A biography for DeAndre Hopkinshasn’t been written yet.
“For receivers... it's a lot about timing, having chemistry with your quarterback to be successful and having a guy that you work with over the course of years.”
“I've been eating honey since I was young. I've been putting it on everything. I put it on fried chicken, put it on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, I put it on my cereal. What else do I put honey on? I put honey on my face. Man, honey is the essential item to life.”
“My name is all I have, so I don't want that to be messed up from a game of football.”
“I have multiple friends on other teams who after a game, they'll tell me the game plan... part of the game plan is to stop you. It's a respect factor.”
“Any injury is tough, and it is a little bit tougher when it is the hand that you have to catch with, but it is football man. I wouldn't have it any other way.”
“I work hard.”
“Sometimes I get a lot of stuff, being in Houston, being in a conservative place, and wearing weird stuff that I wear. People don't get it sometimes. I like it.”
“I always knew I took care of more than myself from a young age. People depended on me.”
“Fourth quarter, tied ballgame, why not try to get your best player involved?”
“It's football - I would play with seven fingers if I had too, man.”
“My mother got the courage to speak to hundreds of people about her story. I knew if she could do it I could do it, too.”
“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.”
“I don't play for nobody else but my teammates and my family. That's it.”
“I think I'm the best wide receiver in the NFL.”
“I just want to be treated for what I'm worth. That's fair to say, right?”
“I think I'm a model in a football player body sometimes.”
“I would say my favorite tattoo is my first tattoo of my father, you know, just the remembrance of him, his legacy and impact that he's had on my life. He passed away when I was a kid, you know, I got the halo with the angel wings on my back.”
“I think I want to be remembered by is working hard. That's it. And I'm pretty sure, my teammates, that's what they'll say about me. You know, Hop is competitive.”
“This is something I haven't told many people, because it's embarrassing. We always used to catch flies with our hands. I was the only one who could catch 'em. One-handed, two-handed. I actually studied flies. I'd watch 'em. How do you catch flies? They fly up. If I can catch that, I can catch anything.”
“My mom used to make sure we stayed dressed nice going to church. And when you're young, and people compliment you, you want to keep that feeling. You want to keep that vibe, that energy. Because it makes you feel good. And then clothes make you feel good too.”