Bill Belichick & Ray Dalio on Dealing with Arrogant Players

Do you get paraders that are too arrogant? Well, I would say sometimes when we get the rookies in from college, there's a decru process that goes on.

Uhhuh, some of his players come out in college, he gets drafted. You know, he's the best player on the team in college, right? And he's playing against a lot of other bad players on other teams who are, you know, freshmen. So, he's just better than everybody.

Well, you come in the National Football League, and there's not too many rookies that are better than everybody. There's very, very few. So, they quickly have to learn that if you do things the way you did them in college, it's not going to work here.

The other guys are faster than you, the other guys are stronger than you, the other guys have more experience than you. Like, you've got to find a way to do things right to be successful.

And so sometimes that process takes, you know, a little while. It could take a couple weeks; sometimes it could take a year of bad, bad results. You know, so there's a de-recruiting, you know, and it's kind of—I’m sure it's the same thing in college.

You know, some of the high school kids, big high school recruits, some of them work out, some of them don't. And part of it's because they think they're already just better than everybody else, but they're not—not at the next level.