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.
— 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.
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.
I've been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I've played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.
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.
To score points, you need a lot of consistent effort over the course of the game. If you're throwing it or running it in, it's not a big difference in terms of the score at all, obviously. But turnovers limit your scoring. That's the problem with turnovers.
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.
I try to not eat as much sugar, but it's so hard in our American diet to do that... It's hard to completely avoid.
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.
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.
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 think hygiene is so important.
Who's my hero? That's a great question... Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he's someone I look up to every day.
It's a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.
There's nothing more comfortable or leisurely than having a pair of Ugg slippers on in the house.
I don't want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn't mean you agree with everything they say or they do.
I firmly believe that sleep and recovery are critical aspects of an effective and holistic training program.
I don't think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.
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.
Believe me, I'm much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.
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.
I'm just glad I play for Coach Belichick.
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.
If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there's things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.
I would love to encourage all my teammates to eat the best way they possibly can. High school athletes. Now, that's not the way our food system in America is set up. It's very different. They have a food pyramid, and I disagree with that. I disagree with a lot of things that people tell you to do.
I don't even know what the issues are. I haven't paid attention to politics in a long time. It's actually not something that I really even enjoy. It's way off my radar.
I don't think a lot of people know personally who I am.
I think my style is probably more of a classic look.
I really focus on my jeans and sweaters for them to fit really well. There was a time that wasn't the case.
I like Tom Ford a lot because it's so classic and has great quality. I wear a lot of Rag & Bone.
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 am excited to partner with Under Armour to bring game-changing sleepwear, with the same bioceramics technology I use, to athletes all around the world.
I like playing. I wouldn't be a good coach. I don't have the patience to be a coach.
I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don't work.
I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal.
I don't go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, 'Let's see if I can get this done today.'
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.
Everyone does things differently on offense. Everyone's goal is to score points.
It's a real strength for me that I've never minded the training process. It's something I enjoy. I really like being in the gym or, certainly, on the field.
I never had any coffee or anything like that. I just never tried it.
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.
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.
It's a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.
Probably my first couple years in the league, I started paying more attention to what I was wearing. Once I got a few bucks in my pocket and I could afford some nice things, and you get to go, 'OK, let's try some of these things.' And once you try something you like, you probably don't change it much.
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.
Men always want and love when women wear tight and fitted clothing, right? And you're like, 'Wow, she looks so beautiful.' And then you have men who dress like slobs, and you're like, 'What's the deal with these big and baggy suits.' It's pretty ridiculous.
I don't want to say anything negative about anybody or anything or anybody's political beliefs. I've never done that. I've never tried to get involved in those things.
