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I like to get in a battle I can win.
Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases.
I realize that my worst day is pretty good.
Loyalty and friendship trumps politics for me.
To be honest, after the draft, I'm always excited.
I'm passionate about owning a football team in my hometown.
I'm blessed with four great children and eight grandchildren.
No one's going to feel sorry for me because I've been so blessed.
Working class people and lower income people we have to help more.
I like making money, but it's a scorecard. I'm not driven by that.
Hang out with good people, do good things, and always put the team first.
I really don't hold grudges. I mean, I remember everything, but I move on.
You don't have to wait for a tragedy to occur to rush to help those in need.
Anyone who starts piercing the bubble of happiness, get 'em out of your life.
Life is about collecting good people around you. You can’t have enough good people.
My job is to keep everyone together, strong big egos, and keep the peace in the family.
I try to hire good people and let them do their job and don't question how they do things.
I think we're living in a world where there are no boundaries anymore. There are no borders.
After the love of my family, there's nothing more important to me than winning football games.
Sometimes, life is unfair, and you have to suck it up and move on and not use it as an excuse.
If you want to win in this league, you need quality depth management, in the age of the salary cap.
If I've had any modicum of success, it's because I've had good relationships, and people trusted me.
Whenever you can get a competitive, first-grade person to join your team, you never know what happens.
I try to stay very busy. I basically work seven days a week. I try to do new things, to meet new people.
Tom Brady is a person of great integrity and is a great ambassador of the game both on and off the field.
I'm driven by my passion - my family, my philanthropy, and the New England Patriots winning. That's my life.
Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value.
Dream a big dream, a bold dream. Don't play conservatively between the 40 yard lines. Don't just play it safe.
If you're running businesses anywhere in the world, people who really do well are the people who have mental toughness.
When you do well, everybody's after you, and sometimes the motives are legitimate, and sometimes it's envy and jealousy.
That whole concept of team and teamwork and team first - that's how Israel, in my opinion, has survived in the Middle East.
I just didn't like the way we were, in my opinion, being unfairly attacked. I just decided to do what was right for our family.
The game of football requires attention constantly. If you miss one play, you can miss a lot of action - unlike some other sports.
Leadership is about stepping up when it's the appropriate time and then making sure everyone knows that we're all on the same page.
Leadership is about having the courage to go against the advice of the so-called experts and doing what your instinct tells you is right.
It's not the great stars that win; it's the great teams that win. It's the teams that subjugate their ego to the team and put the team first.
I am not comfortable discussing politics publicly; I am very comfortable talking about my friendships with people who happen to be in politics.
While I believe in second chances and giving players an opportunity for redemption, I also believe that playing in the NFL is a privilege, not a right.
When I was graduating from college, the things I valued most were family, faith, and philanthropy. I refer to them as the three f's, phonetically speaking.
If you choose to do things that you are passionate about, you will not only do them better, but most importantly, you'll be a significantly happier person.
To be successful in football, you have to do things that put the team first. Everyone has to play their role, and if they don't do it, you're not going to win.
People are tweeting, texting, and e-mailing - and not connecting. There are very few ways for communities to come together. It happens at concerts and at sporting events.
We play by the rules, we play hard and we prepare hard. The work ethic of our team and preparation is like no other in my opinion and we try to make our fans in America proud.
One of my beliefs about leadership is it's not how many followers you have, but how many people you have with different opinions that you can bring together and try to be a good listener.
A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don't have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perserverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough.
The key to life, in my opinion, is to hang with good people, to have good people around you all the time because you're always going to have some people who will try and lead you in a certain place, and when the pressure comes on, you want real tough, solid people sitting next to you.
To be fair to Pete, I had just come off a very difficult owner relationship with my then head coach and I was looking for a different style. So I didn't give Pete all the power he should have had. I don't think there's any exact formula for how it's done. It's really what fits each individual system.
I'm not a Starbucks guy. I'm a Dunkin Donuts guy, but I like to pay for the coffee of the other folks behind me in line. It typically costs me less than $10, and makes the other people feel good, but more importantly, it makes me feel so good, and random acts of kindness change the world one person at a time.
The greatest decisions I've made in my life are by instinct. I remember when I hired Bill I had a lot of people telling me it was a mistake. But he and I had established a rapport in '96 when he coached the secondary. You need a coach that understands economics, that understands the impact of the salary cap and how to make those difficult decisions that allow you to sustain success over the long term. I don't think there's anyone better than Bill at doing that.