Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Martellus Bennett
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Martellus Bennett.
Last updated on November 3, 2024.
I've always known from a young age that creativity is natural.
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.
You grow up, no one really teaches you about taxes, especially as an athlete.
I believe in dreaming.
I only read the left-hand pages, so I finish books twice as fast.
I like art, photography, film - all that creativity.
I'm the same way with the media as I am to everyone else.
I don't always answer bird calls, but, when I do, they're from Tom Brady and Gronk.
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.
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.
I'm very, very weird.
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.
A lot of people hate winners.
I want to live a life full of purpose and intention. Sometimes when we play sports and athletics you can lose your 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 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 don't make many mental mistakes. Yeah, I'm smarter than I look.
Why does everyone always assume the quarterback is the leader?
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 always say Coach Trestman reminds me of the first Willy Wonka. Not the Johnny Depp one.
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.
With 'Dear Black Boy,' I wanted to encourage BIack boys to dream outside of sports and think differently.
It's always cool to make a comeback like 45 Michael Jordan did, or like Marshawn Lynch.
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.
A lot of times when you're around really, really smart people, you don't really understand them.
I was banned from IHOP. Not all IHOPs, just the one on Highway 6 by my house where I grew up.
I recognized from a young age that I wasn't a football player; I played football.
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.
Don't put yourself in a box. Become anything that you want to be.
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'm always excited anytime I get a chance to be a better player and work with different people.
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.
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.
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.
If I die and you remember me as an athlete, I failed at life.
I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.
I thought Willy Wonka was brilliant. He had all kinds of candy. Who doesn't like chocolate and candies? Everybody wanted a Gobstopper. I just think he's brilliant.
A lot of athletes are first-generation money.
Any time you're in a maze there's multiple ways to get to the end.
I think coding is gonna become the blue collar work of the future.
I feel like I'm the Kanye of the NFL.
With your imagination, you can go anywhere or do anything, anything is possible.
When you're authentic, people appreciate that.
I just wanted everybody to know that I'm not fat. I'm trying to get an eight pack.
I built my company a lot while playing for the Patriots.
I'm looking like Atlas, not Professor Klump.
I always wanted to do animation.
Bill Nye the Science Guy' was awesome.
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.
Nothing good happens after 11. If you can't get a date before 11 o'clock, you need to go home and you need to work on yourself.
Dr. Seuss said, 'No one can be you-er than you,' and Oscar Wilde said, 'Be yourself because everyone else is taken.' So I just try to continue to be who I am and don't change that. And I'm a little chameleon, so I can fit in wherever I am.
My goal is to be surrounded by books.
I hate typing but I love to write manually.
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.
Playing with my brother, that's the only thing I didn't get to do in football.
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