Dr. Seuss said, 'No one can be you-er than you,' and Oscar Wilde said, 'Be yourself because everyone else is taken.' So I just try to continue to be who I am and don't change that. And I'm a little chameleon, so I can fit in wherever I am.
Martellus Bennett
I like art, photography, film - all that creativity.
Any time you're in a maze there's multiple ways to get to the end.
If I die and you remember me as an athlete, I failed at life.
Nothing good happens after 11. If you can't get a date before 11 o'clock, you need to go home and you need to work on yourself.
I only read the left-hand pages, so I finish books twice as fast.
Shaq and Muhammad Ali's my favorite two athletes of all time.
If you play sports, use sports. So many of our kids get used by the game and then get nothing out of it. Use it as a tool to open up other doors that you want to open in life.
I don't club, I don't really go out, and there's a lot of stuff I don't really do socially.
If I'm not with my family or playing football then I'm usually in my office writing and drawing.
Why does everyone always assume the quarterback is the leader?
I don't always answer bird calls, but, when I do, they're from Tom Brady and Gronk.
I'm not a guy who holds up a product and says, 'Drink this.'
Dreams come true, but dreams don't wait for you. You have to chase your dreams.
First and foremost, I am a husband and a father, which is a full-time job.
I'm not building gyms. I'm not interested in building football fields or doing football camps. I'm interested in doing film camps and coding camps.
I love to read because I know that for a long time ancestors weren't allowed to. I love to write. Because for a long time my people weren't 'allowed' to. So I'm going to write my books, my apps and tell my stories.
I recognized from a young age that I wasn't a football player; I played football.
My mind is like a theme park, because it's fun and there's lots of cool stuff and you can take rides.
I don't want to inspire the next generation of tight ends or linebackers to play the game. If I could inspire the next generation of architects and technology leaders and writers and illustrators and film directors, then I feel like I have fulfilled my life purpose.
There aren't many children's books about black characters that are just going on adventures. My library has over 2,000 children's books in it, and most of the protagonists are either white or creatures.
I'd never worked for anyone else until I got to the NFL, and this will be my last time working for someone else.
I'm just comfortable in front of the camera. I'm like the male Oprah.
With your imagination, you can go anywhere or do anything, anything is possible.
A lot of players act one way with teammates, one way with reporters, another way for fans, another for their friends. I'm just me all the time. I'm normal. Everyone else in the NFL is weird.
There was plays where I had to do certain things, but I wouldn't even know who caught the ball because I was so focused on getting my job done.
Black boys shouldn't have to feel that being good at sports is the only way to be cool - or to be valued by the world.
I think coding is gonna become the blue collar work of the future.
It's always cool to make a comeback like 45 Michael Jordan did, or like Marshawn Lynch.
I'm looking like Atlas, not Professor Klump.
Willy Wonka's like my Michael Jordan.
I'm trying to build a Disney. Not only as a creator, but also be able to create universes where then that content can go into toys, and live on multimedia platforms, whether it's apps, books, movies, cartoons. It's like building a whole world, which takes a lot of money.
I don't make many mental mistakes. Yeah, I'm smarter than I look.
If I write a book, it has to be so awesome. It has to be next level, to prove mysel. Just like if you are an athlete and you want to rap, you better bring the bars. Don't come in with nursery rhymes.
I feel like I'm the Kanye of the NFL.
If I wake up at 6 A. M. to work out, I'm done at 10 A. M.. Most guys play video games all day.
As far as I can remember, I was always with my dad. He exemplified what it means to make sacrifices for your family.
I hated Jason Witten. I appreciated his game, but I always hated him.
I'm very, very weird.
You grow up, no one really teaches you about taxes, especially as an athlete.
My goal is to be surrounded by books.
I built my company a lot while playing for the Patriots.
I think every athlete is an entrepreneur. Our job is to better our product to present to a new team every year.
There's a lot of guys who use their likeness - to do movies, and do other business stuff, but not too many guys are actually making product. I'm making product, it's a different thing. A lot of guys are holding up Coke cans and get paid a lot of money to do that, but no one's making a Coke can. I'm the guy that's trying to make the Coke can.
I was banned from IHOP. Not all IHOPs, just the one on Highway 6 by my house where I grew up.
When I won the Super Bowl I thought I was going to be, like, extremely happy. But then I really just felt like, 'Well, this is it?' I felt like I got bamboozled.
I think sometimes in life we learn that we're only allowed to have one dream, but you can have more than one dream. You can accomplish more than one thing.
Don't put yourself in a box. Become anything that you want to be.
I believe in dreaming.
Bill Nye the Science Guy' was awesome.
