Tom Brady

Football player

1977-08-03

American former professional football player who spent most of his career as quarterback for the New England Patriots and later played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He won seven Super Bowls, the most by any player in NFL history. He retired from professional football in 2023.

Quotes by Tom Brady

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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My wife doesn't let anyone wear shoes in our house, so we have a bench, and under the bench is all UGGs slippers.
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There's nothing more comfortable or leisurely than having a pair of Ugg slippers on in the house.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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I have hobbies. I like being active. I like to surf a lot, play a little bit of golf.
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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.
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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.
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I really focus on my jeans and sweaters for them to fit really well. There was a time that wasn't the case.
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All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.
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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.
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I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don't work.
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A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.
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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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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.
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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.
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