Top 44 Martellus Bennett Quotes

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.

I’m looking like Atlas, not Professor Klump.

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’m a voracious reader, I’m always studying.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Willy Wonka’s like my Michael Jordan.

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.

A lot of people hate winners.

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.

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

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.

I’m always excited anytime I get a chance to be a better player and work with different people.

Bill Nye the Science Guy’ was awesome.

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.

A lot of times when you’re around really, really smart people, you don’t really understand them.

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.

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

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

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

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.

With ‘Dear Black Boy,’ I wanted to encourage BIack boys to dream outside of sports and think differently.

You grow up, no one really teaches you about taxes, especially as an athlete.

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

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

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

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

If I write a book, it has to be so awesome. It has to be next level, to prove mysel. Just like if you are an athlete and you want to rap, you better bring the bars. Don’t come in with nursery rhymes.

My goal is to be surrounded by books.

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.

Why does everyone always assume the quarterback is the leader?

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

Creativity is something that is forever.

My mind is like a theme park, because it’s fun and there’s lots of cool stuff and you can take rides.

For some reason as a kid being a smart athlete didn’t seem like the right thing, because you didn’t fit in. You didn’t want to be too smart because you’d be a nerd. But then you didn’t want to be too dumb either because then you didn’t get the grades you needed to play.

When you’re authentic, people appreciate that.

I’m just comfortable in front of the camera. I’m like the male Oprah.

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