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.Collection: Change
With your imagination, you can go anywhere or do anything, anything is possible.Collection: Imagination
A lot of people hate winners.
Don't put yourself in a box. Become anything that you want to be.
Any time you're in a maze there's multiple ways to get to the end.
I have about 3,500 books, maybe more.
I think coding is gonna become the blue collar work of the future.
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.
I don't always answer bird calls, but, when I do, they're from Tom Brady and Gronk.
You grow up, no one really teaches you about taxes, especially as an athlete.
My goal is to be surrounded by books.
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 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.
My mind is like a theme park, because it's fun and there's lots of cool stuff and you can take rides.
I was banned from IHOP. Not all IHOPs, just the one on Highway 6 by my house where I grew up.
I only read the left-hand pages, so I finish books twice as fast.
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.
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.
I recognized from a young age that I wasn't a football player; I played football.
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.
I believe in dreaming.
Bill Nye the Science Guy' was awesome.
I'm the same way with the media as I am to everyone else.
I like art, photography, film - all that creativity.
Willy Wonka's like my Michael Jordan.
It's always cool to make a comeback like 45 Michael Jordan did, or like Marshawn Lynch.
I've always known from a young age that creativity is natural.
For me, storytelling is what I love to do and that's my life's work. Football is not my life's work. It's just part of my life's journey, but creativity is my actual life's work.
I don't know if quirkiness is kind. I don't know if quirkiness is mean. I don't know if quirkiness has emotion. It's just a way of being.
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.
If I die and you remember me as an athlete, I failed at life.
I always wanted to do animation.
I'm trying to build something that lasts forever. If it's tied to my legacy as an athlete, then when I'm gone, it will have no momentum or can't keep selling.
I want to be so far removed from the idea that it's like, 'Oh, right, he won a Super Bowl.' Football is only a small part of your life.
I'm kind of like a black unicorn out there. It's amazing to watch. You go out there and you see a big, black guy running down the field, it's usually me.
When you're authentic, people appreciate that.
I don't make many mental mistakes. Yeah, I'm smarter than I look.
I'm a voracious reader, I'm always studying.
I feel like I'm a better person without the game of football. I'm happier.
I want to live a life full of purpose and intention. Sometimes when we play sports and athletics you can lose your purpose.
Playing with my brother, that's the only thing I didn't get to do in football.
Playing with my brother on the Patriots would have been amazing, but at the same time I feel like my work as a creator is more important.
I just wanted everybody to know that I'm not fat. I'm trying to get an eight pack.