My goal is to be surrounded by books.

You grow up, no one really teaches you about taxes, especially as an athlete.

I'm very, very weird.

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

As far as I can remember, I was always with my dad. He exemplified what it means to make sacrifices for your family.

If I wake up at 6 A. M. to work out, I'm done at 10 A. M.. Most guys play video games all day.

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

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.

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

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.

Willy Wonka's like my Michael Jordan.

I'm looking like Atlas, not Professor Klump.

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

I think coding is gonna become the blue collar work of the future.

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.

There was plays where I had to do certain things, but I wouldn't even know who caught the ball because I was so focused on getting my job done.

A lot of players act one way with teammates, one way with reporters, another way for fans, another for their friends. I'm just me all the time. I'm normal. Everyone else in the NFL is weird.

With your imagination, you can go anywhere or do anything, anything is possible.

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

I'd never worked for anyone else until I got to the NFL, and this will be my last time working for someone else.

There aren't many children's books about black characters that are just going on adventures. My library has over 2,000 children's books in it, and most of the protagonists are either white or creatures.

I don't want to inspire the next generation of tight ends or linebackers to play the game. If I could inspire the next generation of architects and technology leaders and writers and illustrators and film directors, then I feel like I have fulfilled my life purpose.

My mind is like a theme park, because it's fun and there's lots of cool stuff and you can take rides.

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