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.

I'm the same way with the media as I am to everyone else.

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.

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'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.

I hate typing but I love to write manually.

A lot of people hate winners.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

A lot of athletes are first-generation money.

I'm always excited anytime I get a chance to be a better player and work with different people.

A lot of times when you're around really, really smart people, you don't really understand them.

I thought Willy Wonka was brilliant. He had all kinds of candy. Who doesn't like chocolate and candies? Everybody wanted a Gobstopper. I just think he's brilliant.