1. “Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day — it all just hurts.”
2. “Man, wear your seat belts. That’s all I can tell everybody. You never know.”
3. “Don’t rely on others. You’ll have great support from a lot of people, still. But, no one’s going to hand you anything.”
4. “If you don’t believe in yourself, why is anyone else going to believe in you?”
5. “I could talk food all day. I love good food.”
6. “Moderation in everything. If there’s something you really love, you should enjoy it. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.”
7. “I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.”
8. “All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.”
9. “The last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happening so quick.”
10. “I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.”
11. “As a part of the NFL, things change every year.”
12. “If you don’t play to win don’t play at all.”
13. “I didn’t come this far to only come this far, so we’ve still got further to go.”
14. “You guys know how many times I have been turned down in my life? To be told how many times that I couldn’t accomplish something?”
15. “You push your body to the limits, but you have to train your body to deal with the limits.”
16. “If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.”
17. “When I’m out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I’m doing.”
18. “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.”
19. “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.”
20. “Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.”
21. “I approach every week the same. I think I’ve always tried to be very professional to how I approach the game, my preparation. Every game is important.”
22. “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.”
23. “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.”
24. “I think sometimes in life the biggest challenges end up being the best things that happen in your life”
25. “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.”
26. “If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful. I want to go out there and do the best I can for them.”
27. “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.”
28. “There are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.”
29. “I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‘Let’s see if I can get this done today.”
30. “I really love training and being in good shape, and it’s so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.”
31. “Things don’t correct themselves, you’ve got to go out there and work hard to correct them.”
32. “The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.”
33. “My wife doesn’t let anyone wear shoes in our house, so we have a bench, and under the bench is all UGGs slippers.”
34. “I knew I became a professional when I stop paying attention to what time it was.”
35. “You never get over losses. I’ve never gotten over one loss I’ve had in my career. They always stick with me.”
36. “It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.”
37. “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.”
38. “The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.”
39. “I’ve had a lot of ridiculous haircuts.”
40. “I’ve had just about everything punched. I’ve had things grabbed that just shouldn’t be grabbed.”
41. “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?”
42. “I really focus on my jeans and sweaters for them to fit really well. There was a time that wasn’t the case.”
43. “I firmly believe that sleep and recovery are critical aspects of an effective and holistic training program.”
44. “I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.”
45. “Everyone does things differently on offense. Everyone’s goal is to score points.”
46. “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.”
47. “Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.”
48. “Your life will be what you make of it.”
49. “I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.”
50. “It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.”
51. “If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.”
52. “I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don’t work.”
53. “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.”
54. “I really do just want to win, and that has and will continue to be the reason that motivates me and is the biggest factor in my decision-making process.”
55. “I think hygiene is so important.”
56. “You wanna know which ring is my favorite? The next one.”
57. “There’s nothing more comfortable or leisurely than having a pair of Ugg slippers on in the house.”
58. “I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.”
59. “My wife and I are very affectionate.”
60. “You put all the other stuff aside and go out and do your job, and mine is to be the best I can be for my teammates.”
61. “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 or who is out there on the field with me.”
62. “I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal.”
63. “I thought I would never get a chance to play, until one time I did, because I was prepared and the opportunity presented itself.”
64. “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.”
65. “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.”
66. “Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.”
67. “I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.”
68. “I’ve never eaten a strawberry in my life. I have no desire to do that.”
69. “Maybe some people can wake up and play playstation all day, but that’s never been me.”
70. “I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.”
71. “You’ve learned some very valuable lessons in the course of your career, and you’re going to continue to learn very valuable lessons.”
72. “When you’re one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.”