Wide Receiver Quotes

I kinda wanted to play receiver more.

As a wide receiver, you don't want to feel that the quarterback is only going to throw you the ball if you're wide open.

When I'm watching any game, I watch the tight end.

When I went to the Pro Bowl, I went as a tight end. When I made the All Pro team, I made it as a tight end. When they introduced us and I ran out of the tunnel, they introduced me as a tight end. So how is that possible that now that my career is over, they say, 'Well, he put up stats like a wide receiver?' It's not my fault I was ahead of my time.

There are a lot of good tight ends.

I played 51 percent of the snaps outside, though. But you can go ahead and call me a slot as well.

I try to prove that I can be either a wide receiver or a flex tight end. Put me in the slot, put me out wide, put me wherever you want, but I can play both.

I was huge Steve Smith fan watching him play for Carolina.

I know Odell Beckham is the best ballplayer I've ever seen in my life, and Brandon Marshall is a Hall of Fame receiver and Sterling Shepard is very quick, no one can guard him.

Randy Moss was a fad. People were looking for some way to vote against Peyton Manning.

I think there's been a myth that QBs makes the WRs but it works hand and hand. QBs need good WRs to throw to in order to be great and WRs need good QBs to throw to them in order to be great.

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.

Art Monk was an example for Jerry Rice. That's what Jerry always told me.

I love throwing the deep ball.

In eighth grade, I was actually better in football. I played running back, wide receiver, and safety - just like Allen Iverson.

I played wide receiver in high school; then I went to college at Ball State and played safety.

I wanted to play running back, but they would never put me at running back. I started loving receiver and as I kept growing older, we kept throwing the ball more and I kept liking it more and more. It's something I've played all my life. It's something I've gotten better at each year.

I want to be the best receiver to ever play the game. I feel like I can do it. I know I have the ability to do it. But it's all about going out there and proving it.

The glory of the big catch is applied more at wide receiver, and tight end would be an even match at my size. It's such a huge advantage being on the outside.

Before, when going to youth camps, the line for QBs would be around the corner. Now, kids want to be either QBs or WRs. Being a WR is popular, it's cool.

I just wanted to prove that I can play wide receiver at a high level.

I'm just a receiver. I don't want to be labeled as a deep-threat guy, which is always going to happen because I'm always going to be able to run past people until I'm slow. I watch some guys who are very good at being deep threats, but it's like people don't respect them doing anything else.

I've been catching footballs - I've been a wide receiver since I was 15 years old. And every quarterback I've had, for the most part, threw a pretty hard ball. So I'm not getting away from the calluses.

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

I'll make changes at receiver before I make a change at the quarterback.