Zitat des Tages von Tom Brady:
I've been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I've played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.
Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.
I think style is being so comfortable and confident in what you're wearing. That's what style is, 'cause everybody's got different style.
I've had just about everything punched. I've had things grabbed that just shouldn't be grapped.
I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.
Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don't get hit very often.
I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.
Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts.
I could talk food all day. I love good food.
I'm not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.
The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.
To score points, you need a lot of consistent effort over the course of the game. If you're throwing it or running it in, it's not a big difference in terms of the score at all, obviously. But turnovers limit your scoring. That's the problem with turnovers.
Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.
It's an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.
As a part of the NFL, things change every year.
I've always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I've always said is the best coach in the history of the league.
I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon.
I like playing. I wouldn't be a good coach. I don't have the patience to be a coach.
You never get over losses. I've never gotten over one loss I've had in my career. They always stick with me.
I'm never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.
When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.
WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.
You're not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That's not a place for me to joke around.
I think that at the start of a game, you're always playing to win, and then maybe if you're ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.
It's amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.
It's a real strength for me that I've never minded the training process. It's something I enjoy. I really like being in the gym or, certainly, on the field.
I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that's not the way our food system in America is set up. It's very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.
Coaching wouldn't be for me. No, certainly not.
I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.
I started wearing Ugg when I was, like, 13 or 14, in high school, and my mom got me a pair for Christmas one year.
I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes - my kids, high school kids - get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.
When the NBA adopted their uniform that they had to wear, I thought that was very interesting. And you see the way NBA players dress: It's very cool.
I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I've already made them.
My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years.
I think I've really stepped outside the box in the way I try to train, eat, hydrate, the cognitive brain games I play on a daily or weekly basis to try to build up some durability within my body, within my brain, to be able to go out there and play at a high level at age 38.
When you're one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.
