I got beat up my whole life.

The regular season is awesome. It's fun. But postseason, that intensity and adrenaline you get from it is a lot.

Psychologically, for an athlete to miss a game because of injury, it's tough.

Boston is really just a cool place to play.

I like to leisurely cruise around town on a longboard.

Bill Belichick has been an awesome, awesome guy to learn from.

Sometimes durability's better than ability, especially in this crazy sport.

The draft is an exciting time.

The Patriots do a great job of establishing a common rhetoric of working hard and working for the men that stand next to you on the field.

Peapod is a great company to work with.

I like looking at clothes, and I like going to shows and seeing new, fashion-forward stuff.

Why can't we make NFL apparel cool for every day instead of only wearing it on game day?

Devin McCourty - he's got his own style: he always wears a nice fitted suit and mixes up his colors. He's got some game when it comes to the fashion world.

I'm not completely Jewish, if you know what I mean. I know people want me to be. My father is Jewish. My mother isn't.

I guess you could say I'm kind of Jewish but not really.

My dad was just a little trailer trash white dude that worked his tail off, didn't have a dad. He started working at 14, didn't get to play sports. He dedicated his life to his kids to let us live our dreams.

I love my dad.

Everyone's got talent at the level we're at. But being a smart, tough football player - there's a huge premium for that.

It's one thing to be 100 percent and go out and play football feeling great. It's another thing when you're not feeling good. You're sick, or you got a nagging injury, and you gotta go out in the cold and go across the middle where a guy's coming full speed at you trying to kill you.

Tom Brady is Tom Brady. He was a sixth-round draft pick. A lot of people passed up on him. He's a Super Bowl Champion, Super Bowl MVP. He's been in a bunch of Super Bowls, and he could care less about all of that. He just cares about winning the next game.

The human voice: It's the instrument we all play. It's the most powerful sound in the world, probably. It's the only one that can start a war or say 'I love you.' And yet many people have the experience that when they speak, people don't listen to them.

Ears are made not for hearing but for listening. Listening is an active skill, whereas hearing is passive. Listening is something that we have to work at - it's a relationship with sound. And yet, it's a skill that none of us are taught.

It's a common mistake to speak the same to everybody. We all have different filters.

Listening is a crucial aspect of democracy. Listening creates understanding, and understanding permits one of the most important things about every democracy, which is civilized disagreement.

Every individual's listening is as unique as his or her fingerprints because we all listen through filters that develop from our personal mix of culture, language, values, beliefs, attitudes, expectations and intentions. That is why one person's musical taste is another person's hideous noise.

Let's define listening as making meaning from sound. It's a mental process, and it's a process of extraction. We use some pretty cool techniques to do this. One of them is pattern recognition.

Intention is very important in sound, in listening. When I married my wife, I promised her I would listen to her every day as if for the first time. Now that's something I fall short of on a daily basis.

We vote for politicians with lower voices, it's true, because we associate depth with power and with authority.

My mother, in the last years of her life, became very negative, and it's hard to listen. I remember one day, I said to her, 'It's October 1 today,' and she said, 'I know, isn't it dreadful?' It's hard to listen when somebody's that negative.

For the great speakers, it's all about the audience. And the feeling they have is that they're giving a gift, of maybe knowledge or inspiration or motivation.

The Hindus say, 'Nada brahma,' one translation of which is, 'The world is sound.' And in a way, that's true, because everything is vibrating.

Sound is complex; there are many countervailing influences. It can be a bit like a bowl of spaghetti: sometimes you just have to eat it and see what happens.

It would be some sort of shock horror story if a child left school unable to read or write. But we do not teach explicitly, or test in the main, either speaking or - much more importantly - listening.

I would suggest that our listening is the main way that we experience the flow of time from past to future.

There are just huge benefits to come from designing for the ears in our health care.

It is a mistake to assume that everyone listens like you do: your listening is as unique as your fingerprints, and so is everyone else's.

Just three minutes a day of silence is a wonderful exercise to reset your ears and to recalibrate so that you can hear the quiet again. If you can't get absolute silence, go for quiet; that's absolutely fine.

If you're listening consciously, you can take control of the sound around you. It's good for your health and for your productivity. If we all do that, we move to a state that I like to think will be sound living in the world.

Sadly, piped music in so many public spaces is often just more noise. Rarely is it carefully designed to enhance our experience; much more likely it is there because retailers have subscribed to an incorrect view that music makes people spend more.

I think it's pretty pointless, my children learning to use a keyboard - we will just talk to our computers. Why would we not?

A great deal of our work involves switching music off.

Not even a woman cannot understand two people talking at the same time.

In a room full of 60 to 70 people which is open plan and absolutely quiet, it's very intimidating to make a phone call. And if you do so, you're upsetting about 15 to 20 people because they're put off by your phone call.

I often go into shops and ask them to turn the music down.

The desire to be right can be very destructive in relationships.

Listening is an activity. It's not passive. We are creating the world by listening all the time.

All of our physical rhythms are being affected by sound outside us all the time.

My dream is to make the world sound better, but the only way to do that is to let businesses see that there is profit in it.

I think absolute honesty may not be what we want. I mean, 'My goodness, you look ugly this morning.' Perhaps that's not necessary.

I love reading other people's papers on the Tube.