Drew Brees

“And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.”

“I'm a very modest person.”

“I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me.”

“It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.”

“I love the Cowboys in the early 90s. That was their heyday, winning all those Super bowls. Troy Aikman was a person I looked up to.”

“Obviously if Gates turns out missing the first game because of this, that's disappointing for everyone in this locker room because he is big part of our team and we don't want to see that happen.”

“We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.”

“It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. That's what I did.”

“I know Andy Roddick's probably tired about me talking about how many times I beat him when we were kids.”

“It took me six months to redeem myself at least to have another chance to at least have her get to know me and let her know I was at least a decent guy and to give me a shot. And here we are, we've been married seven years.”

“You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.”

“You can always be a little bit better.”

“I grew up in Texas, obviously a huge football state.”

“Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.”

“I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.”

“There's always a little bit of personal satisfaction when you prove somebody wrong.”

“We have a beautiful little boy who is 18 months old and another little boy to be born in October. We are very excited about that.”

“There are still goals to be accomplished. There are still challenges to be met. And so I'm still very focused on that.”

“My No. 1 priority, and it always has been this, is keeping our team together and making sure we have the right guys in the right positions to make a run at this for a long time.”

“I can change a diaper in 30 seconds flat. I set the new one beneath the old one. That way, it's just wipe and pull the flap over.”