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Lars Anderson says Tom Brady told Robert Kraft, “I’m the best decision you ever made,” while he was still a fourth-string rookie.
"He’s walking down a flight of stairs carrying a box of pizza. And who’s coming up the stairs but Robert Kraft?
Tom asks Kraft, ‘Do you know who I am?’
Kraft says, ‘Yeah, you’re our sixth-round draft pick. You’re Tom Brady. You played at Michigan. Welcome to the Patriots.’
He’s like, ‘No, I’m the best decision you ever made.’
And he walks away.
He’s fourth-string at this point. It doesn’t even look like he’s gonna make the roster. And yet here he is telling this to Kraft.
This stuck with him. Several hours later, he calls his son: ‘I just had this interaction with Tom Brady, and he told me that he’s the best decision we ever made.’
There was a pause, and Jonathan, his son, asked, ‘Well, what’d you think?’
He’s like, ‘Damn, I kind of believe him.’
Because he said it with such certainty.
And yet Tom decides before training camp to buy a condo in Foxborough. It’s Ty Law’s old place.
His agent’s like, ‘Shouldn’t you wait? Do you really want to buy this place? Because you might be stuck with this for a while.’
He’s like, ‘Nah, I’m good.’
His agent couldn’t believe it. He just was hanging by a thread there."
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Tom Brady explains why constantly telling someone it’s not your fault after failure may make them feel better for five seconds, but ultimately prevents them from improving
“It’s amazing to have the support from people to come in and go, ‘Hey man, it’s not your fault. It was the defense’s fault. Not your fault. It was the coach’s fault.’”
“The reality is maybe that helps for like five seconds, but in the end it doesn’t change any of the outcomes. If you really want to grow up, just take it all on yourself. Just say, ‘No, it’s my fault. I got to do better.’”
“What could I have done better that day? You immediately have to look at yourself in the mirror and aggressively attack yourself.”
“I’ve been around great entrepreneurs as well, and I would say that attitude where they put everything back on themselves makes them very successful in business too. Everyone work hard, have humility, have self-awareness, know you could do better. We all have the opportunity to be better.”View quoted post on X
