Quotes from Mike Evans

I did my time with a mobile quarterback and that was fun. It was fun, it got me more opportunities for more balls on scramble rules and stuff like that. But in this league, it's tough to scramble.

I'm getting older, more mature, and the game is slowing down each year.

These preseason games are good practice for us, to get ready for the real thing.

It's been a big dream of mine, and I'm blessed to live out my dream and that's to be a role model and be somebody that can help and be a beacon of hope for my cities. It's just a blessing, and I don't take it for granted at all.

Not everybody grows up the same. Everybody is exposed to different things growing up.

Everybody thinks I'm a thug or something like that.

As long as I'm in good shape and I'm healthy, I feel I'm the best receiver on the planet.

Especially if you're a good receiver, nobody plays at all-the-way 100 percent.

No matter what, I'm going to try to be the most physical receiver in the league, and I've got to prove it by going out and dominating physical cornerbacks.

With the many blessings I've received through football, my wife, Ashli, and I started the Mike Evans Family Foundation to be a blessing to others. We don't do it for the recognition. It just makes us feel good to give back.

It's an honor to be recognized with the very best in the league for the impact that we make in our communities.

Richard Sherman's my favorite defensive player, so it's cool to be talking with him, hanging out with him.

I just want to help a lot of people and have fun along the way.

When I was a kid, I grew up not liking Tom Brady because I was a Peyton Manning fan. And now I'm the biggest Tom Brady fan. So, it's great being able to catch balls from him.

I got to play with Tom Brady, so that was pretty cool.

The opportunity to get Tom Brady. Like, that's Tom Brady, bro. Like that's the greatest of all-time. He's franchise changer.

I'd never imagined I had the opportunity to play with Tom Brady, the greatest athlete in sports history.

I'm a receiver, so I know all the releases,. So it's hard to get me on any releases. And I'm 6-5, so I've got long arms and I can press and stay connected at all times. And the refs, sometimes you don't know if they're going to call holding or not, so I can get away with holds.

If I feel myself about to do something stupid, I have to think twice. To me, everybody has a camera. Everybody is a reporter.

The men and women that have served this country, I'm forever indebted to them.

My mom worked three jobs. She was a hospital clerk. But we always had the best Christmas and holidays. I like to help as many people as I can in the holidays. She instilled that in me.

Don't let your opportunities slip away.

I never could be a diva. I don't know if it's because of my size or how I was raised. Because more of the diva receivers in the past have been a little smaller. I don't dance when I score touchdowns as much. I do something that's a little more gangster.

I get letters from are appreciative of even smaller scholarships that I've given in the past. The ones I give bigger scholarships too, they always write me and are in contact with me and my wife about helping them and they progress, how much they've progressed in college. It's pretty awesome.