Quotes from Julio Jones

Every day I come to work, and I work on everything. Whether it's across the middle, in the backfield, running deep routes. Whatever the case may be.

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.

We gotta execute, and our guys have to be on the same page and play 100 percent.

I'm not a selfish guy, I'm not a stats guy.

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 wouldn't be the person I am today without Roddy White. He's helped teach me how to be a man.

We are just going to keep putting the work in and just wait until it pays off.

The biggest challenge for me was all the rumors you heard before you get to the NFL. You know, just hearing guys won't help you. They'll turn your back on you, they'll tell you the wrong plays, everything like that.

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

I'm supposed to catch everything.

I already know Cover 3, Cover 2, everything else. But it's a lot of times, defenses try to take you away and they do certain things that you wouldn't be ready for.

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.

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.

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.

I have no weaknesses. I have no weaknesses at all.

If anybody is considering retirement. I'm all for it. You've got to live your life. I can't live your life for you.

When I first got to the NFL, I didn't see no double coverage at all. I was getting single coverage. I was killing it. Then they were, 'all right, this guy can play and we have to double this guy.' Since probably like the 11th or 12th game my rookie year, I started to get double-teamed.

You are always going to have critics.

I wish they could do away with the franchise tag.

We can't get bored. We have to prepare like we're playing the best team in the NFL.

I got to go out there and make plays when they are presented to me.

Whatever the defense gives us, we're going to take it.

One play don't define a game.

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