A biography for Jason Wittenhasn’t been written yet.
“My game's really never referenced as shake 'n' bake.”
“I've spent my entire adulthood in pro football.”
“I am a gamer. I became a gamer since I had kids... much more than I used to be when I'd play 'Madden' and 'NCAA Football' in high school and college.”
“I work hard every day not only to be a success on the football field and a credit to my team - but to be a good husband, father, son, grandson, teammate - to be the kind of man that is as respected as Walter Payton was.”
“In football there for a long time, I knew even if it was a bad day, a bad day at the office, it was still going to be really good in most cases.”
“Fantasy football is good for the fans and good for the game.”
“The things I learned early on from my granddad, the things he instilled in me, are still to this day a huge part and a huge priority of my own life. Even the little stuff like my granddad always telling me to tuck in my shirt at church. It sticks with you.”
“Negative social media can ruin a player. Reading your mentions? It's poison.”
“I have 16 years in Dallas. I would love finish it off there. But I also understand and am not naive enough to think that... it may need to be somewhere else. I think that's how this business works. So you have to be open to that idea, for sure.”
“When you call a game, it's almost like you're doing a three-hour movie and the production of it all, living in the moment in real time, the replays, all the intricacies that go into putting a game in a broadcast. It's not just 100 percent football.”
“Head coach is the leader. He's the guy that sets the tone for the whole organization as far as the structure of the football side of things.”
“I just want to be deliberate in the process of knowing what it takes to play.”
“There's high expectations for Cowboys. There's been some great quarterbacks who have come through that organization.”
“Look, you cannot try to be somebody that you're not.”
“Wins in this league are precious.”
“Excellence is a high performance over a long period of time. That's what I've tried to focus on.”
“So much is made of catches and doing all of that. But inside a team, the things you remember are the moments when nobody thinks you can do it and you try to rally your team and try to add some inspiration for them.”
“My career has been defined, in a good way, on the option route. And a lot of times, it's a bang-bang play. It's a great play because it can convert first downs. But at the same time, you don't get a lot of those opportunities in the open field.”
“I think any player would say that they want their coaches' respect, they want their teammates' respect, and they want their opponent to respect them.”
“A player checking Twitter at halftime? I've seen it. A player tweeting out a grievance with an organization about playing time or how he is being utilized? I see it far too often. But the most concerning? Watching a really talented player corrupt his mind and confidence by reading all the critiques from anonymous football experts around the world.”