Quotes from DeAndre Hopkins

There's something about putting on a new pair of shoes or a new shirt that gives you a new joy.

I like quarter-cut pants that show my ankles. I don't like baggy stuff.

I feel like if they put the ball in the air, it's my ball. It's either a PI or it's my ball.

I don't bash people in the media, like other people.

Actions always speak louder than words, especially when they're peaceful actions.

I tore ligaments in my shoulder completely off the bone.

You can't sugarcoat why Kaep is not playing in the NFL. This dude played in the Super Bowl.

Where I'm from in South Carolina a lot of my friends, a lot of my family members have locks, what we call them. So, you know, it's more of a way of life, where we from, not a hairstyle. We really don't care to have it neat or you know too pretty it's just you know grow your hair. And I wash my hair everyday too.

It's always a challenge to try to get a championship.

I play football for a living. That's my job, that's what I love doing.

I want to be the best, so whatever accolades come with that, I've just got to go out there and keep continuing to prove my play on the field.

I don't really worry about what the defense is trying to scheme to do against me. It really doesn't matter.

My second tattoo was a pirate ship on my arm. My friends and I, you know, we all called ourselves pirates, you know, so we felt like, you know,we was the pirates of the Caribbean around the way.

I just don't want to get a tattoo just to have a tattoo.

I got my first tattoo when I was 14-years-old. Unfortunately I didn't need a signature, which I probably shouldn't of got done, because, you know, it was one of my friends who was a tattoo artist.

A lot of credit to my teammates and my coaches for pushing me and helping me.

I don't play for nobody else but my teammates and my family. That's it.

It means a lot to be Pro Bowl. There's a lot of people who vote and they watch football a lot.

Always that's a goal with everybody who plays a pro sport is to get stronger and faster and work on things that you lack.

Every time we step on the field, we want to score. If we don't, then we're disappointed. We don't settle for three.

People think catching a football one-handed is a technique, but it's more a reaction. Because you really don't think about it when you're doing it. You just do it. I couldn't sit there and try to teach someone how to catch a one-handed football.

I feel like I've got so many angels around me, it's like I'm going to be protected no matter what.

Your clothes make you feel good.

It's football - I would play with seven fingers if I had too, man.