Zitate und Sprüche von 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.

Listen, I'm never going to be Tom Brady. There's a reason he's won so many Super Bowls, he's the greatest of all-time. I'm not going to try and be Tom, I'm going to be me.

Tom Brady's been playing football longer than I've been alive.

Tom Brady is a great quarterback, he's a great player, and what you've seen with him is he's gotten better every year.

Just like my agent had told me, Tom Brady is a really cool, down to earth guy.

The quarterback is going to be judged, fair or unfair, on success in the playoffs. You remember the quarterbacks - Terry Bradshaw, Joe Montana, Tom Brady - who have won three or four Super Bowls.

I don't mind sitting behind Tom Brady. That is the GOAT himself.

I think Tom Brady is one of the greatest competitors of all time.

Just like my agent had told me, Tom Brady is a really cool, down to earth guy.

Tommy Boy! This football journey with you has been nothing short of special. Thank you for your dedication to the game, putting the team in the best possible position to win every year, all the records that were broken, the Super Bowls, the memories, and your friendship through the last 12 years.

I’m back. I always said when I have that feeling and it feels right, I will be ready to take the field again. And I have that feeling. I’m ready.

You want to know what's so great man? The day that I retired, within 24 hours there was already rumors that I was coming out of retirement.

I wanted to go someplace where we can win right away. This is that place.

Tom [Brady] has actually called. Once he calls, it's like you better come or you're going to regret not coming. That's what it seems like.

Why can't Jameis Winston use the phone anymore?
Because he can't find the receiver.

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

On a football team, it’s not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together.

It's been a hell of a ride. I love you guys. See ya!

It's playoff football. We know what time it is, and there ain't no time to rest right now.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.

A win cures a lot.

Scott Hanson: "If it comes down to it, Brock. It's late in the fourth quarter, are you prepared to disappoint Taylor Swift?"
Brock Purdy: "Yes."

Wellington Mara always said: "Once a Giant, always a Giant." For me, it's only a Giant.

Jordan Love is going to be a great player. He's a f*cking great kid.

We got so many guys, great receivers and great tight ends and great running backs. Everyone can't shine at once, you know, it's everyone going to shine all together.

I don't want anyone to believe in me more than me.

Confidence is a very fragile thing.

I'm always happy-go-lucky, and people look at me and find it shocking that I could be depressed.

Bayern Munich's crowning achievement came with a 1-0 victory over Paris Saint-Germain in the UEFA Champions League final in Lisbon. Kingsley Coman, a Parisian and former PSG prospect, scored early in the second half. Manuel Neuer, the brilliant goalkeeper, made sure the lead stood up.

They wrote me off. I ain't write back though.