Bill Belichick shares the 3 things he saw in Tom Brady that made him great. "His talent was okay. But he was very smart, he loved football, and he worked extremely hard." "Day after day after day after day, he just kept improving." Brady came in as the 4th string quarterback - but talent wasn't what separated him. It was love for the game. Intelligence. And relentless work ethic. Talent gets you noticed. But these three things make you great: 1. Love what you do - Make it more than a job. Make it your calling. 2. Be a student of your craft - The smartest players see what others miss. 3. Outwork everyone - Day after day after day. No shortcuts. No days off. "That's where he was, but he became great." (🎥The Deal Podcast with Alex Rodriguez)

Fernando Mendoza shares a great insight on delayed gratification and what we can all learn from the Stoics. "Delayed gratification is a concept that was brought up by Stoicism and by the Stoics. I think it's one of the greatest attributes. If you're able to have delayed gratification and discipline in yourself and discipline in your process and preparation, you're able to execute every single week." Delayed Gratification = Perseverance + Patience + Hard Work It means showing up, doing the work, and staying committed even when the results aren't instant. "I think our team has done a great job of keeping that delayed gratification at the forefront." Simple concept. Hard to execute. (🎥 Inside The Hall)

Tony Romo's college coaches wanted to move him to tight end. Romo requested six months, committed to throwing every day, then completed 19 of 22 passes with three touchdowns in the spring game. "I struggled throughout the season. I wasn’t playing. I was just a backup. Coach called me in and asked me if I wanted to move to tight end.” "And so I said, I tell you what, coach, if you still feel the same way after spring football, then we can have the discussion again." "But let me go work at this and attack this and hopefully I can change your mind." "So, I made a commitment to every single day of my life. I was going to throw the football, study it, and do as much as I could to get as good as I can." "Up until that point, you're almost just living life and you're kind of, you're in football, but you're not in it. Like, you're not so immersed in it to absolutely get the best out of yourself." "And I feel like from that point, that's that year where it shifted where you if you asked anyone during that time, you're going to see me throwing the football quite a bit. You know, morning, noon, night." "I mean like during basketball, we go to play basketball during the day in the offseason and um in between you win three games, you lose the next, you got to sit out a game. I have a football there and I'm dropping back as fast as I can throwing the football on the side, you know?" "Then afterward, I'd go in and throw with a different buddy. You always had to find a buddy who was willing to... No one wants to be that guy every time. So it's like, hey, will you do this right now? I'll give you something, you know. So I had a lot of buddies who'd throw under the lights late at night outside." "Just a lot of people helped me along the way." "I wasn't very good and I needed to improve. And what happened to wrap up the story was basically 6 months later when I went through the spring game, I went like 19 for 22, for like three touchdowns." "I asked coach coming off the field, I said, "Do you mind if I stay at quarterback?" He goes, "Yeah, I think you can stay at quarterback."

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Tom Brady on the most common trait elite performers share: They want to be held accountable. The best understand that preparation must carry urgency. You may only have three practices before the game, and every one of them has to move you closer to being ready. There are no wasted reps. No casual days. No assuming you can fix it tomorrow. The margin is too small. Whether it’s the NFL, college sports, or business, someone else is preparing with purpose. Every rep has to carry weight because every rep becomes part of your performance and/or pushes reps further down the line. Great leaders establish that standard where the floor of the team is an urgent one.

Tom Brady reveals how being the 199th pick, because scouts thought he was too slow and too skinny “They saw me and they didn't have a very high projection of what they thought I could become. And a lot of it was because of that combine photo. I wasn't the biggest and he's not fast.” “I went into a system in New England that embraced all those things. And then I could truly play field general. I could play the game between my ears. And then my physical skill within two or three years really caught up to everybody else.”

They cut Mike Trout, the greatest baseball player of our generation. A story you probably never heard and the lesson to learn: Back in 2008, I was a high school junior. I was an up-and-coming baseball player, and my first big break was an invitation to the USA Baseball team trials. You see, each year USA Baseball brought in 100+ of the best baseball players in the country to try out for the 18u national team. That year, USA Baseball had arranged for two players each to stay with a host family. My roommate was a player named, Mike Trout. Mike had incredible athleticism but was from the Northeast so he didn't come into the event on the "hype train" like some of the top prospects from California, Texas, and Florida did. We both performed well at the event and made it to the final stage of the trials. Here, USA Baseball chose the final 18 players for the national team. Mike didn't make those final 18 players. Fast forward all these years, and Mike is the best player of a generation. A surefire Hall of Famer and arguably one of the greatest baseball players of all time. Funny, how life works sometimes. Look...the lesson we can all learn from this ~ life is full of things outside our control. *You will be told no. *You will suffer adversity. *You will face disappointment. Accept it as part of your journey. My friends, we focus far too much on the end destination and completely miss the beauty in the journey. The come up, the adversity, and the struggle are what you will talk about one day. It makes the destination worth striving for. So, the next time you face a setback, remember Mike's story. - Photo Credit: David Richard/USA Today Sports

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