Motivation Daily by Motiversity - DON'T QUIT - Best Motivational Speech by Tom Brady

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Starting point is 00:00:36 The link is in the description. No one's good at everything. I mean, that's just not the way life works. What you know is very limited, and what you don't know is limitless. Those who stay will be champions. If I want to be the best, I got to beat the best. Man, if I want to be good,

Starting point is 00:01:06 I got to wake up in the morning. and I got to do the extra work. And I got to show up when other guys aren't. And I've got to learn. I've got to continue to be open to learning. But I had to take it to a new level that the other guys wouldn't. Nothing was given to me. So I'm going to go out there and compete as hard as I can.

Starting point is 00:01:24 And I'm going to treat practice like a game. And I'm going to gain the respect to my teammates every day through my work ethic. I'm going to work hard in the weight room. I'm going to work hard in the film room. I'm going to work hard to be a good student. whatever they asked me to do that's what i'm going to do to the best of my ability i never once in my life ever said i wanted to be the best of all the time i'm just a story like everybody else i wanted to be the best i could be period and i said be proud of the man in the glass

Starting point is 00:01:58 be proud of that man that wakes up every day and does the best you do with his priorities We're all talented at certain things, but we can really continue to improve our weaknesses if we're humble enough to identify them, and we can build on our strengths. Focused on what you can control. Focus on what you're getting, not what anyone else is getting. Whenever you get an opportunity, you take advantage of it. You treat it like it's the Super Bowl. You treat it like it's game day.

Starting point is 00:02:29 Go out there and treat practice like no one else does. And you have an opportunity every day to surround yourself with people. to help you grow. You know, I always said we play for the name on the front of our jersey, was a Patriots or the Bucks, and I played for the name on the back of the jersey, which was my family and the people that encouraged me. I was so blessed to have this discipline

Starting point is 00:02:56 over a really long period of time. It was a lot of tough competition. But I was never, I would say, like a prodigy. You know, I wasn't like the kid where you see Tiger Woods swinging on the Johnny Carson show at two or three years old. His swing looks as good as it did at three years old as it did as he grew older. Or certain players that had this unbelievable prodigy aspect to themselves.

Starting point is 00:03:28 I saw myself as someone who probably had some other traits that maybe were hard to identify, but that were really sustainable over time, which was, I would say, work ethic and discipline. There was this discipline that I had that even as 13, 14, 15 years old, where all these other boys were I went to an all-boy school in the Bay Area. And I remember showing up my first day as freshman year. I didn't have much hair under my arms or anything like that. I was like, and these other kids came in and shaving. I'm like, what the hell is this?

Starting point is 00:04:03 I didn't know how to put the pads on in my pants when I tried out for freshman football. I mean, I had never played until that point except in the street. So these kids came out there. They had, you know, helmets and shoulder pads that they had worn for four years. I went on the field and I was like, I'm going to get killed out here. you know and my freshman year i didn't even play i was the backup quarterback on a team that went oh and eight i couldn't get on the field and we never won a game anyway i mean it's one thing to be the starting quarterback and to lose if they don't even think you're good enough to be a starting

Starting point is 00:04:36 quarterback on a team that's oh and eight you must really suck so naturally i was like oh cool i'll continue to you know work on my skill a lot of it was even going into my second year in high school There were workouts in the morning at 6 a.m. before school. And I was like, okay, I can get up at 6 a.m. and I can go do these rope drills where you'd run through the rope. You see a lot of people do that. There were these hills that we would run up. And there was probably less than 10 people there,

Starting point is 00:05:08 but I was probably one of the three that were there almost every single day to try to continue to push myself to grow in these maybe physical areas that I was really behind a lot of other people. And I went in there, competed really hard in my third year, and I lost the starting job to Brian Greasy. So I going into my fourth year, and I was like, now is my time. I worked hard to compete my first three years. Going into my fourth year, I got a great opportunity to play.

Starting point is 00:05:36 And they recruited a kid named Drew Henson, and I was like, the competition is relentless. At first I was looking at the guys ahead of me. Now I've got to be looking down at the guys behind me, too. And going into my fourth year, my teammates named me team captain, and I won the starting job. We had a good year. We finished 10 and 3, you know, beat everyone out. And then I showed up and Coach Carr says, well, you're going to compete with Drew Henson to be the starter going into your fifth year. And I was like, you got to be kidding. You want me to compete? That's what we're going to do. I competed really hard again in my fifth year. Took it to a new level. Thought about my conditioning, my strength, thought about how I was doing, making my decisions off the field. I was starting to play really good. And I thought, you know, I'm going to have a chance. chance. Coach Carr called me in and he said, well, Tom, this is what we do. You're going to start. Drew, you're going to play the second quarter. And I'm going to decide at halftime who plays the rest of the year. Coach Carr said, the platoons off. Tom's playing the rest of the year. We didn't

Starting point is 00:06:49 lose the game the rest of the season. It was a tough battle for me. It was a tough go. It was tough in high school. It was really tough in college. So, of course, now I'm going to the end. NFL draft. And I'm like, all these pro coaches must have seen how good I was. Man, I'm going to be a second round pick. Round one, two, and here we go. Six round, pick 199. And I was like, all right, I'm going to make all those other teams pay. Like I said, I wasn't the prodigy. I learned about work ethic. I learned about resilience. I learned about gaining the trust and the respect of my teammates and coaches to name me captain. I learned about how to dig deep within myself a long way from home without a ton of support. I was so motivated to be the best I could be that it wasn't I wasn't

Starting point is 00:07:40 motivated to be the starter. I wasn't motivated to win the Super Bowl. I just was motivated to give my best, do the best with the opportunity I got, and to never let my teammates down. All those experiences that we think are the hardest things in our life end up being the best. best experience in our life because if you approach it with humility and you look inward, they become the best opportunities for growth and learning. But most people could say, man, I want to exercise for one day. I want to be more hydrated for one day. Well, can you do it for a week? Well, that's more discipline, right? Can you do it for a month? That's more discipline. Can you do it for a year? That's even more discipline. How discipline are you to maintain that routine over?

Starting point is 00:08:37 a period of time. And I think that will determine your level of success. Fame didn't motivate me. I didn't give it about any of it. I always took less money because I wanted a good team around me. I didn't care about going to all these different places and doing those things. I just wanted to be my best. I wanted to go out there and the team believed in me. I didn't want to let them down. If I want to be the best, I got to beat the best.

Motivation Daily by Motiversity - DON'T QUIT - Best Motivational Speech by Tom Brady

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