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.
— Rob Gronkowski
I never really grew up watching TV.
If we get the W and I have no catches, I'm satisfied, man.
You've got to catch the ball.
I was shy at dancing. I practice at home. I was practicing in the mirror. Dancing everywhere. Then I just started feeling good. I started feeling coordinated. I started feeling the music better.
There are definitely a lot of doubters out there.
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.
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.
I've seen a lot of athletic juggernauts throughout high school, college, even the NFL who can't play the game.
After a game, after a week of eating right, eating clean, you feel like that's when you deserve a nice cheat meal and basically hop on anything after the game.
Math was my favorite subject, and English was my worst.
I never drink wine. There's only one wine I like, but I forget what it's called. It tastes like Sprite.
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.
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.
Whatever plays are called, I'm just going out there and doing my job.
In order to stay healthy, recover quickly, and continue building strength and agility, I've combined different types of low-impact sports circuit exercises to maximize and expand my abilities.
Being with the family, running downstairs and opening presents, it was always fun with my brothers.
Usually, about 2 hours before a game, I stuff in a nice peanut butter and jelly with chocolate milk.
I love the action movies. I would love to be part of those.
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.
You always want to be working, doing reps, but there is also a time you need the mental reps.
In high school, I was scared to dance.
When you see the ball in the air, you want to go make a play.
Growing up together with my brothers and working out - knowing that they bring intensity to the workout and they really, truly believe in it - it's awesome.
You have to just have football knowledge. Without football knowledge, it doesn't matter how much skill you have.
It's football. You're going to get laid out eventually.
Pregame, you definitely want to carb up.
I kind of always did get good grades.
When I'm watching any game, I watch the tight end.
I don't feel like anybody can be in top-notch football shape when you first get out there, and that's what training camp is for, and that's why it's a long process.
No one makes better scrambled eggs than me.
Growing up as a kid, I watched Jeremy Shockey... Tony Gonzalez... Antonio Gates. I looked up to them. I watched what they did to be successful.
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.
Everyone wants to see collisions, so I'm ready to give some.
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.
I like all action movies, but the ones with Jason Statham are always my favorite.
You want to hit full strides going into the first game and maintain it.
People misunderstand who I truly am. Truly who I am. If I go somewhere, people just think I'm a party boy 24/7.
Beer is nasty.
When Coach Belichick comes up to you during a game and says something to you, that's great.
I love the energy and positivity of working out.
You have to learn the playbook inside and out. You have to learn code words for each play. You have to learn defenses.
I actually played hockey my whole life, all the way up until ninth grade.
After a workout, you definitely have to have a protein shake. I drink my six-pound whey protein all the time, too. I throw some fruit in there - strawberries, blueberries - with some peanut butter and banana, and it gives you all the recovery you need from a hard day of lifting and running.
I did make National Honors Society in high school.
The more you're playing, the more weeks you're going, the more you're into it, the more everything is flowing together.
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.
Whatever's asked of me, I'm just going to go out there and perform my routes and how I've been coached all week, perform in the running game, pass blocking, run blocking, whatever it is.
You're grateful to have brothers in the league, and then when it comes down to it, and you have a brother on the same team, that's awesome. It's a lot more support and a lot more intensity we can bring out in each other because we know each other like that.
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.
