Quotes from A. J. Green

I like big challenges. They bring my game to a different level.

I have a son, and I'm not going to teach him to back down from anybody.

It's different to have your head coach be in the offensive meeting room going through every play, every detail to every guy, telling them why they need to run this way or what this concept is.

I don't feel like I have anything to prove. I've played this game at a high level for a long time.

Being there for my son, being there for my wife, just being a better man. That's all I know.

I think what pushes me every day is that I'm so afraid to fail. I think it comes from what I went through in school growing up and not being great in the classroom and having to work harder than everybody else.

That's the ultimate goal is to win the championship.

My job is to go out there and win one-on-ones and make plays whenever it's called.

I love to win.

I love hot dogs. That's the only thing I can't get rid of.

Just leaving the brotherhood I have made at Georgia, the staff and all my coaches. They've prepared me for the real world. I'm really going to miss that. But I feel like they've prepared me for the real world, to be a man.

I love the game and there's no need to make a fuss about it.

I always show loyalty to the people who gave me a chance from the get-go, and Cincinnati gave me that chance.

I put a lot into my body on and off the field that really gets me ready for the next day.

You can't take anything for granted so I have to keep working.

I'm a 6'4' guy who can run every route. I can get in and out of breaks like a 5'10' guy.

When the game is on the line, I want to be the go-to guy. I feel like that separates the good from the great receivers.

I'm one of the guys that's always behind the scenes and always low-key.

A lot of people can't say that they've got three contracts in this league.

I have to be able to make plays when the ball is thrown to my side.

Everything that I've done in my life is always I wanted to be the best in everything I do. I want to be the best husband, the best dad, the best receiver.

My game, I just want to be a complete receiver.

I'm a level guy, so everything happens for a reason.

In my neighborhood, people were truckers and teachers and store clerks and bus drivers and everything else under the sun. But what they all had in common was that everyone was dependable and worked really hard. We all got what we needed, but it didn't always come easy.