Seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady spoke glowing about his parents and gave good advice to young people hoping to follow in his footsteps one day.
Fox’s NFL analyst showed up on “Fox & Friends” and remembered a moment before the Super Bowl Li against Atlanta Falcons when he mentioned his father, Tom Sr., was his hero. Brady was emotional when he talked to journalists before this game, and he explained on Friday that his father helped his mother, Galynn, review breast cancer treatments at the time.
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“I was so blessed to have a mother and father who supported my athletic and career journey every step on the road, and I had a great foundation about family and about commitment, support for each other,” Brady said. “At the time, my mother fought on breast cancer and my father was there supporting my mother through her treatments. And it was a very challenging time for our family.
“And I just think of my father and the commitment he has done to her, to my sisters, to myself, to his grandchildren. And he is the greatest man I have ever known. And I still feel like that. I Trying to make him proud of everything I do.
Throughout his career, Brady set a tall bar for himself to clear. He was not the best player who went from high school to college and was far from the best college football quarterback when he was at Michigan.
In the NFL, he was a draft of the sixth round with very little professional expectations when he started as a backup to Patriots Quarterback Drew Bledsoe. He may have even become a baseball player if he had wanted it when the Montreal Expos chose him in the MLB draft.
When he never wandered in his commitment to being the best, he said his parents never wandered either. It was the belief system they introduced into him that helped him believe in himself.
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“I was like a normal American child who would grow up and chase my dreams. And I will say my parents, they never tempered my expectations of what I thought I could do when I would go to Michigan,” he said . “They didn’t think, ‘Oh, maybe it was too hard for you. You should probably choose a school where you might have to play earlier, play a beginner.’ I always had this belief that I could do it and my parents said all the time you could do it absolutely.
“I was one of the slowest players at the NFL Combine when I was drafted by New England Patriots. And my mother, you say, honey you are so quick. You get out there in that field and you can run. And definitely , I know I couldn’t. ”But I think the reality is that there was never a plan B for me. I’ve never had to tackle it. And I think they supported me.
“And I had to believe in myself because you need people to believe you even when you don’t always have the most confidence in yourself. And if you are surrounded by people who love you it is There for you, when you fail can use these things in the future to achieve what you want, you will have a lot of confidence and a lot of confidence.
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“I just felt that trying things that were outside my comfort zone ended up being the best things in my life. And having parents who supported me when I failed it was the biggest blessing in my life.”
“Fox & Friends” with host Brian Kilmeade asked if part of Brady’s success in the field was to have the chip on his shoulder from being a sixth round pick back in 2000.
Brady said “Absolutely.”
“I want to overcome the challenges and adversity that I had, whether in high school and college, let me be the professional athlete I was,” he said. “I learned a lot of things by failing that many guys did not learn through high school and college because they were the best athletes. So these sustainable qualities that you have as an athlete, like your work ethics, like your discipline as your determination and competitiveness Is that what people would call tangibles because we can go to measure physical strength or speed or all the things that are important, but in the end they are not sustainable during a 23-year career.
Brady complained about what Top High School and College Athletes are now undergoing the emergence of the transfer portal and name, image and equality.
“And I look at what we do with college -kids and kids in high school and we’re doing so easily on them. Now, if you don’t like where you’re on, go somewhere else where you can play, and it goes from being, let’s say, college or high school, a transformation experience for a transaction experience, ”he said. But when you make it easy for yourself, in the end, you do yourself a bear service because you don’t challenge yourself to get outside your comfort zone.
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“And if you get outside your comfort zone, you will realize as ‘oh man, I’m kind of on my own, but I’ve got people who support me, but how do I find out?’ And part of finding out is to dig a little deeper into yourself and develop a better work ethic, to be a little more a little more disciplined in what you are doing, and to be more determined to do it every single day If you cheat it, eventually you cheat yourself and you will never reach your goals, you will settle for your plan B’s all your life.
