A biography for DeAndre Hopkinshasn’t been written yet.
“Your clothes make you feel good.”
“I'm from South Carolina. I'm from a real cultured state, where there's still racism daily. Still, places are segregated.”
“I don't bash people in the media, like other people.”
“There's a lot I need to improve on. YAC, which I'm last in. Being a better leader. Not getting frustrated when things aren't going my way.”
“I see a lot of guys and their stamina is at an all-time low in the fourth quarter, and I feel like mine is still where it was in the first quarter of the game.”
“I've played with at least 10 quarterbacks.”
“I definitely feel like I'm underrated.”
“My mom made sure all her kids went to college.”
“My mom has always put everyone before herself and sacrificed things unimaginable.”
“My family stuck together.”
“I just don't want to get a tattoo just to have a tattoo.”
“My second tattoo was a pirate ship on my arm. My friends and I, you know, we all called ourselves pirates, you know, so we felt like, you know,we was the pirates of the Caribbean around the way.”
“There's a lot of things I can get better at as an individual, knowing where defenders are, having a better awareness. Those are things I can work on.”
“A guy like Darrelle Revis has been in the NFL a long time. They study tendencies. They know what you're doing from the way you line up. When you run a route, you almost have to be perfect at it. You can't slip. Timing has to be perfect with the quarterback going against a smart guy like him.”
“You're either a champion or you're not a champion.”
“South Carolina is one of the most racist states in America. John C. Calhoun is the name of a building at our school and he was a slave owner. Clemson, the name Clemson itself, was like a guy who was a slave owner. South Carolina, their whole history is messed up.”
“Every time we step on the field, we want to score. If we don't, then we're disappointed. We don't settle for three.”
“It means a lot to be Pro Bowl. There's a lot of people who vote and they watch football a lot.”
“Luckily, I had a guy like Andre Johnson to show me the ropes. He's had many quarterbacks in his career and he still had a successful career. Just having a guy like that to tell me to control what I can control, that's really all you can do.”
“I just go out there and try to make plays.”