DISCIPLINE YOURSELF - Powerful Motivational Speech | Tom Brady

it is hard it's hard when you're young to wake up in the offseason at 6:00 a. m. to go train and work out knowing that all your friends are sleeping in and eating pancakes no one's good at everything I mean that's just not the way life Works 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 and I think we're all trying to find a more well-rounded aspect to ourself but a lot of that has to come with this understanding about yourself that what you know is very limited and what you don't know is Limitless it's hard to throw catch block and tackle and hit kids when they're way bigger and way more developed than you only to go home that night bruised and battered and strained but knowing you have to show up again the next day for just the chance to try again but understand this life is hard I think most people probably know a few things about me but I was never I would say like a prodigy you know I wasn't like the kid where you see Tiger Wood swinging on the Johnny Carson show at two or three years old and you know his swing looks as good as it did at three years old as it did you know as he as he grew older or you know certain players that that had this unbelievable uh Prodigy aspect to themselves I I 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 and discipline consistent discipline has been one of those Prodigy like strengths that I had so I didn't have the arm neck could throw the ball 80 yards I didn't have the three speed that Michael Vic had I didn't have the you know the size that a lot of guys had but I did have something inside of me that no one could see from the outside this level of discipline that I could accomplish something that was really important and really special man it's great to run the first probably four miles of the marathon and it's really fun to cross the finish line but man those middle miles probably really stuck and if you want to be good at those middle miles you got to work really hard in the whole offseason to prepare yourself for a real big challenge which is the NFL season and you don't think everyone's watching the whole competition's watching a lot of people can be really consistent let's say with your diet because it's always on people's mind like I want to get healthy I want to well most people can say man I want to eat healthy for one day or I want to exercise for one day or 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 so I was so blessed to have this discipline over a really long period of time 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 streets so 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 0 and eight that says a lot I couldn't get on the field and we never won a game anyway going into my second year in high school there were workouts in the morning at 6:00 a.

m. before school and I was like okay I can I can get up at 6:00 a. m.