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Tom Brady admitted he needs to be “better” about balancing his NFL career and spending time with his family.
“[During] the off season, my family’s got a lot of time. I’ve enjoyed that,” the Buccaneers quarterback told Us Weekly on Wednesday. “I can still do a better job of that. It’s just constantly trying to be a little bit better each day.”
Addressing his six-week retirement earlier this year, Brady — who shares two children, Benjamin, 14, and Vivian, 9, with wife Gisele Bündchen and has 14-year-old son Jack with ex Bridget Moynhan — said every decision “comes at a cost.”
“I just got to make sure I have things balanced out the way I need them balanced out at,” the 44-year-old footballer told the outlet.
He added, “I think for me, it’s just a matter of making sure in the off season, I try to cover a lot of things and make sure a lot of things are taken care of. And then when a football season comes, I can really focus on football.”
When he’s off the field and spending time with his kids, Brady said he treasures the small moments with his family.
“That’s the thing, we don’t have to do much. I think it’s not about where we’re going. It’s just us all,” he said. “My son had a school trip to Italy and if someone says, ‘What was your favorite trip about Italy?’ I would say the time I was in the car with my two sons.”
Brady continued “That’s what I remember more than anything, more than going to the Colosseum or some restaurant– the time in the car together. So as long as we’re all together, I’m pretty cool.”
Bündchen — who wed Brady in 2009 — previously opened up about how raising kids with the former Patriots player and three-time MVP was challenging with his job.
“It’s never the fairy tale people want to believe it is. It takes work to be really in sync with someone, especially after you have kids,” the 41-year-old model told British Vogue last month.
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Brady also previously admitted he’s not as good of a father as his father was to him.
“I hope [my children] don’t take things as far as I’ve taken them,” he said an ESPN “Man In The Arena” episode. “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.”
Brady initially announced his retirement from football in February before announcing that he was coming out of retirement just six weeks later.
Now that he is back in the game, he wants to make sure he spends as much time as possible with his kids before the season starts up again.
“My kids are getting a little bit older and obviously when football season starts, it gets pretty busy with just football.”
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