Quotes from Martellus Bennett

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

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

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

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

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

A lot of times when you're around really, really smart people, you don't really understand them.

I don't make many mental mistakes. Yeah, I'm smarter than I look.

I feel like I'm the Kanye of the NFL.

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

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

It's always cool to make a comeback like 45 Michael Jordan did, or like Marshawn Lynch.

I hate typing but I love to write manually.

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.

Shaq and Muhammad Ali's my favorite two athletes of all time.

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

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

I'm trying to build a Disney. Not only as a creator, but also be able to create universes where then that content can go into toys, and live on multimedia platforms, whether it's apps, books, movies, cartoons. It's like building a whole world, which takes a lot of money.

I'm not building gyms. I'm not interested in building football fields or doing football camps. I'm interested in doing film camps and coding camps.

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.

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.

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.

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

I always wanted to do animation.