Tom Brady
8 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 20, 2021 by Angela Duckworth · said 87 times in 23 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Shane Parrish (53), Bill Belichick (12), Ryan Holiday (7), Neil Pasricha (5), Dr. Julie Gurner (5), Ed Latimore (3), Angela Duckworth (2)
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2026 10 mentions in 1 episode
2025 31 mentions in 6 episodes 5 per episode
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- Andy Grove: Only The Paranoid Survive [Outliers]
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2024 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2023 11 mentions in 5 episodes 2 per episode
2022 15 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
2021 12 mentions in 3 episodes 4 per episode
2017 3 mentions in 1 episode
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Apr 20, 2021 positive
Duckworth: Elite athletes like Kobe and Brady intentionally maintain underdog mindsets
“Some of the most successful people, right? Like the you know, people like Kobe Bryant, like were able to maintain an underdog mindset or even Tom Brady, right? Long past the time where they, you could actually legitimately say that you're an underdog. They are…”
May 27, 2025 negative
Belichick: Publicly validating team hype creates internal distractions for teammates
“If other people say it, we can't control that. Once we say it, now, now we have to own it, you know, and so Belichick says, you know we should be in the AFC Championship game, and we've only played four games. Well, then everybody else has to react to that. Sh…”
May 27, 2025 positive
Belichick: Strict routines enable players to defy age and sustain performance
“The guys that do that I would say have, for the most part, have had very long and productive careers, and the guys that haven't have careers that, that go to a certain point with talent but they don't have the same kind of longevity and consistency of a player…”
May 27, 2025 neutral
Belichick: Tom Brady Began His NFL Rookie Year as Fourth-String Quarterback
“Tom Brady was a fourth string quarterback his rookie year. He had three players ahead of him, and, you know, he just worked his way up. No, no team keeps four quarterbacks at any level, high school, college, NFL. It's really almost unheard of”
May 27, 2025 positive
Belichick: True greatness is producing when opposing game plans target you
“I think what really separates the great players is their ability to do it even when the bullseye's on their back every week. Like it was with Tom Brady, like it was with Lawrence Taylor, like it is with Patrick Mahomes like it is with, you know, players like t…”
May 27, 2025
Belichick: Unproven players get zero margin for error compared to elite veterans
“If you have a lot of pelts on the wall, you might have a little more slack. If you don't have a lot of pelts on the wall, you don't have any room. You don't have any room. You can't live on what you've done because you haven't done enough. You better know wher…”
Dec 23, 2025
Belichick: Proven superstars get leeway, but unproven players have zero margin
“If you have a lot of pelts on the wall, you might have a little more slack. If you don't have a lot of pelts on the wall, you don't have any room. You don't have any room. You can't live on what you've done because you haven't done enough. You better know wher…”
Dec 23, 2025
Belichick: Elite athletes produce despite weekly opponent game plans targeting them
“What really separates the great players is their ability to do it even when the bullseye's on their back every week like it was with Tom Brady, like it was with Lawrence Taylor, like it is with Patrick Mahomes like it is with, you know, players like that, Lama…”