102 Quotes by Martellus Bennett

I built my company a lot while playing for the Patriots.

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

Playing in the NFL isn't really - and shouldn't have to be - every black boy's dream. But black boys don't always know that their dreams off the field matter.

There's a lot of guys who use their likeness - to do movies, and do other business stuff, but not too many guys are actually making product. I'm making product, it's a different thing. A lot of guys are holding up Coke cans and get paid a lot of money to do that, but no one's making a Coke can. I'm the guy that's trying to make the Coke can.

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 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.

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

When you look at me see the father, the awesome dad, the author, film director, business owner, champion, friend, Hufflepuff beast.