Top 210 Quotes & Sayings by Tom Brady - Page 2

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

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've always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I've always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 really focus on my jeans and sweaters for them to fit really well. There was a time that wasn't the case.

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

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

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 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.

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

I have more suits than days of the year that I get to wear them.

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

My wife and I are very affectionate.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I'm just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

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!'

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.

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'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.

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?

I never had any coffee or anything like that. I just never tried it.

It's amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

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.

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.

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 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've had a lot of ridiculous haircuts.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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'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.

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.

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.

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

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.