Brady: Focus on kids, work after 'amicable' divorce

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  • Jenna LaineESPN Staff Writer

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TAMPA, Fla. -- Speaking for the archetypal clip since his divorce from Gisele Bundchen was finalized past week, Tampa Bay Buccaneers backmost Tom Brady said connected his "Let's Go!" podcast Monday nighttime that the divided was "amicable" and his absorption is connected his children and winning shot games.

"I deliberation there's a batch of professionals successful beingness that spell done things that they woody with astatine enactment and they woody with astatine home," Brady said. "And evidently the bully quality is that it's a precise amicable concern and I'm truly focused connected 2 things -- taking attraction of my household and surely my children, and secondly, doing the champion occupation I tin to triumph shot games.

"So that's what professionals do. You absorption astatine enactment erstwhile it's clip to work, and past erstwhile you travel location you absorption connected the priorities that are astatine home. And each you tin bash is the champion you tin do, and that's what I'll conscionable proceed to bash arsenic agelong arsenic I'm working, arsenic agelong arsenic I'm being a dad."

Brady and Bundchen, who were joined for 13 years, stock associated custody of 2 children, Benjamin, 12, and Vivian, 9. Brady said they spent the play successful Tampa, which included a sojourn to the movies. They besides volunteered with Operation BBQ Relief, assembling and delivering nutrient to families affected by Hurricane Ian successful Englewood and North Port.

Brady besides has a 15-year-old son, Jack, with histrion Bridget Moynahan. They unrecorded successful New York.

The 45-year-old signal-caller acknowledged the challenges of not lone compartmentalizing things, but having backstage matters of his beingness play retired successful the nationalist oculus portion his squad is struggling to climb retired of a 3-5 hole.

"I deliberation that's what being a nonrecreational is. So I've dealt with a batch of challenging situations connected and disconnected the tract implicit 23 years, and a batch of it does play retired successful beforehand of a batch of people," Brady said. "So I deliberation the absorbing happening for, you know, a shot player, an jock successful wide is, you're retired determination -- I ever accidental we're not actors, adjacent though we're connected TV -- that is our existent aforesaid retired determination and we're trying to bash our best.

"That's however radical truly person gotten to cognize maine implicit the years, by being connected TV. And that is an authentic aforesaid that's retired determination to vie with my teammates each day. And you're giving each you tin to the squad and you know, everyone's going done antithetic things. We each person our unsocial challenges successful beingness and we're each humans and we bash the champion we tin do."

Brady reaffirmed the value of household successful his beingness and being contiguous successful his children's lives, and besides successful surviving a beingness helium tin beryllium arrogant of.

"I person unthinkable parents that person ever taught maine the close mode to bash things. And I privation to beryllium a large begetter to my children and ever effort to bash things the close mode arsenic well. And to woody with things that are successful your life, that person challenges -- you privation to woody with them successful the champion imaginable way. So I privation to ever beryllium capable to clasp my caput precocious connected and disconnected the field, and I'm going to effort to proceed to bash that for arsenic agelong arsenic I'm here."

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