Tom Brady was a backup who got only 2 practice reps while the starter got 20. A coach told him to treat every rep like the Super Bowl. He did, and earned more reps.
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Complain all the time that the guys ahead of me were getting more opportunity than I was. There was a certain amount of repetitions in practice. The starter would get 20, the backup would get 10, and I would get 2. And I'd go in and I'd say, well, how can I ever get better? All these guys get all the reps, and I only get two. And he said, just go in there and focus with the two that you got and make them as perfect as you possibly can. So I said, okay. So. So that's what I did. They put me in for those two. Man, I'd sprint in there like it was Super Bowl 49. Let's go, boys. Here we go. What play we got. And I did really well with those two because I brought enthusiasm, I brought some energy, and I had a little more confidence in myself. And it went from two reps to getting four reps, because those two were pretty good. Then I had four good reps, then I got 10 good reps. And before you knew it, through this new attitude, through this new shift that Greg had said to me, you know, focus on what you can control. Focus on what you're getting, not what anyone else is getting. Whenever you get an opportunity, you take advantage of, you treat it like it's the Super Bowl. You treat it like it's game day. Go out there and treat practice like no one else does. And I did that every single day.
