Quotes from Chris Hogan

Every single year is a year for me to take a look at how I've grown and how I can get better and better myself as a football player as a receiver and just as an overall team player.

I think there's a ton of carryover with the two sports, lacrosse and football.

Every single year I was on the block - could be cut, could be released.

I know what I need to do to make myself and make my legs, most importantly, feel good.

College lacrosse can be pretty brutal at times, so that definitely helped me with the toughness. It's a fast-paced game, so that helped me kind of translate over to the game speed of playing in the NFL. I think just the one-on-one aspect of trying to beat the guy in front of you definitely helped me as being a receiver.

Every single day was an opportunity for me to be on the field, if I was starting, playing or not playing, every single day I came out here ready to work.

I'm playing in the NFL and getting to compete with these guys every single day, getting to play in the pre-season games. That's a dream come true right there.

You never take a single day in this league for granted because it can be over in a second.

I was a soccer player, but everyone said I was too physical so I moved over to football.

I can't go out there and just eat turkey sandwiches and hamburgers all day because that's not going to make my body perform at the level that it can.

As far as coach Belichick, yeah, he's a huge lacrosse fan. I'm pretty sure I played against his son at Rutgers my sophomore and junior years. There's always that. We have that lacrosse connection.

Lacrosse has a special place in my heart after starting my career as a lacrosse player at Penn State.

During the season, nutrition is so huge.

When I grew up I was a huge Michael Jordan fan. That's not very unusual for people to like him, but I just liked reading his books, especially where he came from, getting cut from his high school team. I thought he was a good person, a good role model to look up to.

This game is ups and downs. It's ebb and flow. It's never going to be high the entire time. It's never going to be low for the entire season. That's part of being a professional and dealing with the opportunities you get throughout the year.

Monmouth was important to me because that was the first stepping stone. I am very grateful to the Monmouth program for taking a chance on a four-year lacrosse player who had a year of eligibility left. It was an awesome experience to go back there and play football again, especially since it was close to home.

DoMode' is get out here and do your job and do work.

No matter what, you're going to have hard days out here. There's going to be a drop here or a tough pass that you didn't come down with there.

In baseball I was very singularly focused. If I was pitching it was me versus the hitter.

I mean I've been around a lot of places and there's been a lot of guys that - every single team that I've ever been on, I really try to take advantage of the older veterans that are there, try to learn about their process, how they take care of their bodies, how they study, how they watch film.

I love to compete. No matter what we're doing, it doesn't matter. We could be playing video games or ping pong, and I'm going to get fired up, win, lose or draw.

I know they don't come very often in this business, so every chance I get to step out on the field, wherever it was, I worked as hard as I could.

The locker room I don't think is a huge place for guys to really, you know, talk politics.

Professional lacrosse isn't very lucrative.