Quotes from Jimmy Graham

Seaplanes are like the taxis of the Pacific Northwest.

Whenever you don't catch a ball in a game, you really find out who loves you and who doesn't.

I don't have chips on my shoulders, I have bricks.

I played college basketball. When I first decided I was going to play football, there were a lot of people telling me that I wasn't going to make it.

Whenever we're all getting ready for a playoff game, you know how serious those games are, and you try to motivate your guys. There's a lot of emotion that goes into those games, and when I play, it's all about winning, and it's all about doing whatever it takes to fire guys up and to get that emotion running.

We play a contact sport, and it's aggressive, and you have to be aggressive in everything you do.

In my life, there have been a lot of people who weren't there for me, so to now have people counting on me is awesome.

The first four years of my career, I never complained. I never demanded. I never said anything about money.

Every one tells me that I'm a pretty fast eater. I'll sit down to a dinner, and I'll finish in two minutes while everyone else will take 30 minutes.

Later in life, I'd like to end up doing air races.

I loved 'Top Gun.' I watched it all growing up.

I'm the type of guy who, right as I'm taking off, I'm deciding, 'Hey, where do I want to go today?'

For me, trying the NFL and trying this football thing, because of the home and what I went through in there, to me, it was no big deal. It was just another opportunity for me. I didn't see that bigger, grandiose picture of it, I just took it one day at a time, like how I took it in the group home.

In football, you have to look out for yourself and know when that ride is over. That extra inch after you've already got the first down - what's that going to get you? Not much.

In my life, the sky is literally the ceiling.

I don't give people time to start talking junk, because I say something to them first.

Learning how to walk again was a process for me. It was some of the darker days of my life, but I've had many moments of my life where I've had to just kind of put my head down and work, and this was no different.

My knee injury was something serious. To go six months before I could even jog is pretty serious.

For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you'll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you'll have a bad day where you're really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, 'Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?'

If I'm man-to-man with a linebacker, well, that's an automatic win because I can run by him. If I'm one-on-one against a corner, I'm gonna catch it all day, because I'm twice his size.

The best way to motivate me is to tell me I can't do something.

New Orleans has these older orange lightbulbs, which are really gorgeous. But the main thing that stands out is actually the Superdome.

When I was younger, I could carry 270 around and run go routes, and it was no big deal.

I'm a multi-racial person - I'm black and white - and growing up in North Carolina, I've dealt with a lot of racism. Growing up as a kid, I've seen it. I've been through it in many forms and fashions.