Tom Brady - The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance

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TOM BRADY is the quarterback and offensive captain of the New England Patriots, a team he has played for since 2000. During his time with the team, he has won five Super Bowls, and was named MVP in four of them (Super Bowls XXXVI, XXXVIII, XLIX, and LI). Additionally, he has won two league MVP awards (2007 and 2010), has been selected to twelve Pro Bowls, and has led the New England Patriots to more division titles (fourteen) than any other quarterback in NFL history. As of the end of the 2016 season, Brady is fourth all-time in career passing yards, fourth in career touchdown passes, and third in career passer rating. With a career postseason record of 25-9, he has won more playoff games than any other quarterback and has appeared in more playoff games than any player at any position. The TB12 Method is his first book.

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WRITING A BOOK IS A long, involved process. Its a lot like what Ive experienced in my own professional career, in fact. It requires great teamwork, focus, determinationand everyone doing their job at the highest possible levels. First, of course, I want to thank one of my dearest friends, and my body coach, Alex, who developed the TB12 Method ideas with me not just in this book but over the last twelve years, and whose genius, friendship, and ongoing support have enabled my own sustained peak performance. We have an unbreakable bondand it has been so much fun sharing in our success on and off the field. Thank you. None of this would have been possible without you.

Of course, I also want to thank the New England Patriots and especially Robert Kraft for believing in me and giving me the opportunity to lead and play my sport with the best ownership, coaching, staff, and fans anyone could hope for. I can never adequately express the gratitude I feel to all the friends, teammates, former teammates, and coaches and mentors past and present whove inspired me to learn and grow and to get where I am today. Its the highest privilege to have had the shared experiences and collective success weve enjoyed together, and I look forward to accomplishing even more. I also want to thank all my competitors past and present, who always push me to work harder and dig deeperas well as all the people whove come to the TB12 Sports Therapy Center over the years, whose stories continue to inspire me .

I also want to thank all my friends for the support they have given me from high school to college to today. My friends have been instrumental in supporting me and teaching me what love and friendship mean over the course of my life. Thank you for always pushing me to be my best, from elementary school to my eighteenth professional year. There are too many of you to mention, but you know who you are, and I love you all.

Thank you to all the people at TB12our board, our staff, our body coaches, and all the clients weve been privileged to serve over the years. My friend and TB12 board member Tony Tjan was key in bringing this book from concept to reality, including coordinating the process and content development. It was Tony who introduced me to my writing collaborator, Peter Smith, who was instrumental in shaping, organizing, and bringing clarity to my ideas. Peter has a unique gift with words while always staying true to voice, story, and meaning. I also want to thank Hilario Bango for his creative direction, Shubhani Sarkar for her incredible design work, Kevin OBrien for many of the photographs throughout the book, and literary agent James Levine. From the outset of this book project, I knew I had the right publishing partner in Simon & Schuster. Thank you to my dear friend Les Moonves, and to the president of Simon & Schuster, Jon Karp, and to my editor, Jofie Ferrari-Adler, for all your support, commitment, and hard work on behalf of this book.

Finally, I dedicate this book to my incredible family. Thank you to my mom, dad, sisters, and extended family for all the love and support youve always given me. Ive always wanted to represent our family in a positive way. You have all been my role models, and I couldnt accomplish anything without you. I also want to thank my wife, Gisele. Your love and support for me and all that you do for our family makes it possible for me to live my dream, and I am beyond blessed to have you as my partner. I love you more than you will ever know. You are the light of my life. And to my three children, Jack, Benny, and VivianDaddy loves you.

IVE LOVED SPORTS, AND BEEN extremely competitive at them, my whole life. I may have picked up my first football at age five, but the path that got me to where I am today was never really straight or easy.

I was born and grew up in San Mateo, California, in the Bay Area, the youngest of four children and the only boy. Everyone always called me Tommy. We were a hardworking, sports-centric family with parents who put their kids before anything else. When I was young, my dad was self-employed and on the road a lot, building up his insurance business. He was out the door by seven in the morning and gone till six at night. My mom was in charge of the house, washing our clothes, cooking our meals, always keeping the domestic side of the family going. My dad was tired when he got home from work, but he never let that get in the way of our time together. Hed still be in his dress shirt when he drove me to the baseball field or the driving range, where the two of us would hit, or field ground balls, or practice throwing as the day grew dark. I loved those times with my dad, and on the drives back home, I remember that good feeling of Im hitting the baseball better or I think I may be fielding better. (I still feel that way today, for example with my throwing mechanics; Im still always improving and learning.) My parents were just as involved in my sisters lives and sports. My dad would coach their teams sometimes, with my mom serving as the team mom, getting pizza and sodas for all the players.

My parents also had four season tickets to the San Francisco 49ers games at Candlestick Park, ten rows from the top of the stadium on the southwest sidebasically in the south end zone. On Sundays we all went to church in the morning, then made the forty-five-minute drive to Candlestick and the 49ers game, and when it was over, back at home my mom would start getting dinner ready while the rest of us gathered around to watch the game highlights on TV. Those four season tickets usually went to my dad and mom, one of my sisters, and me, since going to a game was always the high point of my weekend. I cant say I have that vivid a memory of it, but on January 10, 1982, when I was four years old, I was at Candlestick Park during one of the greatest games in football history. On the final drive of the NFC Championship game, the 49ers were down by six points with fifty-one seconds left to play when Joe Montana, the 49ers quarterback, got around a three-man rush and threw the pass that became The Catcha perfect ball that his receiver Dwight Clark leaped up to grab just inside the end zone. Everyone in the stadium jumped up. People were crying, including methough, to be honest, Id been crying during the whole first half, too, since I wanted a foam finger with 49ERS ARE #1 printed on it. (I think my dad finally bought me one at halftime just to shut me up!)