With any player, especially at quarterback, I don't care if you're talking Tom Brady or Peyton Manning or Drew Brees: you want to make sure to continue to hammer down the fundamentals, and it all starts with your feet. Everything starts with footwork.
What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.
You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.
If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick to it.
First master the fundamentals.
When I was young, I had to learn the fundamentals of basketball. You can have all the physical ability in the world, but you still have to know the fundamentals.
What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals.
Schools serving disadvantaged students need more time to help these students catch up and gain the core academic skills they will need to succeed in our economy and society.
If you look at all aspects of all sports, everything comes down to basics and fundamentals.
What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. The sensationalism has taken over the professionalism.
I think it's always good to learn a craft from scratch the real way, so that you've learned it from the basis, the raw bones, and then you have that to fall back on. I personally wouldn't want it any other way.
I don't think that the basics that kids need have changed in 10,000 years.
In golf, no one learns to hit a draw, a fade, or a cut shot until they've been taught how to hit the ball straight. Similarly, novice poker players need to learn how to 'hit it straight' before taking on more difficult concepts.
Fundamentals were the most crucial part of my game in the NBA. Everything I did, everything I achieved, can be traced back to the way I approached the fundamentals.
If someone separated the art of counting and measuring and weighing from all the other arts, what was left of each (of the others) would be, so to speak, insignificant.
