Tom Brady Play Quotations

I had a weird moment a couple days ago where I was sitting there during stretching, and I was like, 'I can't believe I've won two Super Bowls and I'm 27 years old and I'm sitting here playing professional football,' ... I guess I never thought I could possibly do that.

He always seems to rise to the occasion, ... He plays his best in the most critical moments. Whether he plays his best or not, he is always going to be a factor. He has tremendous confidence in himself, and whenever he is near the lead, he can ultimately pull it out.

I feel like I've always played within the rules. I would never do anything to break the rules. I believe in fair play and I'll always believe in that for as long as I'm playing.

The only thing I really like doing during the week is getting ready to play the game.

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.

I love playing football. I love playing for the Patriots.

It's easy when you have receivers that are open all the time and an offensive line that never lets anyone touch you. It makes it fun to play.

Butler's interception comes off as a great play, which it really was, at the biggest time of the year.

It's just part of whatever motivates guys and whatever they say. Ultimately it comes down to how well you play. What I've learned over the years, a lot of guys talk. What you need to do is go out there and play, back it up. They've been able to back it up, so that's why it works for them. Hopefully we can go out there and do our talking on the field.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

It's an incredible play, and not only that, that's the type of plays Malcolm makes for our team.

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.

A guy like Malcolm who makes that type of quick, instinctive plays, that's one of his strong suits. I don't think it surprised any of us players because that's what his skill set is.

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

If you don't play to win don't play at all.

I would never do anything outside of the rules of play.

Rodney, ... is one of the best players in the league.

Playing this team as many times as we have in the last few years, ... we realize how physical they are, and they're fast and they're disciplined. They're very well coached. It is going to be quite a challenge.

I think we knew when we played them two years ago how good they are. When I think of that game, I think of how tired I was after the game, because that was such a great test.

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.

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.

It was very loud, but we have experienced that before. We had a few false starts early and we got settled down. Once we got settled down, we were able to move the ball -- we just didn't make the big plays that we needed to.

We really didn't want to go to that fifth set because we did that twice last year and lost them both. We played hard but a good team like that doesn't go down without a fight,

They brought their best game, we brought our best game and we just made enough big plays to win.

It's identifying the kind of pressure they're bringing and making sure everyone is doing their role on offense. On offense, you have to account for everybody. You try to figure exactly the way they're game-planning their blitzes and call your plays that are designed to counteract those pressures.

We're playing more consistently over the course of 60 minutes. I think there were times in games that we played better than others. We just didn't play well for very long.

He's a different type of player from the guys we normally have. He's a big, strong, physical guy.

I'm glad we're finally playing back at home. It's going to be a challenge. I wish we were playing them in December or something. Put those San Diego guys out in the cold.

I think, to a degree, ... Ultimately, it always revolves around the players you have. The things that we ran here and were successful with, maybe sometimes you try to implement those, but it doesn't end up being the same.