‘PERSONAL GOALS’

Tom Brady Says He’ll Be Back Next Season

The New England Patriots quarterback vows to push his football career to his mid-40s.

Amid speculation about his impending retirement, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady on Monday said he intends to keep playing in 2018 and push his football career into his mid-40s. “I have personal goals. I want to keep playing. I’ve said for a long time I want to play to my mid-40s,” Brady, 41, said while speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference in California. “I was told three years, when I was 36-37, ‘You can’t keep playing; no one wins Super Bowls [at that age].’ It’s a great challenge for me. I think I’ve been challenged my whole life. I feel like I can do it,” he told the audience. When asked if he feels appreciated by Patriots’ coach Bill Belichick and owner Robert Kraft, Brady said, “I plead the fifth.”