""It didn't matter if it was March, March was really important because March led to April," he added. "April was really important because it led to May and so-forth all the way up to the start of the season, all the way up to the final games of the season to prepare us for the playoffs and then if we were fortunate enough to make it to the last game, we were so prepared because every day was important.""
""My leadership was always about how do I, first of all, lead by example," Brady said. "You can't ask anyone to do something that you're not willing to do. You've got to be of the first ones there in the morning, you have to be the last to leave, you've got to be the most focused, you have to drive the culture of what a winning culture really looks like.""
Tom Brady built a career on relentless preparation, combining an unorthodox diet, long film study sessions, and repetitive practice to perfect fundamentals like the spiral. An obsessive drive to improve became an addiction that fueled constant refinement and focus. Bill Belichick reinforced the same culture through exacting attention to detail, high expectations, and the mantra of uninterrupted daily work. The team treated every month as consequential, using March through the season to incrementally prepare for playoff success. Leadership centered on example: being first to arrive, last to leave, maintaining focus, and demanding nothing of teammates that one would not do oneself.
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