Believe me, I'm much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.
Interpretation
Winning boosts morale and makes social interactions more pleasant.
In this quote, Tom Brady emphasizes the psychological importance of victory and how it positively influences interpersonal dynamics. He suggests that success not only enhances his mood but also the atmosphere around him, making him more enjoyable to be around compared to the challenges faced during defeat.
In practice
A sports team could use this quote to boost morale after a hard-fought game.
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.
If you can find a passion at a young age, somewhere between fifteen and thirty, if you can find that passion, I can pretty much guarantee you that you can be sixty-five and still love that passion and still have a reason to dance out of bed and down the hall every morning.
Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
In my life, I don't have roadblocks and obstacles. I might have something you would call a 'challenge.' I throw that out the window, and I call that a wonderful opportunity.
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to act today, and instead say, 'I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.'
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