I don't like to take a lot of time off. It's really not in my DNA.

Some days are harder than others, just like anything.

My goal was to be a good player in this league. Got my butt up out of bed and got to the gym.

When I got the call that the Patriots were interested, it was a very surreal feeling. I've always looked up to watching them play. They've been a team that has a long history of winning. Just to be considered to be a part of this team is a great honor.

Every single year is a year for me to take a look at how I've grown and how I can get better and better myself as a football player as a receiver and just as an overall team player.

There's going to be games where you're asked to do things that people aren't always going to see.

As far as coach Belichick, yeah, he's a huge lacrosse fan. I'm pretty sure I played against his son at Rutgers my sophomore and junior years. There's always that. We have that lacrosse connection.

It's a lot of fun to be able to share special moments with my kids and wife.

I know they don't come very often in this business, so every chance I get to step out on the field, wherever it was, I worked as hard as I could.

I think the Patriot Way definitely makes its way into the Hogan household.

My family is the most important thing in my life.

When you see your leader not at 100 percent, you just want to play a little harder because of that.

I've done a barre class before. I swear.

I've learned so much whether it was, I played a lot of team sports, so being part of a team, learning how to be a leader on different teams, and how to deal with the ebb and flow of different games.

In baseball I was very singularly focused. If I was pitching it was me versus the hitter.

I think playing multiple sports is by far the best way to go. You're talking about different teammates, different skill sets, different mentalities.

Playing all these different sports, you learn so much from the people you get coached by.

I know my wife works just as hard as me if not harder to have a career.

As a football player, as an athlete, as a competitor - that dream of being able to play in the Super Bowl, you're never going to let that one go.

The locker room I don't think is a huge place for guys to really, you know, talk politics.

I think everyone's goal at the beginning of the year is to get to this time, to get an opportunity to play in the Super Bowl.

I have grown so much since I started in this league and it's something that I feel that every single year I'm always learning, always growing.

I'm not sure I'm the prototypical Patriot.

I can't go out there and just eat turkey sandwiches and hamburgers all day because that's not going to make my body perform at the level that it can.