"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."
"Any time you're in a maze there's multiple ways to get to the end."
"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."
"Don't put yourself in a box. Become anything that you want to be."
"With your imagination, you can go anywhere or do anything, anything is possible."
"I believe in dreaming."
"Bill Nye the Science Guy' was awesome."
