Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Davante Adams - Page 2

I'm a simple man. I work out. I live and breathe wideout play and I love my family.

I'm always going to be optimistic.

Obviously you want to be a No. 1 receiver when it comes down to contract time and things like that.

We all know this is a pretty intense business. There's a lot that happens, a lot that goes on here. Just like any other job, you want to be happy, and once you've gained that respect, you want to be treated with that type of respect.

I don't really think about the personnel too much, I don't have a desired matchup, I just like going out and playing football. I treat everybody the same when I get out there. It doesn't matter if it's Deion Sanders or if it's an undrafted rookie, I'm going to try to go out there and give them work all day.

People show love and things like that and I appreciate all of it, but you're only as good as that week so you've got to make sure that you continue to spoil the fans and the rest of the people out there in the world.

I wanted to be part of Jordan Brand, because I saw Randy Moss, my favorite receiver, wearing Jordans when I was younger. I wanted to do everything like Randy.

I'm not going to be perfect. I'm human.

That's just a trait that I have. I feel like I've always been a leader.

Obviously you come in and you're not as vocal when you're a younger player just because that's just how it goes.

You can always get better and that's what I'm trying to do.

It's tough to have a guy - not hinting at anything; it wasn't anything in the past - but when coaches are kind of on that roller-coaster ride, up and down, highs and lows, you never know what to expect. It makes it tough to come into work every day and be excited to go to meetings and things like that.

You'll hit adversity, and the good teams find a way to get it done.

Honestly, as an athlete, you generally know. Your body talks to you. You know the difference between something that's hurting, sore vs. something that's going to hurt you in the long run if you try to go really push off or something.

You've got to catch the ball. It's football. So you've got to do what you've got to do when the ball's punted to you.

All I can do is keep getting open and keep scoring touchdowns.

Everybody growing up where I came from that was the designer shoe. Nobody had Balenciaga's and all the stuff that we walk around in now. If you had Jordans, that was like a prize basically.

When the numbers come it's great if we can talk about it, watch film and love the routes we're putting out there.

Going down to New Orleans, that's where I end up with the best meals.

I'm a confident player.

I don't really have any specific numbers as far as what I want to do, how many touchdowns, how many yards. I just want the film to look good, and hopefully that translates to me having a lot of yards and touchdowns, which ultimately leads to us having a shot at the Super Bowl.

To be real with you, I have no problem with being a hermit, man.

I'm good with the ball in my hand. A great red-zone threat.

The best way ideally to stop a wide receiver in the driver's seat is to get a jam on him and slow up their timing. But it just so happens that's literally my strongest tool in my bag. I just bank on me being faster and a little bit more technical than whoever it is that I'm playing.

Obviously, me being a big part of the offense, I'm going to get more looks here and there, and I'm going to do what I can with that, make the biggest impact I can for the team.

If you go out and practice super hard and then you go play in the game, it's going to be a lot more natural for you. You'll be able to catch the ball and think fast and start making plays, making people miss and turning it into the next phase of the play rather than just catching the ball and being surprised and happy that you caught the ball.

Chemistry is not built in one practice or two weeks even. It comes over time.

You ask DeAndre Hopkins or you ask Julio Jones who's the best receiver, I don't expect them, even if they did think it was me, I would expect them to say it was them because that's the kind of mentality you should have.

I'm able to just play fast, and that's when the production comes.

Aaron Rodgers has always been one of my favorite quarterbacks.

I've got a great support system around me, helping me through the adversity, whether it's us having a stretch of games where we're losing or if I'm not playing as good as I want. I just try to stay focused and keep my head down and don't look up until it's over.

I'm real serious about my job.

The way that I play is, I'm in the driver's seat.

Being able to get to the South and get some of that cajun food, that's always good.

People aren't coming out in postgame interviews saying, 'I'm the greatest.' That's not what it's about. It's about I know what I'm about, I know what I do, and I know I truly feel like nobody can cover me. So, when I get my one-on-one opportunities, I try to show that I can't be guarded. That's just a mentality and a mind-set.

I pride myself on making plays and being open.

I'll be running, the ball will be in the air and I'll feel like I've been in that moment before. It's basically deja vu, like an active deja vu, I guess you could say.

By running routes on air, with any quarterback, if I did routes on air with a D-II quarterback, I should catch most of the balls.

It's tough to go out there and win a game with everybody healthy, let alone when everybody's kind of falling apart.

Some people just stick to what they do, and it comes back to bite them in the butt.