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Am I ever going to be able to play football again? What's going on with my career? I was just thinking things like that. You've got tears going down your eyes. You've got your trainers right there and my parents right there. I was just thinking, "Is this it?" I didn't know what a knee injury was. I'd never felt pain like that.
Rob Gronkowski
When I'm watching any game, I watch the tight end.
I'd go at anyone. I took all of my brothers' bull. It made me who I am.
My screen name in fourth grade on AIM was 'chickmagnet4life', so it started in fourth grade... and that's '4 life.'
Definitely, life changes as it goes on a little bit, for sure.
You always want to be on top of the playbook. You always want to be refreshed with the plays, make sure you're on the same page with everyone else.
Our dad introduced us to all of it - to the weights, to eating healthy, all that good stuff. He introduced it, got on us every once in a while, and left it up to us if we wanted to do it. And seeing my older brothers do it right in front of me, I wanted to do it because I looked up to them.
People misunderstand who I truly am. Truly who I am. If I go somewhere, people just think I'm a party boy 24/7.
I'm not a guy who just sits there on the couch and watches TV all day long. I need to get up; I need to be active. I need to be doing things around the house - working out, playing a sport, whatever.
As professional athletes, we get pitched business or investment opportunities all the time, wherever we are.
No one makes better scrambled eggs than me.
There's no such thing as putting extra effort in on one day than the other. Every single day is a lot of effort, usually maximum effort every day.
It's football. You're going to get laid out eventually.
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.
I've seen a lot of athletic juggernauts throughout high school, college, even the NFL who can't play the game.
Wherever we roll, it didn't really matter, chicks would come to me no matter what. Even before anything. But a lot of the time when it doesn't happen, you have more fun anyway, because you can hang out with your boys.
Just like any other game we're taking on we've got to prepare, prepare hard, mentally, physically. We've been practicing hard.
I never drink wine. There's only one wine I like, but I forget what it's called. It tastes like Sprite.
I just really just try to get better as a player every week, just focusing on the team we have to play this week, and just trying to do whatever is best for the team that week.
I just go with the flow, day by day, week by week.
I kind of always did get good grades.
I was always blessed growing up with opportunities and access to facilities, equipment, and playing with my brothers in the backyard to be the best athlete I could be.
I have no clue when I'm getting married. I just go with the flow.
Jason Statham is one of my favorites. I've watched basically every single one of his action movies, and they're all creative.
I always wanted to be an athlete growing up.
It's always good to get back out on the field.
You gotta take care of you body, get the right treatment, eat right so you're ready to go the next day.
Math was my favorite subject, and English was my worst.
To this day, I still haven't touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live off my marketing money and haven't blown it on any big-money expensive cars, expensive jewelry, or tattoos and still wear my favorite pair of jeans from high school.
You want to be in shape going into camp and be ready to go.
Whenever I'm with my boys, we go out together, and not always to a certain party or anything. It's just always a lot of laughs.
Just put football first, or your job first. Give everything you've got all week, work hard, work super-hard to take it to the next level every week. And when you feel like you got to the point where you want to be, you definitely need the time to go out, relax, have a good time, take all the stress off it.
Me not working hard? Yeah, right - picture that with a Kodak.
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.
Being with the family, running downstairs and opening presents, it was always fun with my brothers.
I feel like, at any given time, if I'm not playing my best football, if I'm not taking coaching points, if I'm not doing things right out there on the field, I feel I can be covered by anyone.
Yoga is too slow.
You want to be the best at work in order to go out and celebrate.
Playing football and being a tight end scoring points, it's awesome to see so many members throughout the United States join to play fantasy football, to expand the sport, to make the game more interesting while you're watching.
I've got to keep on working, keep on grinding, and keep on going out there to get better.
The importance of lifting weights is it kind of makes me who I am.
If you go out once a week, they can blast on you that you're always out all the time, but I always put work first, and people sometimes don't see the side of going into the weight room, behind-the-scenes-type stuff with football.
I love the energy and positivity of working out.
I never thought, growing up, I'd be a TV host.
You have to just have football knowledge. Without football knowledge, it doesn't matter how much skill you have.
When I first got into the league, I just used to run. Just run the route. Really no technique to it. I really couldn't separate myself from the defender.
My family has big business background, and I like to stay busy, too.
I've just got to be the best player that I can be and worry about what I've got to do to help out the team, and be the best team out there we can be, and the best player I can be out there on the field to help out the team.
Definitely inspired to keep on grinding, keep on going, keep on doing what we do every single year: Win games and put up numbers.
At one time, I wanted to be a WWE wrestler. I still do. I want to go in the ring once and mess around and jump off the ropes and do a Stone Cold stunt.
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