In his 23-year NFL career, Brady started 333 regular-season games. And in a league like the NFL, you don’t survive that many starts without enduring pain.

Many presumed his obsession to keep at it, the fact that he played over five times longer than the average playing career of a quarterback, came from a place of arrogance. But that certainly is not how Brady sees it.

“I spent some time with Jerry Rice recently, which is always a little surreal having grown up in the Bay Area idolizing his Niners team,” explained Brady in his latest edition of the 199 newsletter . “We got to talking about our careers as guys who played longer than anyone else at our respective positions, and Jerry said something that really resonated with me. The thing that kept him going all those years at such a hi

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