Brady: "I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal."

Brady: "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."

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

Brady: "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."

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

Brady: "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."

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

Brady: "I don't even know what the issues are. I haven't paid attention to politics in a long time. It's actually not something that I really even enjoy. It's way off my radar."

Brady: "I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don't work."

Brady: "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."

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

Brady: "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."

Brady: "My wife and I are very affectionate."

Brady: "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."

Brady: "Coaching wouldn't be for me. No, certainly not."

Brady: "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."

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

Brady: "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?"

Brady: "I firmly believe that sleep and recovery are critical aspects of an effective and holistic training program."

Brady: "I think the great part about what I do is that there's a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There's a tangible score."

Brady: "I could talk food all day. I love good food."

Brady: "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."

Brady: "I think hygiene is so important."

Brady: "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."

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

Brady: "As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you're married now. You still have all the things that you've had, plus you just keep adding."

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

Brady: "To score points, you need a lot of consistent effort over the course of the game. If you're throwing it or running it in, it's not a big difference in terms of the score at all, obviously. But turnovers limit your scoring. That's the problem with turnovers."

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