Quotes from Martellus Bennett

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

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

I just wanted everybody to know that I'm not fat. I'm trying to get an eight pack.

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

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

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.

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 built my company a lot while playing for the Patriots.

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

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.

Don't put yourself in a box. Become anything that you want to be.

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

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 like art, photography, film - all that creativity.

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

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 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.

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

My goal is to be surrounded by books.

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.

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.

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

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.

What if Macauley Culkin were black in 'Home Alone?' Most people would write it differently... but I would write it the same way.