Martellus Bennett is an ex-NFL player who retired from playing football in March. His retirement came after 10 seasons of football and making nearly $34 million in total contracts and sponsors.
Bennett is a voracious reader, a habit he picked up partly from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg who had challenged himself to read a new book every other week for a whole year.
“I started reading a lot of books because Zuckerberg was doing it,” he commented.
Many NFL players spend their hard earned cash on cars and property but Bennett has spent thousands on building up his own library.
“I have about 3,500 books, maybe more… I have a library, and it’s like I want to beat Belle on ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and have a better library than she had.” Bennet told news sources.
We can relate, Martellus!
