I think the great part about what I do is that there's a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There's a tangible score.
Interpretation
Success is measurable, allowing individuals to evaluate their preparation and performance periodically.
In this quote, Tom Brady emphasizes the importance of having concrete metrics to assess one's performance in any endeavor. The 'scoreboard' symbolizes accountability and the opportunity for reflection and improvement after each week, reinforcing that success is not vague but rather quantifiable, which helps individuals understand their efforts and results clearly.
In practice
Discussing performance metrics in a business meeting to highlight achievements.
You can't score if you're turning it over. It's like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you're not scoring points. That's not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions, you're giving the other team more opportunities and your team less opportunities.
I don't go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, 'Let's see if I can get this done today.'
It's a real strength for me that I've never minded the training process. It's something I enjoy. I really like being in the gym or, certainly, on the field.
The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.
I think that at the start of a game, you're always playing to win, and then maybe if you're ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.
Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.
People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.
Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.
It's sort of good to see your vocation as a daily task and have fairly modest expectations for financial or reward in other coin - glory, love, whatever.
When I came to New York, I told everyone I was a writer/director, and they said, 'No.' There was a rule. You could be one or the other. They ordained me writer. But then I won the Obie for directing 'Spunk,' and the rules changed.
Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.
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