Quotes from Greg Olsen

Be productive, but be productive consistently.

Something I've always prided myself on is not only can you be highly productive, but can you be highly productive continuously.

Both productivity and all things considered, there's nobody that's been more productive or more consistent than I have. And I'll stand on that until the cows come home.

Typically in training camp, especially as I've gotten older, we were always very selective with the plays. If it was a pass or a look I needed to get in the run game or pass protection, I was always in there to get it.

In this league, you make your own luck, you make your own fate.

If I could coach LeBron James for one year, I could make him an All-Pro wide receiver.

I've always been a stroller guy. I love pushing them.

It's very common business for players and management to go back and forth and try to find common ground.

At the end of the day, no one has won more games than Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks to start a guy's career, right. So success there has also made them a little, you know, it's almost spoiled them a little bit.

The hardest thing about winning is to continue to win, and I think human instinct says 'OK, I've done this before. I got it, let's just keep doing what we're doing.'

The one thing I'll never do is I'll never jeopardize my preparation. I'll never jeopardize any time or energy or efforts that need to be put into my preparation to play football.

In the offseason the priority is for us to get healthy, to best try to optimize our physical qualities, get faster, stronger - make sure our body is prepared for this long run and in a good place to try to prevent injuries.

I feel like if you start taking a lot of days off, you start taking breaks from training, you start taking breaks because you use the 'I'm getting old' excuse, that's the fastest way to a decline.

I wear a composite non-stick glove.

In this league, it's so easy to get caught up in if this team loses and this team wins, and you get there, we can have home field.

We have an amazing family and our kids and just so much to look forward to for our life. You just don't want to ever take that for granted because we found out pretty fast that it's pretty fragile.

Everyone always thinks the grass is greener. That's sports.

You look at the skills involved, especially with things like lateral movement or change of direction, and there's definitely a strong correlation between playing basketball and playing tight end.

From the strength involved, the jumping, to body positioning and control, there are similarities. Playing basketball at a pretty good high school level, in a state where there were strong programs, definitely helped make me a better tight end.

With my size and receiving skills, I would hope I could cause some matchup problems for defenses, and that some team sees that.

Workouts are a little different when you're 31 versus 21.

I think that at some point the NFL and the NCAA years ago or decades ago, whenever the time frame is kind of struck up that agreement as a 'we'll take care of you, you take care of us.'

For anyone who knows me, I'm usually relatively cleanshaven most times.

I've had some good games and some not so good games, hopefully all the fans remember the good ones.