Top 70 Martellus Bennett Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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’m not a guy who holds up a product and says, ‘Drink this.’

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.

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.

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

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

Why does everyone always assume the quarterback is the leader?

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?’

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

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

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

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.

Bill Nye the Science Guy’ was awesome.

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.

I only read the left-hand pages, so I finish books twice as fast.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If I die and you remember me as an athlete, I failed at life.

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

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 very, very weird.

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

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 like art, photography, film – all that creativity.

I’ve always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

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

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

I feel like I’m the Kanye of the NFL.

A lot of athletes are first-generation money.

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.

I always say Coach Trestman reminds me of the first Willy Wonka. Not the Johnny Depp one.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Willy Wonka’s like my Michael Jordan.

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

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

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.

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.

When you’re authentic, people appreciate that.

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.

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.

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

I don’t always answer bird calls, but, when I do, they’re from Tom Brady and Gronk.

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

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.

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.

I’m looking like Atlas, not Professor Klump.

Any time you’re in a maze there’s multiple ways to get to the end.

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.

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 always wanted to do animation.

I’m the creative director of awesomeness.

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.