Cooper Kupp

“Receiver, more than I think any other position, is reliant upon the other 10 guys doing their job really well.”

“It comes down to inflammation and how do you keep the inflammation down during the season. You can gain back a day just based on getting your body recovered and getting inflammation down so you can go back out there and compete and work. That can be a huge advantage based on what you're eating.”

“I have been studying receivers since I was in high school. I've been studying pros since I was in high school.”

“I have a ton of appreciation for every snap I get to play this great game.”

“I look back at my rookie year, and it's embarrassing watching the tape of what my rookie year was.”

“I think quickness is a piece of football that isn't talked about enough.”

“I'm a one-track mind: Once I start something, I have to finish it.”

“I take the mindset that regardless of what happens on the field, I try to learn from my mistakes, and fix those things and be able to be a better football player than I was the week before.”

“I don't know what it was, there was just this vision that God revealed to me that we were going to come back, we were going to be a part of a Super Bowl, we were going to win it. And somehow - somehow I was going to walk off the field as the MVP of the game.”

“Whatever's asked of me, whatever my job is going to be on a given play, in a given game, I just want to do it to the best of my ability.”

“I've operated out of a space where I don't think there was a whole lot of room for self-doubt, not believing in where I can get to and what I wanted to achieve.”

“Playing receiver is an art form.”

“When the ball's in the air, as a receiver, it's just you want to be a Frisbee-catching dog out there.”

“If you're trying to prove something, you've got a weight on your chest. There's no room for error.”

“My freshman year, I was 5-foot-4 and 115 pounds when I first weighed in. I remember because I was wearing ankle weights, so I was probably more like 112. But if you were to ask me then where I was going to be in four years, I still would have told you I was going to play at USC.”

“Pushing through when times get difficult, perseverance. It's an important trait to have as an athlete, and as a human being in general.”

“As much as I absolutely love football I know I'm gonna put everything I have into it - that I've got a family at home and my faith in Christ is more important to make sure that's healthy! That's something that like my dad and grandpa showed me.”

“I've been hanging out with some really good football players and having a few more opportunities to have the ball in my hands, and I think it really just comes down to those things.”

“I wanted to make sure before I went to bed that I'd see my list of goals and feel good when I put my head on the pillow that what I'd done that day was pointing toward achieving those things. I set them outrageously high because I wanted to have an outrageous work ethic about how I went about my day.”

“They're not defined by what they've done and where they've played. It wasn't NFL quarterback Craig Kupp and NFL guard Jake Kupp. They were just Dad and Grandpa.”