Tom Brady Quotes

I think you can just go out and try to be the best you can be, deal with people with respect, with honesty, with integrity, have a high moral standard. I've always really tried to exemplify that as an athlete. I'll continue to try to do that.

You have to believe in the 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 think I've always tried to be very professional to how I approach the game, my preparation. Every game is important.

My mom was a great tennis player, and I remember being six or seven years old watching Steffi Graf and Monica Seles in Wimbledon in my house. I've always been a tennis fan.

But when Gronk scores - it was like his eighth touchdown of the year - he spikes the ball and he deflates the ball. I love that, because I like the deflated ball. But I feel bad for that football, because he puts everything he can into those spikes.

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.

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.

When you lose, talk little. When you win, talk less.

You don't like to see your guys take the field without you because it makes you feel like, man, maybe they really don't need me out there, which is kind of humbling.

I can't do anything with what's happened in the past. I have to just go forward with the most awareness I can going forward and trying to be the best I can be for our team.

My job is to evaluate the field, pick the guy that I think is most open and make a good throw.

I'd be that James Bond character from the Beautyrest commercial that we did. Maybe some day.

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

I don't put any thought into the footballs after I choose them. When you're out there playing in front of 70,000 people, like a home crowd, you don't think about it. You're just reacting to the game.

The only thing I really like doing during the week is getting ready to play the game.

Some of the best motivation in life is trying to impress a girl.

I'm much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines.

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

Everyone is dealing with something. This is life; this is not just a piece of cake.

I love Serena [Williams]. Seeing what Serena's done in her field has been incredible.

If you don't play to win don't play at all.

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!'

It's never come easy for me. I don't think my mind allows me to rest ever. I have, I think, a chip on my shoulder, and some deep scars that I don't think were healed.

I love playing football. I love playing for the Patriots.

You go through high school and college the same way: never listening to your coaches because you're the best. But when you get to the pros, all that stops because everybody there has talent.

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

Butler's interception comes off as a great play, which it really was, at the biggest time of the year.

I'm not squeezing the balls. That's not part of my process.

Everybody has an opinion. I think everybody has the right to believe whatever they want. I don't ever cast judgment on someone's belief system.

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 hope I have a lot more football left.

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.

Matt Damon is a great actor, and he's from Boston, so we've got a few things in common. I've seen him throw a football, though. He definitely needs to work on that.

I could talk food all day. I love good food.

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.

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

A lot of people didn't get to see Butler's skills throughout the course of the season.

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

It's just part of whatever motivates guys and whatever they say. Ultimately it comes down to how well you play. What I've learned over the years, a lot of guys talk. What you need to do is go out there and play, back it up. They've been able to back it up, so that's why it works for them. Hopefully we can go out there and do our talking on the field.

I didn't alter the footballs in any way

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.

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

I got a few Mrs. Bradys in my life.

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

Everyone is dealing with something. This is life; this is not just a piece of cake. You expect that when your teammates are doing their jobs, so you got to compartmentalize and do your job.

It's an incredible play, and not only that, that's the type of plays Malcolm makes for our team.

All I do is work out, oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

Why do I have three Super Bowl rings and still think there's something greater out there for me? I mean, maybe a lot of people would say, 'Hey man, this is what is.' I reached my goal, my dream, my life. I think, 'God, it's got to be more than this.' I mean this isn't, this can't be what it's all cracked up to be. I love playing football and I love being quarterback for this team. But at the same time, I think there are a lot of other parts about me that I'm trying to find.