Quotes from Danny Amendola

I believe that, deep down at heart, I'm a football player.

I learned how to be a smart, tough, fundamentally sound football player.

Wind, weather, everything comes into play when you're in the kicking game - how far the ball is going to traveling in the air, where it's going to travel with the wind.

My dad is a high school football coach in Texas so I've been around this game for a long time.

It is a business, and at the end of the day, I'm very lucky and very thankful and blessed to have the ability to play this game and be compensated as much as I do anyway.

Everybody is going to face adversity at some point, definitely when you leave college and try to get into the real world so to speak and get your first job.

That's what I've learned the Patriots Way being: holding yourself accountable and attention to detail. It doesn't matter who you are, how long you've played, whether you're the nutritionist or starting quarterback, you're going to be held accountable, and you have a role.

You want to make as many plays as you can just to help your team to get points on the board. If that happens you're going to naturally gain confidence.

Cancer is a very real thing. it takes a lot of lives every year. It's something we can always pursue and try to find a cure, and try to raise money.

We feel that if you - practice habits turn into game realities.

The grind never ends.

When I was on the practice squad, it felt like I was just a guy who came in off the street three days a week to help actual NFL players get better. It was unsettling, unfulfilling and there were a few times when I wondered whether I would get my shot. But I kept showing up and kept competing. I was too stubborn to stop believing in myself.

I believe the NFL is a land of opportunity. As soon as you figure out you can find your little niche, you can find your role on an offense, in my position at receiver, I feel like you can develop an identity and go from there.

You can learn from your mistakes but you can't harp on the bad things, the negative things that have happened. But you definitely have to learn from them and get better and improve and progress as a football player.

Height is definitely an advantage no matter what position you are at.

Returning punts is one of my favorite things to do in the whole world. It's awesome. It's like playing on the highway.

I like to make my training sessions harder than an actual game with very high intensity workouts, lots of sprints and plenty of weight room lifts.

Obviously Tom Brady is a great quarterback.

My inspiration on the field is Tom Brady. My inspiration off the field is Gronk.

I've never played for my dad. I played against my dad actually in high school. That was fun, but he taught me how to play the game the right way. Respect the game, give it all you've got and regardless of what happens, have no regrets.

I don't have any regrets in my career.

The way I operate as a football player and the product that I put on the field in relation to the business that I conduct, I want it to be as tough as possible in practice so when I get into the games I've been there before.

When guys talk about going to the league in college, they're thinking about flash and bling. But my first taste of the NFL was a relatively small non-guaranteed contract, a crappy room at an extended stay hotel and a sense of panic every time my phone rang because it might be the cut guy.

I've always wanted to throw a first pitch out, and nothing like doing it near your hometown where you live.