Quotes from Jason Witten

There's high expectations for Cowboys. There's been some great quarterbacks who have come through that organization.

Wins in this league are precious.

I have a lot of respect for every opponent. I don't know if there's just one who I say, 'that guy intimidates me.' When I was young and first came into the league, Ray Lewis was that guy. I was young.

When you call a game, it's almost like you're doing a three-hour movie and the production of it all, living in the moment in real time, the replays, all the intricacies that go into putting a game in a broadcast. It's not just 100 percent football.

Fortunately for me, my grandfather gave us a life I could never dream of. He was my high school football coach, my best friend, my school teacher - really my dad.

Since I was 15 or 16 years old, my grandfather was my high school football coach and my life's been ball. Dinners we're talking about ball and college we're talking about ball.

Look, I had a great experience in the booth. I saw a different perspective.

The great ones hate to lose more than they love to win.

Like others before me, I have a great opportunity as an NFL player to make a difference in the lives of others.

I work hard every day not only to be a success on the football field and a credit to my team - but to be a good husband, father, son, grandson, teammate - to be the kind of man that is as respected as Walter Payton was.

Aaron Rodgers, he throws that back-shoulder throw so well.

A big part of me has been tied to coaching and I want to get into coaching and make a difference that way.

You want to be able to run seam routes and do all that, but to have something that you can hang your hat on and know that it's going to convert first downs, that's what tight ends are paid to do. And I've certainly taken a lot of pride in that over the years.

There are a lot of good tight ends.

Ideally, if you ask most tight ends, they would say we want the defender on us early. The reason for that is we feel like, for one, we know where we're going. Two, we can attack leverage, it declares itself if it's truly man coverage. We can work the release.

Like most tight ends I was a pass-receiving tight end coming into the league.

I really think for any tight end around my age, Shannon Sharpe was the guy you looked to in Denver, him and Elway and what they were able to achieve.

I have a deep desire to have success, to play a high level, and to win championships.

You've got to be able to compete and play at a high level.

I have so much respect for this game and the process that goes into playing at a high level.

A lot of guys I've seen in my career that played at a high level and were done, they moved on, never thought another day about it.

For me, I just focus on playing, playing at a high level. And when you can't do that any longer, you've got to get off the train.

I took pride in knowing, 'Hey, my numbers may be down, but football guys know I'm playing at a high level.'

I am a gamer. I became a gamer since I had kids... much more than I used to be when I'd play 'Madden' and 'NCAA Football' in high school and college.