Tom Brady Thanks Patriots in New Retirement Post: I’m ‘Beyond Grateful’

As soon as a Patriot, all the time a Patriot. Tom Brady shared his gratitude for the New England soccer staff and its followers after asserting his retirement.

“Thanks Patriots Nation,” the quarterback, 44, wrote on Twitter on Tuesday, February 1, hours after sharing plans to step away from the game. “[I’m] past grateful and love you all.” Alongside the publish, Brady shared a press release from Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft who celebrated the 20 years that the participant spent with the franchise.

“Phrases can not describe the emotions I’ve for Tom Brady, nor adequately specific the gratitude my household, the New England Patriots and our followers have for Tom for all he did throughout his profession,” Kraft, 80, wrote in the statement. “You didn’t must be a Patriots fan to respect and recognize his competitiveness, willpower and can to win that fueled his success. As a fan of soccer, it was a privilege to look at. As a Patriots fan, it was a dream come true.”

He concluded: “I’ve the best respect for Tom personally and all the time will. … I’ll all the time really feel a detailed bond to him and can all the time take into account him an extension of my speedy household.”

After sparking retirement hypothesis, Brady confirmed that he had determined to hang up his cleats after 22 years within the NFL through a prolonged assertion on Twitter. “That is tough for me to write down, however right here it goes, I’m not going to make that aggressive dedication anymore,” the athlete wrote. “I’ve liked my NFL profession, and now it’s time to focus my time and vitality on different issues that require my consideration.”

He went on to thank his teammates on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who he performed with from 2020 via January 2022. “I really like you guys, and I’ve liked going to battle with you. … I couldn’t be happier with what we completed collectively.”

The TB12 cofounder concluded his assertion by thanking his wife, Gisele Bündchen, and his youngsters Jack, 14, Benjamin, 12, and Vivian, 9. “Our household is my biggest achievement,” Brady wrote. “I all the time got here off the sphere and residential to probably the most loving and supportive wife who has completed EVERYTHING for our household to permit me to concentrate on my profession. Her selflessness allowed me to achieve new heights professionally, and I’m past phrases what you imply to me and our household.”

At some point earlier than his retirement announcement, the NFL champion defined that Bündchen, 41, and their household was the most important consider his resolution to go away soccer behind. “She deserves [to get] what she wants from me as a husband and my children deserve what they want from me as a dad,” Brady stated throughout an episode of his SiriusXM podcast “Let’s Go! with Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald and Jim Grey.”

He continued: “I stated this a couple of years in the past, [but that’s] what relationships are all about. It’s not all the time what I would like. It’s what we would like as a household. And I’m gonna spend lots of time with them and determine … what’s subsequent.”

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