“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.”

With football, you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two-game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

I think sometimes in life the biggest challenges end up being the best things that happen in your life.

Football is unconditional love.

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don’t get hit very often.

I think it’s a feeling like I’ve got it all figured out. There’s nothing that can shock me anymore. There’s nothing I haven’t anticipated; so at that point, there is a calmness.

I think you can just go out and try to be the best you can be, deal with people with respect, with honesty, with integrity, have a high moral standard. I’ve always really tried to exemplify that as an athlete. I’ll continue to try to do that.

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

I knew I became a professional when I stop paying attention to what time it was.

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.

So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I’ll say, ‘That’s right, keep the same haircut for ten years.’ How fun is that?

My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread – works all the time. I think I’ve been eating pasta for 26 years.

My job is to evaluate the field, pick the guy that I think is most open and make a good throw.

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.

When you lose, talk little. When you win, talk less.

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.

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.

The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.

I learned early in sports that to be effective – for a player to play the best he can play – is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

I don’t want to do business with those who don’t make a profit, because they can’t give the best service.

I never treat it like a job or feel that way. It’s the best thing ever to me, and I feel like a kid in a candy store.

If I was really trying to be the best fighter in the world, I would be in the best shape and taking it more serious but I’m not.

If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,