Athlete

I always wanted to be an athlete growing up.

The fans are nuts. They are wild. They have the Patriots' back no matter what.

When you get off five or six months, and you're not competing as an athlete, you want to get back out on the field.

You've just got to have to put the work in. Put work first. Put the hours in and the time in, and do your job. And when you get a little time off, you can go out and have a little fun. But you have to make sure you get done what you need to get done first off.

No matter what the circumstances are, I've never seen Tom Brady come out and not give it all in practice. There's never any change in him. Whenever he's out on the field, he's giving it all, and he's just such a competitor.

No, my dance moves are always working no matter where I am. Whether at the house or if I'm out, at the facility working out, practicing, you gotta get the dance moves right. They help out with your footwork.

Beer is nasty.

A movie can be plain and simple, but if there's a lot of action, I enjoy them.

My mom would always travel with us to everything; my dad introduced us to the weight room and showed us how to properly work out.

It's always good to get back out on the field.

It's special to be in that elite category of players who've been on the 'Madden' cover.

When you're growing up, you need to stay around people who are headed in the right direction and stay away from people who will take you in the wrong direction.

If everyone's on the same page, doesn't matter what race, what background, what religion you are, if everyone comes together like a good, solid football team, baseball team... that's how you win games. It's easy.

We go out to practice every single day and we have fun out there, but at the same time, we're getting work done. We're going hard. If it's reps for the scout team, we're giving them good reps. If we're getting reps for the first team as a tight end group as a whole, we try and go out there and put our best out there as a group effort.