Tom Brady can always count on his family to be his biggest cheerleaders.
In episode 10 of the ESPN series Man in the Arena: Tom Brady, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback opened up about his relationship with his father, Tom Brady Sr.
“There’s a big commitment that your parents make, and my dad made every commitment to me that was, you know, an amazing dad,” he said. “There was never a moment where he didn’t have time to support what I wanted to do and try to achieve because it’s a hard thing to do.”
Later on in the episode, Brady reflected on his own experience with fatherhood.
“When I think about being a dad, I think about him because of what my dad meant to me,” he said. “I know I’m not as good a dad to my kids that my dad’s been to me. I use them as my example as to how to keep a family together and to care and to support and to love.
“We want our kids to be happy. I want them to be respectful of people. I want them to be kind. I want them to make the world a better place.”
“I think maybe what I’d wish for my children is to find something that they really love to do like I have, but I think I have taken it to an extreme too, you know?” he explained. “There are imbalances in my life. And you know, I hope they don’t take things as far as I’ve taken them.”
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As he put it, “I want them to experience great success in whatever they do, but there’s a torment about me that I don’t wish upon them.”
This past February, Brady announced his retirement from football, but it did not last long as the following month he would announce his return to the Tampa Bay Bucs.
“I know there’s time for me to be sitting in the stands, and I know there’s time for me to do other things,” he said in the ESPN series, “but there’s still a desire to win.”
Brady will play his third season with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers later this fall.
