Quotes from Amari Cooper

I mean, I want to play, to be able to put up numbers to help my team win. Whatever I've got to do to do that, I'm cool with it.

I think my mindset is probably the most important thing. Being able to stay positive through whatever injury I had or whatever situation I was going through and focusing on the best player and the best teammate I can be.

In football, in any sport, communication is really key. So if you want to be a great teammate, a great team and a great player, then communication is very important.

That's what teammates are for. They encourage you through the good and the bad times.

I thought you got faster by running on sleds. That does get you faster, but the most important thing when it comes to speed is getting your technique down. Technique, that's the main thing when it comes to speed.

When someone's playing you man-to-man coverage, they're basically saying that guy's better than you. So that's why a lot of receivers feed off of that.

I know the college rule is if they push you out of bounds, you can come back in and catch the ball, but I think the NFL rule is it doesn't matter how you get out of bounds, you can't be the first one to touch the ball. That's what I think it is, I'm not really sure on that.

I just wanted to prove that I can play wide receiver at a high level.

I know that I have the skillset to be one of the highest-paid receivers. I'm just all about going out there and proving it.

I just try to work on my craft. Try to be as complete a player as possible, and I've just been focusing on being a consistent player.

Most of the balls that I've dropped have been from a result of trying to run before I actually catch the ball. It's frustrating. I just have to go and fix them.

You can never really get away from the fundamentals of anything that you're doing.

I mean the first thing you think about when you hear the Cowboys is that star, 'America's Team,' and all of that. It's a great franchise.

I overheard one of my friends say, 'If Amari scores, I bet he's real happy and he'll get real excited.' I just so happened to score, and since I heard him say that, I was like, 'Nah, I'm not going to get really excited.' And for some reason, that felt like the right thing to do. I been the same way since.

I haven't played with too many guys like Dak Prescott, so I think he definitely deserves everything that's coming to him. He definitely deserves to be paid amongst the highest-paid quarterbacks in the league.

Some coaches and quarterbacks over-analyze things at times. Sometimes it can be pitch and catch, let the play-makers make plays.

If you just look at the numbers, you pretty much have to get 10 wins to get into the playoffs, sometimes more than that.

I don't think you have to be flamboyant to be a great player.

I wanted to play running back, but they would never put me at running back. I started loving receiver and as I kept growing older, we kept throwing the ball more and I kept liking it more and more. It's something I've played all my life. It's something I've gotten better at each year.

Obviously, as a receiver, you want to go out there and make plays for your team to win.

I want to be the best receiver to ever play the game. I feel like I can do it. I know I have the ability to do it. But it's all about going out there and proving it.

I think I proved that I was a polished receiver.

Obviously as a receiver, you want to go out there and make plays for your team and win.

If you're a highly touted free agent, you're going to get paid a lot of money no matter where you go.