Receiver Quotations

I was a quarterback in pee-wee football. I always wanted to be quarterback. They're the leaders, they make the calls. It didn't work out because I didn't have the arm. I also played wide receiver my senior year in high school.

My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became a hand-me-down to me.

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.

There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn't until I was a senior. I played wide receiver instead, and this ultimately helped me because I learned more about the game.

I want to be known as a solid all-around receiver that's fast, not a fast guy that plays receiver.

There's a wire injected under my skin a few days before an event and connected to that is a wireless transmitter. That device communicates my blood-glucose levels to the receiver unit, which is mounted above my steering wheel.

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

When advice is freely given, the receiver is free to use it as he or she sees fit.

I was happy for Mike, ... The whole time I had all of the belief in the world in M.J. He's a receiver with a big body, great hands, and he just has to develop a little bit and get there. He will get there with experience.

I wouldn't want to be a receiver on the other end when Sean Taylor is roaming. I'll bet when we watch film from today, we're going to see when a receiver catches a ball, they're looking for No. 26.

No. 1 (Demetrius James) is an outstanding running back. He has good vision and he runs hard and fast. No. 10 (wide receiver Steve Dawson) is their big play man. When they need a big play on offense or on a kick return, they look for him.

I wouldn't want to get into why he didn't make it in. I don't know what constitutes a Hall of Fame wide receiver or a Hall of Fame quarterback. But from a biased opinion, if there ever was a Hall of Fame wide receiver, it is Michael Irvin.

I would probably venture to believe that it would be what Mississippi Valley State did some years ago with their offense (featuring quarterback Willie Totten and wide receiver Jerry Rice). I think some of it has come from the northwest portion of the country.

Obviously, with Hicks you got a big-play receiver that can go vertical and catch the deep ball.

No doubt. Those corners played their fannies off against the best wide receiver in the country.

Right now, I'm putting a lot on myself as receiver to help the other guys. The strength of this group of receivers is that they want to learn. Last year the coaches were explaining the new offense to us and we just listened. This year we're asking more questions and we're eager to learn.

I don't know anything about the diva thing. To play receiver in this league, sometimes you have to be demanding and selfish.

I grew up as a receiver in this offense.

I'd like to have a situation where Coach Chavis and Coach Slade say I want you to be on the best receiver and lock him down, stay on him the whole game, don't let him touch the ball, smother him.

If we could find somebody that fits a role, maybe a guy that's a special teams player but also can play receiver, or somebody that's more polished as a receiver who can help us in the game plan, that'd be fine. Or it could be someone who plays a different position.

Last year we had to really try to disguise it because we were limited in what we could do down the field, and there was no cushion for the receiver there.

When you can take a wide receiver and make him a nickel back, ... when you can take rookies and make them starters, when you can take free agents off the streets and win a world championship, that means the philosophy and the scheme is bigger than the players.

We're looking at every receiver on every other team as well, ... They're not just up against each other. They're up against the whole network. I think they understand that.

Miscommunication. Usually, that is a wide receiver running that. I was thinking one thing and Jerramy was thinking another.

McKay (Jacobson) is just an unbelievable receiver and I'd match him up against any defender in the country. He's just a great player. When anyone is covering one-on-one then you have a mismatch.

Mack was a 6-foot-4 wide receiver until we moved him to fullback. After five years, he was down to 6 feet. I think he's like 5-foot-8 by now.

So many of these plays are set plays, where it's five guys running their specific route and the quarterback throws the ball to whoever the defense dictates is going to get the ball. Whereas in the past, it was each receiver would do certain things to adjust his route to try to get open.

I wouldn't say he's the best receiver in the league, but he's one of the best, ... He's the best route runner. One day he probably will be the No. 1 receiver in the NFL.

He is probably our go-to receiver right now. He's making plays. He doesn't do it right all the time, but when he has an opportunity to make a catch, he'll do it.

He is the best receiver in the league,

I couldn't see it real well, but it looked like both of them (the receiver and defender) were up in the air and going for the ball.

I feel like it was time. It seemed like he was holding on. He had gone from the greatest receiver ever to playing a secondary or third role or fourth role or other things that he shouldn't be.

Freddie played better than we thought. He beat Fred Bennett on the first touchdown. You'd think with a freshman wide receiver and a guy who started about three years, Fred would eat him up. But he gave him a little stick step, and Cade threw it in there.

Getting Moose has meant the world to the team, and these young receivers. He's a Pro Bowl receiver who works like he's still a rookie.

If Blake (was) not a soccer player, he'd fit in on the football team as a wide receiver or defensive back because he's that athletic and, quite honestly, that tough.

I am confident we can be as good as we were last year at the wide receiver position with these guys. We have more size and the same amount of speed.

For two years in a row, Andre Johnson led the league as a receiver in yards after catch. Had Corey had enough catches, he'd have blown him out of the water. So this guy's a legitimate big-play guy. Once he catches the ball, he can outrun people.

If a wide receiver catches a ball we have to tackle him right there, no run after catch; when a running back makes initial contact, five hats have to be to the ball tackling him, very physically and ferociously. We didn't do that (Sunday against Pittsburgh). We have to get to that.

I don?t care if he played receiver or cornerback, when you play at that level you have experience with all of it. He?s extremely flexible in his ability to teach those things. He sees what we?re doing and he teaches to that scheme.

I felt like it was time, ... It seemed like he was holding on from being the greatest receiver ever to playing a secondary or third or fourth role on other teams.

I felt like he was holding on, to go from the greatest receiver of all time to the fourth or fifth receiver on that team. In certain offenses, he probably still could be a second receiver.

He's a great athlete and is going to play both ways for us at wide receiver and corner back.

He's a guy that can have an immediate impact on our receiver position.

He's a gamebreaker. Polich is a guy we want to have the ball and can make things happen whether he's at running back, wide receiver and on special teams too.

We thought we had a mismatch at wide receiver and their cornerbacks because we're six inches taller, ... Peter can throw it deep.

He was our leading receiver last year. I think he's going to be a great, great college receiver. He's still a work in progress and we're still working on some things. He's getting better at some things. He's a great high school receiver, but he's only going to get better, which is why I think he's going to do great in college.

He was kind of the odd man out because there weren't enough passes to go around. But he was a great No. 3 receiver and very much of a team guy. He never complained.

He keeps preaching to me that that's the kind of receiver I can be. I watch him and I admire the guy, so I'm going to go out there and watch film of him because that's the kind of receiver I want to be, a nasty guy who does everything.

He was rusty. He played wide receiver last year and last week with everything going on our practice was a little disruptive. He is seeing the field and knowing his mistakes. It is good to see that he knows what is happening.

He was covered. It's double-edged - when you're playing yourself, you'd like to see the corner make the play and the receiver make the catch. Now you celebrate the receiver and then you get back to work with the corner.

He has great eye-hand coordination. He's a big-body receiver who also played linebacker. He's just a great athlete, with great running ability after the catch. We're very, very excited to get him.

He has tremendous speed. He grabbed our attention in camp and he continues to progress. He will be involved in our receiver rotation. He made some plays. He made some catches and continues to do a good job running routes.

He was definitely one of our best athletes. We had him playing receiver and he made some catches that were unbelievable. But we probably didn't throw it to him enough.

He was a rare one: only 5 feet 7 inches tall, a lawyer and a combat veteran of the Korean War as a Marine officer. Eddie came from Washington in a trade in 1960 and ran the team in the first years while Don Meredith was learning. He was such a fantastic ball handler that even with sorry protection and the defensive line crashing in on him he threw a lot of beautiful long passes. The ball would fly out of the crowd like a mortar shell and sail 50 yards downfield. Eddie did everything by the numbers. If the receiver wasn't there, we knew whose fault it was.

He's had a really good camp, ... He's a veteran guy who can play slot receiver as well. He's more confident than he's ever been. He's in great shape, and we're excited for him.

He's basically the best wide receiver in the game. He runs his end patterns, his digs, and continues to find ways to get the ball and make plays.

There aren't many guys like him. He's going to be a good receiver for us. He really makes the quarterback look a lot better than he is. He made me look better on a lot of plays.

He showed every player out here what he's all about on every snap. That's what a No. 1 receiver does.

When they say 'No. 1 receiver in the nation,' that's the truth. He can be a possession receiver. The good thing is we've got a couple of other freshmen you guys don't know about yet.

He's a kid who has all the skills you want in a receiver, ... He's a big receiver who can run fast and has good hands.

He's been more consistent throughout training camp. I told Charlie before the Arizona game that he was going to be our starting third wide receiver and to get ready to play.

He's going to be a wide receiver in college so you know he's going to be real athletic just by that. He's very strong and jumps exceptionally well. If you let him catch it deep, he's a problem. He's tough in the lane and he does a great job around the rim, but he's not someone who is going to step out and hit 15-footers and 3s.

He's a very nice wide receiver to have in our program,

He's a very smart receiver in the slot, ... He does a great job with his moves at the top of his routes and gets himself separation. He has a lot of experience in this offense, so he really understands where we need him to be.

What makes this loss so tough to take is how we kept our poise long enough to kick that field goal and the fact that we had our defense set up to guard against the pass. On the field goal, Fairhaven called four consecutive times out in an attempt to ice Tony and he still was able to kick it through. And on that final pass, we had three guys around the receiver. Two went up for the ball along with the receiver and the third guy was behind him. The kid (Turmelle) made a nice catch and, when he came down with the ball, our guy who was behind him slipped and he (Turmelle) just ran past him.

Whatever the public perception may have been of Randy, I have nothing bad to say about the guy. He's come here, worked hard and shown that he'll do whatever it takes to learn this offense and to be the kind of receiver here like he was in Minnesota.

Having Darrell back is big. He adds a little something to our offense. He's very quick. He's very explosive. He's been the most productive receiver ever since I've been here, and even before that. To have him as another weapon on our offense is big.

He gives 110 percent. What impresses me the most about Clinton is when he doesn't have the ball. It's when he's protecting the passer, when he's blocking for a receiver downfield. He's always going. It's very impressive. He's not the biggest guy (5-11, 205), yet he plays like a big guy. He can do everything.

Marcus Monk is fine, and we've got to get one more receiver to really help him. Cedric Washington has got to stay consistent, but we need another speed receiver.

Receiver was not a priority in the beginning and it became one. We were very fortunate to fill some holes. I was really getting nervous at the end as I lost the player and got to thinking that Rod Owens may not be ready to play.

Jeff is a great receiver in a league where there are probably half a dozen great receivers,

Penn State really finished with a great flurry. They really did well in the state of Maryland and they did well on the defensive line, not to mention them getting a receiver like Chris Bell. They also filled all their needs.

Justin will be evaluated as both a wide receiver and tight end depending on his growth potential once he gets a year under his belt.

Just keep doing your thing. But, if they ask you to play wide receiver or defensive back, just get involved with players and coaches who can help you the most.

I thought maybe slotback or wide receiver, ... I came here as a wide receiver and I always wanted to play offense. But I wasn?t going to go and seek it out.

I think the ball will be all over the place this year, ... We have a lot more speed at the receiver spot. And Brian's getting everyone in the right position and right spot, he knows what's going on on the field, like a general.

I think the most absolute truth is only as good as the time that it's told. It's only as good as where the person, the receiver of that, is.

I think the unit, the quarterback and the receivers, work well together. They play area routes. The receiver will get to an area where it's open. If you take away the post, they go to a corner. If you take away the corner, they go (to the post).

Rodney is a headhunter. He's a free safety. I think he is ... one of those guys who is going to come down and hit the running back in the mouth, knock a tight end out, knock a receiver out. He's one of the guys that, when you are coming across the middle, he's going to hit you, so you have to concentrate.

I think he's the best receiver in the game, hands down. It was a measuring stick for me. I'll sit down, watch film, see what I did wrong.

I think if somebody would give him the opportunity today to be a top-three receiver on a team, he'd still be playing.

It doesn't matter which receiver it is, ... It's always, 'I was open.'

It felt really good being the first receiver to put points on the board, ... I know this week receivers put pressure on themselves to make big plays.

Karlos was a receiver at one time, probably played receiver and defensive back, outgrew both positions. He's a ballhawk. Some guys have those kind of instincts, the ability to find the ball.

I think they were just coming after me, ... I just have to bounce back and watch film to see what I did wrong, and get ready for next week. They had a good receiver coming at me and he had a lot of catches. I've just got to do better.

I think it's from high school when I played wide receiver and those thoughts haven't left my mind. I feel elusive. At SC I used to call myself a fat Reggie Bush. It was a joke Reggie and I had. I told him that if I was 200 pounds I might be doing the same things he's been doing.

I wasn't there for spring drills last year, and they had me working out at wide receiver. During the spring, coaches tend to change things around. More than likely I'll play at receiver or maybe move to corner.

We'll have a different look this year. We'll be looking to run the ball more. We have our quarterback and receiver back, but we lost two offensive linemen.

We don't have great speed at the receiver position, and I don't think there is anyone who is going to get a lot faster anytime soon.

You kind of flood an area and then you get a deep receiver and he was wide open.

You don't do anything without those guys in front. Everyone wants the receiver or the running back or the quarterback, but you have to make sure you're paying attention. You better take care of your lines.

That was a huge play. Nash is a big-game receiver who's going to get open. I believed in him, and he got open.

That was a major part of it. The hurricane gave me more time in practice, gave me time to get better. The key was when I left receiver and started focusing mainly at quarterback. I started picking things up real well.

That was probably the first time in three years that I overthrew a receiver and the first time I had an incomplete pass that I really felt good about.

My coach, he tried to find different ways to get me the ball ? options, coming up with creative plays. But they were normally the seven routes, the post corners and the digs, and when you got a tight end ? who can make moves like a wide receiver ? when there is a linebacker on you, that's kind of a mismatch.

We have a wide receiver and a football player who is going to have a huge effect on this football team the next four years.

You always want to step up to the plate and show what you can do. Chad has always been a premier receiver and a Pro-Bowl receiver.

We don't play him much defensively because he's such a threat on offense. Plus, he returns kicks for us. We use him where he's best, and that's at the receiver position.