“I got into college, and a gentleman gave me a ride in a plane, and he ...” — Jimmy Graham Quote

I got into college, and a gentleman gave me a ride in a plane, and he flipped it upside down so we're inverted flying, like it was nothing, and from that moment forward, I fell in love with it. I said, 'I've got to learn this; I've got to do this.'

Seaplanes are like the taxis of the Pacific Northwest.

I don't care if you're purple. If you're making a catch or going to go down, you could be silver. I couldn't care less, if you're making those plays for the team. If you're a selfless player, nobody pays attention to that at all. White, black, silver, pink, it doesn't matter to me.

My knee injury was something serious. To go six months before I could even jog is pretty serious.

I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

College has become a wide-open game - a lot of short passes, quick passes. Then you go to the pros and it's a whole different ballgame - things are happening faster, the patterns have to be more precise. Getting off the line of scrimmage is more difficult.

For so many years, I wished it could have been different. I wished I could have gotten the opportunity sooner. I would have loved to see what had happened had I got to the NFL right out of college and all of those different things.