Reflective Brady: 'I'll never stop as long as I'm able'

After a week of reflection on his latest legendary achievement, Tom Brady is just as certain about his playing future as before, if not more.

The New England Patriots quarterback has taken a liking to Instagram after switching over from Facebook in January, posting another message about Super Bowl LI and his prospective retirement on Sunday.

It’s hard to believe a week has passed since SB51. It’s hard to believe the game is only 60 minutes. It's harder to believe I've been a Patriot for 17 years! What happens on that field with my teammates, in front of our family and fans, is almost impossible to describe. It’s mythical for me, and yet it’s real. And it’s why I’ll never stop as long as I’m able. #ROS

A photo posted by Tom Brady (@tombrady) on Feb 12, 2017 at 3:51pm PST

Brady will be 40 when the 2017 season opens and doesn't seem to be slowing down on the field. However, he is getting more poetic and reflective as he ages.

"If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!' If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, ' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch, if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!"

A photo posted by Tom Brady (@tombrady) on Feb 9, 2017 at 7:17am PST

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