Patience is a key to success. I rely on that.Collection: Patience
I was a rolling stone. Wherever I lay my hat was my home.Collection: Home
As a kid, growing up playing football, you always dream of playing in the NFL and in the Super Bowl. But you never think that can come true.
I just try to go out each and every week, show the coaches that I'm trustworthy and just try to do everything right in practice and just hope they call plays for me on Sundays.
You go to a lot of places, and they say they're going to use you in this kind of way. As time goes on, you're in Week 8 like, 'Man, didn't they say before the season they were going to use me?' It leaves you with a bad feeling. You get a bad vibe inside like, 'I can't trust this. I want to be somewhere else.'
We're all receivers, we make catches, we do all those little things, but sometimes you've got to separate yourself from others and do some things others won't do. So as receivers, we have to go out there and block. We all know we can catch but that's what we do - separate ourselves by doing a hell of a job blocking.
When you get somewhere, Atlanta feels like home, so why not retire here and end my career here. It feels good. It feels like it's the right place, but at the end of the day, I've got to do what's best for me and my family, you know, and if Atlanta is not that place, then it's not that place.
I want to play ball. It's never been about the money for me, but I do have a family I've got to take of. That's something for me to take into consideration. But, I just want to play ball.
If you want me playing running back, quarterback, tight end, kick return, punt return, whatever. I'm just out there to help the team win.
I'm a guy that just likes to come out here and have fun and play football. It's something I've been doing my whole life. It's a kid's game.
I want to be more as a receiver. That's up to God and to me. I keep praying about it. I keep working on it.
Two years I spent damn near on the sideline. That's never a good feeling for any player. No player wants to go through that.
You have got to wake up and thank the Lord every day we come here to have the opportunity to play football.
When I was growing up in Rock Hill, South Carolina, I was always the fastest kid around - in pickup games, in school, wherever.
When I was about nine years old, I was on an All-Star team made up of kids from my area, and we went to Myrtle Beach for some sort of regional championship game. I don't remember all the details, but I do know that the other team was trying not to kick the ball to me.
I take great pride in playing on special teams. A lot of people think that most special teams players aren't good enough to be on offense or defense. But that's not the case.