Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Martellus Bennett - Page 2

If I'm not with my family or playing football then I'm usually in my office writing and drawing.

I've always wanted to create. I didn't ever want to just be a football player, so I'm just bringing all these childhood dreams together to try to accomplish the things I want to do before I die.

Dreams come true, but dreams don't wait for you. You have to chase your dreams.

I want to be like the Nike or Apple of children's books.

The way we have been programmed and conditioned to think about the black kid being an athlete, it's like every young black boy people would see say 'what sport do you play?' instead of just asking 'what do you do?' 'What are you interested in?'

As young black boys in Alief, Texas, my friends and I often spent afternoons imagining ourselves scoring the game-winning touchdown at the end of the Super Bowl.

Shaq and Muhammad Ali's my favorite two athletes of all time.

I'm not building gyms. I'm not interested in building football fields or doing football camps. I'm interested in doing film camps and coding camps.

I don't club, I don't really go out, and there's a lot of stuff I don't really do socially.

I feel like there are not a lot of us, in terms of African American owners or creators. I'm trying to get kids and communities to think not just about playing for the team, but owning the team. You don't always have to be the worker bee.

I have about 3,500 books, maybe more.

First and foremost, I am a husband and a father, which is a full-time job.

I have a library, and it's like I want to beat Belle on 'Beauty and the Beast' and have a better library than she had.

I'm trying to be the best dad ever. And being a husband is a whole other business itself.

I'm a straightforward person. I think sometimes it comes off the wrong way.

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'm like always smiling but I'm superaggressive. I have like a different type of chip on my shoulder.

If you ask a kid what their dreams are, they will give you a list that is as long as I am tall. Once you get older that list gets shorter and shorter, so dreams shrink. I think dreams should grow as you get older.

Everyone is creative, but we are only as creative as we allow ourselves to be.

It's so easy to get caught up in the future and in the past.

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.

Creativity is something that is forever.

Playing in the NFL isn't really - and shouldn't have to be - every black boy's dream. But black boys don't always know that their dreams off the field matter.

My ultimate goal is to live forever, but the only way to live forever is to create and you always want to be there for your kid.

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

I believe happiness breeds success and not the other way around.

I'm not a guy who holds up a product and says, 'Drink this.'

For some reason as a kid being a smart athlete didn't seem like the right thing, because you didn't fit in. You didn't want to be too smart because you'd be a nerd. But then you didn't want to be too dumb either because then you didn't get the grades you needed to play.

When you look at me see the father, the awesome dad, the author, film director, business owner, champion, friend, Hufflepuff beast.

When my daughter was born, I was reading a lot of children's books, and there weren't any characters who looked like her. For all the content that's out there, there aren't many African-American protagonists. I looked at it like, if there isn't someone else creating it then I have to do it myself.

I've always been interested in clothing because it's an extension of how we feel.

I love to read because I know that for a long time ancestors weren't allowed to. I love to write. Because for a long time my people weren't 'allowed' to. So I'm going to write my books, my apps and tell my stories.

If you play sports, use sports. So many of our kids get used by the game and then get nothing out of it. Use it as a tool to open up other doors that you want to open in life.

I'm the creative director of awesomeness.

I've always been interested in creating things for kids.

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.

I feel like kids don't dream big enough. With art being taken out of school, it's important to know you can create as well.

What if Macauley Culkin were black in 'Home Alone?' Most people would write it differently... but I would write it the same way.

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

Black fathers are often disappointed if their sons aren't good at sports. Not excelling at sports as a black boy meant not being cool - even weirder, it meant not really being black.