I take three showers a day. I don’t need to be in the shower for 15 minutes. I’m a five-minute guy.

We have a lot of respect and love for Bruschi. But he’s gone. That’s unfortunate for us, but we have to move on. Just like if I got injured they’d have to move on without me. That’s just part of the game. That’s reality.

There’s nothing easy about winning a game in the National Football League, let alone winning a championship, things that we’ve done in the past. However, that’s in the past.

If guys feed off me, that's fine. But I'm going to play my way and I don't change. One hundred percent every single play, every single day. That's just me. And hopefully guys, especially the young guys, feed off of it and hopefully they learn how to be a professional and bring their 'A' game every day.

Sometimes unnecessary roughness is necessary.

We have a lot of respect and love for Bruschi. But he's gone. That's unfortunate for us, but we have to move on. Just like if I got injured they'd have to move on without me. That's just part of the game. That's reality.

I take three showers a day. I don't need to be in the shower for 15 minutes. I'm a five-minute guy.

There's nothing easy about winning a game in the National Football League, let alone winning a championship, things that we've done in the past. However, that's in the past.

You can’t depend on special teams touchdowns and blocked punts every week to win.

The league is really set up for the owners to make money and I really don't like the structure of the players' contract. But that's another situation. I think technically, as far as stepping down, he did a great job.