Sports Profile: Tom Brady

After leading the New England Patriots to their third straight AFC championship game, Tom Brady has been the NFL's model of consistent greatness for most of his career. Despite some peoples thought that he is no longer a top 5 QB, he proves them wrong every week, "I'm not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me." The most important thing a QB can do in the NFL is win. Winning is everything in the world of the NFL, and it just so happens that he is the winning-est QB in the league since 2001, "I'm a pretty good winner. I'm a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win." Brady knows that winning is the only thing that matters, "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." 

Brady is a three time super bowl champion, but out of five appearances. Even with the best NFL team of all time,(2007) New England could not pull off a win. Tom Brady wants nothing more than to return to the super bowl because he understands how important that is. All the accolades that Brady has acquired over the years really don't matter to him, and that shows that his head, and his actions are in the right space. Brady's relentless winning spirit helped lead a mediocre offense to a very strong record of 12-4. His winning spirit can also be seen in last years comeback games: New Orleans at Foxboro, Cleveland at Foxboro, and especially Denver at Foxboro, when they were down 24-0 in the first have and came back to win the game in overtime. Winning is so important to Brady, "the true competitors though, are the ones that always play to win." Brady's mental toughness, and mindset are the reason that he is not only the best in the league right now, but is the greatest QB in the history of the National Football league.