Quotes from Rob Gronkowski

You always want to be on top of the playbook. You always want to be refreshed with the plays, make sure you're on the same page with everyone else.

I did make National Honors Society in high school.

After a game, after a week of eating right, eating clean, you feel like that's when you deserve a nice cheat meal and basically hop on anything after the game.

I never thought, growing up, I'd be a TV host.

No matter what the circumstances are, I've never seen Tom Brady come out and not give it all in practice. There's never any change in him. Whenever he's out on the field, he's giving it all, and he's just such a competitor.

Growing up as a kid, I watched Jeremy Shockey... Tony Gonzalez... Antonio Gates. I looked up to them. I watched what they did to be successful.

I don't feel like anybody can be in top-notch football shape when you first get out there, and that's what training camp is for, and that's why it's a long process.

Stay hyped! Get chicks!

To this day, I still haven't touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live off my marketing money and haven't blown it on any big-money expensive cars, expensive jewelry, or tattoos and still wear my favorite pair of jeans from high school.

My pet peeves are people touching me a lot. Random dudes grabbing me and slapping me across the back. They're not doing it on purpose, but it's like they forget I'm a person. But you can't do anything about it. What are you going to do?

You can't do it all. You get many requests all the time, but I still have to focus on football, still have to live my life a little bit. But there are definitely times during the week when you want to take time out.

You've got to be careful with any injury, but I mean, if you research hamstrings, if you know anything about hamstrings, you've definitely got to be careful.

You're grateful to have brothers in the league, and then when it comes down to it, and you have a brother on the same team, that's awesome. It's a lot more support and a lot more intensity we can bring out in each other because we know each other like that.

When you're growing up, you need to stay around people who are headed in the right direction and stay away from people who will take you in the wrong direction.

Me not working hard? Yeah, right - picture that with a Kodak.

Am I ever going to be able to play football again? What's going on with my career? I was just thinking things like that. You've got tears going down your eyes. You've got your trainers right there and my parents right there. I was just thinking, "Is this it?" I didn't know what a knee injury was. I'd never felt pain like that.

There's no such thing as putting extra effort in on one day than the other. Every single day is a lot of effort, usually maximum effort every day.

You have to just have football knowledge. Without football knowledge, it doesn't matter how much skill you have.

Evil will destroy itself.

I like all action movies, but the ones with Jason Statham are always my favorite.

Jason Statham is one of my favorites. I've watched basically every single one of his action movies, and they're all creative.

Yoga is too slow.

You gotta take care of you body, get the right treatment, eat right so you're ready to go the next day.

My softer side? I mean, I like to snuggle.