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The list of accomplishments in Tom Brady’s biography are longer than just about any athlete on the planet. But he wasn’t always the calm, cool, and collected star NFL fans saw year-in and year-out for more than two decades. Before all of that happened, he had to learn how to stop doubting himself and he credits something he was told as a sophomore at the University of Michigan with setting him on the right path.
In an interview published on Monday, the host of the School of Hard Knocks YouTube channel wanted to find out the “exact secrets” Tom Brady used to become “one of the greatest athletes across any sport and what it took to not make millions, but hundreds of millions of dollars.”
“I like to think that I did the best I could with opportunities I got,” Tom Brady said. “And I never try to compare myself to anybody else. I just try to be the best I could be every day for myself and for all my teammates.”
“I think what happened, you know, early in my career through high school and college, I had to work really hard to become a starter on the team and ultimately to be a contributor,” Brady said when asked for the biggest driving factor of his success throughout his career. “I think through those nine years, I really learned a lot of resiliency because things didn’t always bounce my way early on. And I think I really had to find different strategies to be successful. Then when I got to the pro level, I felt like I had a lot of self-confidence because I’d overcome a lot when no one was really paying attention. So then now I got to the pros and I was like, ‘All right, let me put those same tactics to work.'”
When asked about dealing with the doubters and how he built up his self-belief, Brady responded, “It’s just a lot of trial and error and a lot of failure. And I think the failures that I had allowed me to be successful. And I always tell everybody, you have to get outside of your comfort zone. We can all wake up every day and live a life of comfort and convenience and do things the same way all the time, but I think you really have to challenge yourself to grow in many ways, physically, mentally, and emotionally in order to achieve things that maybe you didn’t even think were possible.”
Tom Brady also shared how a sports psychologist helped him during his sophomore year in college. He said it was the most life-changing conversation he ever had and the greatest piece of advice he ever received.
“When I was a sophomore in college, I had a sports psychologist, a mentor of mine… And I would go and b—- and complain to him...
