Danny Amendola

“I'm just encouraging students to read. It's something you can do daily. It's something you can do whether you're sitting at home reading a newspaper or ordering something online. It's endless.”

“The grind never ends.”

“I'm not the biggest dude, and I'm not the fastest dude.”

“I love every aspect of football, so getting out on the field is fun for me.”

“Baseball didn't really fit my personality as well as football does.”

“Boston will always have a place in my heart. I'll always call Boston home, regardless of what city I'm living in or what team I'm playing for.”

“Returning punts is one of my favorite things to do in the whole world. It's awesome. It's like playing on the highway.”

“I want to be part of something great.”

“My favorite Christmas gift as a child was - I had a ninja turtle skateboard.”

“You come in on practice squad and you know you're not going to play in the game, you know you're not going to get any reps. It's frustrating... you don't want to just practice your whole life. You want to practice to play.”

“I lost my aunt to breast cancer.”

“You practice hard, you play hard and hopefully you play good.”

“I want to play good football for a long time.”

“My inspiration on the field is Tom Brady. My inspiration off the field is Gronk.”

“I want to play football at a high level.”

“I like clothes that you can't tell what era it is, clean, and something I can look back at in ten years and not say, like, 'what the hell was I thinking?!'”

“I learned how to be a smart, tough, fundamentally sound football player.”

“I think back into when I was in college coming out, what I had to go through, the steps I had to make. And I still play with that chip on my shoulder to this day and I always will, so that's something that'll always stay with me.”

“I've played a lot of people in ping-pong. I had a table growing up.”