Quotes

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts.

I could talk food all day. I love good food.

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.

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

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.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

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?

Football is unconditional love.

I'm a pretty good winner. I'm a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

I'm not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

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

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don't get hit very often.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I'm an emotional person. Sometimes I can't help 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 have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I've already made them.

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

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it's only us. And we're only responsible to make ourselves happy.

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it's great.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

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

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

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.

You never get over losses. I've never gotten over one loss I've had in my career. They always stick with me.

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

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?

Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

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

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

Man, wear your seat belts. That's all I can tell everybody. You never know.

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.

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.

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.

After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who feels great. Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it just hurts.

I don't want to wake up and be bored. That's probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I've been on for a long time and had success with? I don't plan on giving it up any time soon.

When I'm out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I'm doing.

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.

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 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 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!'

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.