Martellus Bennett

“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.”

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

“Willy Wonka's like my Michael Jordan.”

“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.”

“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'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.”

“When you're authentic, people appreciate that.”

“I always wanted to do animation.”

“I'm looking like Atlas, not Professor Klump.”

“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.”

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

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

“I feel like I'm the Kanye of the NFL.”

“My goal is to be surrounded by books.”

“I'm the creative director of awesomeness.”

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

“A lot of athletes are first-generation money.”

“I've always known from a young age that creativity is natural.”

“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 think every athlete is an entrepreneur. Our job is to better our product to present to a new team every year.”