Top 105 Quotes & Sayings by Julian Edelman
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
It's nice not having to do that kind of stuff, getting surgeries and all that. It gives you an opportunity to get better. That's what the offseason's for.
I put at the top of my paper every day, 'Never comfortable.' It's just how I feel always.
There are different types of cornerbacks: you've got your longer guys that will try to get physical with you and use their length, and you've got your quick guys that will try to use their quickness, and then you've got your 'tweener' guys that will try to use both.
Anytime you get to go out and see the fellas and play with them and talk with them and be in the huddle and look at guys and participate in drills - I mean, that's what you play the game for, ultimately.
It's hard to shop for a guy who has everything.
Life's about dealing with adversity and solving problems.
Any time you have one-on-one time with any quarterback, it's very valuable.
Here on the East Coast, I think Shake Shack is awesome.
We never quit.
Just play every play.
It's the NFL, so anytime you get to go out and get to play against another team, there's going to be some physicality.
Injuries are psychologically so hard for an athlete because you don't get to do what you love to do.
I just kind of try to go out and focus on what I've got to do to get myself better.
I've always felt like if I had a bad practice, I could potentially get cut the next day.
I think it's an honor to play for coach Belichick. You never go into a week thinking you are not prepared.
The No. 1 rule you're taught as a receiver: You've just got to watch the ball. You hear about the guy who was lucky. But the guy who was lucky got an opportunity, and he was prepared for it. Sometimes the ball falls your way, and, you know, we'll take it.
Mr. Kraft and his family, they gave me an opportunity to come out and play in the NFL. And just to see the kind of role model Mr. Kraft is in the community, he's always around; he's here every day - darn near - he's very involved, and he's just a good man. Nothing but respect, and it starts at the top.
As a punt returner in the NFL, I know all about teamwork, high-speeds, and collisions on Sundays.
There's a whole lot of things that I've got to do to get myself better.
I'm a practice player. The more I practice, the more confident I become.
I think any time you can go out and put pads on and practice before the season, I think it's a good sign. It's a good sign.
People think it's just a 16-week season, but this is a 52-week kind of job. You're always thinking about how to improve and what to get for the next year.
When I am working out, I listen to inspirational speeches.
My dad was just a little trailer trash white dude that worked his tail off, didn't have a dad. He started working at 14, didn't get to play sports. He dedicated his life to his kids to let us live our dreams.
When I'm tired, I like to go and do drills where you catch tennis balls off walls. Different colors use different hands, and you've got to react to those types of things at different angles. I do all these crazy reaction-time things or reaction skills with tennis balls every morning, or at least four times a week.
You can never go wrong with a pair of jeans, a cool tailored shirt, and a nice jacket. You can dress it up with a more stylish jacket or a bracelet, watch, or necklace. It's simple, but it's cool. That's my opinion.
I love being a Patriot, and we'll leave it at that.
No one likes going out and sprinting 20 sprints, but you do it because it's going to help you.
Ball security is job security here.
We ignore noise, and we really just to try hunker down on preparation, our practice, and going out and trying to play our best games on Sundays.
I always preach you have to have a short memory, whether it is good or bad.
It's cool to get to play with guys that you have friendships with.
The more everyone tries to do their own job, that's when the team fires on all cylinders.
So I've been fortunate to have a bunch of teammates - pretty much all the teammates I've had have been pretty good guys.
I'm from the Bay Area.
Go out and do your drills that you do to try to get better. You lift your weights, try to take things from the classroom to grass, try to get better every day.
It's always nice to be on the practice field because, ultimately, practice is the most important thing other than the game because that's where you gain your confidence; that's where you get your fundamentals.
As a young player here in New England, there's a lot of ups and downs.
To be really honest, I do not mind whether it is offense or defense. I just like being in on plays and doing what needs to be done to help us win.
When you've got a leader that wants to go out and practice at the ultimate, highest level, when something that you should do doesn't go right, there's going to be a little fire under that, and that's what you need from your leader.
I played 51 percent of the snaps outside, though. But you can go ahead and call me a slot as well.
Obviously, my goal No. 1 every year is to play in every game.
When you're clicking, you're not making mental mistakes. You're going out there. You're lining up fast.
I'll take an ugly win over a pretty loss any day.
Tough times don't last. Tough people do. I preach that, and I guess you have to live to it.
Tom Brady is Tom Brady. He was a sixth-round draft pick. A lot of people passed up on him. He's a Super Bowl Champion, Super Bowl MVP. He's been in a bunch of Super Bowls, and he could care less about all of that. He just cares about winning the next game.
You've got these young kids out here that have to learn, but you learn from the guys above you. I learned from the Kevin Faulks.
Your job as a receiver is to get open and catch the ball and block in the run game.
Special teams is one-third of the game.
Shake Shack is good, but it's no In-N-Out.
It's always exciting to get back out there with the teammates and start a new year and get on the field.
There's nothing like a nice May day in Foxborough.
I don't say I'm necessarily a professional football player. I'm a competitor. That's what was instilled in me as a young boy.
When you become a pa, you have different priorities now, and you're not living for yourself; you're living for someone else now.
I like running that football.
Everyone goes down a road that they're not supposed to go down. You can do two things from it. You can keep going down that road and go to a dark place. Or you can turn and go up the hill and go to the top - try to go to the top.
It's always a great thing getting to play in the last game of the year.
In college, I guess you could say I was a running back that threw.
There's a lot of crazy stuff in this league, and you got to go out and you got to earn your role out every year.
The funnest thing to do is win.
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