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

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.

Playing with my brother, that's the only thing I didn't get to do in football.

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

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

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

When you're authentic, people appreciate that.

I'm kind of like a black unicorn out there. It's amazing to watch. You go out there and you see a big, black guy running down the field, it's usually me.

I want to be so far removed from the idea that it's like, 'Oh, right, he won a Super Bowl.' Football is only a small part of your life.

I'm trying to build something that lasts forever. If it's tied to my legacy as an athlete, then when I'm gone, it will have no momentum or can't keep selling.

I always wanted to do animation.

I don't know if quirkiness is kind. I don't know if quirkiness is mean. I don't know if quirkiness has emotion. It's just a way of being.

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.

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

I'm the same way with the media as I am to everyone else.

Bill Nye the Science Guy' was awesome.

I believe in dreaming.

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

I think sometimes in life we learn that we're only allowed to have one dream, but you can have more than one dream. You can accomplish more than one thing.

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 was banned from IHOP. Not all IHOPs, just the one on Highway 6 by my house where I grew up.

There's a lot of guys who use their likeness - to do movies, and do other business stuff, but not too many guys are actually making product. I'm making product, it's a different thing. A lot of guys are holding up Coke cans and get paid a lot of money to do that, but no one's making a Coke can. I'm the guy that's trying to make the Coke can.

I think every athlete is an entrepreneur. Our job is to better our product to present to a new team every year.

I built my company a lot while playing for the Patriots.