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POWERFUL: #Texans QB C.J. Stroud used a three-step analogy to explain the connection between his Christian faith and football: salvation, sanctification and glorification.
Stroud says his faith comes before football and that his identity is in Christ.
🙏
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Excuses keep you comfortable with yesterday.
Accountability gives you a chance to be better tomorrow.
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Logan Ryan says he spent 4 years trying to beat Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and Julian Edelman to work and never did
“Tom Brady was a great leader. He told me, ‘If you ever need anything, I’m here all day.’ I said, ‘Well, what time do you get here?’ He just said, ‘Early.’ I said, ‘How early is early?’ And he goes, ‘Early.’”
“We started our days at 7:30am, so I came in at 6:30. You were there. Brady was there. Bill was there. Then I came in at 6:00am. Brady was there. You were there. Bill was there.”
“In New England, we didn’t have assigned parking spots. It was first come, first serve. There wasn’t a spot for the head coach, a spot for Tom Brady, a spot for Julian Edelman. It was a free-for-all.”
“So I started coming in at 5:30am, 5:45, 5:15, then 5:00 AM. I was like, ‘I can’t do anything earlier than 5:00am. That’s just getting ridiculous. I’m not getting enough sleep.’”
“So I came in at 5:00am every day for four years. And Brady was there. You were there. Bill was there. I was the fourth car there for four straight years.”
“When I went to Tennessee, I came in at 5:00am every day and was the second car there with Vrabel. My 5am routine came from trying to beat you guys to work every day. I knew that you could talk how you talked and play how you played because you put the work in to earn that.”
“Everywhere I went after that, I was the first car in the parking lot. Did I have to be? Not all the time. But I made that my routine. I made it normal. I got all that from how early you guys got there every day.”
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Success becomes detrimental when it negatively impacts your daily habits and preparation. If you gain confidence but forget the daily habits and discipline that put you on the winning path you are bound to fail.
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You asked for a bigger opportunity.
Don’t be surprised when it comes with a bigger responsibility.
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Winning can hide the habits that will eventually beat you.
Celebrate the result.
Then tell the truth about the performance.
Don’t let the result excuse the performance.
The most dangerous mistakes are the ones you survive.
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Here’s an NFL Films video on Brady’s Psychologist at Michigan Greg Harden
Tom Brady says his career turned around when a sports psychologist told him to stop complaining about what he wasn’t getting and start stewarding what he had the right way
“Greg said to me, ‘Why don’t you quit bitching about all the things you’re not getting, and how about you do the best with whatever opportunities you get?’, ‘Stop worrying about what the other quarterback’s getting. Stop worrying about what the coach is saying to you.’”
“‘Every time you get in there, you bring the juice. You bring the energy. You bring the enthusiasm. You treat practice like a game.’ Because if you just decide to go out there and you’re blaming everybody else, where does that get you? So I started to change my attitude.”
“I didn’t have a lot of confidence in myself. And when you don’t have a lot of confidence in yourself, you blame other people. When you gain confidence in yourself, you start pointing the finger at yourself.”
“I would encourage every athlete to look in the mirror after every day of practice or a game and say, ‘What can I do better to help the team? What can I do better?’”
“Not, ‘What does the coach need to do better?’ Not, ‘What do my teammates need to do better?’, ‘What do I need to do better?’ If every player does that, you’re going to have an incredible team.”
“You can’t have a false confidence. You don’t only gain your confidence because of your physical ability. You gain your confidence because you’re prepared, because you’re competitive. I couldn’t just show up and be better than everybody.”
“I had to show up prepared. I had to show up with energy. I had to show up with my body feeling right. I had to show up like I was on a mission.”
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This is so freaking good
Never heard it put like this
“My job is to be opposite the moment”
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“You try to go to work everyday and use this platform to glorify God.”
Former Flame @malikwillis is ready to lead the @MiamiDolphins in 2026.
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🚨 BOOM! GOV. RON DESANTIS just MIC DROPPED New York:
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"We have the lowest per capita tax in the country, we've paid off just since I've been governor, 52% of our state's debt, and we have a smaller government today than the day I took office. See, it can be done!" 👏🏻
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Consider this. Share it with your athlees.
You’ve spent hundreds of hours preparing for Friday night.
Lifting. Running. Summer workouts. Practices in the heat.
And how much actual football might you actually play?
10 minutes.
Do the math.
A game has roughly 120 plays.
Half are offense. Half are defense.
An average play lasts about 5 seconds.
120 plays × 5 seconds = 600 seconds.
That’s 10 minutes.
Hundreds and hundreds of hours of work for five minutes of actual football.
And I’m not asking you to give me 10 minutes all at once.
I’m asking for five seconds at a time.
Five seconds as hard as you can possibly play.
Get up. Get back in the huddle. Do it again.
And again.
Until there are no five seconds left.
Hundreds of hours for five minutes.
Don’t waste a second.
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Cooper Kupp believes in order to perform at your best, you have to stop caring about the result
“Early on mindset in the moment was… Don’t mess up. Make sure I run the right route. Get to the right spot. I’ve got so much going through my head.”
“Jared threw such a great pass…I end up missing it…A game-winning touchdown. The results aren’t always going to tell you the truth. What’s your process like? How are you going about things?”
“People are going to hate to hear that this is my mindset… But you have to not care what happens. You have to not care what the result is.”
“Get completely past… The wins and the losses. Get completely past… What the stats are going to be.”
“I work from Monday to Saturday… To make sure I prepare… And do everything I possibly can… To be the best Cooper Kupp… That I can be on Sunday.”
“The things I eat. When I show up to work. The film I’m watching. I’m as intentional as I can possibly be.”
“It doesn’t matter. I’ve already done everything I possibly can… To be in that moment. All I can do is attack it. The results do not matter.”
“I get to play from victory… Not for victory.”
“The worst thing I can do… Is look back and be like… Why didn’t I go after it? I’m just going to send it. If it doesn’t work… It doesn’t work.”
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One of the greatest lessons I ever learned had nothing to do with running the football.
One day in practice, a coach looked at me standing on the other side of the field and asked, "What are you doing over there?"
My answer?
"Nothing."
He looked at me and said, "Then go help your teammate."
He challenged me to become uncommon.
He reminded me that you never know what's going to happen on the field. A teammate may go down. Someone may need help. If you only know one job, you're limiting your value.
From that day on, I expanded my role. I attacked my weaknesses, learned every position I could, and became the player the team could count on in any situation.
That's what made me a starter.
I've carried that lesson with me ever since.
Don't just do what's required. Look for ways to add value. Learn a new skill. Help someone else. Prepare for opportunities before they arrive.
The people who become uncommon aren't waiting to be needed—they're already getting ready.
Find A Way.
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Tony Robbins on the three questions that reveal why you're unhappy:
"People don't experience life, they experience the life they focus on. If you're happy, you are deleting all the things you could be pissed off about. If you're unhappy, you're deleting all the things that are great in your life. Our brains delete and distort and generalize, so if you don't direct it, you get whatever shows up"
"What's wrong is always available. What's right is also available. It's just which one you pick. And it isn't about positive thinking. I've never been into positive thinking. I believe in intelligence, because when you're in a lousy state of mind, you treat people poorly, you don't perform, you're not happy"
"There are three decisions you're making every moment of your life. The first one is what are you going to focus on. If you're supposed to meet someone at 7 o'clock and it's 7:30 and they haven't called, some people are pissed off, some people are worried. It's the same event. Whether you're angry or worried had nothing to do with the event, it's the habits of your mind"
"Do you tend to focus more on what you have or what's missing? Do you focus more on what you can control or what you can't? Do you focus more on the past, the present, or the future?"
"If you constantly look at what's missing, it's hard to ever stay fulfilled. If you focus on what you can't control, you're overwhelmed and stressed. And if you focus on the past, which you can't change, that makes you angry or sad or frustrated. If you focus on what you have, you're going to be more fulfilled"
"Instead of saying I want a New Year's resolution, another rule for myself, I need to change the ruler. A lot of times we don't even see that we're the ruler"
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Tom Brady reveals the brutally honest talk he had with a Michigan sports psychologist that turned him from a benchwarmer into the GOAT.
Brady's transformation started with one change: the way he thought.
"I sit on the bench my first year, and I really had—I would call it—a lot of self-defeating attitudes and behaviors. I always had an excuse. 'Coach doesn't want me in there.'"
"I had a sports psychologist. His name was Greg Harden. I would go into his office every Tuesday, and he would say, 'Tom, I like you. You work hard, but you have a shitty attitude.'"
"'How about you start worrying about what you can control and stop talking about the other quarterbacks, stop talking about the coaches not putting you in.'"
"If they give you three reps, you do the best with the three you get. Quit bitching about you only getting three or you going in there with the backup receivers. No one cares.'"
"'You treat practice like it's a game. If you throw a touchdown in the two-minute in practice, you celebrate like it's the game.'"
Brady never approached it that way before. Then "sure enough" everything changed.
"Mmy energy started getting way better. I was bringing juice; I had the right attitude."
"Then all of a sudden, I'm bringing the juice, man. Every day, boom."
"That [mindshift] really helped me get better."
The road to 7 Super Bowl rings didn't start on the practice field; it started in that very office…
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Well worth an hour to listen and learn. I found this conversation to be full of teachable moments. Really great.
Steve Cohen and PGA Golfers share the same performance coach.
For the next hour, he’s yours too.
@GioValiante is the world’s top performance psychologist.
We discuss why most people never reach their potential, how both confidence and fear shape performance, and what separates those who consistently excel from those who stay stuck.
Enjoy!
(Includes paid partnerships)
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Luke Kuechly shares what elite preparation looks like.
"There's plays I've made solely based on what I've seen on tape."
"As you study during the week, you can pick stuff up. If he lines up here, he likes doing this. If this guy's on this side of the field, he likes doing that."
Your preparation is going to help you show up. It doesn't just help you react - it helps you anticipate.
"If you can find a couple plays during the game that you've either seen on tape or seen at practice - you can apply 'em in the game."
"That's the part of the game that's fun."
Then the broadcast said it best:
"He reminds me of Peyton Manning. A guy that is totally prepared - that is gonna know what's gonna happen before it takes place because he has studied so much. He's one step ahead of everybody else."
When the game slows down - that's when preparation has done its job.
Success always starts with your preparation and your will to prepare.
(🎥 NFL Films)
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Jeff Bezos reveals the simple phrase that saved him countless arguments running Amazon
"Disagree and commit is a really important principle that saves a lot of arguing"
"One of my direct reports would want to do something. I'd think it was a bad idea. We'd go back and forth and I'd often say, you know what, I don't think you're right, but I'm going to gamble with you"
"You're closer to the ground truth than I am. I've known you for 20 years, you have great judgment"
"At least then you've made a decision and I'm agreeing to commit to that decision. I'm not going to be second guessing it, sniping at it, or saying I told you so"
"I'm going to try actively to help make sure it works. That's a really important teammate behavior"
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Bill Cowher shares the 3 things he told his 3 daughters - and his 53 players.
"Number one - choices and consequences."
"You can control your choice. But once you make a choice, it controls you...Just understand - with every decision you make, there's a consequence that goes with that."
Your choices and actions matter.
"Number two - it's about the people you surround yourself with."
"Are they people that are purpose-driven? Or are they people that are just trying to feed off of who you are?"
"I want people around me that are purpose-driven. People focused on doing something impactful and meaningful."
"And the third thing - nothing good happens after midnight. Nothing."
Three rules. A lifetime of wisdom.
Your choices control you. Your circle defines you. Your habits protect you.
(🎥Ray Lewis Show: @raylewis)
