“To be successful anything, the truth is you don’t have to be special - you just have to be what most people aren’t.”

"It wasn't him, it wasn't me, it was US"

Hearing that speech you can see why players were willing to take much less money just so they could play with him. He doesn't need to get in your face and scream at you to listen. When he talks, everyone listens.

Brb about to run through a brick wall

Shoutout Tom for being real when everyone nowadays tells you something is unfair for you

Pat just hit on the biggest issue of our culture right now - INDIVIDUALISM - our culture thinks only about ourselves. We need to return to convictions that think more about others more than ourselves. Team work is selfless work. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Tom. You are. And always will be the greatest football player ever. Thank you for the 6-pack of titles and all of the memories you gave my family and I for 20 years. We love you!!

That was a mighty fine speech, but it just hits so differently hearing them from the GOAT

True leadership is getting other people to believe in themselves.

Man... Straight fire from the ONE TRUE GOAT!!🤯🔥💯 Brady forever ♾🐐

Phenomenal speech by Tom Brady. You can tell he had a champions mentality the day he walked into the Patriots locker room for the first time, inspirational journey. 👏👏👏

"There is a difference between having experience and having expertise. Experience builds you for the moment. Expertise guides you through the moment. " Wow.... Absolute fire ass comment from Lombo!!

Big Vince Wilfork is looking like a Medium these days. Bro looks good

It was truly a wonderful night last night and hearing that speech made it even greater. Nothing less from the GOAT Brady himself

The greatest QB ever!! The Goat. And the most amazing speech ive ever heard

Together Everyone Achieves More

High school flashbacks... He speaks the truth.

Long live Tom!

I am that guy Pat. I been a huge Chiefs fan all my life and I hated Brady. But damn since he retired, and I heard him speak I love the guy.

Tom is just that dude.

I think NFL should induct the GOAT to the hall next month and make it a public holiday. That’s the GOAT See his all statements throughout the program he deferred all the praises to his coaches and teammates and even the cafeteria people. What a leader!

Tom Brady for president

I have been suspecting for a few years that he might make the patriots hall of fame, and call me crazy but I even think he has a shot at canton

Tom Brady is talking about what the take it easy of Americans won’t do. Biggest inspiration from Tom Brady since his speech On the ways of current NFL. Tom Brady for NFL Commissioner Tom Brady or nfl commissioner Tom Brady for nfl commissioner !!

Nobody should talk after Tom... it's like preaching after Jesus.

Brady was not the fastest or strongest, but he outworked everyone. Coaches said he was obsessed with diet, training, and studying.

How do I reach these keeeeeds?

Tom Brady will marry an Ohio gal. Run for President. Win. WInners Win.

I wish he was my dad or my kids dad. What a great role model

Sounds like a pretty damn good rant to me that only the true goat could make.

JFC I’m surprised he only won 7 super bowls after that speech and not 30

Rodgers should listen to this LOL

What a class act

Before it was all about the team, now it's all about "the brand".

Texans fan here CJ SAYS IT ALL ABOUT THE TEAM. HE LEARNED THAT FROM TOM BRADY. AND CJ EVEN HAS SAID THAT HE COULDN'T DO IT WITHOUT HIS TEAMMATES. CJ SAYS IT ABOUT THE TEAM. AND TOM IS HELPING CJ OUT. TEXANS SWARM GO TEXANS

Tom Terrific FTW 👍

Damn Tom, truly the Goat and I’m a Niner fan.

As far as leadership I’m sorry but Tom was significantly above Jordan Kobe Jeter and Ray Lewis. The simple fact that he empowered his teammates down to the janitors!

It's a wonderful feeling to be terrible at something, keep working at it, realize you've become an expert, and then see the rewards. This is one of the great things in life. You don't appreciate something if you haven't earned it. Strangely the reason Tom is the goat is because the adversity and pressure never let up in his career and therefore he never got soft.

He makes a really good point about winning on a team vs winning alone. Success feels better when you have other to celebrate with, even outside of sports. As far as the college players getting paid, I think it will work itself out in time and be good or the NFL. I think it will make it easier to spot the players who love the game vs the players who love the money and attention. We will start seeing more and more highly rated kids who chase the money instead of developing, and don't get drafted where everyone thought they would as recruits. I think we will see more players being kicked off of teams in the power 5 schools, since the portal plus the pay makes it easier to replace them. I think we will see more short term NIL deals, or terms that are based on performance. When the salary cap was introduced in the NFL, it took a little while for teams to figure out how to navigate it. I think we will see something similar over the next few years in college, as teams start to figure out what works and what doesn't. I hope they don't figure it out too fast though. These schools trying to outbid everyone else for players is making it much easier for Sark to make sure the kids he's bringing to Texas are coming to work.

none of us are as strong as ALL of us

The Goat is missed so much

When videos gaming replaced playgrounds the American greatness took a big hit.

Brady for President!!

Takes everyone to win but it takes that one in the driving seat

What's hard is doing all those things, then not getting noticed because your family doesn't have money.

Best ceremony and speech ive seen . Imcluding pro football , basketball and baseball hall of fame . Cant remember seeing anthing better than this

Tom Brady is the goat period haters and is bellichick and Brady together not one or another but both

Well said brother 👏

team work makes the dream work !

Listening to this in the gym 🔑

For most people life really isn't that hard tbh. You make it hard or avoid it. "Life is hard" is only half true. If you avoid the tough stuff or just have it easy one way or another then life really isn't that taxing. That's why you get so many people that 'don't get it'.

Wow Gillette Stadium was packed for this event! Go Pats Nation!

He should be a coach , then GM , owner , and president. He would win and be successful in all of these endeavors

Bro looks younger every time I see him since divorce...

Respect 💯🫡

Well said Michael

Dope speech

Legend 12 ❤

Spot on. I’d say Wrestling and BJJ are as hard and I agree kids should do hard things.

Don't look at like life is hard, don't see adversity to overcome, simply look at it as life and do what you should when you should do it. It really isn't hard, it's extremely simple.

tom said it correctly i use to get a hater but if you listen to his interview he tells how he had to work to get where he became the greatest ! blood seat and tears he earned this title ! i get it now!

People who had healthy upbringings have no clue how blessed they are and jow impossible it is to dedicate yourself to anything when your understanding of the world was totally destroyed

Ask Marino if you need a 53 man team...plus Coaches

Dwight’s acceptance speech from the office vibes. Just needed to smack the podium a few times 😂

Patriots were not my team but this is my guy !!!!! Always has been. Bill is one thing but Tom is his own man and great. Some get to play football and others need military service to toughen up and act like an adult and teammate in life.

Lombardi somehow made this about himself.

Awesome

The major flaw in this narrative of football as a lesson in determination, emotional maturity etc. is that football guys, neither the pros nor the dudes from you local high school, don't really exceed regular people in any of these qualities. Football practice makes you good at football, that's it. Anything else is just dads justifying that they vicariously live through their sons.

Understand this life is hard.... Hard Truth

If you wanna know how to fix it to make it more of a team sport an not where they can get the bigger check. The owners are gonna have to play a big roll an each chip in so Super Bowl winners don’t get just what they made that year but the prize also is you get a check for what you were supposed to make that year so they make double

Voting for Tom Brady

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We love you BradyGoat. Please come back to be our OC one day

I heard a Future Political, Get Things Done Type of Guy. A GOOD MAN !

Maybe the gray guy on the sport history ❤

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Fortune cookie philosophy.

Good Lord, is Tom Brady getting ready to play the part of Benjamin Button 2??

It's all about the team the team the team. Go blue

Screw politics, TOM BRADY FOR PRESIDENT

“You have to be good enough and surrounded by world class support who will always bail you out”- Tom Brady (if he was keeping it real)

Players 20 years ago had to have great success on the field to earn big money, and to get high paid media jobs or coaching jobs afterwards. Now it seems like they just want to milk the pro leagues for the most money up front. Tom Brady, Rob Gronkowski, Julien Edelman, and Teddy Brusci all have analyst jobs. Mike Vrabel coached the Titans. Josh McDaniels got 2 head coaching gigs. If Brady and Belichik didn't have that winning culture who knows how any of them would have ended up.

Join football and/or the Marines to learn these valuable lessons.

Sounds like every high school commencement.

The team the team the team -Bo

He’s got my vote! Brady/Edelman 2028!!!

Bosses are appointed. Leaders emerge.

TB just admitting he's not the best QB of all time but still has so many rings because QB wins isn't a real thing.

AB take notes

PMFR🎉

You need that ethic AND you need to part of a functional team. My life is Tom Brady if he got drafted by the Browns

It didn't work out for Brady's teammates Antonio Brown and Aaron Hernandez.

Sports in school is so important. Lacrosse practice two a days were more brutal than boot camp

I don't agree with the blanket statement that everyone should play football. And this is coming from a Michigan Wolverine fan (which Brady came from). For some sized/framed or athletically inclined individuals football is easier than for others, especially if you have a mental or physical ailment. Same goes for military service. Both of these I did early in life and ended up regretting later on due to an undiagnosed mental health issue. While I did enjoy both sports and military service due to the people around me, it did in a sense take time away from other things in life that I could have been focusing on. Like education, career, family and spiritual life. On top of that for the later types life can already be hard to excruciating enough. Playing football or perhaps any other sports could do more harm than good. This is all pretty obvious and I'm sure Tom meant well. He just ended up not explaining himself fully enough. In the end I have come to the understanding that people should do things in life based on who they know they are and what they can accomplish, not what they think they can do against all odds. Leave ego out of the equation... I enjoyed your endzone color commentary of Michigan last season with Tim Tebow and the guys and gals. Keep up the good work!

Brady for president

Brady taoking about integrity?!? Hilarious

know whats also hard? getting up everyday, working a menial job, living paycheck to paycheck, staying sane while doing it, like the other 98% of the world.

I hate the player tom i like the person and the rah rah tom he will be great on tv......HOWEVER he is not the goat he is the greatest of my generation on of the last 20 years.

He was dedicated to himself! It cost him two opportunities at having a family. Yes, he is the GOAT for football and nothing more. His choice to pursue another Super Bowl ring, like he needs the jewelry, rather than go home and help raise his kids and work on his marriage destroyed his All American boy image, for me. He is addicted to the roar of the crowd and pursues it to the exclusion of all else, just like drug addicts to heroine. I know of what I speak. It took my husband years to deal with the addiction and my son at 50 years of age still needs a crowd of acquaintances-not good healthy friendships-just lots of admirers. Not all professional athletes can manage “real life” and all the richness it has to offer. Tom Brady is one of those.