Quotes from Chris Harris, Jr.

I'm glad I have a story to tell. It's unique, it's mine, and I'm blessed to have it.

If you can put your hands on the receiver and get to him fast, that messes up everything for them. If I don't put hands on him, he's probably going to beat me on the route.

You're out there on an island. It's just you and the best receiver, man-to-man, in one-on-one coverage a lot of the time. And you don't really get any help. If you get beat, everyone can see. If you get scored on, everyone knows. That's the difficulty of playing corner.

You're going to hit some rough patches. You're going to run into obstacles. People are going to say, 'You can't do it.' But you have to persevere. You have to keep working hard and believing in yourself.

You just never know how back injuries are going to affect you.

My mom, she thought I was the best. My sisters, maybe, but maybe that's not objective or anything. But if you believe in yourself, your family believes in you, you put in the work, do it right, you only need one other person to believe in you. That doesn't seem like a lot, but sometimes it is.

I know I can go outside and have better numbers than I put up in the slot.

I always have been a guy that's always smiling, always laughing.

I knew I needed to find a way to stay out of trouble and to have good grades to be able to stand out.

I would love to be in a zone concept every once in a while. Probably later on in my career.

I want to be active. I want to be able to show everything I can do. I can blitz. I can cover. I can play zone and play man. I can do it all.

The letters I get from people, a lot of people are very appreciative. I get stacks of letters. I'll do an event, and all the kids will send me all kinds of letters, and that right there is enough motivation to keep doing it.

I like to give kids motivation and tell them my story.

I'm a SweeTarts, Skittles, Starburst type of guy.

I've just always had faith. I always had a relationship with God, always spiritually, and always just had that confidence in Him that he would always have my back.

I just want to maximize my time here on the football field and after that, I don't know what I'll do. I can coach, I can do a lot of things.

The underdog is a person that's at risk, a person that has a lot of big trials you have to overcome. I mean, that was my life.

I had to really work for everything. I'm definitely an underdog. I think Jesus made me be in that situation to be able to relate to more people. That's why give back to the at-risk kids.

There is always pressure playing cornerback. It's just a position where you're always in the spotlight.

There's a standard here as you step on the field as a Broncos defender.

It's tough when you get beat. You have to be able to come back mentally. Sometimes the offense is going to win, but you have to be able to be level-headed and not get too upset when they do catch the ball.

My strategy is just to always compete. Even if they catch 10 balls on me, I make sure that they have to fight for every one of those. That's worked for me.