Quotes by Tom Brady

I'll get to the point right away. I'm retiring. For good. You only get one super emotional retirement essay and I used mine out last year.

We're playing in this very, very cool arena where Bayern Munich plays, kind of the country's top soccer team, and it looks amazing in pictures. The chance to go across to another country, play a sport that I love... there's 3 million ticket requests for 67,000 seats. So the place is gonna be rocking and if it's anything like what I see in those German Bundesliga games this is gonna be one of the most epic games that we've ever played in. So I'm super excited.

These past two months I've realized my place is still on the field and not in the stands. That time will come. But it's not now. I love my teammates, and I love my supportive family. They make it all possible. I'm coming back for my 23rd season in Tampa. Unfinished business.

I have loved my NFL career, and now it is time to focus my time and energy on other things that require my attention.

To my Bucs teammates the past two years, I love you guys, and I have loved going to battle with you.

When you're one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off.

It's just the reality of football, you know. One team, one year - and then it's never the same after that.

Every team is really qualified when you get to the final eight, then the final four, then the final two. And it doesn't feel good to lose any one of those games. And I've lost each of those stages.

Not a lot of people think that we could've won. In fact, about 40 percent of the people still don't think we won. You understand that, Mr. President?

This team is World Champion forever, you can't take it away from us.

The team had a lot of confidence, we came together the right time. I think we knew this was gonna happen tonight, didn't we?

Interviewer: "There's more to come. Right, Tom? There's more to come as far as football?"
Tom Brady: "Yeah, we're coming back."

Football is unconditional love.

We miss you already Kobe.

You're not going to see my sense of humor on the football field. That's not a place for me to joke around.

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

Football is unconditional love.

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.

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

I think my best asset as a player is that in the fourth quarter, with the game on the line, I have the desire to win and the feeling that our team is not going to lose.