“How can I be more honest, accept things that don’t go as planned? When you try to combat everything, at the end of the day you realize that you’re responsible for yourself,” New England Patriots QB Tom Brady says in the September issue of Esquire Magazine.

“Look at the attention I get: It’s because I throw a football. But that’s what society values. That’s not what God values,” Brady said. “He didn’t invent the game. We did. I have some eye-hand coordination, and I can throw the ball. I don’t think that matters to God.”

The article does not offer any insight into the quarterback’s steamy romance with the World’s Highest-Paid supermodel. The magazine only received permission to interview Tom if his girlfriend Gisele Bundchen, ex Bridget Moynahan, and their 1-year-old son were not mentioned in the story.