I just feel like it's my job to take care of my body. I play a contact sport, 99.9 percent injury rate. As far as being injury-prone or getting hurt, it's going to happen. But it's my job to take care of my body, come week in and week out.
— Stefon Diggs
You get down, but you have to pick your teammates up. Good things are eventually going to happen. There's no way around that for your team if you practice well enough.
My dad never gave me pats on the back or congratulations. There was always more to give and more to get done.
I take my craft seriously.
Not saying I was a bad kid, but I had a lot to learn. You've just got to not be impulsive.
I can compete with anybody. I'm a true competitor. I'm a winner.
Press coverage is nothing different. I mean, you win off the line, you win. It's that simple.
My father started me in football. So what better way is there to honor him than to wear his last name on my back and make him proud?
After my first year, I knew exactly what I wanted to do, what I wanted to get better at, and how I was going to do it.
Each day, I come in with a positive attitude, trying to get better.
Being away from the game you love so much, it will mess with your mind.
The thing about football is when you've got guys that work hard and do things the right way, it'll come together... it's supposed to if you put the work in.
If you don't have any confidence, you're not going to do anything.
I listen to the older people who talk to me. I call them my old heads, people with a lot of wisdom. They'll teach you a lot if you listen.
There are great days ahead for the University of Maryland football program, and I hope I have helped to put the program in a better place than it was when I first got there.
I just want to contribute to my team and earn the trust and do everything they need from me.
I wanted to go to the underdog team - I wanted to build something somewhere like a lot of the other guys who stayed home at Maryland, like Vernon Davis and players like that. I wanted to stay home and do it in front of my family and my friends... Those thing matter to me.
I believe in my ability and my mental toughness. I know I can pick up a playbook, like anybody can, and I can compete with anybody.
When you're not able to play ball anymore, you see who's really there for you. I would say that God works in mysterious ways, and He gets rid of your friends for you - the ones who were never really your real friends.
I didn't play receiver my whole life. I played running back, and I liked a bunch of running backs coming up, but I never tried to emulate them.
I work really hard. Walk-throughs, I take everything seriously.
It's not like I can't play football with some injuries.
I know I can pick up a playbook.
I'm a football fanatic. I love the game of football. I love learning new things, and I love being taught things. So I try to learn as much as I can, and even at a young age, I was really focused on how to be better and trying to learn all the techniques.
I understood it's a business as far as when you're drafting someone, and you want a guy you can trust. But there were no questions on my ability or character.
That's what you want... you work hard, you want your guys to, you know, work the same way you work, and it all helps the team.
I work hard and do things the way they're supposed to be done just so I can have success out here. I always want more.
Being away from the game took a toll on my heart.
I just try to make the plays when they throw them to me.
You can't let everybody know your hand.
I don't want to offend nobody, and I don't rub anybody the wrong way. That's a part of growing up.
I can separate very well. I can do everything I need to do as a player. I'm not the fastest guy always, or the strongest guy, or the biggest guy, but I always get the job done. I'm a workaholic.
I feel like it's a great opportunity for me to play for the Vikings.
I consider myself a leader. I am not a follower.
I try not to pay too much attention to the surroundings when you've got plays to worry about. It doesn't really matter. All we need is the grass and a couple of lines. We'll make it work and execute no matter what. At the end of the day, that's football.
Credit comes with success, and I need to have a lot more of it. In due time - I'm not rushing.
At the end of the day, I don't care how many catches I have or how many yards I have. As long as the Ws keep stacking up in the win column, I'm happy.
I have to go at a good pace because how you practice, that's how you play.
I picked up yoga. I tried to do cooking a little bit. I almost burned my house down, but it's all good. So I just stuck to yoga.
I believe in my ability and my mental toughness.
My time off is usually spent working out and getting better at football. When I come home and spend time with my little brother, we're out on the football field. We're working out or playing Madden. We're spending time with each other, but our quality time is football.
Coming into my second year, my main thing is to show growth - show that I can be consistent and play at a high level all the time.
Whether I'm playing right now or not, I still have an opportunity to get better in practice. It's like sharpening my blade.
When you have the ball in your hand, you're the most important guy in the whole organization.
I kind of really study different angles of the film. You see how people's bodies are, how they react to certain kind of moves - what foot they step with, what hand they jab with, and all that. Just little things like that, that you pick up when you watch film. Studying is big for me.
You have to approach it the same way with any quarterback. You're going to try to do the best for your guy.
As a young man, I feel as if it's all about progressing. I may have had to mature a little faster than others, but no worries. I took it on full steam and led by example off the field.
As you get a lot of exposure, a lot of people looking at you, you have to take it more so how you carry yourself, how people view you. You have to worry about your image.
I'm a dominant competitor.
I'm just going to do everything my coaches ask me.
