Tom Brady issued an apology for his comparison between football and military deployment on his weekly podcast. Brady is a seven-time Super Bowl champion. At the time, he was interacting with NBA player Kevin Durant.

On the SiriusXM podcast “Let’s Go! With Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald and Jim Gray,” the quarterback of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers claimed he made a “very poor choice of words.” The comment was made while he and Durant were discussing the challenge of juggling a commitment to becoming highly successful sportsmen with lives outside of athletics.

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“Earlier this week I made a statement about playing football and the military. It was a very poor choice of words,” Brady said. “I just want to express that to any sentiments out there that people may have taken in a certain way, so I apologize.”

Durant joined as a guest on the podcast on Monday.

“I almost look at a football season like you’re going away on deployment in the military, and it’s like, ‘Man, here I go again.’ There’s only one way to do it. … The reality is you can really only be authentic to yourself, right?” Brady said on the podcast.

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“Whenever you may say, ‘Oh man, I want to, you know, make sure I spend a little more time doing this.’ When it comes down to it, your competitiveness takes over and as much as you want to have this playful balance with the work balance, you’re going to end up doing exactly what you’ve always done, which is why you are who you are,” Brady added. “You’re going to go, how do I get it done?”

On Thursday, the quarterback was questioned about the argument he was presenting on the podcast.

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“To be honest, I really don’t want to expand on it too much. … I have a tremendous amount of gratitude for everyone who served (in the military),” Brady explained.

“In the end, we play a game and the military is defending our country,” Brady added. “It’s two very different things, and I shouldn’t have made the comparison.”