Tom Brady is almost a year removed from his fifth Super Bowl title, and yet he hasn't quite let go of a particular piece of motivation from his latest championship season.

During a scene from April 2017 in Facebook Watch's debut episode of its six-part "Tom vs Time" documentary series on Thursday, the 40-year-old New England Patriots quarterback can seen going through old binders at his home -- and stumbling upon an infamous file.

A notification from the NFL that he had been suspended for the first four games of the 2016 season -- a controversial penalty for his alleged involvement in the Pats' Deflategate scandal.

"So I still keep this," Brady says, maintaining an uncomfortable smile. "My suspension letter that I received. Just a nice way to remember."

Later in the episode, Brady tells the camera he doesn't "need exterior motivations" because "the ones that are inside of me are enough," all while proclaiming his desire to simply keep winning after racking up the Lombardi Trophies. But it appears, at least entering 2017, that one exterior motivation was acceptable: that old suspension letter.

The four-time Super Bowl MVP also spends a considerable portion of his "Tom vs Time" debut touting the work of his personal body coach, Alex Guerrero, whose name was linked to a Patriots power struggle in Seth Wickersham's ESPN report earlier in the playoffs. And he doesn't appear to have retirement on his mind, either, saying the "version of me at 40" is "a lot better than when I was 22."