Rob Gronkowski Quotes

A good vacation for me is going to warm weather. Being able to go outside, in the sun, hit the beach, play outside sports. Being active outside. Going swimming, hanging by the pool, having a couple drinks, having a couple of your close buddies around, and just having a blast.

- Rob Gronkowski

Play, Drinks, Your, Couple

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Bonus, Touched, Wear, Contract

In sports, a team is surrounded with people with different backgrounds, with different races, and with different religions. In order to win, everybody comes together. I feels like that's what the U.S.A. represents. Everyone just has to come together in order to win.

- Rob Gronkowski

Surrounded, Everybody, Feels, Backgrounds

These guys are warriors, my teammates.

- Rob Gronkowski

Teammates, Warriors, Guys

Beer is nasty.

- Rob Gronkowski

Beer, Nasty

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Game, Been, Coached, Routes

I did make National Honors Society in high school.

- Rob Gronkowski

School, Society, High, Honors

I've got to keep on working, keep on grinding, and keep on going out there to get better.

- Rob Gronkowski

Better, Going, Keep, Grinding

Definitely inspired to keep on grinding, keep on going, keep on doing what we do every single year: Win games and put up numbers.

- Rob Gronkowski

Doing, Year, Going, Grinding

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

Play, Career, Tears, Play Football

I've got four brothers, so with them and all our friends we had these sports parties in the basement. We'd play basketball, mini-sticks, baseball in the backyard, football, whatever it was. We were busy 24/7.

- Rob Gronkowski

Play, Brothers, Basement, Play Basketball

As long as I have beaches, some good friends around me, it's 75 degrees and sunny, I'm good.

- Rob Gronkowski

Good, Some, Around, Good Friends

You have no confidence when you come out of surgery because you can't really do anything. You're like, 'Man, am I ever going to heal?'

- Rob Gronkowski

Confidence, Like, Going, Heal

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Best, Practice, Whole, Every Single Day

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Every Day, Other, Putting, Every Single Day

Stay hyped! Get chicks!

- Rob Gronkowski

Stay, Get, Chicks, Hyped

I work hard to get the body right, and then I kind of just go off the map when on vacation.

- Rob Gronkowski

Work, Work Hard, Kind, Map

It's always good to be out there with your teammates, working with your teammates in individual drills, team drills, just being out there, getting on the same page, just getting into flow with them.

- Rob Gronkowski

Always, Individual, Them, Drills

The importance of lifting weights is it kind of makes me who I am.

- Rob Gronkowski

I Am, Lifting, Importance, Weights

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Best, Doing, Feel, Any Given Time

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

- Rob Gronkowski

Special, Cover, Elite, Category

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

House, Matter, Your, Footwork

I just go with the flow, day by day, week by week.

- Rob Gronkowski

Week, Go, Just, Flow

I have no clue when I'm getting married. I just go with the flow.

- Rob Gronkowski

Getting, Clue, No Clue, Flow

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Fruit, Some, Shake, Hard Day

You want to hit full strides going into the first game and maintain it.

- Rob Gronkowski

Game, Hit, Going, Strides

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Process, Shape, Long Process, Camp

You want to be in shape going into camp and be ready to go.

- Rob Gronkowski

Ready, Going, Shape, Camp

We're all about trying to create ideas to help get businesses to grow and listening to businesses to help them out.

- Rob Gronkowski

Listening, Grow, About, Businesses

My family has big business background, and I like to stay busy, too.

- Rob Gronkowski

Business, Big, Like, Big Business

I've spiked a toilet seat before, a gallon of milk, even eggs. If you say it, I've probably spiked it before.

- Rob Gronkowski

Milk, Eggs, Before, Gallon

I actually played hockey my whole life, all the way up until ninth grade.

- Rob Gronkowski

Hockey, Played, Whole, Ninth

My pet peeves are people touching me a lot. Random dudes grabbing me and slapping me across the back. They're not doing it on purpose, but it's like they forget I'm a person. But you can't do anything about it. What are you going to do?

- Rob Gronkowski

Purpose, Doing, About, Grabbing

'SpongeBob,' 'Hey Arnold!,' 'Rocket Power.' I watched all those shows, man.

- Rob Gronkowski

Rocket, Shows, Watched, Hey

In the off season, you work out for two hours a day, and then you got all this other time off. I like doing other stuff. Football obviously isn't going to last a lifetime either, so it's always cool to get in front of a camera, do commercials, and do endorsements for products that you love.

- Rob Gronkowski

Love, Doing, Other, Season

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Access, Always, Brothers, Facilities

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Week, Sometimes, Put, Blast

I never drink wine. There's only one wine I like, but I forget what it's called. It tastes like Sprite.

- Rob Gronkowski

Drink, Like, Tastes, Wine

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Ring, WWE, Still, Wrestler

In high school, I was scared to dance.

- Rob Gronkowski

Dance, School, High, Scared

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Brothers, Dad, While, Weights

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Hang, Before, Roll, Wherever

I've always been a fan of football, always watched the NFL and it's great to always sit back wherever I can this year. You sit back and enjoy the games, pop a little sports drink - not any pop or soda - lay back, watch the games. It's always cool to see how the games go down and just enjoy them.

- Rob Gronkowski

Year, Back, Been, Wherever

As professional athletes, we get pitched business or investment opportunities all the time, wherever we are.

- Rob Gronkowski

Get, Professional Athletes, Wherever

Wherever I go - like, I go to elementary schools, I go to middle schools - wherever it is, if it's in Florida, if it's up in New England, I just feel like wherever I am, the kids always go crazy whenever they see me.

- Rob Gronkowski

New, England, Always, Wherever

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Week, Feel, Next, Next Level

Everyone always helped me out growing up, and everyone now supports me Sunday. So whenever there's a chance to give back, to the community, to the less fortunate kids so they have the opportunity to gain the most potential they can in their life to be success, it's always good to do.

- Rob Gronkowski

Life, Good, Back, Supports

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Always, Sure, Plays, Refreshed

People misunderstand who I truly am. Truly who I am. If I go somewhere, people just think I'm a party boy 24/7.

- Rob Gronkowski

Think, Go, Misunderstand, Party

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Go, Always, Laughs, Party

You want to be the best at work in order to go out and celebrate.

- Rob Gronkowski

Work, Celebrate, Want, Order

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Good, Matter, How, Together

I like anywhere with a beach. A beach and warm weather is all I really need. I like going to Florida - to Miami and to visit my mom in Fort Meyers.

- Rob Gronkowski

Need, Like, Going, Visit

Me not working hard? Yeah, right - picture that with a Kodak.

- Rob Gronkowski

Me, Working, Hard, Working Hard

I've watched 'Family Guy,' growing up and throughout my whole life.

- Rob Gronkowski

Growing Up, Growing, Watched, Family Guy

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Need, Hours, Sure, Little Time

I'd go at anyone. I took all of my brothers' bull. It made me who I am.

- Rob Gronkowski

Made, Brothers, Took, Bull

As time goes on you're getting more knowledge of your playbook and football, and you just pick it up a lot easier. Lining up everywhere is just second nature to me now.

- Rob Gronkowski

Nature, More, Goes, Second Nature

The more you're playing, the more weeks you're going, the more you're into it, the more everything is flowing together.

- Rob Gronkowski

More, Going, Weeks, Flowing

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Game, Play, United, Members

Guys always follow me into the bathroom and ask for pictures and stuff.

- Rob Gronkowski

Me, Always, Guys, Bathroom

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Believe, Bring, Brothers, Workout

I was running super slow. Chris thought I was done. Then one day at the end of February, I woke up and my body felt good. I was just so happy. I was faster than my brother again. I got all my moves back. I told him, 'Brother, I'm back, and now you're done!'

- Rob Gronkowski

Happy, Thought, Woke, Chris

Being with the family, running downstairs and opening presents, it was always fun with my brothers.

- Rob Gronkowski

Running, Always, Brothers, Opening

My screen name in fourth grade on AIM was 'chickmagnet4life,' so it started in fourth grade... and that's '4 life.'

- Rob Gronkowski

Name, Aim, Grade, Fourth

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Circuit, Types, Recover, Exercises

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Kid, Them, Looked, Tony

I like all action movies, but the ones with Jason Statham are always my favorite.

- Rob Gronkowski

Movies, Always, Like, Action Movies

I love the action movies. I would love to be part of those.

- Rob Gronkowski

Love, Movies, I Love, Action Movies

Jason Statham is one of my favorites. I've watched basically every single one of his action movies, and they're all creative.

- Rob Gronkowski

Creative, Single, Favorites, Action Movies

It's always frustrating when you drop the ball. But you've got to go back out there, and you've got to put that play in the back of your head and keep on going.

- Rob Gronkowski

Play, Drop, Always, Frustrating

I've seen a lot of athletic juggernauts throughout high school, college, even the NFL who can't play the game.

- Rob Gronkowski

College, Game, Play, Athletic

Usually, about 2 hours before a game, I stuff in a nice peanut butter and jelly with chocolate milk.

- Rob Gronkowski

Game, Hours, Butter, Peanut

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Best, Play, Week, Player

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Best, Worry, About, Player

You've got to catch the ball.

- Rob Gronkowski

You, Ball, Got, Catch

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

- Rob Gronkowski

Action, Movie, Lot, Plain

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Will, Need, Away, Right Direction

Evil will destroy itself.

- Rob Gronkowski

Destroy, Will, Itself, Evil

He's a hard worker, Nate Ebner.

- Rob Gronkowski

Hard, Hard Worker, He, Worker

Math was my favorite subject, and English was my worst.

- Rob Gronkowski

English, Worst, Subject, Math

You have to just have football knowledge. Without football knowledge, it doesn't matter how much skill you have.

- Rob Gronkowski

Football, How, How Much, Skill

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

- Rob Gronkowski

Nuts, Matter, Back, Wild

You've got to be careful with any injury, but I mean, if you research hamstrings, if you know anything about hamstrings, you've definitely got to be careful.

- Rob Gronkowski

Be Careful, Careful, About, Injury

No matter who's at quarterback, you've got to be prepared and be ready to help out the team.

- Rob Gronkowski

Help, Ready, Prepared, Quarterback

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

Work, Always, Dad, Work Out

Just follow the rules. Always have a designated driver. Don't be doing anything to make someone mad. And just walk away from the trouble.

- Rob Gronkowski

Doing, Always, Away, Driver

You can't do it all. You get many requests all the time, but I still have to focus on football, still have to live my life a little bit. But there are definitely times during the week when you want to take time out.

- Rob Gronkowski

Focus, My Life, Week, Requests

I feel like when I do some dance moves during the week or at the house, I'm quicker on my feet. I can react quicker just from dancing.

- Rob Gronkowski

Feet, Dancing, Some, Quicker

When Coach Belichick comes up to you during a game and says something to you, that's great.

- Rob Gronkowski

Game, Says, Up, Coach

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Mirror, Dancing, Practice, Everywhere

If everyone's doing their own little thing, then guess what, you ain't gonna come together and form one and be stronger.

- Rob Gronkowski

Doing, Everyone, Gonna, Little Thing

Everyone wants to see collisions, so I'm ready to give some.

- Rob Gronkowski

Give, See, Some, Ready

You gotta take care of you body, get the right treatment, eat right so you're ready to go the next day.

- Rob Gronkowski

Next, Gotta, Treatment, Ready

I never thought, growing up, I'd be a TV host.

- Rob Gronkowski

Growing, Never, TV, Host

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Myself, Separate, League, Route

Definitely, life changes as it goes on a little bit, for sure.

- Rob Gronkowski

Goes, Sure, Definitely, Life Changes

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Game, Week, Deserve, Cheat

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Doing, Guy, TV, Couch

Fans think that we're, like, football 24/7. We're all about life after football, too.

- Rob Gronkowski

Think, Like, Too, Fans

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Other, Bring, Brothers, Intensity

Just like any other game we're taking on we've got to prepare, prepare hard, mentally, physically. We've been practicing hard.

- Rob Gronkowski

Game, Prepare, Other, Physically

I just like the beaches in the summer, man.

- Rob Gronkowski

Man, Like, Beaches, Summer

Before I go to bed, I've got to hit my situps and pushups. While I'm watching a TV show, I do pushups. I even watch 'SpongeBob' still, so there we go.

- Rob Gronkowski

Bed, Still, TV, Hit

When I'm watching any game, I watch the tight end.

- Rob Gronkowski

Game, End, Watch, Tight

My brother's got two degrees. He got one for me.

- Rob Gronkowski

Brother, Me, Got, Degrees

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Change, Circumstances, Give, Tom

You have to give it to the Packers. They are a good team. They have a great offense and a great defense.

- Rob Gronkowski

Give, Defense, Offense, Packers

One of the places I'd like to travel to is Ibiza, off the coast of Spain.

- Rob Gronkowski

Places, Like, Spain, Coast

I kind of always did get good grades.

- Rob Gronkowski

Kind, Always, Get, Grades

Yoga is too slow.

- Rob Gronkowski

Yoga, Too, Slow

If we get the W and I have no catches, I'm satisfied, man.

- Rob Gronkowski

Man, Get, Satisfied

First off, you always gotta get your work done.

- Rob Gronkowski

Work, Always, Get, Gotta

I like anywhere with a beach. A beach and warm weather is all I really need.

- Rob Gronkowski

Warm, Need, Like, Beach

When you see the ball in the air, you want to go make a play.

- Rob Gronkowski

Play, Want, See, Ball

I'm not up in the front office or anything; I just control what I can control: playin' ball and playin' the best I can play.

- Rob Gronkowski

Best, Control, Play, Ball

Whenever I'm out on the field, I love to go full-go.

- Rob Gronkowski

Love, Field, I Love, Whenever

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.

- Rob Gronkowski

Competing, Six, Months, Athlete

I always wanted to be an athlete growing up.

- Rob Gronkowski

Growing Up, Growing, Always, Athlete

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

- Rob Gronkowski

Back, Always, Get, Field

Whatever plays are called, I'm just going out there and doing my job.

- Rob Gronkowski

Job, Doing, Going, Plays

I love the energy and positivity of working out.

- Rob Gronkowski

Love, Working, I Love, Positivity

It's football. You're going to get laid out eventually.

- Rob Gronkowski

Going, Get, Laid, Eventually

You have to learn the playbook inside and out. You have to learn code words for each play. You have to learn defenses.

- Rob Gronkowski

Words, Play, Learn, Code

You always want to be working, doing reps, but there is also a time you need the mental reps.

- Rob Gronkowski

Doing, Need, Always, Mental

I never really grew up watching TV.

- Rob Gronkowski

Never, TV, Up, Watching Tv

It's always tough to get back into football shape.

- Rob Gronkowski

Always, Get, Shape, Tough

No one makes better scrambled eggs than me.

- Rob Gronkowski

Better, Eggs, Than, Scrambled

I'm all about dancing.

- Rob Gronkowski

About, Dancing

My softer side? I mean, I like to snuggle.

- Rob Gronkowski

Mean, Like, Side, Softer

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