Quotes from Adam Thielen

Just because you're drafted, No. 1, doesn't mean you're going to make a team and, No. 2, it doesn't mean you're going to be around a long time. Especially at receiver, where there are only five and the last two have to play a lot of special teams or they're gone.

You have to be different on the field than you are at home.

My wife and I are breakfast people.

For us, we're homebodies. My wife and I like to be at home with family.

It's football. There's emotions.

I really try to avoid looking at or thinking about my stats because I'm just trying to do my part in winning games.

There is no better feeling than coming into a tough environment and winning.

It doesn't really matter who's getting the credit. We just love to be on the field and winning games.

I've never been a numbers guy. Numbers don't excite me. Winning games excites me.

Something I remind myself every day, just do your job to the best of your ability and that's the most important thing.

It doesn't matter what play is called, you have to run that play and you have to be successful on it. It just comes down to execution, all 11 players doing the right thing.

You have to have a great offensive line, great quarterback and guys around you that believe in you and help you.

That's probably the biggest difference from a hamstring to different injuries. You can play through pain with other injuries. But as I found out quickly with a hamstring, if you're feeling any pain, eventually, it's not going to work.

For me, I'm just trying to keep getting better.

I just want to make sure that I'm competing every day and giving my best effort, because everything else just falls into place.

I think there were a lot of people at Mankato reaching out to the Vikings saying to just bring me in for a tryout.

I was pretty realistic about my chances of being drafted.

I love when people think it's going to be easy to guard me.

Defenses usually are trying to take away the guys who are getting a lot of catches earlier in the season.

For me, after every game you look yourself in the mirror and ask 'what can i do better, what can i do to help this team?' Then you go back to the drawing board and you go back and you work hard.

For me, Thursday night football is a great time for me to enjoy the game with my family, as I'm not able to watch as much on Sundays.

Cris Carter and Randy Moss - they're the guys who made me want to play football and be a receiver.

I love when people think I'm not a good receiver.

I do get recognized every once in a while.