Quotes About Competition

When you go up for the rebound, you can't wait for the ball to come down. You have to go get the ball at the highest point. That's how it is in football. If you want to win those jump balls and those 50-50 balls, you've got to go up and get it.

I don't really pay attention to the guy I outwork for the rebound, it's really just hearing the crowd just be like, 'Ohhhhh.' They just get frustrated. That's a good feeling.

I can't recall playing for a team who weren't involved in a fight for points at the end of the season. That would be strange for me.

The night before a game, I'd think about who I was playing, and then how I'd bowled against those guys, if I had got them out previously. While I was playing, I could recall nearly all my wickets and how I got the batsman out.

I've been playing as early as I can recall. I don't even remember the first time I picked up a basketball.

Turns out, the enjoyment I receive from growing the game through content creation and collaborations, and the work I do with the Cybersmile Foundation around cyberbullying, is leaps and bounds above what I got out of playing competitively.

You can receive the individual awards, but ultimately, you want to win the big game.

I'd just hit the Billboard thing, and I had a good feeling. About a month ago, I received a call that said I was in the running, that I'd made the final 25. So I just wanted to place.

Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.

Obviously you want to be a No. 1 receiver when it comes down to contract time and things like that.

I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you're up against a top receiver almost every minute of time. In college, maybe one comes along every third game.

You ask DeAndre Hopkins or you ask Julio Jones who's the best receiver, I don't expect them, even if they did think it was me, I would expect them to say it was them because that's the kind of mentality you should have.

I love competition, but my approach to the game was to never make it personal. It was business. It was what I did, so it didn't matter who the opposing team was, or who the receiver was. I approached it as business and I never let myself get outside of that.

I'm out here to get your respect. Whatever receiver lines up on me, I'm going to get your respect.

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.

Ask a receiver, can we take his gloves off because he's catching the ball too well? Nobody is going to be overly happy about that.

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.

There are a handful of guys that are really good at what they're doing from the receiver position, which is the easiest position in the NFL. There are a handful of guys that are good at it. There's not one particular guy that would concern me when I'm going into a game, but there are guys that you have to take notice of in the league.

Antonio Brown is, if not the best receiver in the league, one of the best.

Obviously, as a receiver, you want to go out there and make plays for your team to win.

There's a lot to it, but the bottom line as a receiver is to run the right route, get open and make plays.

I was a big receiver when I played in the NFL.

Obviously as a receiver, you want to go out there and make plays for your team and win.

Half of the time, it's about winning, but as a receiver, you do want to score touchdowns. I do want to score.