Amari Cooper
I try to come out every day in the summer and work my hardest because I know consistency will lead to success.Collection: Success
In football, in any sport, communication is really key. So if you want to be a great teammate, a great team and a great player, then communication is very important.Collection: Communication
All the small things matter. Communication. It doesn't matter what you are doing. You have to be on the same page.Collection: Communication
When you're the underdog, you just lay low and work.
When someone's playing you man-to-man coverage, they're basically saying that guy's better than you. So that's why a lot of receivers feed off of that.
If you lose a fight with someone, you don't get revenge from fighting someone else.
If you just look at the numbers, you pretty much have to get 10 wins to get into the playoffs, sometimes more than that.
I really don't like talking about the contract. I feel like it's one of those things that will naturally happen.
Yeah, I just handle my business.
I like the way Michael Crabtree plays the game. He's strong, he goes up for the ball, he has that mentality to just make plays.
Michael Irvin, he's definitely a legend, but I don't know if some of the guys my age and younger really know about him.
I don't look at it like I've had a lot of success. I'm always hungry to do more, break records, and things of that sort.
Just keep being me, just keep doing me, stay true to who I am and the ball will find me.
Anytime that anyone can create some explosive plays, get first downs, we're going to have more plays on offense.
I haven't played with too many guys like Dak Prescott, so I think he definitely deserves everything that's coming to him. He definitely deserves to be paid amongst the highest-paid quarterbacks in the league.
I know that I have the skillset to be one of the highest-paid receivers. I'm just all about going out there and proving it.
Obviously, as a receiver, you want to go out there and make plays for your team to win.
You can only get open in two ways, off of the line or out of your breaks.
Talk about a foot injury, you can't release how you want to, you can't come out of your breaks how you want to.
I mean the first thing you think about when you hear the Cowboys is that star, 'America's Team,' and all of that. It's a great franchise.
I wasn't really happy in Oakland or anything like that.
Growing up, every team that I've played on, I was a pretty important piece to the team.
I played with high ankle sprains.
I played with a lot of foot injuries.
If you're a highly touted free agent, you're going to get paid a lot of money no matter where you go.
Is it worth a million dollars more a year or two million dollars more a year, especially if you're taking care of your money investment-wise, is it worth that two being in an environment that you don't want to be in?
Obviously, if you go to the playoffs you have an opportunity to go to the Super Bowl.
You never want to put yourself in that position where you don't control your own destiny.
I love being a Dallas Cowboy. I love everything about it. I think about it every day.
Just the aura of being a Dallas Cowboy, you can't beat it.
I want to be a Cowboy for life.
Sometimes you can line up with a quarterback after getting traded or going to a new team, whether it's the draft or whatever, and it not go smooth.
I overheard one of my friends say, 'If Amari scores, I bet he's real happy and he'll get real excited.' I just so happened to score, and since I heard him say that, I was like, 'Nah, I'm not going to get really excited.' And for some reason, that felt like the right thing to do. I been the same way since.
A lot of guys go through ups and downs in their careers, and sometimes those downs are like horrific and they can really change you. A lot. And so when you go out there and do something like score a touchdown and have a good game, you appreciate it so much more when you've been through those valleys in life.
I don't really have a shell. I'm really not as quiet as people think I am. I'm really not that quiet. But I don't know, I would say I'm more observant.
I think I proved that I was a polished receiver.
When you do something, you want to be the best.
I respect every NFL team because it was a dream I've had since I was a little kid.
I don't really care who I play for. I just want to play ball.
I've always kept in mind, team first.
I just play, man. Try to play good every week, but if it doesn't happen, I just move on. But if I do play good, I do the same thing.
Obviously, you want to score every game, but you just have to be patient.
I don't think you have to be flamboyant to be a great player.
I just try to work on my craft. Try to be as complete a player as possible, and I've just been focusing on being a consistent player.
Most of the balls that I've dropped have been from a result of trying to run before I actually catch the ball. It's frustrating. I just have to go and fix them.
That's what teammates are for. They encourage you through the good and the bad times.
You don't want to give the defensive back any signals about what route you're going to run.
Every time I run a route, I try to make it seem like I'm running a different route than I'm actually running so I can get open.
I take good pride in the way I release off the line and coming out of my breaks.
I knew if I got an offer from Alabama, that's where I wanted to go... just because I liked what they stood for. I liked that they were winning.