Tom Brady is a quarterback who played for the New England Patriots for 20 seasons in the National Football League. In the opinion of many, he is the most successful quarterback of all time, if not the greatest player of all time, and his record of wins supports that conclusion. He now plays for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Brady’s success in his chosen sport he credits to the way he lives his life. He practices a strict diet regime, which involves avoiding a range of foods, drinking copious amounts of water, and refusing coffee. His everyday routine is highly regimented, with yoga and resistance training, undertaking transcendental meditation, and going to bed early.
He also promotes his own range of vegan foods, plus other supplements and meals designed to aid recovery after a workout. Brady is eager to maintain his body at peak fitness and health and advises others to do the same. His philosophy includes the welfare of the mind, and his use of meditation and yoga combined with his exercise regime support his view that both the mind and the body must be exercised to remain fit for purpose.
Brady believes that the course of a person’s life is entirely in their own hands. This is because we are free to make choices. If we are not satisfied with what we have, then we can choose to act to change things. Don’t blame others for our own failings, but take action to change the situation we find ourselves in.
Self-belief is high on Tom Brady’s list of qualities we all need. No one else will believe in you if you don’t have belief in yourself. He does stress that if you have talent, you should be prepared to use it to achieve what you want. Too often, people have talent but allow it to go to waste. Every person should try to be the best they can in their chosen career. There is always further to go along the path to success, so don’t rest on your achievements part way along the road. Keep striving and keep succeeding.
Tom Brady talks of failure as being a hard lesson. He never forgets failures he has suffered because every time he worked harder to be sure he wouldn’t fail again. Failure, for Brady, must be avoided, and determination and single-mindedness is the best way to avoid disappointment. He says that by remembering his mistakes, he learns from them.
Tom Brady Quotes
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.
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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.
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I think that at the start of a game, you’re always playing to win, and then maybe if you’re ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.
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You wanna know which ring is my favorite? The next one.
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If you don’t believe in yourself why is anyone else going to believe in you?
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I don’t care about three years ago… I don’t care about two years ago. I don’t care about last year. The only things I care about is this week.
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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.
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It’s never come easy for me. I don’t think my mind allows me to rest ever. I have, I think, a chip on my shoulder, and some deep scars that I don’t think were healed.
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I didn’t come this far to only come this far, so we’ve still got further to go.
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See, there are a lot of guys who are all talk. They say they want to work harder and be the best, but they never pay the price.
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You push your body to the limited but you have to train your body to deal with the limits.
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Everybody has an opinion. I think everybody has the right to believe whatever they want. I don’t ever cast judgment on someone’s belief system.
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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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Maybe some people can wake up and play playstation all day, but that’s never been me.
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If you don’t play to win, don’t play at all.
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Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.
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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.
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If you don’t believe in yourself why is anyone else going to believe in you?
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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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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.
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I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.
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All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.
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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.
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Things don’t correct themselves, you’ve got to go out there and work hard to correct them.
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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.
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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.
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The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.
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I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nothing surprises me anymore in the NFL.
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There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.
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The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player.
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I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.
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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?
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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.
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When I’m out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I’m doing.
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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.
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Who’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day.
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Football is unconditional love.
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The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.
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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.
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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.
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If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.
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One thing I learned in college is that the coach decides who plays, and when he says to go in there, you play your butt off.
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You never get over losses. I’ve never gotten over one loss I’ve had in my career. They always stick with me.
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See, there are a lot of guys who are all talk. They say they want to work harder and be the best, but they never pay the price.
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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.
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I am not a person that’s self-satisfied just being out there. I want to go out there and play great.
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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.
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I can’t do anything with what’s happened in the past. I have to just go forward with the most awareness I can going forward and trying to be the best I can be for our team.
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I think the running game is very important to every offense. Being balanced is extremely important. There’s times where you have to throw the ball. You could be down late in the game, you need to come back; you have to be able to pass it when they know you’re passing it.
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I think sometimes in life the biggest challenges end up being the best things that happen in your life.
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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.
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I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.
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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.
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If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.
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Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.
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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.
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If you’re a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.
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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.
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I’ve had just about everything punched. I’ve had things grabbed that just shouldn’t be grabbed.
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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.
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I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.
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There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.
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I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.
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There are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.
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Athletes are always talking about money at a time when everyone else is struggling so badly to make it. We all make way more than our fair share. And I just think it reflects poorly on myself and my teammates. 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.
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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.
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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.
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I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal.
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I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.
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I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.
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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.
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Sometimes some of the toughest things you deal with end up being the best things because you realize the people that you can rely on, that love you and support you through it.
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When you are reading these Tom Brady quotes, keep in mind that he tries to make everything he says meaningful. The quotes below are proof that he does just that. He admits to being an emotional person and sees no problem in expressing his emotions. He does, however, warn us against revealing our personal feelings to the wider world.
He feels that what needs to be private should be kept private. This is important to him as someone who lives in the glare of publicity. He always thinks before he speaks, and so what he has to say has greater effectiveness. These Tom Brady quotes reflect a life of success and will inspire you to be successful too.