George Kittle

When you know what's going on in the offense, you're playing fast. You're not having to think about 'OK, I have this route on this play.'

You always want to hang out with your friends and teammates - you're with them all the time.

I'm not just a little stitious. I'm superstitious.

I'm a big believer that you surround yourself with good people which brings the best out of you.

I think TE is the most unique and diverse position. It's the most fun position because it's the only one on the field where you get to do everything that a football player does. You run block, you pass pro, you get to run routes and catch the football. We do everything!

I'm just grateful I get to play football every single day of my life. So I'm never really in a bad mood.

Creating a little bit of chaos is just kind of what I try to do.

I'm just trying to be the most outgoing, craziest person on the field.

This is what you practice for, what you put all the hard work in at OTAs and all summer, to be in big-time games.

It makes you feel good, doing the right thing and getting in the end zone.

Aaron Rodgers is one heck of a quarterback, a Hall of Fame quarterback.

Football's a lot easier when you're having fun.

It's really fun for me to go do things that maybe people don't think I can do.

Any time you can be voted a captain by your peers is always a great thing.

It's football. I get hit all the time. That's what you sign up for when you play the game.

Watching the Niners play on TV is not really fun when I should be on the field with them.

Having targets is really fun but catching the ball is even more fun.

I grew up in small towns in Iowa and the Midwest.

I got to meet Little Wayne. That was on my bucket list.

Someone like coach Belichick, with the success that he's had and sustained it for so long. He's obviously seen a lot of good football players.

I'm a goofy dude. I don't usually take things too seriously, but when I step on the field it's a whole different aspect to me.

You have to have a switch that you can flip when you get on the field.

My mindset: Run through people, but have a good time doing it.

When you pancake a guy, and you feel their breath exhale, to me that's their soul leaving their body.

I've got a lot of balance beams, which has been fun walking down these beams, and I've made an obstacle course and doing whatever I can to be as healthy and strong in those areas that have been my weakness.

I was always fast for my size and skill set.

I think Gronk is one of, if not the best tight ends to ever play the game. Just his relentless mindset and the fun he has playing.

Obviously I want to be the best as a tight end.

I get on the field, I feel like it's an opportunity to show that I can play football and I'm good at my job and I deserve to keep my job.

I love rowing machines and I like assault bikes because they just whoop up on you.

I think the offseason, it's an offseason, but it's where you can excel and where you can pass guys. It's something I always take super serious.

Losing the Super Bowl, it's awful, I don't wish that on anyone, unless I'm playing them, but I think it definitely was a teaching moment.

I love being on the field with Jeff Wilson. The way he carries the football, the way he makes people look at him after he gets tackled. They are like 'Why did it take four people to tackle that guy and why are two guys on the ground from trying to tackle him?' Because he's an absolute monster.

Jeff Wilson goes to a dark place every single game. It's different than it is in practice. You can tell he's angry, he attacks it, he wants contact, he deals contact. He delivers pain. It's awesome. You can just see it in his eyes.

You get better from competition.

A lot of guys don't have to compete. They can get signed to a massive contract and they can say 'Hey I'm good.'

Make the right decisions and play football for as long as you can because there is a limited number of snaps you'll be able to take over the course of your career. Enjoy the whole thing though, because it's really fun.

Ron Dayne is still my favorite player of all time.

It's football. You take weird hits. That's what you prepare for in the offseason so your body can take all those weird hits and you can get right back up.

I've always been athletic.

When one tight end succeeds, everybody succeeds - like the tight ends were making under $10 million a year. To me that doesn't make any sense.

I feel like the tight end position hasn't been appreciated.

The tight end position is incredibly diverse.

I'm always big on building a brotherhood.

Once you get to the playoffs, anything can happen.

No matter what Jordan Reed is doing - when he's on the field he has his own role and he's an amazing football player.

It's football. You play football. You just play injured. That's how it is. A lot of it comes from my dad. He played for Hayden Fry University in the '80s. He used to tell me about the injuries he played with. One time he tore his ACL in Week 6 and then played in the Rose Bowl in Week 12. So, if he could do that, I can do anything.

I wore the number 24 in high school my freshman, sophomore year because of him. I wore Kobe Bryant basketball shoes because of Kobe Bryant. Every time I laced up my basketball shoes, I felt like I had Kobe Bryant with me. I had a little part of him - I had his jumper, his fadeaway.

Kobe was, other than my parents, he was the reason why I played sports. Just his mindset, the Mamba mentality.

If a guy is going to not throw his body at me and he looks like he's just going to sit there with his chest open, I'm going to put my helmet through his chest. That's his fault if he's sore in the morning.