“I’m Driven by Enemies” - Tom Brady’s Motivation For 7th Ring - Belichick or Jordan?

time I have to ask this question from you so um six championships okay you got six rings so from a fans perspective and we've had this debate with friends just to kind of see which one it is what drove you more was it to get one more than Belichick or one more than Michael it was neither I promise you I promise you it wasn't it was I I when I really doubled down on my health and wellness in about 2013 with Alex who I referred to earlier and I said I said in my when I turned 30 I want to play till I'm 40. and I started improving my 30s which that doesn't really happen for athletes because I really started to work on all the things that were making me successful physically I only trained doing the things that really worked I my nutrition got better my hydration got better all the pliability of treatments I got better and he and I would joke dude like this is unbelievable I'm getting faster my arm's getting better I learn better techniques a new Mentor came into my life Tom house is another great throwing coach I learned a lot from him I had all these years with Belichick mentally I knew what to do physically I was improving emotionally I was at a great Point like why can't I continue to go and I just thought man I'm gonna play 10 more years and when I was 35 I was like I feel better at 35 than I did at 30. like I still got another 10 years in me and I literally committed I got 10 more years and I said I'm going to play till I'm 45 years old and last year I was 45 years old and playing so what it's not about like for me the when I made that decision at 35 it wasn't I'm gonna play until I win Seven Super Bowls I never once said that we won the fifth against Atlanta which was unbelievable unbelievable like that that game my teammates like that was sick that was incredible I still watch that and I'm like that it was I mean I'm glad I was playing because I had a heart attack if I was watching and then 2017 we actually had like probably a better chance to win and we lost to the Eagles in the Super Bowl and we played a great game we just look we I played great I just we didn't win then 2018 we freaking found a way to beat the Rams through a lot of good process a lot of good we weren't the most talented team in 2018. we were we won on process we won on culture our culture drivers led us to succeed we went through work ethic we went through a lot of intangibles and then I went to Tampa in 2020 and you know we we put together a great group of players teammates everyone was super focused that year and then I I just think winning Super Bowls was the result of a lot of great process like my view is like you can't control the outcome all the time right like the ball's gonna bounce the other team's way like Duke cut the ball in his helmet in 2007. that would have been the greatest team ever and that's like one that still gets me yep because we had a great team that year and the dude caught the bonus helmet with one of the greatest player ever played against on his back sometimes it should go the other people's way it shouldn't always go your way so you get motivated by the losses you stay motivated through the winning what you can control is your process you can control those intangibles you can control the work ethic the consistent discipline your attitude your culture how much you care all those things are in you they just need to be drawn out of you and really when you're in that position that you feel like you're gotta got those pretty well under control then you start passing those on to the other people that you're working with that are parts of your team because I don't care how good any one of you are sitting out there it doesn't matter unless you got a great team around you you know you could be great you probably are great you need a lot of other great people to support you Tom and I and I absolutely I appreciate the answer it's awesome it's great but I'm selfish and greedy man I gotta push back let me tell you why okay so I you know I'm writing a book right now it's going to come out December 5th it's not out it's going to come out like four or five months it's called choose your enemies wisely I think you've chosen the enemies wisely because I think for me if I I'm driven by enemies I don't even I can't even describe it to you like I have a list of all the quotes everything they said what they looked at I mean like my names are for me I know what I'm driving at this point in my life and then you graduate enemies and you say good things about them and go find new ones and then boom new ones boom new ones right okay so let's say that's really the reason let's let's let's buy into them we're going to be skeptical as fans and we'll have our beers and talk and say I don't agree I agree we'll do our part right because you're the guy we're on the other side I don't know I if you're if you're gonna do that then you would have stayed with a team and you would have wrapped it up there Robert Kraft is willing to give you a one-day contract I think he said it this year May 23rd to come back Patriots I want to do the ceremony which freaking is going to be sick of course whether he's joking or whatever it's just being playful about it you know he loves you the way he looks at you he's got so much love for you but you come back and you get your seventh just like you said maybe one percent of media drove you which one of the two drove you more even if it's by one percent or half a percent is it having more one more than Michael or Belichick I gotta ask you bro you're killing me even if it's half a percent yeah uh I would rather have one than lost uh and I'd rather have seven and six I get it but if coach Belichick was to win a Super Bowl this year I don't think it takes anything away from me I think it only adds to what how great he is like I have a great appreciation for him because without him I'm not sitting here today so like he wasn't my competition he was my competition when I played against him that one game and we won but he wasn't like I I genuinely root for it for them I really do like I think every once in a while maybe you guys have seen little Snippets of me that look I do I have a little Grudge from time to time and I think that's totally fine I think emotion you know maximizing and optimizing our potential is physical mental and emotional I believe that physically I was able to mentally emotionally there's little triggers absolutely all the time some opponent says something in check they really don't want me a high so check oh I was a six round pick check all those little things add up but I still the man in the glass that's the one that motivated me he's the guy I was accountable to nothing that anyone did took away from me the only person that could take away from me is me so can I give you my interpretation of that answer please okay by the way and this is my interpret I speak sign language right so I'm trying to kind of read in between the lines the way I take it is it felt good beating them straight up the one game that you played but in my mind based on what you just said having one more than Michael is more important than having one more than Belichick that's how I process what you just said is that fair is that fearful can I live with that can you uh I love Michael Jordan as God literally there's no athlete so Michael is like if if there's your kids you know and they throw I don't know how they feel about me I think today they love you they love Michael Jordan was my he everyone wanted to be like Mike so like I even when I see Mike today I'm still like that's Michael Jordan right there you know and I just think he's the coolest guy and and you know I love this determination I love you know I see like what Messi's doing here in Miami like unbelievable like I see Cristiano Ronaldo I I admire athletes as much as as much as anybody else I especially the guys that I really uh you know it's like there's some guys that are athletes athletes you know and when I see some of those guys those are the guys that I love you know like I was in I went to a preseason game that day and I saw Steve Smith he's he was the receiver sick for Baltimore and I've love Steve Smith yeah because he he wanted to kill the defensive back 89 right 89 yeah and he was a little dude but played with the biggest heart and I would have loved to play with Steve Smith and Julian Edelman and I you know these guys like there's a lot of guys that are primadonas you know they they were the prodigies it just came easy for them you know like I don't think it came easy for Michael Jordan as great as he was you know LeBron's been through a lot it it's tough for LeBron like and he's unbelievable you know so I love Steph Curry like these are the guys that I look up to and I and I look they inspire me you know in the same way so I'm looking to be inspired too just like you guys are looking to be inspired I'm looking to be inspired too and I draw on a lot of people that are teaching me different things too so I can't even speak because of you so I came here because I love what you're doing with people I love how you're trying to impact the world in a positive thank you thank you Tom appreciate you [Music]

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Length: 9min 48sec (588 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 20 2023