Receiver Quotes · Page 2

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

— Walter Benjamin

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

— Edmund Burke

Other people will say different, but I'm the best Georgia Tech wide receiver.

— Demaryius Thomas

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

— A. J. Green

I can really say that I'm a pretty good receiver and came a long way.

— Hines Ward

I love it when receivers catch the balls with their hands.

— Ron Jaworski

Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.

— Peter Kreeft

I played a lot of football when I was younger. I'm a good receiver, actually.

— Shania Twain

In my view, the best gift is one that benefits both the receiver and the planet.

— Andrew Weil

My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became…

— Bre Pettis

I was honored to spend time with the President on an issue that is clearly important to him. I was also impressed…

— Drew Brees

Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks.

— Bill Vaughan

Matt Millen, you draft a wide receiver every year. HOW DARE YOU SIR, HOW DARE YOU!

— Keith Olbermann

As long as people still list me as not the best receiver, I'm going to continue to try to prove those people…

— Justin Jefferson

I'm the best corner in the game. When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that is the result you…

— Richard Sherman

Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper…

— Thomas A. Edison

I want to be the best receiver to ever play the game. I feel like I can do it. I know I…

— Amari Cooper

Receiver is one of those positions, very rarely can you come into this league and make a huge impact week in and…

— Jordy Nelson

The simple act of helping someone—with no desire (or possibility) of repayment is good for us and our self-image, and it may…

— Kevin Eikenberry

I was quitting…As I was taking those steps I was saying, ‘Somebody please stop me.’ Lionel Taylor, our receivers coach, said, ‘Hold…

— Joe Greene

The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The No. 1 rule you're taught as a receiver: You've just got to watch the ball. You hear about the guy who…

— Julian Edelman

Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. [Lat.,…

— Tacitus

We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

More paper money cannot make a society richer, of course — it is just more printed paper. Otherwise, why is it that…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Compare the credit for a football touchdown, which might be shared by the receiver not only with the quarterback, but also with…

— Ernest Sosa

Josh Bard is a catcher with excellent defensive tools and someone ... whose best days are ahead of him. He's not coming…

— Theo Epstein

And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself…

— Khalil Gibran

My name is indigenous to my country, it is not easy to pronounce, it takes effort to say correctly and I am…

— Warsan Shire

I think it's relatively easy to play defense against a team that can only do one thing. Unfortunately, that's not what we're…

— Bill Belichick

Every work of art causes the receiver to enter into a certain kind of relationship both with him who produced the art,…

— Leo Tolstoy

The real long term objective of the Welfare Plan is the fulfilling of character in the members of the Church, givers and…

— J. Reuben Clark

Rich people are excellent receivers. Poor people are poor receivers.

— T. Harv Eker

When my number is called to go out and play receiver, I just go out and do it.

— Cordarrelle Patterson

I think I'm the best wide receiver in the NFL.

— DeAndre Hopkins

I'm a white wide receiver and that's revolutionary.

— Cris Collinsworth

I was a big receiver when I played in the NFL.

— Cris Carter

Especially if you're a good receiver, nobody plays at all-the-way 100 percent.

— Mike Evans

Cathode-ray tubes are the most important items in a television receiver.

— John Logie Baird

My favorite receiver of all time? You can't pick a favorite receiver.

— Carson Palmer