, we're going to have more plays on offense.
In football, in any sport, communication is really key. So if you want to be a great teammate, a great team and a great player, then communication is very important.
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