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.

I always say Coach Trestman reminds me of the first Willy Wonka. Not the Johnny Depp one.

I have about 3,500 books, maybe more.

I have a library, and it's like I want to beat Belle on 'Beauty and the Beast' and have a better library than she had.

The way we have been programmed and conditioned to think about the black kid being an athlete, it's like every young black boy people would see say 'what sport do you play?' instead of just asking 'what do you do?' 'What are you interested in?'

Everyone is creative, but we are only as creative as we allow ourselves to be.

I'm the creative director of awesomeness.

Creativity is something that is forever.

I've always wanted to create. I didn't ever want to just be a football player, so I'm just bringing all these childhood dreams together to try to accomplish the things I want to do before I die.

I'm trying to be the best dad ever. And being a husband is a whole other business itself.

I feel like there are not a lot of us, in terms of African American owners or creators. I'm trying to get kids and communities to think not just about playing for the team, but owning the team. You don't always have to be the worker bee.

With 'Dear Black Boy,' I wanted to encourage BIack boys to dream outside of sports and think differently.

My ultimate goal is to live forever, but the only way to live forever is to create and you always want to be there for your kid.

It's so easy to get caught up in the future and in the past.

I feel like kids don't dream big enough. With art being taken out of school, it's important to know you can create as well.

I believe happiness breeds success and not the other way around.

I want to be like the Nike or Apple of children's books.

I've always been interested in creating things for kids.

For some reason as a kid being a smart athlete didn't seem like the right thing, because you didn't fit in. You didn't want to be too smart because you'd be a nerd. But then you didn't want to be too dumb either because then you didn't get the grades you needed to play.

If you ask a kid what their dreams are, they will give you a list that is as long as I am tall. Once you get older that list gets shorter and shorter, so dreams shrink. I think dreams should grow as you get older.

I've always been interested in clothing because it's an extension of how we feel.

As young black boys in Alief, Texas, my friends and I often spent afternoons imagining ourselves scoring the game-winning touchdown at the end of the Super Bowl.

Black fathers are often disappointed if their sons aren't good at sports. Not excelling at sports as a black boy meant not being cool - even weirder, it meant not really being black.

Playing in the NFL isn't really - and shouldn't have to be - every black boy's dream. But black boys don't always know that their dreams off the field matter.

When you look at me see the father, the awesome dad, the author, film director, business owner, champion, friend, Hufflepuff beast.