Quotes from Jason Witten

My game's really never referenced as shake 'n' bake.

Being famous is fun.

Every time an older player gets toward the end of their career, they're always talking about 'I feel better now than I did 10 years ago.'

I just want to exhaust every opportunity to play and obviously try to play in a game like this - the Super Bowl.

In football there for a long time, I knew even if it was a bad day, a bad day at the office, it was still going to be really good in most cases.

A player checking Twitter at halftime? I've seen it. A player tweeting out a grievance with an organization about playing time or how he is being utilized? I see it far too often. But the most concerning? Watching a really talented player corrupt his mind and confidence by reading all the critiques from anonymous football experts around the world.

As a kid, you just want to play football. For me one day it will end, but until the end I love getting the opportunity to go out there and play at a high level.

Any competitor, I think, wants to be the best every time they're out there.

Negative social media can ruin a player. Reading your mentions? It's poison.

There's nothing better than having a positive impact on kids.

I'm always going to be a Cowboy.

My parents getting divorced gave me the opportunity to play for my granddad and to meet my wife. I fell in the draft but I ended up in Dallas.

My job is to be able to perform for three hours or three and a half hours every Sunday and I've got to work my tail off to get to the point where I can do it, and that's what motivates me.

I just want to be deliberate in the process of knowing what it takes to play.

Fitting in with teammates has never been an issue for me. It's always something that came very natural.

People talk about how precious the relationships of teammates are and the brotherhood and bond.

I think any player would say that they want their coaches' respect, they want their teammates' respect, and they want their opponent to respect them.

It's special to me, a privilege being a role model. I take pride in being a good one.

I've spent my entire adulthood in pro football.

My brother one time after a little league basketball game, I think he messed up or something had happened in the game, ends up getting in an argument with my dad. Ultimately he gets pushed down and he ends up cutting the back of his head. He had six or seven stitches over a 10-year-old basketball game. That was tough to watch.

I am extremely flattered to be chosen the 2012 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year from such an esteemed group of nominees.

Fantasy football is good for the fans and good for the game.

From minute one, I thought that after I called a game, I said 'Man, I thought I would enjoy calling a game a little more than I probably did.' I thought I would enjoy that part of it. I didn't have the fulfillment that I thought I probably would.

There's something to be said with your quarterback your leader being there on Day 1.