Tom Brady Quotations

To me, football is so much about mental toughness, it's digging deep, it's doing whatever you need to do to help a team win and that comes in a lot of shapes and forms.

I'm never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that's never been me.

I'm a pretty good winner. I'm a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

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'm not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That's not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that's what life needs to be - and that if it's not that, it's all screwed up. It's not.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.

My job is to play quarterback, and I'm going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it's only us. And we're only responsible to make ourselves happy.

I'm not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior - I mean, that's part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don't have anything to hide, and I'm not concerned with what people think.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I'll say, 'That's right, keep the same haircut for ten years.' How fun is that?

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.

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 think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I'm never a person that does not enough, because I'd regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn't work.

When I'm out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I'm doing.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can't control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I'm just not going to go outside the house. I'm going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

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 could talk food all day. I love good food.

To me, if you're trying to impress a girl, get a date, they're gonna like that more because you're a confident guy. That's what it comes down to.

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don't get hit very often.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

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 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.

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it's great.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear... I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, 'My wife told me to wear this!' And I just shake my head.

I see so many guys, really athletic guys, wearing pleats and I just shake my head. Like, Tiger Woods used to wear pleated pants! I'm like, 'C'mon, Tiger!'

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.

I think the running game is very important to every offense. Being balanced is extremely important. There's times where you have to throw the ball. You could be down late in the game, you need to come back; you have to be able to pass it when they know you're passing it.

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help it.

Every man should know, if you're comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

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.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts.

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.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn't that what attracts anyone?

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

If you're a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

Man, wear your seat belts. That's all I can tell everybody. You never know.

I've had just about everything punched. I've had things grabbed that just shouldn't be grapped.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I've already made them.

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.

There are times when you throw an interception and you're beating yourself up.

After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

My personal feelings are my personal feelings. I don't want to express them with anyone except for a very few people. It doesn't do any good. It really doesn't.

You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame... those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I'd love to play like those guys, but there's still a long way to go and a lot of growing.

All parents are concerned about their children's well-being. As a parent of three kids, I'm very concerned about their well-being.

As a part of the NFL, things change every year.

We have as much to gain this year as every team out there. We feel like a team that is 0-0 and we have our goals ahead of us just like everybody else.

We're playing more consistently over the course of 60 minutes. I think there were times in games that we played better than others. We just didn't play well for very long.

Like I said, and I've said this, he's a tremendous coach (Weis). He's a great asset to this team from the time he was here and now he's a great asset to another place. We all miss him and at the same time we all realize we can't look back; we have to look forward with the guys we've got.

One thing with Charlie is you always knew where he was and what his expectations were. That's going to be missed, too.

My guys made some great plays. The only thing a quarterback wants is for guys to be open. If they get open, I'll find them.

Richard's so disruptive. He's the best defensive lineman in the league.

Richard is so disruptive. He's disruptive every time we go against them in practice. He is the best defensive lineman in the league.

I was so nervous to go out to practice because I was competing every day. I swear to God, I would lose sleep, ... I'd wake up and check the weather to see how windy it was going to be because I knew I was going out there and throwing. You'd learn valuable lessons about competition, and I approached every day in practice like it really was the game.

I got it bad today, probably the worst I ever got it. I think I'm going to have to deal with it for a few days, but I guess I deserve it.

I'd love to be here for the rest of my career, but it's not entirely my decision.

I don't care about three years ago, ... I don't care about two years ago. I don't care about last year. The only thing I care about is this week.

I'm always interested to see how he's doing, and in a strange way I kind of root for him, too.

I don't think I was as accurate as I wanted to be. But we made some plays.

He has great energy in what he does, and it wears off on everyone else. Any time a quarterback can bring that, it really motivates the other guys. And that's not even to mention the way he performs. He can go out there and perform as well as just about anybody I've seen.

Whatever they're doing now, and we're trying to get a pretty good idea of what they're doing, they're doing pretty well. Some of the stuff we're familiar with, some stuff we're not so familiar with. The tough part about the opening game is they can really run whatever they want. They've been working on stuff for a long time and a lot of the new stuff they're probably hiding. So that's probably what they're thinking.

What does three-peat mean? ... I'm hoping to put together three good days of practice. I don't think we've done that yet this year.

He's a different type of player from the guys we normally have. He's a big, strong, physical guy.

He's adding to a really strong group of receivers as it is. With every new guy, he has to find a role on the team. He's a very smart player. He came out here (Monday) and almost knew what he was doing on every single play, which was great to see.

He's fun to watch, ... There are other guys that are fun to watch. Barry Bonds, every time he steps to the plate, you figure something big is going to happen.

He wanted students to understand the diversity of the world and it was something he said all the time to the kids. This is just so sad.

I was laughing the whole practice. But he who laughs last laughs best, so those guys don't know what's in store.

I think the great thing about our offense is that ... we have a bunch of guys that are capable of making plays. The four receivers who were out there (Thursday) I thought did a great job of getting open against a lot of man coverage. I thought the tight ends did a nice job. ... Corey caught a few passes, Kevin caught some passes and spread the ball around. It puts a lot of pressure on a defense.

I think we'll continue to spread the ball around, ... It puts a lot of pressure on the defense when you can find the open guy.

I think we knew when we played them two years ago how good they are. When I think of that game, I think of how tired I was after the game, because that was such a great test.

I think we've been probably disrespected more than any team in the league this year. I think we've been given up on by a lot of media people, a lot of fans, our own fans, other people around the league, and I think if there's one team that feels like they're disrespected it's us.

I think it was great fortune that night. I'm glad the referees got the play right,

I think it takes more than three years. We need to string together a decade or two to match something like that.

I think, to a degree, ... Ultimately, it always revolves around the players you have. The things that we ran here and were successful with, maybe sometimes you try to implement those, but it doesn't end up being the same.

Rodney, ... is one of the best players in the league.

Playing this team as many times as we have in the last few years, ... we realize how physical they are, and they're fast and they're disciplined. They're very well coached. It is going to be quite a challenge.

Who is our No. 1 rival? That's a tough one. I'm not really sure. I guess all of them.

You kind of see Troy on the outside of (Bailey), so you think you've got a shot at the corner. So I threw it out there and (Bailey) wheeled back and undercut him. I think if I had thrown it farther back in the end zone, (Brown) could have made the play.

You always want to be perfect out there. But it's about really improving all parts of the game and trying to be more efficient on offense.

We came into a tough environment against an excellent team and had a chance to win the game with three minutes left, ... I would take that any day of the week.

Xavier is a big rival of ours and they are in our league, so it was nice to get that first league win against them. It was definitely fun volleyball.

We really didn't want to go to that fifth set because we did that twice last year and lost them both. We played hard but a good team like that doesn't go down without a fight,

Doug has been so nervous for three weeks, because that has been the plan. He was so excited when it went in, and I think everybody was (excited) because we were all watching in practice. He just adds to his legend.

There was a lot of excitement coming into game, ... We were preparing all summer long for this team. We'll take the win.

There's no better way to end the season than with a win over the Dolphins.

It was very loud, but we have experienced that before. We had a few false starts early and we got settled down. Once we got settled down, we were able to move the ball -- we just didn't make the big plays that we needed to.

The strengths of the team have been different throughout the years. I do think we try to play a certain way of football. I think our philosophy is that we try to play smart and that we try to play tough and we try to play physical out there.

Adam is the most clutch kicker in the game. In those situations you call the best stuff you've got but you also know you're within field goal range if you just get to the 30-yard line.

Coaches take him into consideration when they game plan, ... You just make sure you account for him, because he'll ruin a game. He'll strip-sack the quarterback and tries to break quarterbacks in half.

Coach wants to get other guys a look and at the same time it's nice to get a few days off from throwing. It's a long long season.

Coach always says, 'Just because they ask you to do something doesn't mean you have to do it,'

As a team you're always trying to improve and there's a different identity this year than there has been in the past. We have to find that identity and continue to improve on our weaknesses while maintaining our strengths.