Best Wide Receiver Quotes

#1. There's nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#2. It was fun, having speed and being able to jump. Especially playing football. I played wide receiver and defensive back.

Jacoby Ellsbury

#3. I'm not the prototype wide receiver. But I like to think I'm one hell of a football player.

Hines Ward

#4. I was a quarterback in pee-wee football. I always wanted to be quarterback. They're the leaders, they make the calls. It didn't work out because I didn't have the arm. I also played wide receiver my senior year in high school.

Junior Seau

#5. I was honored to spend time with the President on an issue that is clearly important to him. I was also impressed by his wide receiver skills.

Drew Brees

#6. If I was going to play offense, I'd love to play running back. In high school I played quarterback and wide receiver, but I wouldn't mind running over some folks.

Ronnie Lott

#7. Henry looks from my face back to the field, and his eyes pop open wide. I turn to see why he's gaping: JJ and Carter are messing around, trying
to shove a scrawny wide receiver into Jerry Rice's stroller.
"JJ!" Henry yells, "You can't fit a freshman in that stroller.

Miranda Kenneally

#8. That receiver was as wide open as Annabel Chong.

Dennis Miller

#9. A wide receiver like me wouldn't have won. The quarterback - or even the running back - always wins.

Patrick Wilson

#10. Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. Tight end is one of the hardest positions to play in football. It's right up there with quarterback and cornerback. You have to have the skills of a wide receiver and the strength of an offensive lineman, and it's not easy to balance those two.

Tony Gonzalez

#12. People ask me who he reminds me of. The way he's playing, I'd say he doesn't remind me of anybody. I've never seen anybody - running back, quarterback, wide receiver - make the plays that Vince Young made today.

Dan Fouts

#13. I wanted to finish my career as a Steeler. I felt I just fit the mold as far as a blue-collar guy. I may not be the flashiest, most flamboyant wide receiver out there. But I get the job done for my team.

Hines Ward

#14. The wide receiver position is such a complex position.

Keyshawn Johnson

#15. Once you really understand your role ... that's why I think actors get lost in a series. Everybody wants to be the quarterback or the game-winning wide receiver. I've been around long enough and done enough stuff to where I don't feel that way. I just want to do what I do as well as possible.

C. Thomas Howell