Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Davante Adams

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.

I think about scoring touchdowns a lot.

I want to be in the Hall of Fame.

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

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

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 want to get the respect that I deserve.

I want to go down as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, receiver of my era.

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

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

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.

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

I mean, I grew up with nothing. Crazy crime rate. Exposed to a lot of stuff that a young kid shouldn't be. Obviously, I would have loved to feel a little bit safer at times in my life.

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.

I just trust in myself in what I can do.

I'll catch a 25-yard pass and, typically, I'm spinning the ball and I'll be looking at the fans to try and pump them up.

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

You can't fine somebody for a peaceful protest.

I like to think that with a double team, not every double team is going to be successful.

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

I think I'm the best receiver in the NFL. I do.

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?

No one wants to see a failed Lambeau Leap.

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

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.

I feel like if you ask people, certain people will say that I'm a top receiver. But if you ask people to name their top receivers, they won't mention me. So that's where the disrespect is coming from. I don't think they say, 'Davante Adams sucks.' But they think that top five, they put the same celebrities in there every time.

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'm a guy who feeds off the energy of the fans heavily.

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

There were certain routes that I didn't get a chance to run in college.

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

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.

People hear 'East Palo Alto' and they think, 'Oh, you're from Stanford.' They don't understand. It's like 'The Lion King:' You've got Pride Rock, and then you've got where the hyenas are. It ain't too far, but it's a completely different world.

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.

I went under the radar my whole life.

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've earned the right to be paid the highest in the league.

I'm great at getting six points.

Obviously, I'm a competitor. I think everybody knows that. Everybody knows what I'm about and how I play football.

You can say what you want about me playing in the Mountain West, but I can only eat what's in front of me. I've dominated in my field and did what I had to do.

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

Once I started realizing I could lose people at the line of scrimmage, and essentially run a route on air. I figured that that was the way to go. So I just put a lot into that, and obviously I made it a big part of who I am as a football player.

I've always been confident in my abilities all throughout my life.

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.

Most guys don't super jam because when you lunge forward, you can't retreat. You have to stay in there and commit to it. So you have to be confident that you can deliver a strong punch and disrupt the receiver.

The Packers have all kinds of traditions and rules that you only learn about when you get here. One of the rules is that receivers can't wear sleeves.

Accomplished. I like that word. I feel like I've done a lot, but accomplished doesn't mean the end of the road. You can continue to feel accomplished.

A doctor can't just come out and play because he's smart and understands the game on paper. He can dissect the hell out of it, I'm sure, but you can't just come and be on the field. But for those who have the physical tools, the mental game is everything. And I feel like that's one of my better traits.

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.

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

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

You want to draft a guy that has production and gets the ball in the end zone.

Growing up, there was a lot of negativity that I could have been a part of. Fitness was a way to stay on the straight and narrow and stay safe.

You have to appreciate the slow grind because success is not going to happen overnight. It can happen overnight, but that's not my journey.

I put a lot into my craft.

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

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

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.

The awards or minor achievements along the way, the weekly things, hearing stuff like that makes me feel good obviously but that ain't what drives me.

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.