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

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

Certainly I accept my role and responsibility as a public figure and a lot of it you take the good with the bad, dealing with different adversities in life, you just try to do the best you can do.

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

As athletes, we think we're heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are.

In sports you often become part of something greater than yourself.