![]() ![]() It’s a series of small steps that seem so insignificant at the time that you’re making them but when you look back you realize the distance traveled.“ “I remember I was eating breakfast in Ann Arbor after a game one day senior year and my parents were in there with me… and I said ‘one day I’m going to be a household name.’ And I said it as a joke, but man I think I look back… fucking 23 years later and I go ‘fucking household name.’“ I always felt like, even going back to Michigan, I always said ‘man, if they put me on the field, they’re never going to take me off.'” Was I mentally and emotionally ready? Absolutely.” “ You’ve got to be ready when your opportunity presents itself. Because there’s always that thought that the way I got my job, and what I went through to get it, there’s always someone knocking.” – Willie McGinest You’ve got to do whatever it takes to continue to do what you do at a high level. ![]() “I think for Tom, it was an important lesson that you have to fight to stay in that position, to never give it up. ![]() Just calm down and relax.” – Willie McGinest And you can over exert yourself… I went over to Tom and I just pulled him close and I’m like ‘bro, calm down. Like when you run out of the tunnel, it’s a different time frame. “If you’ve never played in a Super Bowl, it’s super long. You guys just feel free to play the game.’ And I think at that point we recognized like ‘wow, this is bigger than us.'” “I remember the people who run logistics for the league said… ‘this is the most secure place probably in the USA right now… There’s nothing that’s going to happen. “Without that play, there’s a lot of lives that are changed and trajectories of careers that are changed.” “I love the bad weather because I feel like it slows everyone down, so my mind processes quickly but the game slows down, so my physical attributes as a player kind of match everyone else’s, slow and sluggish.” If we could keep from losing, I think our defense was going to keep us in every game.” “ Bill (Belichick) always used the line “you can’t win until you can keep from losing.” And that was a good lesson for us. I had to make up a lot of ground physically in order to catch them.” “Guys who were ahead of me were always physically way more gifted than me. If you don’t have that, at some point the talent does wear off and you’re drafted based on your talent and your potential, but the sustainable part about talent and potential is working hard.“ “ Working hard is a very sustainable trait, part of your character. And what can you add on a daily or weekly basis to get your team to win?” ![]() Because a team is a culmination of talent. And we ran out as a team and we celebrated in the end zone as a team. No coach is more important than the Team. “No man is more important than the Team.And the roots of the Michigan program were built on what Bo Schembechler said:” “I went to a college that was very focused on the team. Things have happened in my life as I’ve kind of hoped they would happen.” Things that I’ve dreamed about have actually come true. “ Realizing my potential has been what my career has been all about. I saw it every day for five years.” This famous quote was just one paragraph in the middle of a one-hour speech, Theodore Roosevelt’s “Citizenship in a Republic” (1910). “That particular quote ( The Man in the Arena) was a Theodore Roosevelt quote that was in the weight room in Michigan when I first got there. This documentary’s title borrows from Theodore Roosevelt’s 1910 speech “ Citizenship in a Republic“, which includes the famous “Man in the Arena” quote: “It is not the critic who counts…” This ESPN+ series is a largely autobiographical retelling of Tom Brady’s career from the University of Michigan to seven Super Bowl championships. ![]()
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