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Stefon Diggs [1993-0] American

Rank: 102
Athlete, Football wide receiver

Stefon Mar'sean Diggs is an American football wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Vikings in the fifth round, 146th overall of the 2015 NFL Draft. He played college football at Maryland.

Attitude

Quote	Tags	Rank
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.		101
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.		102
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.		103
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.		104
They say when you break your leg, you get a little taller and a little faster, and I got both, I think.		105
To me, it really doesn't matter where they line me up.		106
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.		107
You don't want to have any negativity in your life. Continue to push. Continue to be patient. And when your time comes, then you've got to do everything you can, that's all.		108
Quarterbacks like guys who try to do everything they can for them and put it on the line for them. So that's what I try to do.		109
You want to have that trust with your QB; you want to build that camaraderie throughout your team and just have that relationship with them, so when you're out there, he doesn't have anything to worry about. He tells you to run this route, you run it to the best of your ability and be there for him.		110
I know I'm not the biggest guy or the fastest guy, but you've got to bring something to the table that someone else is not. I love football too much.		111
There are going to be games where you don't have the greatest conditions, so to show that you can do it in bad conditions is a plus.		112
I wanted to stay home and go to Maryland because I'm really the man of my house. We lost our father when I was 14. Somebody had to be there, so I had to take it and put that on my shoulders.		113
I just want to get better all around and contribute more.		114
That's what great players do: continue to prove themselves.		115
Just scratching the surface. It's just the beginning. I'm still young. I've got a lot of time to grow.		116
You haven't been on tape, nobody sees what you can do, nobody sees how you play, so they don't have anything to watch.		117
I want to win championships, I want to win ball games, and where else is a better place to do it then your city?		118
Everybody's got haters, but your city's always behind you. It's only right to give back.		119
My dad was real hard on me. He wasn't really big on congratulating and stuff like that.		120
I'm just happy to have my legs back, cause at one point in time, I wasn't even walking.		121
I love competing in everything that I do, and I try to express that, but I try not to rush it.		122
I try to do anything I can to quicken things up.		123
I don't just study my opponent; I study myself. It's something you have to do to get better.		124
As a player, I'm going to do everything I can to help the organization as a whole. On the field, off the field, I'm going to do everything in my power.		125
I can relate to a guy who stays home and does it for his family and friends.		126
At the end of the day, you have to do what's best for you, and I support any guy who stays home.		201
I consider myself a leader. I am not a follower.		202
I wanted to go to the underdog team - I wanted to build something somewhere like a lot of the other guys who stayed home at Maryland, like Vernon Davis and players like that. I wanted to stay home and do it in front of my family and my friends... Those thing matter to me.		203
I'm just going to do everything my coaches ask me.		204
I feel like it's a great opportunity for me to play for the Vikings.		205
I just want to contribute to my team and earn the trust and do everything they need from me.		206
I'm a dominant competitor.		207
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.		208
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.		209
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.		210
I don't want to offend nobody, and I don't rub anybody the wrong way. That's a part of growing up.		211
I listen to the older people who talk to me. I call them my old heads, people with a lot of wisdom. They'll teach you a lot if you listen.		212
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.		213
You can't let everybody know your hand.		214
If you don't have any confidence, you're not going to do anything.		215
You have to approach it the same way with any quarterback. You're going to try to do the best for your guy.		216
I just try to make the plays when they throw them to me.		217
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.		218
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.		219
Being away from the game took a toll on my heart.		220
Being away from the game you love so much, it will mess with your mind.		221
When you have the ball in your hand, you're the most important guy in the whole organization.		222
I work hard and do things the way they're supposed to be done just so I can have success out here. I always want more.		223
Each day, I come in with a positive attitude, trying to get better.	Attitude	224
Whether I'm playing right now or not, I still have an opportunity to get better in practice. It's like sharpening my blade.		225
That's what you want... you work hard, you want your guys to, you know, work the same way you work, and it all helps the team.		226
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.		301
Coming into my second year, my main thing is to show growth - show that I can be consistent and play at a high level all the time.		302
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.		303
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?		304
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.		305
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.		306
Press coverage is nothing different. I mean, you win off the line, you win. It's that simple.		307
I believe in my ability and my mental toughness.		308
I know I can pick up a playbook.		309
I can compete with anybody. I'm a true competitor. I'm a winner.		310
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.		311
It's not like I can't play football with some injuries.		312
Not saying I was a bad kid, but I had a lot to learn. You've just got to not be impulsive.		313
I have to go at a good pace because how you practice, that's how you play.		314
I work really hard. Walk-throughs, I take everything seriously.		315
I take my craft seriously.		316

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