Tom Brady Quotes

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

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#2. I feel like I've always played within the rules. I would never do anything to break the rules. I believe in fair play and I'll always believe in that for as long as I'm playing.

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#3. I approach every week the same. I think I've always tried to be very professional to how I approach the game, my preparation. Every game is important.

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

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

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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.

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

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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.

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#12. 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.

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

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

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#15. 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. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it's certainly not easy.

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#16. I hope I have a lot more football left.

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

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#18. 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.

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

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#20. I have no knowledge of anything

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#21. I would never do anything outside of the rules of play.

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

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#23. 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?

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#24. 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.

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

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

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#27. I knew I became a professional when I stop paying attention to what time it was.

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#28. 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.

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#29. As for hobbies, I don't really read or watch TV. I'm very active. I like surfing, skiing, riding bikes with my kids, and working out with my friends.

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

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#31. 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.

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#32. 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.

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

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#34. 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?

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#35. 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.

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#36. 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.

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

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#38. I dress for the occasion. I like Tom Ford for more formal, especially his suits, and I wear a lot of Under Armour for my athletic gear. I also love Rag & Bone.

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#39. 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.

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#40. 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.

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

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#42. 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.

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#43. 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.

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#44. Football is unconditional love.

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#45. Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

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

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

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

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#49. 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.

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

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

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#52. I didn't alter the footballs in any way

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#53. 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.

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

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

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#56. Losing sucks, and especially to the Jets.

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#57. I think so highly of people who love their sport and make a really strong commitment to it.

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#58. 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.

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

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

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#61. 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!'

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#62. I got a few Mrs. Bradys in my life.

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

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

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

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#66. 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.

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#67. Football is a contact sport and there's a lot that goes into it. But I have committed myself for a long time to doing it, and because I love doing it so much I want to make that commitment.

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#68. I'm pretty chirpy. I can talk a little too much smack.

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

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#70. My Favorite Ring is Always the Next One

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

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#72. What strikes me most about Best Buddies International is the simplicity and magnitude of the mission. Friendship is a simple idea.

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#73. 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.

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#74. 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.

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#75. 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.

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#76. 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.

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#77. I don't know what I believe. I think there's a belief system, I'm just not sure what it is.

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#78. 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.

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#79. 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.

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

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

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#82. Sometimes some of the toughest things you deal with end up being the best things because you realize the people that you can rely on, that love you and support you through it.

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#83. 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?

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#84. 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.

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#85. 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.

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

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#87. 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.

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

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

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

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#91. 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.

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#92. 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.

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#93. 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.

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#94. A guy like Malcolm who makes that type of quick, instinctive plays, that's one of his strong suits. I don't think it surprised any of us players because that's what his skill set is.

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

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#96. 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.

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

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#98. 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.

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

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#100. I feel like I have always played within the rules. I would never break the rules.

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