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In a recent interview with Good Morning America, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said that he “cringes” when he hears a particular nickname.
"It makes me cringe!"
The @Patriots' Tom Brady tells @michaelstrahan he still doesn't like it when people refer to him as the "G.O.A.T." https://t.co/x4xMHH0TFx pic.twitter.com/fi05gT2iYz
— Good Morning America (@GMA) February 5, 2019
People, allegedly, refer to Brady as the G.O.A.T. — the Greatest of All Time — and the faux-humble Patriot said that the term “makes him cringe.”
Former football player-turned-breakfast television host Michael Strahan conducted the interview with Brady, who was on vacation at Walt Disney World with fellow Patriot Julian Edelman.
The House of Mouse reportedly threw a whole confetti parade for the players, who took home their sixth Super Bowl ring this past Sunday.
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Tom Brady went on to say that he likes compliments even less than he likes disses (even though he seems to get more of the latter).
“I guess I take compliments worse than I … I wish you would say, ‘You’re trash, you’re too old, you’re too slow, you can’t get it done no more,'” And I’ll say, ‘Thank you very much, I’ll prove you wrong.'”
Brady's seemingly insatiable need to “prove people wrong” is something he uses as a “motivational tool.” Throughout the press tour leading up to the Super Bowl, Brady consistently painted the eleven-time Super Bowl attendees as the constant “underdogs” of the competition — an assertion that most people in the sports media found hard to swallow, given that the Patriots have now taken home six Super Bowl rings.
That said, it should be interesting to see how much longer Brady is going to ride this “poor, persecuted us” horse into the sunset.
