Bill Belichick

The big thing about preparation and success is the price has to be paid in advance.

You have to put in the work before you get any results.

If you can eliminate all those things, then you can actually make progress on being a better football player and winning games.

Yeah, absolutely.

Let's start with Tom Brady.

Well, that's really our game plan every day.

Didn't matter whether it was a day in the offseason, a day in training camp or the day before the AFC championship game or the day of the AFC championship game.

Those things never really changed that we all had a job to do, whatever that happened to be.

And every job was important.

Every member of the team was important that they do their job well.

And being attentive and working hard is really the formula to getting better.

That's how you improve.

You figure out what it is you need to do better, and that's by being attentive and listening to people who can instruct you or help you get better, and then putting the work in to make that positive change.

And always thinking team first.

That's always the most important thing.

What do we need to do to win, and what can I do to contribute to the winning cause?

And so...

Regardless of what the task was, whether it was a coach, a player, a staff member, really any employee, it kind of fit for all of them.

And again, because we played and practiced in the same facility, as I said, it didn't matter whether it was the AFC championship game or whether it was a day in March or a day in June.

It was the same every day.