Quotes by Tom Brady

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

Chiropractic just makes you feel so much better. When I walk out of the clinic, I feel like I'm about three inches taller and everything's in place. And as long as I see the chiropractor, I feel I'm one step ahead of the game.

If you don't believe in yourself, why is anyone else going to believe in you.

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

I think it's a feeling like I've got it all figured out. There's nothing that can shock me anymore. There's nothing I haven't anticipated; so at that point, there is a calmness.

You put all the other stuff aside and go out and do your job, and mine is to be the best I can be for my teammates.

There's a lot of people who don't like Tom Brady and I'm OK with that.

I feel like I've always played within the rules. I would never do anything to break the rules. I believe in fair play.

Is it going to make me feel any better to make an extra million? That million might be more important to the team.

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.

Derek Jeter is one who played for such a long time, and David Ortiz in Boston is doing it right now.

When you hang with a bunch of 300-pound linemen, you tend to find the places that are the greasiest and serve the most food.

I'd love to give Malcolm the truck. We're going to figure out how to make that happen.

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

I think sometimes in life the biggest challenges end up being the best things that happen in your life.

If you waste your time and energy on things that don't matter in the outcome of the game, then when you get to the game you're not going to give your teammates the best that you have to offer.

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.

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.

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 think I've been fortunate over the years to be at a point in my career where I really get to choose the partnerships that I really want to take on and they're a perfect fit.

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.

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.

It's easy when you have receivers that are open all the time and an offensive line that never lets anyone touch you. It makes it fun to play.

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.

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.

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

This is really a dream come true. To be the starting quarterback in the Super Bowl is probably the highlight of my life.

On the field, you come into sync with your teammates and coaches and together you achieve something that you could never do on your own.

I like skiing and surfing with kids. They are the cutest little skiers out there, in their little outfits. I just want to eat 'em up!

Whenever I see Michael Jordan I'm still blown away because he was such a hero of mine growing up.

You can't go out and practice average on Wednesday, average on Thursday, okay on Friday and then expect to play well on Sunday.

I firmly believe that sleep and recovery are critical aspects of an effective and holistic training program.

I like playing. I wouldn't be a good coach. I don't have the patience to be a coach.

Coaching wouldn't be for me. No, certainly not.

I don't believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they've played on, coaches they've played for.

There have been so many great players that I've played with, that I've played against over the years.

I'd be so bored if I wasn't going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I'm going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.

Believe me, I'm much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

You can't score if you're turning it over. It's like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you're not scoring points. That's not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions, you're giving the other team more opportunities and your team less opportunities.

You look at another team's style and how they do it, and you just want to understand how they're doing it and see if you can learn something and maybe implement it into what your team does.

Everyone does things differently on offense. Everyone's goal is to score points.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That's part of being a public figure.

I don't think the ebbs and flows -- get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape -- is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

I don't think a lot of people know personally who I am.

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.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you're married now. You still have all the things that you've had, plus you just keep adding.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

It's a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

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.

I like Tom Ford a lot because it's so classic and has great quality. I wear a lot of Rag and Bone.

There's nothing more comfortable or leisurely than having a pair of Ugg slippers on in the house.

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 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 don't really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don't. I really don't. Look, if you're a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we're trying to accomplish. If you're not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say... It's like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They're all opinions.

I think the great part about what I do is that there's a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There's a tangible score.

As for hobbies, I don't really read or watch TV.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I'm working.

There's not much time to unwind, but you know what, it's because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn't ever feel like work.

I have hobbies. I like being active. I like to surf a lot, play a little bit of golf.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of -- I wouldn't call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

You're not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That's not a place for me to joke around.

The last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happening so quick.

I'm a pretty casual dresser. At home, it's probably whatever is functional to relax in, whether it's a pair of sweats or a pair of jeans.

My wife doesn't let anyone wear shoes in our house, so we have a bench, and under the bench is all UGGs slippers.

It's an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn't think I'd play one year in the NFL, and now I'm going on my 17th year.

The biggest issue is muscle pliability. That's what I think the biggest secret to me is. What is muscle pliability? Muscle pliability is keeping your muscles long and soft.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don't know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

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.

I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal.

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.

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've had a lot of ridiculous haircuts.

I really love training and being in good shape, and it's so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.

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.

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

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

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.

You never get over losses. I've never gotten over one loss I've had in my career. They always stick with me.

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?

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.

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

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.