Jimmy Graham

“Whenever we're all getting ready for a playoff game, you know how serious those games are, and you try to motivate your guys. There's a lot of emotion that goes into those games, and when I play, it's all about winning, and it's all about doing whatever it takes to fire guys up and to get that emotion running.”

“New Orleans has these older orange lightbulbs, which are really gorgeous. But the main thing that stands out is actually the Superdome.”

“When I was younger, I could carry 270 around and run go routes, and it was no big deal.”

“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.”

“I'm the type of guy who, right as I'm taking off, I'm deciding, 'Hey, where do I want to go today?'”

“I just need to be me.”

“I got into college, and a gentleman gave me a ride in a plane, and he flipped it upside down so we're inverted flying, like it was nothing, and from that moment forward, I fell in love with it. I said, 'I've got to learn this; I've got to do this.'”

“For me, I think one of the biggest battles is mentally. You have good days, and you have bad days. Randomly, you'll feel good for weeks, and then all of a sudden, you'll have a bad day where you're really sore. And you end up questioning yourself, like, 'Am I doing the right thing? Why is this so hard?'”

“In my life, there have been a lot of people who weren't there for me, so to now have people counting on me is awesome.”

“I've always been athletic and fast.”

“It can get pretty hectic in New Orleans whenever I go shopping. So I'll fly to Houston, buy my groceries, and then come back - nobody cares there because I'm not J.J. Watt.”

“I don't give people time to start talking junk, because I say something to them first.”

“Whenever you don't catch a ball in a game, you really find out who loves you and who doesn't.”

“Later in life, I'd like to end up doing air races.”

“I don't have chips on my shoulders, I have bricks.”

“I love my body. I take good care of it.”

“I loved 'Top Gun.' I watched it all growing up.”

“Just because somebody is blood-related doesn't make them family.”