Tony Gonzalez Quotes

I don't always answer bird calls, but, when I do, they're from Tom Brady and Gronk.

There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent.

I had to have help getting up these stairs because I've been tackled by so many lions and tigers. Really. I'm like an old football player.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.

I have kiddingly called it the 'Super Bowl,' which obviously can be improved upon.

I like Strahan a lot. I've known him for years. He was a Giant here - in many ways. Had a big following with the New York Giants. He's very funny. He's got a great sense of humor.

In the NFL, if you make the play or you don't make the play, you're just a football player who did or didn't make the play. You don't get more yards or less yards based on what you're labeled as by society.

I don't believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

In my very first NFL game, I completed my first pass to Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk.

Antonio Gates is spectacular. But he's not a blocking tight end.

I really think for any tight end around my age, Shannon Sharpe was the guy you looked to in Denver, him and Elway and what they were able to achieve.

There was a joke going around campus when I was at Washington State. It went, 'What's the difference between God and Ryan Leaf?' The punchline was, 'God doesn't think he's Ryan Leaf.'

Pro Day was very important for me because that was really the only time that I had to prove that I could play at an NFL level and that was really through the physical drills they put me through which was running and throwing the ball. It turned out pretty well for me.

Like most tight ends I was a pass-receiving tight end coming into the league.

Usually, you have one blocking, one catching tight end.

Any time I'm healthy I feel like I'm the best defensive player in the NFL.

I've been advised by guys who have played in the NFL and guys who have my best interests.

I pray that Jimmy Graham passes as a wide receiver. Because at the end of the day, if he passes as a wide receiver, that's better for the rest of the tight ends. He will have opened up a door, a pathway for the rest of the group.

I'm used to the two tight-end sets.

In high school, you can just go out there and play. In the NFL it was so much more mental.

Whether it's one play in the NFL or 1,000 plays in the NFL, your pads will come off eventually.

I think Tony Gonzalez always set the standard. He was the guy that, I think for all of us, when I came in that was really kinda taking this league over as the tight end position. I think Shannon Sharpe was another one.

Obviously, I love the idea of athletic quarterbacks.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.