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Being famous is fun.
I'm a steak and potato guy.
I'm always going to be a Cowboy.
Wins in this league are precious.
There are a lot of good tight ends.
Yeah, I probably talk a little bit of trash.
I've spent my entire adulthood in pro football.
My game's really never referenced as shake 'n' bake.
Early on, yeah, my life was a bit of a roller coaster.
The great ones hate to lose more than they love to win.
Aaron Rodgers, he throws that back-shoulder throw so well.
You've got to be able to compete and play at a high level.
There's nothing better than having a positive impact on kids.
The Cowboys have done a good job at developing young players.
I know this: the opportunity to play, when that leaves, it is over.
Granddad taught me a long time ago, act like you've been there before.
Look, I had a great experience in the booth. I saw a different perspective.
Negative social media can ruin a player. Reading your mentions? It's poison.
Like most tight ends I was a pass-receiving tight end coming into the league.
I just want to be deliberate in the process of knowing what it takes to play.
There's something to be said with your quarterback your leader being there on Day 1.
Anytime you kind of take the road that I've taken, people don't know what to expect.
When a new coaching staff comes in, there are a lot of changes that happen with that.
It's special to me, a privilege being a role model. I take pride in being a good one.
I have a deep desire to have success, to play a high level, and to win championships.
I have so much respect for this game and the process that goes into playing at a high level.
People talk about how precious the relationships of teammates are and the brotherhood and bond.
Excellence is a high performance over a long period of time. That's what I've tried to focus on.
I don't believe in moral victories. I don't think in pro ball they exist, and they shouldn't exist.
Fitting in with teammates has never been an issue for me. It's always something that came very natural.
You want to fight for everything you can get, every yard, every drive, every opportunity that you have.
A big part of me has been tied to coaching and I want to get into coaching and make a difference that way.
Every time you go out, you want to help your team, play your best and don't let any opportunities slide by.
I took pride in knowing, 'Hey, my numbers may be down, but football guys know I'm playing at a high level.'
Like others before me, I have a great opportunity as an NFL player to make a difference in the lives of others.
I just want to exhaust every opportunity to play and obviously try to play in a game like this - the Super Bowl.
There's high expectations for Cowboys. There's been some great quarterbacks who have come through that organization.
I'm going to be humble, I'm going to be accountable, do it with a smile on my face, make other people around me better.
I am extremely flattered to be chosen the 2012 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year from such an esteemed group of nominees.
We all get motivated differently and I think as you get older, you'd be foolish not to draw on your experiences from the past.
I love to play football. And I think anybody that's ever been my teammate or I've been theirs understands how much I love that.
My whole approach in calling a game is that you want to be fun and entertaining, but you also want to be the voice of reason too.
For me, I just focus on playing, playing at a high level. And when you can't do that any longer, you've got to get off the train.
A lot of guys I've seen in my career that played at a high level and were done, they moved on, never thought another day about it.
Every time an older player gets toward the end of their career, they're always talking about 'I feel better now than I did 10 years ago.'
Head coach is the leader. He's the guy that sets the tone for the whole organization as far as the structure of the football side of things.
My parents getting divorced gave me the opportunity to play for my granddad and to meet my wife. I fell in the draft but I ended up in Dallas.
In football there for a long time, I knew even if it was a bad day, a bad day at the office, it was still going to be really good in most cases.
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.
I think any player would say that they want their coaches' respect, they want their teammates' respect, and they want their opponent to respect them.