For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality.

I feel like I've had a strong relationship with Robert [Kraft] and his family since I was here in 1996 and I think it's gotten stronger every year that I've been here with the Patriots. The more things we do together, talk about together, work together on, the closer we become and the more we rely on each other. I feel like our relationship is very close and continues to grow closer every year as we grow older together.

Each decision will be done on a case-by-case basis and we'll make the decision we feel is best for the New England Patriots football team.

As part of the process, there are a lot of different ways to evaluate players. There are a number of different companies and things out there that do different things; that have different ways of evaluating and those types of tests and so forth.

To live in the past is to die in the present.

If you sit back & spend too much time feeling good about what you did in the past, you're going to come up short next time

We've been cooperative with the NFL investigation. We'll continue to do so and we will turn all our attention and focus on to the Seattle Seahawks, a very well coached, talented, tough, competitive football team.