Bill Belichick

Sure, talent's important, but guys with a great work ethic and who really are committed to improving can catch a lot of players with more talent who don't work as hard.

Yeah, sure.

I mean, there are lots of them, unfortunately.

You know, I refer to one of them in the book that, you know, talked about coming in and being a running back and, you know, being a combination of, you know, two great running backs that were in the Hall of Fame.

And, you know, I think he had barely 100 yards in his entire career.

So it's, you know, talent's one thing, but the application of turning that talent into being a productive football player and a great teammate is, it's hard to do.

It's not that easy.

And talent gets you through high school.

It might get you through college.

But once you get to the NFL level,

that talent, that field levels out.

And there are only a few players that have such elite talent that they don't have to work very hard and can stay better than a lot of their competitors.

For the other 95%, if they don't stay on it, they're either going to get replaced or in a lot of cases, players that don't trade hard will get injured and their careers will get cut short that way because they don't commit to a good training regimen.

No, I think it's, I think it, it transcends everything.

It's unbelievable how competitive guys are, uh, literally over nothing.

I mean, it could be for a t-shirt.

Um, you know, there's guys that are making millions of dollars and it's for a, for a t-shirt or a, um...

you know, not having to run a couple sprints or an hour later on curfew, they'll compete.

And honestly, it isn't even necessarily for the prize at the end.

It's just to be able to say, you know, I won, I competed and, you know, I beat you today.