Brady addresses concussion questions

FOXBOROUGH — After practice Friday, Tom Brady had his first press conference since the day after the Super Bowl. The quarterback, who was expansive in many of his replies, was asked about the comments from his wife Gisele Bundchen, who said Brady suffered a concussion last year.

“I don’t want to get into things that happened in my past, certain medical history and so forth. I really don’t think that’s anybody’s business, you know, what happened last year,” he said.

“I’m focused on this year and improving and working on things I need to get better at. That’s how I approach everything," he added. "I’m not sitting here worried about last year or five years ago. There’s other people that do worry about that — my wife or my parents or my sisters or people that love me and care about me — but I do the best that I can do to come out and be prepared to play, mentally and physically, and I give the game everything that I can.”

Brady was asked about the results of recent CTE studies, and whether he had examined that information as a player.

“Well, I think you’re not blind to it,” he said. “That’s why I believe in so much of being proactive with your health. I think when you’re a player and you see other players before you that did things a certain way and what’s transpired with their health or well-being and then you learn from it. I think that’s the things that I’ve really tried to incorporate in my own life.

“I’m confident in what I do. I’m confident in the things that I do and the ways I train,” he added. “But it’s a contact sport, and I think we all understand that. There’s a lot of great benefits that football brings you, [but] certainly you can be put in harm’s way. You just do the best you can do as a player and obviously it’s great that there’s more awareness for those types of things. That’s been a very important topic certainly. But you just try to be proactive and take care of your body the best way you can.”