Absolute Motivation - CHAMPIONS MENTALITY - One Of The Best Motivational Video Speeches Compilations

Episode Date: March 29, 2026

THE TRUE CHAMPIONS MENTALITY by Absolute Motivation. This one of the best 2025 motivational video speeches compilations features legendary figures like Mike Tyson, Cristiano Ronaldo, Michael Jordan, and many more, sharing insights into the mindset that drives them to greatness. Through powerful speeches, you’ll learn the importance of mental toughness, relentless dedication, and resilience in overcoming challenges. Watch now and let these iconic athletes and champions inspire you to adopt their mentality, pushing yourself to new heights in 2025 and beyond. It's time to unlock your true potential and become a champion in your own right! Perhaps one of the best motivational video compilations we’ve ever done. Featuring never-before-seen original Absolute Motivation videos and edits. You don't have to but if you do we would appreciate it if you join our channel members: ✏️ Featuring our excellent speakers that will give you that boost you need to take your life to the next level. This original speech we created will provide you with the fuel you need to push through those hard times. 🔑All speakers, footage and music are also listed at the end of the video. 🤝Special thanks to all our partners, not just in this video but all our videos. We love you. 📱Maintain your motivation. 💡 Our official website: https://absolutemotivation.net 👕 Our official merch: https://absolutemotivationshop.com/ 👉🏻 Thought-provoking editing tapestries: @AbsoluteMotivation 📸 Instagram: @absolutemotivationofficial 🎤 Speakers in this video: Mike Tyson Kobe Bryant Michael Jordan Cristiano Ronaldo Elon Musk Jeff Bezos Nasim Taleb Usain Bolt Arnold Schwarzenegger Tyson Fury Lebron James 💽 Track List in this video: The First 48 by Joseph William Morgan Uncovered by Joseph William Morgan Arrival of Tomorrow by LIGHTS & MOTION Mysterium by Hammock Atoms by Convolv Lux by Ryan Taubert After Darkness I Hope For Light feat. Red Licorice by Judah Earl A Lament for Peace: Reprise by Ryan Taubert Marvel (No Oohs & Ahhs) by Ryan Taubert Our speeches are created by, remixed or licensed to Absolute Motivation. For licensing information, message [e-mail] 🔊The music in this video: The music is licensed via the fantastic teams at: Musicbed Artlist Really Slow Motion Audiomachine 🎥 The video footage In this video: All video footage used is licensed through either CC-BY, from various stock footage websites, or filmed by us. All Creative Commons footage is listed at the video's end and licensed under CC-BY 3.0. Film and TV shows used in the video are interwoven with the video's narrative, related to the video's topic, and corresponding to FAIR USE. #absolutemotivation #hopecore #motivationalspeech #championsmentality Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If you could talk to the 20-year-old Mike, what would you say to him? It's going to hurt. It's going to hurt bad. It's going to really hurt. If it's going to hurt him really bad. I'm Mike Tyson. I'm labeled a dangerous guy at a guy. I said, I really figured out that.

I said, why am I going to this test? And they didn't understand why I'm going to do. One of the doctor said, they're afraid that you're going to hurt somebody, either in the ring and out of the ring. And I was dumbfounded because I said, what about somebody hurting me? Sometimes my whole life I thought I was in the guard of the savages. Look where I came for. I hate it.

I felt sorry for my soul. I had chipped for my shoulders because I was always poor. I was uneducated. I'm a monster, watch me ring and all that stuff. And I just found that I'm a little scary boy. And I know a tough guy. Do anyone care about me, about me being hurt? No one ever cares about my...

They look at me as like I'm some juggernaut. I'm a stone cold, no emotion. But maybe I project myself to be that way, because that's my defense mechanism. But in all actual, actually, I'm very fragile. And that's why I strike out from it, because I'm fragile, immediately hurt. I live fear. I am from Brownsville, Brooklyn.

I'm what fear looks like. Look at me. If you think anybody's afraid of me, I'm probably a thousand times more afraid of them than they are me. That's why I'm more aggressive than they are. My whole life is fear-based. How did you endure that, survive that.

I'm like, I'm made for that. That's what I'm made for. Absolutely. That's who I am. I want to be up more than anybody wants me to be down. But just because I'm that type of person, I'm that extreme of a person, they fingered me to be a monster. I ain't who I am.

And I'm going to die being who I am, and I'm going to live being who I am. This is just who I am. And if you can't handle me being I am, you have a problem within yourself. The more I hurt them, the more spectacularly I hurt them, the better that my life would be. my life would be and that's how my mindset was. The most successful people that ever lived in history are megalomaniac, but they got a low self-esteem.

You don't think much about this stuff, but they think they're God in the other hand too. Any time you want to be the best in the world or anything, it's going to be disappointment. It's almost like you almost have to give you happiness up to accomplish your goal. I was thinking of a line of the... George Orwell where he says autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something

disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats. How do I express this? I was never able to to understand the concept of greatness. I just never was able to understand that concept of greatness. As time went on and I've gotten older, I met many journeys on people that I met on my journey. The majority of greatness in itself doesn't come with goodness.

The two don't coexist with one another. I spent all my life trying to become great because I had such a low self-esteem. And I realized late in life that all great, or not good men. And then so I try to embark on a whole different career and try to become good. So how do we live in those two dimensions at once?

You want that greatness for self-gratification, but you want goodness from a human perspective. And I really have no idea or no clue. How do I juggle both of them and be in harmony? And then in all actuality, they don't exist. You have to pick a side. I always cry before I fight. You did, always cry before.

Yeah. What were you crying about? I don't know. That's just who I am. Yeah, but go further. What's the emotion? Are you... No, I'm getting ready to change into somebody I don't like. You're getting ready to change...

Yeah. Change into the fighter. Yeah. And you don't like that fighter. Not really. No, not really. Wow. You are the greatest fighter that ever lived,

and you didn't. And you didn't like that guy? No, because he came more with fighting. He brought more than just fighting with him. What do you mean? He brought, like, jealousy, inviness, guilt. He brought a lot of stuff. Yeah, that's who I was.

Everything that was bad was that guy. See, all your fights and stuff? All your knuckles is spectacular. Know what that mean? All this good stuff happening to? You know what that mean? That you're favored by God. You know that, right?

You may not know, too. When you're favored by God You're also favored by the devil He's coming for you too So you've got to be strong Stay on the right side Who side you're going to go on? He's going to give you power too

He's going to get in your head too But who's side you're going to stay with You stay with who brought you here You go home with the guy that brought you to the dance Fear is our friend Fear is like fire You know what I mean If you're afraid of it

And you let it get out of control They can destroy you and everything around you But if you control It can cook food for you, you can heat you, keep you warm. You can be your friend. It can fight for you. To know what I, from my experience I found out, the, um, the guard, do you, it tests you.

It tests you. And see how long how you this you can take before you say, let's just be finished with this. You know what I mean? It wants to show you something. You want to see how much you can take, how much you can handle life. You say he'd love life, you want to live life. I'm going to show you life.

Life. Life is beautiful, but you have to accept the good and the bad as being beautiful. You can't accept the good, all this is beautiful. Then we lose them where our life sucks. Life is beautiful because life gives us the ability to just know them on our journey in life. Listen, the ups and downs are not over, believe it or not, in life. And my whole success is from belief, something I can feel but not actually see. Who is the real me?

The sad guy, the happy guy, the confident guy, the guy with remorse, there's lots of different Mike Tyson. We're all creatures of contradiction because we truly don't know who we are. We're constantly searching who we are. But I don't know. It's just that makes me who I am. If I wasn't that way, you're in the interview me. That's just that makes me, Mike.

You know what I'm not a straight guy. Doing what I do in normal, don't go along with one another. You like that reflection you see in the mirror. I guess everything could be cool with that. Does it make sense for you to have a happy ending? I don't know about that. We're dealing with life on life terms. It's out of my control, truly.

When that feeling comes, you know, you have no control over it. I might want to die tomorrow. And that's just what it is. And that's how my mind works. I don't know what I want to do. I just know right now I want to live and experience life. and I don't know what life has in store for me, but I'm not afraid to find out.

You make a choice and say, come hell of high water, I'm going to be this. Then you should not be surprised when you are that. And I gave my soul to this game. There's nothing more I can give. Nothing. But I'm telling you it goes by fast. And if you don't give it, you're all.

You're going to regret it. It's as simple as that. What does love feel like for you? What does love feel like? I think I describe it as a beautiful journey. You know, it has its ups and downs. Things are never perfect. But through love, you continue to persevere.

And you move from, you move from. Through that storm, beautiful sun emerges. And inevitably another storm comes. Guess what? You ride that one out too. So I think love is a certain determination and persistence to go through the good times and the bad times with the someone or something that you truly love.

I had a summer where I played basketball when I was like 10 or 11 years old. And I scored not a free throw, not a nothing, not a lucky shot, not a breakaway lay up zero points. And I remember crying about it, being upset about it, and my father just gave me a hug and said, listen, whether you score zero or score 60, I'm going to love you no matter what.

Now that is the most important thing as you can say to a child. Because from there, I was like, okay, that gives me all the confidence in the world to fail. I have the security there. But to hell with that, I'm scoring 60. There's a choice that we have to make as people, as individuals. If you want to be great as something, it's a choice that you have to make.

We all can be masters at our craft. And what I mean by that is inherent sacrifices that come along with that. I had a purpose. I wanted to be one of the best basketball. basketball players to ever play. And anything else that was outside of that lane, I didn't have time for it. So everything I saw, whether it was TV shows,

whether it was books I read, people I talked to, everything was done to try to learn how to become a better basketball player, everything. So when you have that point of view, then literally the world becomes your library. The Mamba mentality simply means trying to be the best version of yourself. That's what the mentality means.

means. It means every day you're trying to become better. It's a constant quest. It's an infinite quest. I want to be one of the best basketball players who've ever played. Okay, how do I get there? Every decision I made in my life was centered around the process of helping me eventually get there. Like you're always going after, always going after, always going after. And if there's a challenge that ensues, oh good, I want to see how I stack up to that. So I had that purpose. Once I had that purpose, Every decision that I made is centered around that purpose. I think the best way to prove your value is to work, is to learn, is to absorb, to be a sponge.

You always want to outwork your potential. As hard as you believe you can work, you can work harder than that. So you would go after, you go after it. What I've learned is to always keep going. In times, particularly early in my career, where you just feel like this is the end. But what I've come to find out is that, you know,

no matter what happens, the storm eventually ends. And when the storm does end, you want to make sure that you're ready. Man, I gave my soul to this game, man. There's nothing more I can give. Nothing. You guys know that, you know, if you do the work, you work hard enough, dreams come true. You know that, we all know that. But hopefully what you get is the understanding that those times when you get up early and you work hard,

those times when you stay up late and you work hard, Those times when you don't feel like working, you're too tired, you don't want to push yourself, but you do it anyway. That is actually the dream. That's the dream. It's not the destination. It's the journey. Every kid, every person has the ability to put one foot in front of the other, right? So like if you're saying, okay, I'm going to climb Mount Everest.

You're at the bottom of the mountain and you look up and you're going, I'm not going to climb Mount Everest. Right? But if you break it down into sections, you're just one foot in front of the other, one step at a time, next thing you know, you're at the top of the mountain. So, like, as a kid, I said, I want to be the best ever. And now you go through your life, and everything you do is try to be the best ever, be the best ever, be the best ever. And as you get older, you start understanding that those things are very superficial things.

And everybody has a different opinion about it. No matter what you do, I can win 20 championships. There's always an opinion on who's the best. Everybody has different opinions. And so I started really kind of understand it. Maybe that's not the important thing. Maybe the important thing is to, you know, how do we as a team grow? How do I help my teammates be better?

So that was the first change for me. And then as I got older still, it became more about how are you inspiring others to find themselves. That is the ultimate championship. How do you use your passion and use that to inspire somebody else to create their passion?

And then how can they pass that on to the next person? That is true success. The lesson I cherish the most is how important It's important it is to love what you do. Always seek out things you love and always work hard once you find it. You can't stop people from trying to limit your dreams, but you can stop it from becoming a reality.

It's time to say goodbye. I'm also. This is what we talk about all the time. You have a bump in the road, you fall, you get back up, and you go after it again. That's what we do. Your best player, Territory played here. And I said, well, you got to work hard

that you did in high school. He said, I worked as hard as everybody else. I said, oh, excuse me. I thought you just told me you want to be the best player to ever play here. He said, I'm going to show you. Nobody will ever work as hard as I. Michael Jordan is not only the best basketball player, but he's the most exciting basketball player to ever play.

We only dream about doing things that he can do. A professional basketball for the Chicago Bulls. Two seconds to go. A one point lead for Georgetown. Marty, the Black. A tie. A tie. About the trace of my evolution,

the Michael Jordan evolution, they always have to start back in college, hitting a shot against Georgetown in 1982, and I really didn't know exactly what I was doing. It awakened a person inside of me to excel, to compete to excel, to be one of the best or be the best. That drove, and I guess with that shot,

it kind of ignited a fire inside of me. Nothing's gonna stop. My biggest motivation in life, you know, is to find different competitions and certain things in life and try to overcome that, you know, be it positive or negative. But I have yet to meet someone who is as competitive as me. I miss more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game running shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life.

and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. He was 97 when he was in Minnesota, and flip at switched and put me on Michael Jordan. One of the greatest problem that ever touch the ball. And I counted his dribbles. I was able to catch his dribbles, you know? I counted the dribbles.

One, two, come across. When I blinked, he was gone. I turned the round, he was dunking the ball, giving somebody dabbing halfway down the court, that fast. That's what I knew, Michael Jordan, wasn't here. When you step on the floor, it doesn't matter how many times you've done it before. All that matters is that you do it now. Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you.

If you try to shortcut the game, then the game's going to shortcut you. You can put forth the effort. Good thing to be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game. And in some ways, that's about life, too. For me, losing just is the worst feeling. in life at anything, whether it's cars, golf, basketball, whatever it is. I hate losing.

I mean, it's not even a question. But, I mean, I have to respect losing because losing is a part of winning. And you never would just, you know, win. You got to lose to win. Losing is going to hurt, you know, to a point where you would look at, how can I do things different? How can I change? How can I make this team better?

And that's the thing about a team, and you know this too, is that before you can look at someone else, you've got to look at yourself in the mirror, because that's how things get started and you got to be willing to change you are without question one of the most gifted players i've ever seen what makes you different from other people once again it falls back to my parents in terms of how i approach a situation you know i never feel that i'm at my best i feel i still have room to improve i still set goals for myself to strive for uh i'm never complacent with what i've achieved uh even though it's been very successful for

for me, I still feel I have a lot to prove not just as a player, but as a person, as a father, to some extent, as a role model in all aspects. So I'm never really too complacent with myself or with what I've achieved. When I get to a point where I feel I can improve as a player, I walk away from the game. I still feel that I have a plateau that I hadn't reached yet in terms of my skills. my expectations of myself. You know, I'm always going to expect myself to do certain things or surpass certain things.

As long as I believe that, then, you know, my road to success and continue to expand. Like, I don't have to do this. I'm only doing it because it is who I am. That's how I played the game. That was my mentality. If you don't want to play that way,

don't play that. Maybe it's my fault. Maybe I led you to believe it was easy when it wasn't. Maybe I made you think my highlights started at the free throw line and not in the gym. Maybe I made you think that every shot I took was a game winner. That my game was built on flash and not fire. Maybe it's my fault that you didn't see that failure gave me strength, that my pain was my motivation. Maybe I led you to believe that basketball was a God-given,

gift and not something I work for every single day of my life maybe I had destroyed the game or maybe you just make an excuse it why I'm the number one sometimes I ask ask that question for myself why me and not another one I think I'm good but I think my man strength it's my mind I think the West is relevant. You have to be charismatic. People have to feel some connection with you. Ronaldo! Christiane!

The life is all about the balance. Do you think what makes you different to the others, to the next rung on the ladder if you like? A very good place is the dedication level that you put in? I'm always saying it's all package. You know, first of all, it's a talent helps a lot of course. But of course the ethic of work. You have to put in your mind

ethic of work when you are professional. With the age, you start to understand that the most important thing is you know 100% your body and training smart. Well, now those mentality, and I think that's what makes him the player he is. I know how to be good, how to be fit, How to protect your body is not the quantity, it's the quality.

He was already arguably Portugal's most potent attack and weapon. I dedicate myself and are working hard, and this is why the goals and all the achievements that I get coming from dedication and hard work. He really wanted to leave everything on the field. Because I think the main point is the mind. If you feel motivated, it helps a lot, so I still feel motivated. And that's exactly what we saw. we saw.

Ronaldo is at the Ronaldo! Oh, watch a screener! They're going to play in Ronaldo. It is, Ronaldo! It's 2-1 United! Oh, my goodness! Restored to this great gallery of the game,

a walking work of art. To be it to have a letter, Ronaldo! Prentage, beyond valuation, beyond forgery or imitation. The theater lives extreme! It's fantasy hero retrans the board. 18 years since that trembling teenager of touch and tease.

Cristiano on his right, Cristiano! The crowd is over. First tiptoed onto this storied stage. Now in his immaculate maturity, CR7. The numbers are not played. If you see during the last 15 years, my level is always kind of the same. Effort, dedication, work hard, because the talent is not enough.

This is why I say, I like to live by eternal. And it's not dedicated 100% not going to reach the level that you want. Yes, I'm addicted to the success. Day by day we're getting old. Everyone of us, you understand it's normal, you have to adapt. We'll be here. The difference will be here. When I say success, it's, I'm going to be. I work for that.

And I think nobody in this game have this brain that adapts with his age. Talent is not enough. You have to... I dedicate myself so much that this is part of me. Records is part of me.

60% of my life is the base of football. I dedicate myself not just to training, but to prepare myself. Sometimes you plan one thing for your life and as I've told many times.

the life is the dynamic and you never know what's going to happen. I'm not the kind of guys to like to give advice, it's a perfect to be as an example. Because I'm an example. I don't follow the records, the records follow me. Part of my sacrifice, my obsession to win to have success. You currently have 145 records

where you've been most first or only something in the profession. The passion is perfect. I'm still in the process to learn. But the most of the time, 90% of my successful, if you say to maintain my fitness, my body, you know, it's good, training well. I'm there every morning and do the same stuff. I'm probably the first ones to arrive

and the last one to go out. I think the details speak for itself. of this world. Lachiano Ronaldo! You're a team player in the sense you love to win big team competitions, but you also love individual awards. They matter to you. Oh my goodness, what a hit that is.

Irrepressible, irresistible. Go, go, go, go. That's the thing that really right. Yes. I think so. I think it's good. It motivates me. If you're not, if something that's motivated, it's better, you know.

it's better, you know, to stop. The record's coming in a natural way. It's different. But when you are close, you say, why not? Down within my soul, a true breadborn, fighting man who never quits. Never says die. And if I was ever gone a jacket, it wouldn't have been in the boxing ring. It had been when I was suffering with mental health.

I was on the verge of suicide. That's when I had to quit. But I didn't quit on myself and I didn't quit on the world. That's why I'm back here to tell us to him. Maybe I was finished in my body, but my mindset was that strong and I believed that I was going to win. If you believe it first with the mind, anything's achievable. And I believed it so much, and I never ever doubt myself in a fight, no matter who it is with who, I always believe I'm going to win somehow, some way.

For those people, all the oppressed, depressed, alcoholics, drug addicts, I fight for all those people. It's to give them hope every day so they can wake up in the morning and I know. There's somebody out there banging for us. He is our man. The world, like everyone's suffering with mental health. You can't come back and it can be done. Everybody out there who has the same problems I can suffer with did that for you guys.

And if I can come back from where I come from, then you can do it too. Like, is he going here, is he going there, is he moving, is he jabbing? He'll come at you like this with two, three fake jabs, he'll move out of the way, he'll pop you with a jab as he's moving away. He's like a very technical. technical, like really sophisticated boxer. A great man, a great, great man once said, for he, who is not courageous enough to take risks

will accomplish nothing. Time again, that can never be wrote off, I can never be big, tell them down and out. Greatness never becomes easy. You never get anything good easy. Anything that's good in life is always very hard to get, or everybody that way. You're going to be willing to take risk.

And I've risked everything my whole career to get to this point. What is successful? You know the world has different things of what success is, to what really successes, I think. Successes, to me, is waking up in a good mood, having a good day, surrounded by people who you want to be surrounded by. That's all success. Success to me isn't measured on how much money you've got or what business ventures you're into. Success for me is being happy in your home and with your wife and your kids or your partner, whoever you've got, being happy with those people.

That's success to me. Before I used to take everything and think, oh, I want this, I want that. I was never happy with what I've got. It's human nature we always want more. No matter what it is, no matter how much you've got of something, then you always search it for more things. And now it's like, I don't care if I lose everything, but I don't know. care what happens. Nothing really is ours anyway in life. The only thing we truly own in this life is moments in time. This is a moment in time for me that will

never be erased. And no matter what happens, this is always going to be my time. This will be my moment in time because I lived here and I was a part of us. You know, everything else, this bag, this watch, these clothes, they'll all go. What does it really matter? Body will go, this is a shell. But what's inside, hope to God, live. on forever. I just do more than I've ever done. I sacrifice more today than I did when I was absolutely starting on with nothing from the bottom. I don't know even now that's possible. I'm tighter today. Now I've made it than I ever was coming on. I'm more stricter, more dedicated, train more, smarter, train smarter. Before it was like it's this dream job to be

heavyweight champion of the world and all that comes with it. But when you get there to the top, you find out that the real only thing that matters is your training, is your boxing, is your fights. And all the other that comes along with it, the fame, the glory, the credit, the articles, the money, whatever you can buy with, the money. It's all short-lived crap. because at the end of the day you're only as good as your last tenor and that's all she wrote life is precious

and it's beautiful just to wake up in the morning before I used to take it all for granted I didn't care I didn't care about nothing I didn't care about family friends relatives achievements I didn't care about call but now I have to go into hell and back I appreciate fresh air

and a glass of water you never know what you've really got to it's gone but I've had the opportunity to be shut down and come back. I think life's too short for regrets. We live, we learn, we get on with our lives. I never regret like I wish I didn't eat that or wish I didn't say that. I think it's all unimportant stuff. What we did yesterday's history. It's not really important. It's about living for today, not even for tomorrow, living for today and being thankful of what we have now, not for what we want, or we might think we want. We want

I used to worry about a lot of stuff in my life, worry about what people think, worry about making people happy, worrying about X, Y and Z. Now I don't. Worry about being happy now and being happy today and tomorrow. So that's how we're not promised tomorrow. So I live today because I know that I am not guaranteed to wake up in the morning. So I'm just going to be happy for now. And that's how I live. One day at a time, if I go to bed sad tonight, I think to myself, you know what, tomorrow's going to be a brand new day, I'm going to wake up happy.

Just remember, you can climb that ladder of success with your hands in your pockets. Always tell people that you can call me anything that you want. You can call me Arnold, you can call me Schwarzenegger, you can call me Austrian Oak, you can call me Schwazzy, you can call me Ani, but don't ever, ever call me a self-made man. I didn't make it that far my own. I mean to accept that credit or that member would discount every single person that has helped me to get here today. Listen, when I came to the United States, I remember that I trained five hours a day, every day, and I was managing a construction business, I was a bricklayer, and I went to college also,

and I took acting classes from eight-a-clock at night to 12 at midnight. All that in one day, every day at midnight. I did not worry about it. I knew that I had 24 hours and I didn't want to wait one single hour. The bottom line is if I would have listened to the laysayers, my career would have ended and it was 15 years old. I would be still yodling in Austria in the Alps. And the reason why I'm here that they are talking to you is because I did not listen to you can't or it's impossible or no. So I just recommend you very strongly ignore the laysayers. So shoot to the top, shoot for the sky.

Work like hell. Trust yourself. Break some rules. Don't be afraid to fail. That's what life is all about. It's overcoming our story. It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original. If you're too well-behaved and not want to break the rules.

You have to think outside the box. That's what I believe, after all. What is the point of being on this earth? of being on this world if all you want to do is be like by everyone and avoid trouble. They're out of the 24 hours of the day, they're down on waste one single hour. Anything I've ever attempted, I was always willing to fail. I was poor because I didn't have anything, but I was rich because I had a dream. Anything and everything can be done if you can visualize it and if you believe in yourself.

No matter how successful you are, life will throw obstacles in your path. But if you have a very clear vision of exactly what you want to do and who you want to be, you can go and find a way around all of these obstacles. If you think that you're going to go and accomplish something really special and be the best in anything in the world, and you think you can do it without working, you make a big mistake. Where I got hurt, where I was in pain, in agony, and had to do it over and over again. I did not care if I was bleeding on my knees because I know that pain is temporary. Always discover your vision and the rest were foul.

Paining and muscles and aching and just then go on, and you go on and go on and then divides them one from a champion and one from not being a champion. If you can't go through this bank barrier, you make it to be a champion. If you can't go through, forget it. People are having the guts. The guts go in and just say, I go through and I don't care what happens. You only remember one thing that there is, you must have a very clear vision, you must develop that very clear vision.

Ask yourself who do you want to be? Not what, but who. You see a disaster can change, but you can change, you are, it can still jobs and force you inside, but it is who you are that rises in the face of the first one. What stands in the way becomes the way. So whenever someone said to me, it can't be done, I heard it can be done. When they say, no, I heard yes. And when they say it's impossible, I heard, it is possible. I looked forward to, I looked forward to another thousand reps of sit-ins. I looked forward to another 500 pounds of leg brace or squat. I looked forward to

doing more and more curls until my arms fall off. Why? Because I knew that every rep that I did, and every set that I did, and more weights that I lifted, I get one step closer to turning that vision into reality. That can't be done or no. Don't listen. Just visualize your core, know exactly where you want to go. Trust yourself. Get out there and work like hell and break some of the rules and never ever be afraid of failure. This is the blueprint for my life. This is exactly what I want to do. Because when you have a board, when you have a vision, everything becomes easy.

The majority of people don't like what they're doing. Because they're really not doing it because they didn't have a ball and they followed this goal. It's work. It's not fun. So if you think about only one of the people really enjoy what they're doing in life, you've got to have a purpose, no matter what you do in life, you've got to have a purpose. Of course there's a chance that you can fail. When you lift the weight, I tried 10 times to lift, bench press 500 pounds.

And I failed, but the 11th time I did it. So never give up and never be afraid of failure because otherwise you box yourself in and you limit yourself. I was never afraid to fail when I ran for governor. I was never afraid to fail to tackle anything because you should not be afraid of failure. That's just part of life. I mean, people should just realize that a lot of things in life that are different.

And you have to ask yourself the question right off the top, you know, are you going to be one of those guys that are going to go and back off every time someone's going to be. difficult all you want to be one of those guys that says it doesn't matter if it's easy or difficult or most difficult I'm going to go and crush through that's me that's the person that I want to be and I'm going to move it to myself and I'm going to move it to the best of I want if you don't ask yourself should I or shouldn't you just do it that we can do it alone none of us can the whole concept of the self

made man or woman is a myth. As soon as you understand that you are here because of a lot of help, then you also understand that now is time to help others. Tear down this mirror. Tear down this mirror that makes you always look at yourself and you will be able to look beyond this mirror and see the millions of people that need your help. Have a clear vision where you want to go.

What is it that you're really passionate about and then go after that no matter what it takes go after that as crazy as it may sound because you've got to do something that you really enjoy doing But life will be always about obstacles in front of you and it is the way to overcome this obstacle It's nothing unusual that's the way it is So when you know your vision every setback and be stepping stone every struggle all resistance builds your inner strength, builds your character, makes you strong as a person. When you have one little victory, little victories add up and that is what gives you then ultimately confidence. Embrace the climb that's your vision and not just the self to take it to the top. Because the climb is what makes you grow and build who you want to be.

It's the climb. Just start developing your vision and it's time. to start climbing towards their vision. Certainly being focused on something that you're confident will have high value to someone else and just being really rigorous in making that assessment. People take too many things as they assume too many things to be true

without a sufficient basis in that belief. It's very important that people closely analyze what is supposed to be true. Try to say, let's analyze things from first principles, not by analogy or not by convention. I was at sort of a slight existential crisis because I was trying to figure out what does it all mean, like what's the purpose of things? And I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can do things that expand

the scope and scale of consciousness, then we're better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened and that's really the only way for And this was against the advice of pretty much everyone I talked to. One friend made me sit down and watch a bunch of videos of rockets blowing up. Let me tell you, he wasn't far wrong. Tough going there in the beginning, because I'd never built anything physical. I mean, I'd built like little model rockets as a kid and that kind of thing, but I'd never had a company that built any physical.

So I'd figure out how to do all these things and bring together the right team of people. And so we did all that and then failed three times. I think also people tend to overwage risk on a personal level. Let's say you're young and you're just coming out of college or coming out of high school or whatever. What are you risk? You know, you're not going to stop. People should be less risk-averse when there's not much at risk. I wouldn't say I'm fearless.

In fact, I think I fear, I feel fear quite stronger. If what we're doing is important, I think is important enough, then I just override the fear. Trying to build a company and have it succeed is like eating glass and staring into the abyss. Sort of quite exciting for the first several months starting a company. And then reality sets in, things don't go as well as planned. Some results aren't signing up, the technology or the product isn't working as well as you thought. And then that can sometimes be compounded.

That can sometimes be compounded by a recession and it could be very, very painful for several years. So I think frankly, a stunning company advise people to have a high pain tolerance. Well, there's like there are many more ways to fail than to succeed. Failure is not a big stigma. So it's like if you try hard and it doesn't work out, that's okay. Learn from that and you do another company and it's not a big deal. I think the thing that drives me is that I want to be able to think about the future and you feel good about that.

To be inspired by what is likely to happen and to look forward to the next day. The difference between really believing in your ideals and sticking to them versus pursuing some unrealistic dream that doesn't actually have merit. And it's, that is a, that is a really difficult thing to tell you, can you tell a different between those two things. Very rigorous in your self-analysis. If you assume things are true by convention, which is actually what most people do, then it's difficult to gain insight into how things can be better. You want to make sure that the underlying premises are valid and applicable

and then in reaching a conclusion that the conclusion you're reaching is necessarily driven by the underlying premises and the interconnection between those premises. connection between those premises. When I was young, I didn't really know what I was going to do when I got older. I read a quote from Odyssey Clock, which said that a sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. And that's really true. If you think, if you go back, say, 300 years, the things that we take for granted today would be, you'd be burned at the stake for. I think it actually goes beyond that, because Because there are many things that we take for granted today that weren't even imagined in times past.

They weren't even in the realm of magic. You had that third failure in a row. Did you think I need to pack this in? Never. Why not? I don't ever give up. This is the first time in the four and a half billion year history of Earth that it's been possible to extend life beyond Earth. Before this, it was not possible.

How long will this window be open? It may be open for a long time or it may be open for a short time. I think it would be wise to assume that it is open for a short time. Every waking hour, that's the thing I would say. Okay, if somebody else is working 50 hours and you're working 100, you'll get twice as done as much done in the course of year. Now is the time to take risk. So I would encourage you to take risks now to do something bold.

You won't regret it. book like hell. I mean, you just have to put in, you know, 80-hour, 80-100-hour weeks every week. Like, one of the most difficult choices I ever faced in life was, was in 2008. Maybe $30 million left, or $30 million left in 2008. I had two choices. I could put it all into one company, and then the other company would definitely die, or split it between the two companies. But if I split it between the two companies, they're both.

both my time. And when you put your blood's sweat and tears into bring something, you're building something, it's like a child. And we're going to let one starve to death. You can bring myself to do it. So I split the money between two. Fortunately, thank goodness, I don't think it's, I have they moved into it. When something is important enough, you do it even though flowers are not in your favor. We're doing these things that seem unlikely to succeed and we've been fortunate and at least thus far they have succeeded. are the magicians of the 21st century.

You know, don't like anything... We're trying so hard in our lives to fit in. We try to fit into certain groups, certain frats, certain sororities, you know, among certain friends. Yet the people we idolize are most are the ones that stand out. But when you're prepared, there is no fear.

There is no fear of failure, okay? Because even if you've walked out of something and you feel like you failed at it, your preparation is so strong that you're gonna take that failure and turn it into the outcome you desire. And most people stop at failure. We've all failed at things.

It's the most powerful tool you can use. But it all depends on how you use it. It's that drive inside of you, okay? It's what we talk about, the dark side. The dark side is, filled with failure, but it's the fuel that burns you like something that's never burned inside you before. There's a single definition of success.

Look at yourself in a mirror in the evening and wonder if you disappoint the person you were at 18 right before people get corrupted by life. Let him or her be the only judge. your reputation, not your wealth, not your standing in the community, not the decorations on your lapel. We bullshit each other. We bullshit ourselves. It's the hardest thing to do is not to bullshit ourselves.

If we don't bullshit ourselves on some level, it's too painful to be alive. And that's what your art is. Your art is telling the truth. in ways that you can't in life. As long as I enjoy what I'm doing, I train hard, I have no regrets, and all I can do is give my best, then it's going to be fine, regardless of the outcome. It's important for me to actually hear criticism sometimes, you know, because I think that's what makes me a better player.

You're doing it for yourself. You're not doing it for anybody else. I think a lot of people just, they see you run and they say, oh, it looks so easy, you look effortless. But before it gets to that point, it's hard. It's like hard to work. Staying out, sacrifice, staying out. You have a limited time to stay on earth. It really gets into behaving in a rational manner.

It's not getting in your own way. As I say, everybody here has the ability absolutely to do anything I do and much beyond. And some of you will and some of you won't. It will, the ones that won't, it will be because you get in your own way. It won't because the world doesn't allow you to it. It will be because you don't allow yourself to. The indominal will, if you have a belief, you can do something. The only way you grow that, like in the gym, you grow your muscles by actually exercise him.

You know, you grow the love of you and your wife by caring for them and having their back. To grow the individual will to become something. You must get comfortable. with fear and failure. They must be your best friends. They're the only one that moves that needle of life. Really liking what you do. Whatever area that you get into,

given that, even if you're the best, the best, there's always a chance of failure. So I think it's important that you really like whatever you're doing. If you don't like it, life is too short. If you like what you're doing, you think about it even when you're not working. I mean, it'll just, it's something that your mind is drawn to. and if you don't like it, you just really can't make it work, I think.

Are you the best footballer in the world right now? I think so, yes. In my mind, I'm always the best. I don't care what the people are thinking, what they say. In my mind, not just this year, but always, I'm always the best. I'm always going to say that. I knew what was going to happen. I knew what was going to get here.

They didn't. There's a lot of stressful years, you know what I mean? A lot of tough times. But I proved them wrong. I prove myself right. You need to bet on your strengths and don't give a fuck about what you suck at. If you want this, if you want bling,

if you want to buy the jets, if you want to do work. When I look around, I always learn something that is to be always yourself and to express yourself, to have faked in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicating. I feel I still have room to improve. I still set goals for myself to strive for.

I'm never complacent with what I've achieved. Even though it's been very successful for me, I still feel I have a lot to prove. Ben Graham in his low, in his low teens, looked around and he looked at the people he admired. And he said, you know, I want to be admired, so why don't I just behave like them? And he found there was nothing impossible.

If you're doing anything interesting in the world, in the world. You're going to have critics. If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting, I would just say, go stand on a street corner and watch in a crowded urban area, and watch all the people walk by,

and think about what they're thinking about. I bet you none of those people are thinking about you.