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Football comes naturally to me, but basketball is a challenge, that's why I like it so much.
Tony Gonzalez / American Football Player
Basketball
Challenges
Football
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There's a lot of growing you can have when you're in adversity, when you're in a losing situation.
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Adversity
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I don't eat a lot of fast food and I stay stay away from fried foods. I don't eat much meat either.
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Fast Food
Meat
Food Fast Fast Food
Foods
Fried
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You can't expect to be better than everybody else if you're doing the same thing as everybody else.
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Everybody Else
Expect
Same Thing
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I'm hungry. I want the ball. That's the feeling you want. When you get that feeling, you can't be stopped.
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Balls
Feelings
Want
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I could have played in the NBA. I would have put up 1,000 jump shots a day. I've got that type of work ethic.
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Nba
Shots
Work Ethic
Ethic
Jump
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You should really cast a big net when it comes to life and learning. In the end, you're so much better for it.
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Life Learning Better
In The End
Net
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I'm so proud to have been a part of the Chiefs for 12 seasons and will always feel like a part of their family.
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Chiefs
Seasons
Family Always Will
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Game after game, year after year, you never stop thinking about the balls you get your hands on and don't catch.
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Catch
Never Stop
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When you find yourself in those situations where you have to take action in a crucial situation, you just do it.
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Crucial
Just Do It
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Whether it's in the weight room or extra stretching, you never know when you're going to need that little extra oomph.
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Stretching
Weight
Extra
Room
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I love a sleep mask, havin' total darkness is essential for good sleep, you know, cuttin' that light out of your eyes.
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Mask
Love Good Eyes
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My mom and stepdad had such open hearts, they taught me to like bringing people into my home. I'm not guarded about it.
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Guarded
Home Mom Me
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Given a full summer to practice basketball, and especially my jump shot, I know that I could play in the NBA and do well.
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Basketball
Practice
Summer
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What's more important than your nutrition? What's more important than workin' out? It begins with gettin' a good night's sleep.
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Nutrition
Good Your Important
Begins
Gettin
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I've come to realize that the thing in life that's important, the reason we're all here, is to love and do well for each other.
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Important
Realizing
Things In Life
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I don't care if it's politics, religion or football. I believe you have to keep opening your mind. And shut your mouth sometimes!
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Believe
Football
Mind
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I was awful at football when I was a little kid. I didn't have the aggressiveness. I was just a nice kid. I didn't want to hurt anyone.
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Football
Hurt
Nice
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I love football. The games are a pure rush. By the time I'm done playing, I want to be among the best tight ends ever to play the game.
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Football
Games
Play
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I always wanted to play in the Super Bowl. That never happened. It hurts. I'm not going to lie about it. It's reality. You deal with it.
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Super Bowl
Bowl
Hurts
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When I came into the league trying to party and having too much of a good time, I found out the hard way how it affected my performance.
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Hard Way
Time Good Way
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When I was younger, let's face it, Latinos in the league were almost always kickers. But Anthony Munoz was definitely a guy I looked up to.
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Latinos
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My career, it's turned out to be something more than I ever thought and more than I ever dreamed. It's been an unbelievable ride. It's amazing.
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Unbelievable
Dreamed
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Don't tell me that the rules prohibit you from hitting a guy up top. You have a whole target area above his knee up to his neck that you can hit.
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Hitting
Target
Neck
Prohibit
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I love Oprah, she's my hero in terms of a lot of things - what's not to love about Oprah? When I look at Oprah, I see all heart. She's wide open.
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Wide
Oprah
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I've always wanted a ring. That's been my main goal as a player over the last 15 years of my career. You're really trying to get that ultimate goal.
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Ultimate Goal
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Of course I want to win a Super Bowl, but at the same time I'm very happy with what I've accomplished and the relationships I've made over the years.
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Super Bowl
Bowl
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I've seen guys retire and then say they don't feel their career was complete without a Super Bowl. They play that woulda-coulda game in their heads. Not me.
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Super Bowl
Me Game Feel
Bowl
Game Me Feel
Heads
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For me, I'm really tired of living and dying with the game. Every game. I've tried to turn it off. I'm still trying. I can't. It sucks. Believe me, it sucks.
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Dying
Sucks
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I've been on some really good teams, but we weren't able to get over the hump. It's offense, defense and special teams, and then the ball has to go your way.
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Defense
Offense
Good Your Way
Good Way Your
Hump
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Our goal isn't to go undefeated. Like, 'Hey, we're going to have an undefeated season.' Our goal is to win every game we're playing. And there's a difference.
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Hey
Undefeated
Game Win Go
Difference
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I read all these books about excellence, and then I went into spirituality, and all these books were really about leveling up. Being the best version of yourself.
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Being The Best
Excellence
Spirituality
Leveling
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The Pro Bowl is an honor, and I don't know why so many people skip it. I skipped it one time because I played the week before, but I always wanted to be out there.
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One Time
Skip
Bowl
Pro
So Many People
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When you go through those hard times, that's when you ask those questions that normally you wouldn't. If you win, you don't ask questions. You don't worry about it.
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Hard Times
Worry
Normally
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When I go down to Mexico now, it's not quite like I'm in Kansas City, but maybe it's like when I'm in Atlanta the way I get recognized. That gives me a lot of pride.
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Atlanta
Mexico
Recognized
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I think when you give, that's probably the highest form of living. It's better than almost any feeling you could think of. It's way better than scoring touchdowns to me.
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Highest Form
Scoring
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It's great because growing up, especially being a Raiders fan and then playing with Marcus, I was like, 'Holy smokes, that's Marcus Allen' when I first walked in and saw him.
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Holy
Raiders
Allen
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There were guys from different parts of the country, and absolutely I heard, 'Why are you playing football?' You just didn't see a Gonzalez out there or any kind of Latin name.
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Latin
Different Parts
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When I first started playing in a youth football league, I was the worst kid on the team. I quit the first year. And then the next year, I was still the worst kid - I didn't even play.
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Next Year
Quit
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I usually wake up around 7:30 A.M. without an alarm clock. I wake up naturally because I'm huge on sleep. I believe it's the No. 1 thing you can do if you're trying to create a better life.
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Better Life
Clock
Life Believe I Believe
Alarm
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When I first came into the league, we went 13-3 with a first-round bye, and I said, 'OK, this is how the NFL goes. This is cake. I'll have a Super Bowl trip every couple of years.' That's what I thought.
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Bye
Cake
Nfl
Super Bowl
Bowl
Trip
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Here's what I always tell people: It's a mentality that you have to have in the NFL. It isn't about if you have the athleticism. When they bring you in, you've already shown what you can do athletically.
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Mentality
Nfl
Shown
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It didn't seem fair that no matter how many passes I caught or how many touchdowns I scored, I was considered a 'lowly tight end' and would never be paid anywhere close to a salary as high as the elite wide receivers.
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Salary
Wide
Elite
Lowly
Passes
Tight
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I remember in my second year in the league, I dropped 17 balls and led the NFL in dropped passes. That made me the player I am. If I didn't go through that transformative power of crisis, none of this would've probably happened for me.
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Nfl
Power I Am Me
Dropped
Passes
Transformative
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I think consistency, that's one thing that I look back over my career. You could count on me catching around 80 balls a year or whatever, almost eight, nine touchdowns. And I only missed two games out of 17 years, I'm pretty proud of that, too.
Tony Gonzalez / American Football Player
Balls
Catching
Consistency
Count
Missed
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Tight end is one of the hardest positions to play in football. It's right up there with quarterback and cornerback. You have to have the skills of a wide receiver and the strength of an offensive lineman, and it's not easy to balance those two.
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Football
Play
Skills
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Dealing with bullies when I was in sixth and seventh grade has made me a better football player, believe it or not. You have to come to a point when you're like, 'I've had enough, and I'm not going to be kicked around and pushed around anymore.'
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Football Player
Had Enough
Sixth
Bullies
Football Believe Me
Seventh
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When I got to the NFL, they asked me what number I wanted, and I said No. 44, but they told me tight ends are not allowed to have that number. So I said, 'Just double it up for me if you can' and took No. 88. I figured I'd be twice as good as I was.
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Nfl
Double
Figured
Tight
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I miss the fears. I miss that. I miss going over the middle and not knowing if I'm going to make that play. I think that's the part of the game you miss the most, that excitement of it. Then you think of the physical part as a retired player and I'm like, 'hell no.'
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Excitement
Not Knowing
Retired
Fears
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I have soaked this league up for everything it's worth. I've had fun. Made some great relationships. I don't regret anything. Don't regret being in Kansas City. It's all been very good to me. So why would I take that approach? There will be no pity party thrown here.
Tony Gonzalez / American Football Player
Pity
Regret
Thrown
Good Great City
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