Training camp for me is a day-by-day thing. It's a grind. If you lose focus on what you're trying to work on, you won't be there mentally, and it'll be tough physically.
— Chris Hogan
If I do my job, take advantage of every opportunity I get out there and be in the right spot, the plays will come. When it does come, I've got to take advantage of it.
I am excited about the concept of the Premier Lacrosse League. The idea is to bring the best lacrosse players from around the world together and showcase their talent to the fans.
I didn't think I'd be starting a NFL game.
College lacrosse can be pretty brutal at times, so that definitely helped me with the toughness. It's a fast-paced game, so that helped me kind of translate over to the game speed of playing in the NFL. I think just the one-on-one aspect of trying to beat the guy in front of you definitely helped me as being a receiver.
Just being a dad, trying to balance both - football and being dad - trying to be the best at both. You know, you've got to work at it like anything else. I've been working.
It's tough to put that in perspective, playing in back-to-back-to-back Super Bowls.
You can't do everything on the field.
I don't know if people consider me a deep threat, but maybe I'll get there one day.
Some days are harder than others, just like anything.
Every single year is a year for me to take a look at how I've grown and how I can get better and better myself as a football player as a receiver and just as an overall team player.
You want to go out there and do what's best for the team, help your team move the ball down the field, make plays, help them win football games.
I think there's a ton of carryover with the two sports, lacrosse and football.
I know they don't come very often in this business, so every chance I get to step out on the field, wherever it was, I worked as hard as I could.
My family is the most important thing in my life.
I've learned so much whether it was, I played a lot of team sports, so being part of a team, learning how to be a leader on different teams, and how to deal with the ebb and flow of different games.
Playing all these different sports, you learn so much from the people you get coached by.
I think the mental aspect of the game is huge.
The quarterback-receiver connection is a constant work in progress. You're always working on your communication on the field, off the field.
I think I do a pretty good job of not letting things distract me from what I want to do and what I want to accomplish as a football player.
Every single day was an opportunity for me to be on the field, if I was starting, playing or not playing, every single day I came out here ready to work.
I just tried to make as many plays as possible to try and show them how hard I work and how hard I prepare and that I am willing to do whatever it takes to win football games and to accept whatever role they want me to be in. I think that has helped me throughout my career.
Getting cut four separate times really never stopped me.
When opportunities come my way, I'm going to try to make the play.
I'm playing in the NFL and getting to compete with these guys every single day, getting to play in the pre-season games. That's a dream come true right there.
Hard work pays off.
My goal was to be a good player in this league. Got my butt up out of bed and got to the gym.
Charlotte's great.
It's all about opportunities in this league, and when you get the opportunities, you have to make the most of them.
It's a lot of fun to be able to share special moments with my kids and wife.
Once I started out on this journey of wanting to play in the National Football League, I've had a lot of opportunities. And with each opportunity, I've tried to make the most of it.
When you see your leader not at 100 percent, you just want to play a little harder because of that.
In baseball I was very singularly focused. If I was pitching it was me versus the hitter.
I know my wife works just as hard as me if not harder to have a career.
No matter what, you're going to have hard days out here. There's going to be a drop here or a tough pass that you didn't come down with there.
Lacrosse has a special place in my heart after starting my career as a lacrosse player at Penn State.
Playing quarterback is hard enough.
I didn't really have a plan B. My plan B was work harder and try to make it in the NFL, and that's what I want to do. I put everything I had into making it in this league, and that's why I'm here.
I would say I am one of those guys who teams are looking for a reason to get rid of most of the time.
When you have a dream and you believe in yourself and you have people believe in you, you just do whatever it takes to try to achieve that.
I just have to make sure that for 60 minutes, I'm going out there and doing my job, running routes the best that I can and trying to get open.
Whatever my role is, I'm just going to go out there and do it to the best of my ability.
I don't like to take a lot of time off. It's really not in my DNA.
When I got the call that the Patriots were interested, it was a very surreal feeling. I've always looked up to watching them play. They've been a team that has a long history of winning. Just to be considered to be a part of this team is a great honor.
There's going to be games where you're asked to do things that people aren't always going to see.
As far as coach Belichick, yeah, he's a huge lacrosse fan. I'm pretty sure I played against his son at Rutgers my sophomore and junior years. There's always that. We have that lacrosse connection.
Monmouth was important to me because that was the first stepping stone. I am very grateful to the Monmouth program for taking a chance on a four-year lacrosse player who had a year of eligibility left. It was an awesome experience to go back there and play football again, especially since it was close to home.
I think the Patriot Way definitely makes its way into the Hogan household.
I've done a barre class before. I swear.
I think playing multiple sports is by far the best way to go. You're talking about different teammates, different skill sets, different mentalities.
