99 Wide Receiver Quotes

Following is our list of wide receiver quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about receiving.

Famous Wide Receiver Quotes

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

I'm the best corner in the game. When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that is the result you are going to get. Don't you ever talk about me. — Richard Sherman

Aaron Rodgers, starting quarterback - that just has a good ring to it. — Aaron Rodgers

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness. — Tom Brady

To be a great player, you have to affect the entire unit. — Nick Saban

So many QBs throw the ball down the field, that's wrong. Watch Aaron Rodger throw it up the field — Phil Simms

For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice. — Don Hutson

Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life. — Steve Jobs

Act like you expect to get into the end zone. — Joe Paterno

A guy like Malcolm who makes that type of quick, instinctive plays, that's one of his strong suits. I don't think it surprised any of us players because that's what his skill set is. — Tom Brady

A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game. — Al Davis

In the NFL you get one first-round draft pick if you're lucky. You couldn't really outwork anybody else. In college I could recruit ten players with first-round talent every year. — Nick Saban

I've seen a lot people like him, but they weren't playing on the wing. — Colin Meads

A good catcher is the quarterback, the carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the traffic cop and sometimes a lot of unprintable things, but no team gets very far without one. — Miller Huggins

Being together on the field as a group, operating as a team, making important plays is a great thing. — Ellyse Perry

Short Wide Receiver Quotes

• The best way to gain more yards is advance the ball down the field from the line of scrimmage. — John Madden
• Footwork is one of the primary prerequisites to becoming a great player — Mike Krzyzewski
• I'm a huge sports fan. — Marc Anthony
• Once a Raider, always a Raider. — Al Davis
• No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball. — Casey Stengel
• I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite. — Verne Troyer
• Growing up, I played football and was always one of the best on the team. — Jake Paul
• Right now, I am a football player and I will sacrifice whatever is necessary to be the best. — J. J. Watt
• Sports are my passion and I really enjoy connecting with others who share my love of the game — Tessa Bonhomme
• I am a huge sports fan. — Kris Allen

Wide Quotes

If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open. In neither case should the door be blown up at the expense of those inside. — Julius Nyerere

If we wish to serve God and love our neighbor well, we must manifest our joy in the service we render to Him and them. Let us open wide our hearts. It is joy which invites us. Press forward and fear nothing. — Katharine Drexel

For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth? — Attila the Hun

Aurora hail, and all the thousand dies, Which deck thy progress through the vaulted skies: The morn awakes, and wide extends her rays, On ev'ry leaf the gentle zephyr plays; Harmonious lays the feather'd race resume, Dart the bright eye, and shake the painted plume. — Phillis Wheatley

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man. — Johnny Cash

You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one — Mikhail Tal

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations. — Pablo Neruda

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me. — Clara Barton

Theres a wideness in Gods mercy I cannot find in my own And He keeps His fire burning To melt this heart of stone Keeps me aching with a yearning Keeps me glad to have been caught In the reckless raging fury That they call the love of God — Rich Mullins

Receiving Quotes

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance. — Isaac Newton

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. — Rabindranath Tagore

The true convert does not receive the gospel as an addition to his previous life, but in exchange for it. — Paul Washer

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received - only what you have given: a full heart, enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage. — Francis of Assisi

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude. — Anne Frank

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. — Ivan Panin

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return. — Peace Pilgrim

My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists. — Nikola Tesla

Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. — Paul the Apostle

Wide Awake Quotes

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. — Carl Sagan

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. — Josh Billings

It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true. — Roger Babson

My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence. — Antonio Machado

Wide awake I can make my most fantastic dreams come true. — Lorenz Hart

Better try to stay wide awake, or you might end up found dead by the lake. — Eminem

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again. — Stephen King

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised. — Leo Tolstoy

We've become a nation of wolves, ruled by sheep. Owned by swine, overfed, and put to sleep. While the media elite declare what to think, I'll be wide awake, on the edge, and on the brink. — Otep Shamaya

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason. — Octavio Paz

Wide Back Quotes

Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personal identity often resides in the cracks — Erving Goffman

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

In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom. — Andy Summers

Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight. — Marina Tsvetaeva

I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed. — Tony Arata

The E Street band casts a pretty wide net. Our influences go all the way back to the early primitive garage music, and also, we've had everything in the band from jazz players to Kansas City trumpet players to Nils Lofgren, one of the great rock guitarists in the world. — Bruce Springsteen

My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up. — Marie Lu

I like playing the contrasting roles. It what inspires me to act. If I look back on my career I am happy that I have gotten to play a wide variety of different roles, from Mike Dexter, to Van Ray in Fast Lane, to Dr. Cullen to Coop. — Peter Facinelli

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. — Harold Ross

...Bringing the very heavens close enough to touch. It was Zsadist. His eyes closed, his head back, his mouth wide open, he sang. The scarred one, the souless one, had the voice of an angel. — J.R. Ward

People Writing About Wide Receiver

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Tom Brady quotes on hard work, practice and losing	204	946
Nick Saban quotes on leadership, losing and process	63	6830
Al Davis quotes on leadership, life and football	28	615
Ronnie Lott quotes on football, life and sports	12	126
Richard Sherman quotes on education, leadership and nfl	40	171
Aaron Rodgers	47	221

More Wide Receiver Quotes

Let your door stand open to receive Him, unlock your soul to Him, offer Him a welcome in your mind, and then you will see the riches of simplicity, the treasures of peace, the joy of grace. Throw wide the gate of your heart, stand before the sun of the everlasting light. — Ambrose

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

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

Open wide the windows of our spirits and fill us full of light; open wide the door of our hearts, that we may receive and entertain Thee with all our powers of adoration. — Christina Rossetti

If the quarterback throws the ball in the endzone and the wide receiver catches it, it's a touchdown. — John Madden

I'm not the prototype wide receiver. But I like to think I'm one hell of a football player. — Hines Ward

I feel like I'm a fan of film who's actually in the business, too. So it'd be like saying like, ‘Yeah, I love the NFL,’ and then, ‘Yeah, I'm also a wide receiver.’ — Luke Wilson

There's nothing to fear but a wide receiver who can run a 100-yard dash in under 10 seconds. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

I say to you dear young people: Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and He gives you verything. When we give ourselves to him, we receive a hundredfold in return. Yes, open, open wide the doors to Christ and you will find true life. — Pope Benedict XVI

Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive. — Graham Nelson

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

He is inviting you - and me - to come home, to come home to where we belong, to come home to that for which we were created. His arms are stretched out wide to receive us. His heart is enlarged to take us in. — Richard J. Foster

Open your arms as wide as you can to receive all the miracles with your name on them. Never forget that all you have is all you need. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

These diva wide receivers want to go to the bathroom. As a defensive lineman, we didn't go to the bathroom. — Booger McFarland

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

... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance--no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and exclude it from the vast field of useful and scientific knowledge. O, had I received the advantages of early education, my ideas would, ere now, have expanded far and wide; but, alas! I possess nothing but moral capability--no teachings but the teachings of the Holy Spirit. — Maria W. Stewart

These Seattle Seahawks wide receivers have been called pedestrian, they've been called no-namers, but they always come up with the big play. — Nate Burleson

Whoever has received knowledge and eloquence in speech from God should not be silent or secretive but demonstrate it willingly. When a great good is widely heard of, then, and only then, does it bloom, and when that good is praised by man, it has spread its blossoms. — Marie de France

[My boys] they're all different. Jackie was very competitive. He was a tough kid - a little bit like Nick. Steve was sort of a finesse guy. He was a little bit like Nick - if he could touch it, he'd catch it. He played wide receiver at Florida State. Then, Gary came along and Gary was more my size. — Jack Nicklaus

...I recognize the widest possible difference-so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other. — Frederick Douglass

... when he kissed her, she received the kiss without returning it, her eyes wide open, not afraid, not a virgin's eyes, just flat and uninvolved. — Tim O'Brien

When you have your heart broken wide, you are also open to things of beauty as well as things of sadness. Once people are not here physically, the spiritual remains, we still connect, we can communicate, we can give and receive love and forgiveness. There is love after someone dies. — Sandra Cisneros

Stretch out your hand and receive the world's wide gift of joy, appreciation and beauty. — Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I received in my school, but most of it was backed by other ways of learning - chiefly in the books I obtained in the public library. — Isaac Asimov

Matt Millen, you draft a wide receiver every year. HOW DARE YOU SIR, HOW DARE YOU! — Keith Olbermann

There are some who do not learn, and who do not improve as fast as they might, because their eyes and their hearts are not upon God; they do not reflect neither do they have that knowledge which they might have; they miss a good deal which they might receive. We have got to obtain knowledge before we obtain permanent happiness; we have got to be wide awake in the things of God. — Lorenzo Snow

Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space of reality. Melancholia and self-murder are not unknown in the Fens. Heavy drinking, madness and sudden acts of violence are not uncommon. How do you surmount reality, children? How do you acquire, in a flat country, the tonic of elevated feelings? — Graham Swift

That receiver was as wide open as Annabel Chong. — Dennis Miller

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

To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible ways and directions are many; and the same studies which have served for my work might easily, in other hands, not only receive a wholly different treatment and application, but lead to essentially different conclusions. — Jacob Burckhardt

Wherever you are, be all there." I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive. — Ann Voskamp

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