A biography for Tony Gonzalezhasn’t been written yet.
“I love Atlanta, even the city.”
“I want to go to the Super Bowl and win the Super Bowl.”
“The game is exploding for Latinos... They've embraced the game.”
“My mom and stepdad had such open hearts, they taught me to like bringing people into my home. I'm not guarded about it.”
“The only regrets I have are things I didn't do.”
“We were a single-parent household for a while. It was just my mom, me, and my brother. We were on welfare for about a year and a half. But I remember my mom never complained, and we never wanted for anything. She always made ends meet and she's been the rock for the family. She instilled in me work ethic and toughness.”
“You can't expect to be better than everybody else if you're doing the same thing as everybody else.”
“If I can't win a Super Bowl, so what? What would it do for me?”
“As far as the regrets go, that's just not part of my makeup.”
“Everything happens for a reason, and hopefully it makes me a better person in the process.”
“I could have played in the NBA. I would have put up 1,000 jump shots a day. I've got that type of work ethic.”
“For me, I'm really tired of living and dying with the game. Every game. I've tried to turn it off. I'm still trying. I can't. It sucks. Believe me, it sucks.”
“The Super Bowl obviously wasn't in my cards, and I'm OK with that.”
“I usually wake up around 7:30 A.M. without an alarm clock. I wake up naturally because I'm huge on sleep. I believe it's the No. 1 thing you can do if you're trying to create a better life.”
“I love philosophy and spirituality and leveling-up books and science books.”
“The hardest things in my life have made me who I am.”
“There are so many other way more popular athletes than me.”
“When I go down to Mexico now, it's not quite like I'm in Kansas City, but maybe it's like when I'm in Atlanta the way I get recognized. That gives me a lot of pride.”
“Being considered a dirtbag is not illegal.”
“When I first came into the league, we went 13-3 with a first-round bye, and I said, 'OK, this is how the NFL goes. This is cake. I'll have a Super Bowl trip every couple of years.' That's what I thought.”