Quotes from Rob Gronkowski

When you get off five or six months, and you're not competing as an athlete, you want to get back out on the field.

I like anywhere with a beach. A beach and warm weather is all I really need. I like going to Florida - to Miami and to visit my mom in Fort Meyers.

A good vacation for me is going to warm weather. Being able to go outside, in the sun, hit the beach, play outside sports. Being active outside. Going swimming, hanging by the pool, having a couple drinks, having a couple of your close buddies around, and just having a blast.

I just go with the flow, day by day, week by week.

Whatever's asked of me, I'm just going to go out there and perform my routes and how I've been coached all week, perform in the running game, pass blocking, run blocking, whatever it is.

I love the energy and positivity of working out.

It's special to be in that elite category of players who've been on the 'Madden' cover.

If you go out once a week, they can blast on you that you're always out all the time, but I always put work first, and people sometimes don't see the side of going into the weight room, behind-the-scenes-type stuff with football.

Our dad introduced us to all of it - to the weights, to eating healthy, all that good stuff. He introduced it, got on us every once in a while, and left it up to us if we wanted to do it. And seeing my older brothers do it right in front of me, I wanted to do it because I looked up to them.

The importance of lifting weights is it kind of makes me who I am.

No, my dance moves are always working no matter where I am. Whether at the house or if I'm out, at the facility working out, practicing, you gotta get the dance moves right. They help out with your footwork.

Just like any other game we're taking on we've got to prepare, prepare hard, mentally, physically. We've been practicing hard.

Being with the family, running downstairs and opening presents, it was always fun with my brothers.

Definitely, life changes as it goes on a little bit, for sure.

My brother's got two degrees. He got one for me.

Just follow the rules. Always have a designated driver. Don't be doing anything to make someone mad. And just walk away from the trouble.

It's always good to be out there with your teammates, working with your teammates in individual drills, team drills, just being out there, getting on the same page, just getting into flow with them.

I've always been a fan of football, always watched the NFL and it's great to always sit back wherever I can this year. You sit back and enjoy the games, pop a little sports drink - not any pop or soda - lay back, watch the games. It's always cool to see how the games go down and just enjoy them.

Wherever we roll, it didn't really matter, chicks would come to me no matter what. Even before anything. But a lot of the time when it doesn't happen, you have more fun anyway, because you can hang out with your boys.

As professional athletes, we get pitched business or investment opportunities all the time, wherever we are.

Wherever I go - like, I go to elementary schools, I go to middle schools - wherever it is, if it's in Florida, if it's up in New England, I just feel like wherever I am, the kids always go crazy whenever they see me.

When I first got into the league, I just used to run. Just run the route. Really no technique to it. I really couldn't separate myself from the defender.

The fans are nuts. They are wild. They have the Patriots' back no matter what.

The more you're playing, the more weeks you're going, the more you're into it, the more everything is flowing together.