If I die and you remember me as an athlete, I failed at life.

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

I’m like always smiling but I’m superaggressive. I have like a different type of chip on my shoulder.

My mind is like a theme park, because it’s fun and there’s lots of cool stuff and you can take rides.

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 recognized from a young age that I wasn’t a football player; I played football.

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.

Dreams come true, but dreams don’t wait for you. You have to chase your dreams.

Any time you’re in a maze there’s multiple ways to get to the end.

I feel like I’m a better person without the game of football. I’m happier.

When you’re authentic, people appreciate that.

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.

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.

With your imagination, you can go anywhere or do anything, anything is possible.

I hated Jason Witten. I appreciated his game, but I always hated him.

I like art, photography, film – all that creativity.

I’m a voracious reader, I’m always studying.

My goal is to be surrounded by books.

If I’m not with my family or playing football then I’m usually in my office writing and drawing.

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.

As far as I can remember, I was always with my dad. He exemplified what it means to make sacrifices for your family.

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.

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.

I only read the left-hand pages, so I finish books twice as fast.

Why does everyone always assume the quarterback is the leader?

I feel like I’m the Kanye of the NFL.

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

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.

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 believe happiness breeds success and not the other way around.

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

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

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 was banned from IHOP. Not all IHOPs, just the one on Highway 6 by my house where I grew up.

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

I don’t club, I don’t really go out, and there’s a lot of stuff I don’t really do socially.

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

I’m the creative director of awesomeness.

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 built my company a lot while playing for the Patriots.

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

I’m just comfortable in front of the camera. I’m like the male Oprah.

I think coding is gonna become the blue collar work of the future.

I’m looking like Atlas, not Professor Klump.

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.

I want to live a life full of purpose and intention. Sometimes when we play sports and athletics you can lose your 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.

A lot of athletes are first-generation money.

First and foremost, I am a husband and a father, which is a full-time job.

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.

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.

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’ve always known from a young age that creativity is natural.

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’m a straightforward person. I think sometimes it comes off the wrong way.

Willy Wonka’s like my Michael Jordan.

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.

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.

You grow up, no one really teaches you about taxes, especially as an athlete.