Danny Amendola Quotes

Danny Amendola

Profession : Athlete

Birth : November 2, 1985

I've been blessed to surround myself with good parents, and good people, and I think that's the secret: Surround yourself with people that are positive influences in your life that want to help and want to care.

Danny Amendola

My job is just to get open and catch the ball so I don't really focus on who the quarterback is. But I try to build a rapport with whoever is calling the plays.

Danny Amendola

I like to go full speed all the time.

Danny Amendola

I've been on teams that never made it to the playoffs. It wasn't fun playing meaningless football.

Danny Amendola

I've never played for my dad. I played against my dad actually in high school. That was fun, but he taught me how to play the game the right way. Respect the game, give it all you've got and regardless of what happens, have no regrets.

Danny Amendola

It's a business. Everybody treats it like a business. You love playing football, you love being around the locker room, and that's really the most important thing for me.

Danny Amendola

If you can't hold yourself accountable and get your job done then you're not going to be successful.

Danny Amendola

You've just got to get open and catch the ball.

Danny Amendola

I was huge Steve Smith fan watching him play for Carolina.

Danny Amendola

If athletics wasn't an option, I'd probably work at like a surf shop in Hawaii on the beach, just dishing out surf boards.

Danny Amendola

As much as it hurts to work out after a game, it helps that much more.

Danny Amendola

You practice hard, you play hard and hopefully you play good.

Danny Amendola

I come into each and every game and every season with a chip on my shoulder.

Danny Amendola

I wish I could play Blackjack really well.

Danny Amendola

My favorite Christmas gift as a child was - I had a ninja turtle skateboard.

Danny Amendola

I remember my first practice, from Pee Wee football when I was, like, 10, and I didn't know what was going on.

Danny Amendola

I always drove the crappiest cars out there.

Danny Amendola

Even though I'd been invited to the combine, I didn't test particularly well. That didn't really surprise me, I had I no expectation that I'd shock people with an insane 40 time. But I knew things weren't looking good when I started getting asked a lot of questions about the size of my hands.

Danny Amendola

When guys talk about going to the league in college, they're thinking about flash and bling. But my first taste of the NFL was a relatively small non-guaranteed contract, a crappy room at an extended stay hotel and a sense of panic every time my phone rang because it might be the cut guy.

Danny Amendola

Every team in the league is always looking to upgrade its talent.

Danny Amendola