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.
— Tom Brady
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.
During the season, most of my time to unwind is in my car ride home. When I get home, it's being with my kids.
I don't think any country is perfect. It's our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don't like. I think that's part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.
I've never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.
My wife doesn't let anyone wear shoes in our house, so we have a bench, and under the bench is all UGGs slippers.
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.
You have to believe in your 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.
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.
When I'm out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I'm doing.
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?
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.
I'm never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.
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!'
There are times when you throw an interception and you're beating yourself up.
As a part of the NFL, things change every 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.
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.
I like to have fun all the time, even if I'm working.
I have hobbies. I like being active. I like to surf a lot, play a little bit of golf.
It's amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.
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.
It's an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.
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.
Man, wear your seat belts. That's all I can tell everybody. You never know.
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.
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.
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?
In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it's great.
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?
The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.
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.
Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don't get hit very often.
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.
All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.
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.
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.
The last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happening so quick.
I have more suits than days of the year that I get to wear them.
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.
Sleep is all about recovering. So if you're not sleeping, you're not recovering. And if you're going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I'm up at 5:30 the next day.
If you're a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.
I'm not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.
Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that's never been me.
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.
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.
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.
If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.
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.
