Stefon Diggs

I just try to make the plays when they throw them to me.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Being away from the game took a toll on my heart.

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.

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.

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.

You have to approach it the same way with any quarterback. You're going to try to do the best for your guy.

If you don't have any confidence, you're not going to do anything.

You can't let everybody know your hand.

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.

I don't want to offend nobody, and I don't rub anybody the wrong way. That's a part of growing up.

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.

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 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'm a dominant competitor.

I work really hard. Walk-throughs, I take everything seriously.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Credit comes with success, and I need to have a lot more of it. In due time - I'm not rushing.

My dad never gave me pats on the back or congratulations. There was always more to give and more to get done.

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.

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 just want to contribute to my team and earn the trust and do everything they need from me.

I have to go at a good pace because how you practice, that's how you play.

Not saying I was a bad kid, but I had a lot to learn. You've just got to not be impulsive.

It's not like I can't play football with some injuries.

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 can compete with anybody. I'm a true competitor. I'm a winner.

I know I can pick up a playbook.

I believe in my ability and my mental toughness.

Press coverage is nothing different. I mean, you win off the line, you win. It's that simple.

I feel like it's a great opportunity for me to play for the Vikings.

To me, it really doesn't matter where they line me up.

They say when you break your leg, you get a little taller and a little faster, and I got both, I think.

It's an emotional time for you when you get injured. You're going through so much. You have a lot of time to think to yourself.

When you're playing football, and your enemies are there, you don't have a lot of time to think to yourself. You've got stuff to handle. You've got places to be, meetings to go to, bigger fish to fry. You really don't attack the emotional side of your life.

Not having a father is big. You need guidance. I know, personally, when my father died, I needed guidance; I needed somebody to show me how to be a man, how to grow up, basically how to do the right thing.

My little brothers can ask me any question in the world, and if I've got the answer, I'm going to give it to them.

Everybody's got haters, but your city's always behind you. It's only right to give back.

The time you do get edgy and the time you do want to slack off is the time, boom, there goes your opportunity. So you don't want to have that.

Being away from the game you love so much, it will mess with your mind.

I'm just going to do everything my coaches ask me.