Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Julio Jones - Page 2

Everybody has to be accountable on every play. The main thing is that we have to do our job. Going through all of the keys, making sure we are making the right reads, blocking the right person and getting the right route depth. Everything.

I mean like for me to be at my best, I have a routine. So I need to go to sleep - I need to eat and I need to go to bed.

With social media, there are no facts behind it. People hear something, and they just run with it. And things get spread, good or bad.

Well, for me, I don't need validation from no one to tell me what type of player I am or number to tell me throughout the year what type of player I am. It's all about your ability to go out there and just compete.

I was usually a water type of guy. But Vita Coco is good for hydration as well.

You've got to take care of yourself, man. There's a lot of stuff going around here nowadays with cancer and hormones and things like that they're putting in a lot of foods. You've got to be real careful and stay as healthy as possible.

I wish they could do away with the franchise tag.

For me, a lot of people don't even challenge me at the line. If a guy were to come up and challenge me, I'm down for it.

You can't let games define who you are and your character as a player.

You can't hang your head if you go out there and give it your all... If you are giving it your all, that's all you have.

I'm just going out there doing whatever it takes to win the game, to help my brothers out. It's not me against one other person.

I'm a veteran guy. I know how to play the game. I know what it takes. Me missing a day of practice doesn't mean anything.

My mother has always supported me through life and football. She pushes me to get better and is my biggest fan on and off the field.

I've had a lot of success by myself, but it's not good when you can't go accomplish things as a team.

All I can give is everything I got and that's it; that's all you can ask from a guy is his all.

I don't watch football like outside of football, really.

Sometimes a guy is going to get you here and there, you compete. He is getting paid just like you're getting paid, and he is a competitor just like you are. But if a guy can just stop me a whole game by himself, and I can't do nothing about it or I'm fatiguing or I'm not strong throughout the whole game, then it's time for me to hang them up.

Honey Buns, that was my go-to. I mean, when I first came into the league, I was a young kid eating everything.

I don't fault anyone for stepping away from the game.

You've got to go out there and play the game the way it's supposed to be played. Then you get people to like you and appreciate your work by just going out there and competing every down. Jerry Rice was looked at in that perspective. He went out there and was a hard-working guy. He was going to give it his all.

I'm very tough and I have a high tolerance for pain.

You're going to be successful or you're not going to be successful. You have to handle success and not being successful in the same way.

I was very lucky to get drafted into the situation I came into. I could have gone somewhere where other guys would resent me because they want the ball.

I just try to work on me and make the game fun.

Me, I'm coming to work, I'm practicing hard every day, I'm eating right, I'm getting the proper sleep, I'm getting the proper rest, everything, I'm giving you all I have. I'm not going to pout if we lose. Yeah, I'm upset I lost, but it's not going to be to that degree like I'm cussing, get away from me, this and that.

It don't cost nothing to go out there and compete. You're either going to do it or you're not. And I'm going to compete every down, so it don't matter.

I've had a lot of success by myself, but it's not good when you can't go and accomplish things as a team and have success as a team.

There's a lot of people in this world that definitely need leadership, and they don't know where to look for it.

When you're tired, you've got to focus. Everybody can go through the motions. But you've got to focus, too, when you're tired.

I know you can't play this game 100 percent. It's very rare that you can be able to play this game at 100 percent. You can do one thing; you can't do both: You can't pray and then worry at the same time. I pray, and that's it. And then I just go play. Whatever happens, happens.

I don't eat fried stuff. I don't eat red meats. And now with stuff like sugar, I don't crave it.

The player I am, if I drop a ball, keep throwing it.

Jerry Rice, he's one of the best to ever do it.

You just want to live a life after football. You want to be able to walk around.

When I make catches and do things, it's routine for me because I expect those things when it's my time to shine.

I promise you I'm going to make more plays than I drop.

One play don't define a game.

I just kind of do my own thing. I'm not trying to be like nobody else or nothing like that. Like when I travel, everybody's like, go to Dubai, it's a new thing. I can go to Dubai, but I'm not going to just because I'm not trying to go where everybody is going.

I always try to work on everything. I always try to stay fine-tuned.

I could do whatever I put my mind to.