The power of positive thinking can change your life.Collection: Power
That's always the biggest thing, especially in the secondary, is building not just communication and everything but friendships and bonds of off-the-field stuff and things like that.Collection: Communication
I think it's always good when you work out with your teammates. You just develop a stronger friendship, a stronger bond.Collection: Friendship
Let all your moments of self-doubt, fear, or disappointment fuel your drive to be great.Collection: Fear
You can't take momentum and how you played from a win and think you just carry it over to the next game, and you can't take a loss and how you felt after and think that you can just transfer that and that's going to help you play better.
I think the more you can kind of decrease yourself and kind of increase other people's stories and give them the light, I think that's what it's all about. Whether it's community service or giving back to the community in different ways or helping people, it's not about yourself.
Players have already done a lot of groundwork trying to fight systems, I think we have to continue to do that, and as things happen to play out.
I mean, I love New England. But after 10 years and winning three Super Bowls, something inside was telling me that I was ready for a new challenge. And I thought I might have to go elsewhere to find it.
So much of my development as a football player and as a man has been here in New England, and it's an honor to hopefully be able to finish my career here and be a Patriot for life.
I think that every guy who has come through New England would say that he gained a lot of knowledge and experience that made him a better football player. But they also learned what it means to be a better teammate, a better husband and a better father. I think cultivating that kind of atmosphere is something we take a lot of pride in here.
Free agency is always interesting, exciting, sad. It brings all emotions.
The funny thing is everybody wants to win a Super Bowl, and it really doesn't change anything in your daily life.
I think the biggest I learned when I got to the NFL is everyone is different. We have guys from all over. We believe in different things. We do different things. At the end of the day, we all come to the facility for work.
As much as we love the game since we've been playing it since we were kids, it's still our job.
It's always exciting to have a guy you played with in college as a teammate in the NFL.
The only thing that helps you play better is being ready to go against your next opponent.
It's just a tremendous feeling that you come from losing your father at 3 years old, to now, you and your twin brother in the NFL. A dream.
There are so many good players, so many good coaches.
I watch a little 'SportsCenter.'
I always believe in servanthood. It's about not elevating yourself to a positon of power. It's about humbling yourself to the last guy on the roster and try to help him do his job better. That's what my approach has always been.
I think you can't have swagger when you're giving up 30 points or four- or five-hundred yards.
Davante Adams is a great receiver.
You're not going to just trick Aaron Rodgers 80 percent of the time. It's just not going to happen.
I think that's everybody - you want to win every game.
Losing sucks.
I'm not a QB guru.
I think that's the cool thing about playing at home is your fans are going to come out, and then it's up to you.
I'm not a big trash-talker.
I think my goal is always to win as many games as possible.
I don't think you ever come into the season and talk, 'Super Bowl, Super Bowl, Super Bowl.' It's about improving and winning games along the way as you improve.
At the end of the day, we try to get wins. We just go out there and play.
I always tell people the hardest thing is competing against the guys you see every day because any of my strengths that I like to go to, they see that every day.
Yeah, I mean, listen - anybody that's in the NFL is a good player.
I think the NFL season starts with the first three or four games and all the predictions come out. You're either great on offense, bad on defense, great on defense, bad on offense. You're either going to have a Super Bowl chance or you won't. And I think after that, people kind of think everything's set in stone.
All these systems are in place for the black race to fail, to always be underneath.
When you sign up for different jobs, you kind of discuss it as a family, the hardship of that.
That's what coaching is: It's watching film and putting guys in the best position.
When I think about the Patriot Way, I think about a team.
Coming out of high school and college, I wasn't really the top guy.
You don't forget any time you play for a championship and you don't win it. It's just something that sticks with you.
You always want plays back; you want to do things differently. It doesn't control your day-to-day, but you always think about it.
We have to stop any offense when they're operating at their best.
Contract year isn't what everyone else talks about. For a player, it's just another year in the league.
You're not going to be as good as you're going to be at the end of the season in your first preseason game.
Especially in the secondary, a lot of your tackles are usually going to be in the open field, one-on-one tackles, so you can't be out there thinking about making a pretty tackle or having the ground ooh and ahh.
To me, when you play in the middle of the field or when you play safety, you have to do so much communicating that you've got to kind of watch the whole offense. You can't just pick a guy or just pass plays.
Film wise, I always just kind of watch the offense overall.
I don't know technique-wise, just I've always tackled the same. I've never even really thought about how I tackle or any of that.
I was actually a Cowboys fan growing up, so I didn't care much for the Jets or Giants.
I think a lot of trust is done even off the field. When you get to know guys and you see their story, you understand what they're about and what playing on a team means to them.