DON'T QUIT - Best Motivational Speech by Tom Brady

Nobody is good at everything, I mean that's not the way life works, what you know is very limited and what you don't know is unlimited, man will we get to six Super Bowls, the ones that stay will be champions , war number 12, the greatest of all time here on Tom Brady If I want to be the

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I have to beat the godfather If I want to be good I have to wake up in the morning I have to do the extra work and I have to prove When other guys They don't, I have to learn. I have to continue to be open to learning, but I had to take it to a new level that the other guys didn't give me anything, so.

I'm going to go out and compete as hard as I can and I'm going to treat practice like a game and I'm going to earn the respect of 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 ask me to do that's what I'm going to do the

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I can I never entered my life He once said he wanted to be the best of all time. I'm just a story like everyone else.

I wanted to be the best I could be, period. And I said: be proud of the man in the mirror, be proud of that man who wakes up. You get up every day and do the best you can with your priorities, so we are all talented at certain things, but we can really continue to improve our weaknesses if we are humble enough to identify them and can build on our strengths. you can control, focus on what you get, not what other people get, every time 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, go out and treat the practice like no one else does. and you have the opportunity every day to surround yourself with people who will help you grow.

You know, I always said we play by the name on the front of our jersey, it was Patriots or the fcks or and I play by the name on the back of the. Jersey, which was my family and the people who encouraged me. I was very lucky to have this discipline for a really long period of time. It was very tough competition, but I was never like a and, you know, I wasn't like the kid where you see Tiger Wood swinging on the Johnny Carson show when he was 2 or three years old and you know his swing looks as good as it did when He was 3 years old, as you knew as he grew up or you know certain players who had this incredible Prodigy aspect about them.

I saw myself as someone who probably had other traits that were maybe difficult to identify but were really sustainable over time, which was, I would say, work ethic and discipline. There was this discipline he had. that even when I was 13, 14, 15, where all these other kids were, I went to an all-boys school in the Bay Area and I remember showing up my first day as a freshman. I have a lot of, you know, hair under my arms or something. I was like and these other kids came shaving. I'm like what the hell is this? I didn't know how to put the pads in my pants when I tried to play freshman football.

I mean, I had never played until that point except In the Streets, so these kids came out, they had, you know, helmets and shoulder pads that they had been wearing for 4 years. I walked onto the field and thought they were going to kill me here, you know, and in my first year they didn't. I didn't even play, I was the backup quarterback on a team that was 0 and 8. 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 lose if you don't even make it.

I think you're good enough to be a starting quarterback on a team that's 0 and you must really suck, so naturally I thought, "Oh, cool, I'll continue to, you know, work on my skills, a lot of that." It was even my second year." In high school there were morning practices at 6:00 a.m. m. before school and I was like, "Okay, I can get up at 6:00 a.m. and I can go do these rope exercises where you ran across the rope." A lot of people do that, there were hills we ran up and there were probably less than 10 people there, but I was probably one of three that were there almost every day trying to keep pushing myself to grow.

In these maybe physical areas, I was really behind a lot of other people and I went in there, I competed really hard my junior year and I lost the starting job to Brian Greasy, so I went in my fourth year and I thought now was my time. I worked hard to compete my first three years, going into my fourth year. I had a great opportunity to play and they recruited a kid named Drew Hensen and I was like the competition was relentless at first. I was looking at the guys in front of me and now I could.

Watching 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 10th and 3rd, you know, we beat everyone and I showed up and the coach's car says. Well, you're going to compete with Drew Henson to be the starter in your fifth year and I thought, "You've got to be kidding me, you want me to compete, that's what we're going to do." I competed very hard again in my fifth. The year took it to a new level. I thought about my conditioning.

My strength. I thought about how I was doing. Making my decisions off the field. I was starting to play very well and I thought: "You know, I'm going to have a chance. Coach Carr called me and said well, Tom, this is what we're going to 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, the coach's car said the squad was out Tom played the rest of the year we didn't lose a game the rest of the season it was a tough battle for me, it was one. difficult task, it was difficult in high school, it was very difficult in college, so of course now I go to the NFL draft and I think all these pro coaches must have seen how good I was. second round, round one, two and here we go, sixth round pick. 199 and I said, "Okay, I'm going to make all those other teams pay like I said.

I wasn't the prodigy. I learned about work ethic. resilience. I learned about how to earn the trust and respect of my teammates and coaches. to name myself Captain, I learned to dig deeper into myself far from home, without much support. I was so motivated to be the best I could be that I wasn't motivated to be the starter that I was. I wasn't motivated to win the Super Bowl, I was just motivated to do my best, do the best with the opportunity I had and never let my teammates down. All those experiences that we believe are the most difficult in our lives end up being the best experience. in our life because if you approach it with humility and look inward, they become the best opportunities to grow and learn, but most people might say man, I want to exercise for a day, well, I want to be more hydrated for a day, can you do it? do it for a week, well, that's more discipline, can you do it for a month?, that's more discipline.

Can you do it for a year? That's even more disciplined. How disciplined are you to maintain that routine over a period of time? And I think that will determine your level of success Fame didn't motivate me I didn't care about any of that 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 what best I could. I wanted to go out and the team believed in me. I didn't want to disappoint him. If I want to be the best, I have to beat the best.