Adam Thielen Quotes

Adam Thielen

Profession : Athlete

Birth : August 22, 1990

When we go out, we have our favorite places, and the great thing about Minnesota is that most Minnesotans are pretty respectful of your time when you're with your family.

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

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I'm the kind of person who always has a Plan B. I don't want to go into anything without another option.

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I was pretty realistic about my chances of being drafted.

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I love when people doubt me. I love when people don't think that I'm good enough to play at a certain level, not good enough to be a starter, things like that. That's the stuff that drives me.

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I wouldn't take back having a kid for the world.

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The whole goal was to get an opportunity to go somewhere for OTAs because OTAs in this league are extremely important, especially for undrafted guys and guys who are on the bubble. You don't get a lot of opportunities in preseason games and training camp, so OTAs are huge.

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I don't care if people think I'm one of the best receivers or one of the worst receivers. I don't really care.

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

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I have a lot of things to work on, a lot of things to get better at, which is good.

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In the NFL, there's never really that moment where you're like, Hey, I made the team. Or: Hey, you made the practice squad. You just kind of show up the next day and go to work. Nobody really says anything. You just kind of go to work.

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

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I have a lot of confidence. I'm a competitor.

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

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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.

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When I was early in my career, I really followed Twitter, seeing what people were saying about me. I definitely saw them talking about Mr. Mankato and all that. It was fun for me to have a little bit of extra support from outside people. I definitely helped me build confidence, that's for sure.

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When there are things I see on tape that I think I can get better at, it frustrates me.

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

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It doesn't matter what happened in the season or what happened the last play, there's always an opportunity to make the next play.

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A lot of times you don't see that, doesn't matter when they're drafted, first round or not. You usually don't see guys come in and wow you.

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