Tom Brady is Tom Brady. He was a sixth-round draft pick. A lot of people passed up on him. He's a Super Bowl Champion, Super Bowl MVP. He's been in a bunch of Super Bowls, and he could care less about all of that. He just cares about winning the next game.
— Julian Edelman
You don't grow up saying you wanna play in the CFL.
My dad was just a little trailer trash white dude that worked his tail off, didn't have a dad. He started working at 14, didn't get to play sports. He dedicated his life to his kids to let us live our dreams.
I'll take an ugly win over a pretty loss any day.
Why can't we make NFL apparel cool for every day instead of only wearing it on game day?
I try to live by the 80/20 rule - 80% clean, 20% cheat. During the week and while I train, I eat as clean as possible. But I always like myself a good cheat day, which includes a juicy burger.
Sometimes durability's better than ability, especially in this crazy sport.
When I am working out, I listen to inspirational speeches.
Psychologically, for an athlete to miss a game because of injury, it's tough.
I got beat up my whole life.
There's no one more valuable for me to learn from than Tom and his wife, Gisele Bundchen, in a lot of ways. Every time I'm around them, I learn. The way they are with their kids, the way they make time to spend with each other, they are just good people.
I would say the greatest challenge, for me, had been my rookie year and learning my spot. It is an emotional battle, as you have good days and bad days. Being young and thrown into this big business is challenging.
I don't even enjoy football, at least professional football, anymore because I'm breaking the game down constantly. You're sitting there watching the plays, and you're talking mental reps on what would I have done here against this coverage or this leverage, this, that. It is what it is.
If it's a trip for pleasure, I always go with a comfortable outfit.
I definitely follow fashion and trends and will sporadically add them to my wardrobe in an organic way. But my style, at its core, is a minimal, clean, and timeless look.
If you give me six tries, I can probably land a kick flip.
When I'm tired, I like to go and do drills where you catch tennis balls off walls. Different colors use different hands, and you've got to react to those types of things at different angles. I do all these crazy reaction-time things or reaction skills with tennis balls every morning, or at least four times a week.
It's one thing to be 100 percent and go out and play football feeling great. It's another thing when you're not feeling good. You're sick, or you got a nagging injury, and you gotta go out in the cold and go across the middle where a guy's coming full speed at you trying to kill you.
You can't worry about what other people say, honestly.
I guess you could say I'm kind of Jewish but not really.
You can never go wrong with a pair of jeans, a cool tailored shirt, and a nice jacket. You can dress it up with a more stylish jacket or a bracelet, watch, or necklace. It's simple, but it's cool. That's my opinion.
I like looking at clothes, and I like going to shows and seeing new, fashion-forward stuff.
The Patriots do a great job of establishing a common rhetoric of working hard and working for the men that stand next to you on the field.
I started to get addicted to the Jerry Rice mentality. I can get up before anyone else does. I can outwork anyone.
I like to leisurely cruise around town on a longboard.
The regular season is awesome. It's fun. But postseason, that intensity and adrenaline you get from it is a lot.
When Dad stopped playing in a rock band and was done chasing that dream, he devoted himself to his family. I would love to do the same thing - just without driving a 1991 Suburban and wearing sweatpants, a fanny pack, and six-year-old Pumas.
When I was growing up, I was a huge San Francisco 49ers fan. The New England Patriots have a similar mold and plan to win a lot of games - reminiscent to that Bill Walsh era.
As a rookie, I had changed positions. In college, I was a quarterback, and I had never played other positions.
I have fun outside the game.
I am definitely a 'denim first' guy.
It's been a privilege to get to watch one of sports greatest athletes prepare and get to play with him; honestly... it's a dream. I remember being in eighth grade saying, 'I'm Tom Brady,' on the asphalt at recess, you know, playing football.
Shake Shack is good, but it's no In-N-Out.
The No. 1 rule you're taught as a receiver: You've just got to watch the ball. You hear about the guy who was lucky. But the guy who was lucky got an opportunity, and he was prepared for it. Sometimes the ball falls your way, and, you know, we'll take it.
Everyone's got talent at the level we're at. But being a smart, tough football player - there's a huge premium for that.
I love my dad.
I'm not completely Jewish, if you know what I mean. I know people want me to be. My father is Jewish. My mother isn't.
Devin McCourty - he's got his own style: he always wears a nice fitted suit and mixes up his colors. He's got some game when it comes to the fashion world.
Peapod is a great company to work with.
The draft is an exciting time.
Bill Belichick has been an awesome, awesome guy to learn from.
Boston is really just a cool place to play.
Life's about dealing with adversity and solving problems.
Dating isn't easy.
I can say playing for the New England Patriots has been the highlight of my life.
Here on the East Coast, I think Shake Shack is awesome.
It's not fun to watch your team go out, and guys that you've worked so hard with, and the countless hours you've put in on your own time to go and showcase all your hard work, and then have it taken from you and then see your boys playing without you.
I wear a lot of sweatshirts and joggers in the winter and gym shorts and tees in the summer. I really appreciate something that is easy to slip on and chill out in.
Everyone goes down a road that they're not supposed to go down. You can do two things from it. You can keep going down that road and go to a dark place. Or you can turn and go up the hill and go to the top - try to go to the top.
I'm a California kid.
