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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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" 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. "

Tom Brady

Team

Win

Deep

" It's an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody. "

" 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. "

" My wife and I are very affectionate. "

" Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that's never been me. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

Tom Brady

Chill

Time

" 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. "

" To me, if you're trying to impress a girl, get a date, they're gonna like that more because you're a confident guy. That's what it comes down to. "

" 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'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. "

" I've never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that. "

" I like playing. I wouldn't be a good coach. I don't have the patience to be a coach. "

Tom Brady

Playing

Patience

" 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. "

Tom Brady

Think

People

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Football is unconditional love. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think hygiene is so important. "

" 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 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. "

" I always try to do as much as I can do. I'm never a person that does not enough, because I'd regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn't work. "

" 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 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. "