Top 50 Travis Kelce Quotes

That’s one of the things about the NFL is that you have small-market teams, big-market teams. I feel like the bigger market teams do kind of have an advantage in terms of off-the-field money.

Those kind of accolades, the individual accolades are something that you can hang our hat on when it’s all said and done.

My father taught me that you can buy a man’s back, but you can’t buy his heart.

Once you have success, you have to maintain success.

Jimmy Graham over in New Orleans started a whole new type of position almost to where he was trying to get paid like a wide receiver. He was split out more than 50 percent of the time.

I’ve actually walked out on a girl for being rude to a waitress. I go in to that restaurant all the time and that waitress was a good friend of mine.

There were times where I feel like I was just out there thinking too much instead of just playing instinctual football. It’s definitely something I’ve been trying to work on.

Everyone has kind of a rough transition in the NFL. It’s a different kind of scouting.

I had an opportunity to meet Kobe and he’s just an unbelievable person.

My passion for this game is never going to change. You’re always going to see me have that fieriness to me. That’s just the only way I know how to play this game and I love it for that because I get to release that energy and that passion, that anger that I have.

I grew up in the ’90s loving the basketball sneakers, and that’s where fashion really started for me.

As a blocker, that gets you excited, man. You’ve got somebody who can take it to the house at any point in the game, and you want to make sure that you get your guy that much more.

I’m dedicated to finding the girl of my dreams.

If you don’t care about the guy next to you, one, you’re a terrible teammate. Two, you’re never gonna win.

Passion sits in your heart and it’s within you.

The biggest leap between the NFL and college football is the speed. That’s something you hear often. But I think there’s more to it than just the speed of the players – there’s also the speed with which you have to process information around you.

Football is just a game.

When I look in my father’s eyes, man, I know that I made him proud. As a son, with a father that loves him and believes in him so much, that’s the world. It really is.

I’m trying to just up the ante, play well-rounded both in the run game, pass game, keep doing my thing when I get the ball and make guys miss.

Nobody puts more expectation on me than myself. That’s just the heart of the competitor. That’s how I was raised.

I feel like it’s a duty of mine to make sure that I’m helping out as much as I can, knowing that it’s a responsibility.

The one thing every NFL defense has in common is that it’s sound. No matter where guys move on the field, every single foot of space will be accounted for.

My actions on the field are very – I don’t want to say emotional, but emotion does get the best of me out there. If I do something wrong, I’m livid. I take it that seriously.

In certain situations, you have to be able to be more conscious of ball security than you do in the open field.

It’s a deal-breaker for me when a girl can’t handle herself with class or acts different when you’re not around me and things like that.

Just about everybody in the world thinks the world of George Kittle. He’s an unbelievable person with an unbelievable amount of energy. How he plays the game with the tenacity is one of a kind.

I enjoy making people laugh. If I can put a smile on someone’s face if I do a dance in the end zone, why not?

I can’t think Kansas City enough for embracing me for who I am, my teammates for fighting every single day.

I’m not going to go out there and say that I’m better than X, I’m better than Y. I think I’m the best tight end in the game.

First and foremost, it’s a psychological issue and it’s mental concentration – that’s all it is. We’re all big enough and strong enough to hold onto to the ball, it’s just whether or not you want to focus in on it.

I’m not even a big TV guy.

I hate drama.

At the tight end position, you’re asked to do so many things. You’ll see me split out wide singled up like a wide receiver.

When everyone plays and has passion for each other, man, that’s when you really have a chance to be great as a team. Without it, I don’t know how football even works.

All the negatives, the flags for the personal fouls and silly stuff after the play, that takes a toll. People don’t want to be a part of that.

Whenever I get the ball in my hands, I just try to get the thing as north as possible and get in the end zone.

Throwing the ball around with pops, that was everything as a kid. If I could get out and do that every single day, I was happy as could be; like the day was the best day ever.

Coach Reid is always going to dial the right plays up. He’s a guru.

I’ve got just about a full-on weight room and ability to do just about anything I need at the house.

You can kind of just move me around and put me anywhere – whatever the coaches and the guys on this team need me to do.

I feel like my brand goes as I play football. If I turn into the greatest football player that I can be, I feel that my brand, how people look at me, is all going to be positive.

An ice bath for me is always going to work.

The biggest thing in training camp is you don’t always get to see the hitting aspect. Whether a guy is easy to tackle or whether he’s brought down easy.

All I had been doing is playing outside, playing sports my entire life.

You never get to see the intimate side of a football player.

As soon as you get complacent with where you are in a game, that’s where you come and then it bites you in the rear. So you just want to make sure that you’re keeping that energy high, when guys are making plays you’re getting excited for them and you’re staying locked in through all 60 minutes of the game.

I’m a firm believer that individual accolades are a bit overrated in this game.

My entire career, you can’t say Travis Kelce without Alex Smith. He’s been my quarterback, he’s been the guy. I owe a lot of my success to him.

When I get the ball in my hands I’m a different type of athlete.

I don’t understand why women get so frustrated with guys talking to other women, just casual conversation. I don’t get it. I’ve had a problem with that.