Daily Motivations - BEST OF 2024 (So Far)
Episode Date: December 1, 2024These are some of our Best Motivational Speeches of the year so far! We've released so many awesome speeches this year. We want to thank our loyal and supportive listeners for sticking with us till th...is time of the year. Speakers: Greg Plitt Cru Mahoney Jon Jones Chadwick Boseman Valtteri Bottas David Goggins Les Brown Marcus Taylor Ed Mylett Bobby Maximus Kobe Byrant Gregg Plitt Eric Thomas Coach Pain William "King" Hollis Brian Bullock Walter Bond Cole "The Wolf" DaSilva Mike Tyson Stephen A. Smith Tyrese Gibson Alex Hormozi Jordan Peterson Kobe Braynt Viola Davis Theo Von Dan "Nitro" Clark Freddy Fri Nathan Harmon
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You live to fight another day.
It doesn't matter how hard you work.
I'm willing to work harder than you.
No one will outwork me.
No one.
Be the guy who embraces hard work, the grind.
Don't be afraid of being hurt.
Don't be afraid of sacrificing some blood.
Some of us don't make excuses. Some of us don't surrender. Some of us don't give up and give in.
Go do something that's hard. If you want it, you gotta go get it. Most people don't want it that badly. It's time to unwrap the potential you can be. Superior, man. It's within you.
No one said it was supposed to be easy.
Some people want it easy.
But I dare you to go the hard way.
I know what that feels like.
To be left for dead after a game that you think you have.
I just believe in me. And I'm going to overcome all my adversity.
They will not see you coming as you rise, as you work every single day, tirelessly.
In order to achieve greatness, you must first believe you can.
If you want to be good at something, you want to accomplish something,
you've got to put in the time.
So right now, I need you to find a way
to keep on living, my friend.
I need you to live.
I need you to live.
I need you to live.
Do you hear me?
There's no excuse
not to be the hardest motherfucking worker in the room.
Life is going to be hard.
And you're going to fail.
And you're going to fail.
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If it's life giving,
if it's serving your purpose,
if it's going to transform you into something you never thought you could be,
then do it again.
I'm thankful to see another day. No, things aren't what I want them to be.
No, I don't have all the things I want to have, but I'm thankful that I'm still here.
I have another opportunity, another day to live, another chance to contribute,
another chance to make a difference in life.
It is ridiculously impossible to become a human being.
I am one.
I have other good things going for me as a human being.
And I'm just grateful.
You're dwelling and looking at what you don't have versus looking at what you have.
You are alive against stupendous odds.
You are breathing air, observing sunsets, gazing into the night sky.
Most people who could exist will never experience that.
I need to constantly remind myself. could exist will never experience that.
I need to constantly remind myself, I'm not yet where I want to be, but I know I'll get
there.
I'm not where I want to be but I'm grateful I am so grateful that I'm not where I used to
be I find ten things to be grateful for before my feet hit the ground
ten things and they can't cost money and especially if I'm feeling strained and
stressed I go over my gratitude list because gratitude will reduce stress all
day long.
Happiness only requires that you are grateful.
If you've got a billion dollars and three beautiful children that love you and a beautiful husband or wife,
but it doesn't matter what you have if you're not grateful.
If you live in an emotional home, a habitual pace of worry or frustration, your life's called worry and frustration perspective
and once you see gratitude and opportunity life is fun you get to decide if you're going to dwell
and play prevent defense or if you're going to see opportunity and be grateful and go on offense
i am not where i want to be but i am so grateful i am not where i used to be, but I am so grateful. I am not where I used to be.
If you didn't make me, you can't break me.
If you didn't make the sun come up, you can't stop me.
If you didn't make the moon shine at night, you can't stop me.
My purpose, my will, my dedication, my motivation is all about doing the business.
Because guess what, ladies and gentlemen?
That's what I'm about.
I'm about that business. i'm about i'm about that
business i'm about that life you have to stay grateful you can't take things for granted we
have so much abundance in the world so much opportunity and too many people are crying
about what they don't have instead of being so deeply grateful for what they have. Do all you can within your power
and the power of others who love you
to maximize what you can be,
what you can think,
what you can learn,
how you can love,
whatever it is.
That's what you've got.
Use it.
I got one question to ask you.
Can you do this thing alone?
I've trained 99% of my life alone.
No one pat me on the back.
I did all of the work alone.
Wolves don't lose sleep over the opinions of a lesser species.
Be alone. Grow that dark space. Wolves don't lose sleep over the opinions of a lesser species.
Be alone, go to that dark space.
You may not want to fight that battle, but you need to.
A beast is someone who can go through hell and be grateful that their legs are working.
What are you? Are you a sheep or are you a wolf? When you train alone, I can take myself to such a level of real, real passion and purpose.
Nobody's going to feed us. You got to feed yourself.
The feeling I get is something I can't even explain. I don't need anyone.
It's on you.
You gotta want it as bad as you want to breathe.
Success starts with you.
It's all on you.
If you want to be strong, you gotta learn to fight alone.
Yes, you're tired. Yes, your mind is saying give up.
Yes, it's saying quit.
But you cannot quit because you realize you have not reached the goal yet.
Day in and day out, you got to keep on working. And if you get knocked down, so what? Rise up and get up.
Nobody's going to believe in you until you've already done it.
Nobody's going to come and celebrate with you Until you've already done it
Which means you're going to have to work
For a long time
By yourself
With no applause
With no awards
No one's going to believe in you in the beginning
Nor should they
Be okay with that
If I have to do it alone
I will
Start alone But get started If I have to do it alone, I will.
Start alone, but get started.
This is your day.
Get up and conquer your day.
Let me tell you something about self-doubt.
You have to conquer it.
If you let self-doubt rule your decisions,
you'll never get anywhere.
If you don't believe in yourself, nobody will.
So be bold, be relentless,
and never let anyone stand in your way.
This is my day to read a new book.
This is my day to start a journey.
This is my day to make an investment.
This is my day to invest in myself.
This is my day and this is my time and it's my turn.
This is the day I take it seriously.
I got one window.
I may not be here tomorrow.
The biggest regret of the dying is never becoming your ideal self.
You got to focus on conquering today.
This is the moment. The moment of truth for you.
To understand that within you, there are great possibilities.
It all starts the moment you take responsibility and say to yourself,
nothing is going to shape my destiny but me.
You will go through things and while you're going through them, you can't understand why it's happening to you.
But after you go through it, you get back and you look at it and you say,
Oh, now I understand why I needed that lesson.
Then I saw that that was preparing me for bigger and better things.
You still have time. Don't quit. Don't give up. You still have time.
Don't quit.
Don't give up.
You still have time.
You can do it.
You can make it happen,
but you can't do it procrastinating.
You can't do it talking about it, right?
But there's a total different feeling
when you accomplish stuff.
You got a different level of credibility from people.
People see you different.
People are willing to do things for you
that they've never done before.
You have credibility that you never had before.
And so I encourage you, I encourage you, follow through.
I got the trust that I am someone that somebody believes in.
You got to believe that you got to stand on your faith.
You got to stand on your strength.
You got to stand on who you are.
Take back control of your life.
Stop being a victim.
Stop letting life push you around and start fighting back.
Because the minute you tell yourself that you control this sh**
is the minute you can start to change it.
I made my last excuse yesterday.
My last reason. I came up with my last reason yesterday
of why I can't do what
I'm supposed to do. This is your day. You've got a window. You've got another 24 hours,
another opportunity to forgive somebody, another opportunity to let it go, another opportunity to
look up and get up. I'm just wondering when are you going to seize the opportunity?
You are worthy.
You're worthy.
Life, my friends,
is a test of your grit,
your determination.
When things get tough, and trust me, it will, you got to remember one thing.
It's not how hard you hit.
It's how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
You see, Rocky Balboa, he said that these words stuck with him.
Because life ain't just about the victories.
It's about the battles you fought to get there.
It's about the failures, the echo of the doubters
that didn't have the perseverance to keep chasing the dreams that they wanted.
So they told you to stop chasing yours.
But we're not going to listen to the echoes or the doubters.
We're going to listen to our soul.
We're going to listen to the warrior that lives inside of us all.
That tells us it's not about our circumstances.
It's about our opportunities.
And not just about those opportunities.
It's about seizing those opportunities.
Every chance you get.
Because ladies and gentlemen, I gotta tell you
that these opportunities are not gonna come back around.
Do you have what it takes to make it through this journey?
I'm telling you, young king, keep fighting
because your life depends on it.
Today we're gonna reach for the dreams
where they said we couldn't reach them.
It's your job to rise like the phoenix.
And show the world what you have to offer.
Be the guy who embraces.
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The ugly, the miserable.
Be the guy who embraces hard work, the grind.
Don't be afraid of being hurt.
Don't be afraid of a second friend's in some blood.
It's the moments in life, the decisions you make on a moment-to-moment basis that add up to be
the guy or not the guy. Tonight, I did something, you know, that I feel more of a guy. For me,
who I am, my guy.
Make the hard decisions, make the sacrifices, make the unpopular decisions, and become comfortable
in your own skin.
And if you are not a person that you are comfortable being alone with,
that is the one person in this universe that you have full power,
full right, and full responsibility to change.
If you were to create a human, what would you put them through to make them tough?
It probably wouldn't be a really chill life. What would you put them through to make them tough? It probably wouldn't be a really chill life.
What would you put them through to make them patient?
You probably wouldn't give them things immediately.
And so it's like we want these trades,
but each of the traits has a price tag attached to it.
And it's just like, do you want to pay the price tag to get the thing?
And so I think if people reframe the period of life that they're going through as the price that they're paying out of their wallet,
but the wallet is their time, it's the seconds of life that they're trading for it the price that they're paying out of their wallet but the wallet is their time it's the seconds of life that they're trading for
it then i think more people will be willing to make the trade because at least when i look at
myself like when i'm 80 something years old i'm looking back on my life i want to have these
traits but in order to have those traits i know i have to go through these things and i think for
me that's given me a lot of comfort in hard times right Right now in life,
your family is looking for that one guy right now.
They're looking for that one guy who's strong,
who's that pillar for the family in hard times.
Make sure they look around.
They look around and find you.
These are the times right now for you to step up.
Be that guy that can take anything.
Stay hard. The biggest regret of the dying
is never becoming your ideal self
I do believe that we're thrust in a world
That we don't fit in
And I believe the journey is
That a lot of people sell you a bill of goods
Along the way
That if you get some awards
You mean something
You go to a certain school You got it You're cute that if you get some awards, you mean something.
You go to a certain school, you got it.
You're cute, classical beauty,
you got the right man, you got the right zip code, and you swim through all that filthy swill
until you come to the really really stark conclusion that I
want to leave this earth becoming who I know deep within I am supposed to be the
next time you want to just give in to that desire for comfort remember that
your future self is gonna be the one to suffer the consequences.
It's so easy to just put it off and act like it doesn't exist, but that future self that you're
passing all these burdens to will one day be yourself of the present, and you'll wish you
chose to do otherwise. Everything that you do counts. The biggest mistake that people make is
they think that only what they want to count counts
When you read a book when you listen to an audio program when you go to a course
When you go to bed early and get up early and you work it all counts never can apologize for being yourself
If people don't like how you act how you look how you speak that just means those aren't your good people
Don't change who you are to match your surroundings.
Pick better f***ing surroundings and be yourself.
I don't know, most men would understand that
when a man cries and he's whimpering, he's hurting.
You know, because I've been there.
And it's no shame in crying, gentlemen.
Men, it's okay to cry.
We can still be a man, but you're also human.
And it does show a
little bit of your vulnerability. Do it for your loved ones. Do it for your wife.
Do it for your husband. Do it for your children. Do it for generations to come.
Come on, after you're dead and gone, what will they say about what you did? Yes,
there's so many people depending on you, but it's got to start with you and the man upstairs if you want to be
great man prepare to get up off that man you're gonna get knocked down over and
over and over and even when you feel like no nobody I can't be hit this hard
or if you're down there thinking it's no way I can get up hit this hard. Or if you're down there thinking, there's no way I can get up from this.
That's when you're just starting.
For some strange reason,
this world wants to see you water down the reality of who you are.
Our society wants to see you think like everyone else
and feel just like those around you.
Maybe for somebody who's so distracted from their true desires as a person,
that doesn't sound so bad.
But the pain of seeing through limitation in full absence of distractions is almost unbearable.
You see, it hurts because the resistance wants you to give in and mold to
what's expected of you. And if I can provide some advice, don't. I don't know where you are in your
game of life. You may be in your third quarter.
You may be in your fourth quarter.
Come on, you're not going to live forever.
Not in this world.
Come on.
You may be in your first quarter, your second half.
And this time it's got to be personal.
See, last time you were just running through the plays.
Last time you were just running the songs that you rehearsed in rehearsal.
Last time you were just going through the motions.
And you got numb. Come the motions and you got numb
come on and you got tired and weary and now you're broken and bitter and angry because you lost
and i'm just wondering if you're courageous enough bold enough if you have enough faith come on if
you have enough inside of you resilience to come back to the scene. This life is relentless. You better keep coming back from all your failures, all your doubts, all your shit.
You better keep fighting, keep getting up.
Never fucking lay down for shit.
That's one thing we should all agree on.
If you've been broken once, you know how that shit feels.
That means fucking try and break me again.
You got a lot of people playing their hard-earned money to come watch you perform.
Perform.
Perform.
It's your job to be in shape.
It's your job to be strong enough to perform at that level every single night.
And as a competitor, I'm not ducking.
Like, it's not, oh my God, my back hurts, I'm sore. We got to play Vince Carter and Toronto Raptors tonight.
Pick your mountain, whatever that mountain is.
And each journey of the mountain is a million steps.
And each day you have to take that step.
Each day you take that step.
You look up at the mountain, you say, that's where I want to go.
And then each next day you take your step over and over and over again.
Everything was done to try to learn how to become a better basketball player. Everything,
everything. And so when you have that point of view, then literally the world becomes your library
to help you to become better at your craft. Let yourself go, fall free into it, step into it. You
are worthy. You are an unrepeatable miracle and there is none like
you in all the earth there will never be another you your dma your fingerprint come on your gate
your presence your authenticity come on you're special you're special and you're necessary
nothing changes if nothing changes man in order for something to change, there needs to be change.
They'd say, well, I'm afraid to make a change.
And I'd say, that's okay.
That's understandable.
How afraid are you of not making a change?
Let's make a little vision of that.
You're 35.
You hate your job.
What's the consequence?
You're not motivated.
You don't want to get out of bed in the morning.
You're starting to get depressed. You're getting bitter. You're getting resentful. You're your job. What's the consequence? You're not motivated. You don't want to get out of bed in the morning. You're starting to get depressed.
You're getting bitter.
You're getting resentful.
You're getting cynical.
You're amotivated at work.
You're not doing a very good job.
And you're starting to shrink.
Now play that out for 10 years.
You don't change it.
You don't fix it.
And what happens?
You're going to be in the same situation,
but 10 years older.
And if you can't get out of that situation now,
what the hell makes you think you're going to get out of it in 10 years?
You're only seeing what's in front of you.
You're not seeing what's above you.
I can't change the beginning, but could I change the middle? Could I change, can I edit that story,
rewrite that story and change my entire life? Everybody's so crippled by decisions,
but you never know how the other thing worked out. Let me give you an example.
Let's say you don't go to college
and you start this business
and you were 100% right
and it's huge and you're doing so great,
but because you did that,
you had to fly to America for a big meeting
and your plane crashed and you died.
That would be a bad idea.
Or you think you're going to go to college
because it's a good experience and you'll meet people?
You can meet people in a business.
You're not going to know.
I think people overthink decisions.
You'll never know what the alternative would have been.
So just pick one and do it.
Change is inevitable.
And you are either changing for the worse
or changing for the better.
You decide.
I hope I do not believe in you more than you believe in yourself.
Now listen to me guys, the transition is going to be hard.
I'm not going to lie to you.
Go from being on the block, going to be a high school dropout, to getting a GED, it's
not, the transition is not easy.
So what happens?
In order for you to go from one level to the next level, in order for any man to transit, listen to me, in order for any woman to transition, for any man to transition, the thing that they want must be greater than the thing they currently have.
Listen to me very closely. I didn't come in here to tell you you're going to finish school.
I came to ask you what's next.
I came to ask you what's next.
For me, it's the Nobel Prize.
I always think about other people that's going through a tougher life than I am.
What if I had to change places? Would I trade places? You know, that's something I would always say to people from time to time If I could take out a piece of paper
And write down my problems
And you could take out a piece of paper
And write down your problems
And we exchange those papers
And I'm thinking I got such a tough, tough life
And you may have a tough life
But I pick up your paper
The one you may have written on
And I'm looking
like wow I thought I had it back and then the other person say hey you got a
lot better than I do you know what I would do I would say give me me a paper
give me my paper back I'll take my problems back the point that I'm saying
is this I didn't put myself in such a pity party position to where I felt, why me?
Why not me?
Why shouldn't I go through this?
See, you have to know, and I believe this even more, there can never be anything good unless there's some bad along the way.
There has to be a challenge.
There has to be a struggle. There has to be a struggle. There
has to be some setbacks. You cannot think in your mind that that's all you're good for is the good
things. How good are you when you're at your weakest point in your life? Where are you when
you're at the down low of your life? Then what do you do? You are either going to evolve or expire.
See, everything changes.
The economy changes.
Relationships changes.
We change mentally and emotionally and physically.
And you are either dying or you are either living.
How am I a different person than I was this morning when I woke up?
The initial reaction would be, I'm not.
It's only been like 12 hours. How could I be different? But if I really think about it, what do I now know that
I didn't know before? What, you know, what experiences have I had that my prior self
hadn't had when I had just woken up? And if I actually think about it, just like gratitude,
I'm creating the frame of my past. I actually can and do see that I am different than my past self, even 12, 13 hours ago or the
night before. And by appreciating that, I now acknowledge that I've changed, which increases
my psychological flexibility. It allows me to see that I am not the same person, that I am growing,
that I am evolving, which is really useful for then thinking of your future self as a different
person. You don't know. Like, like there is no, there's no time machine.
There's no future machine.
We're all overanalyzing everything.
Like, how do you know?
You don't.
Like, this is why I keep trying to push people.
The only thing that I know seems practical is,
are you happy?
Are you happy today?
Feels like it's the right thing.
Are you like, this is important.
You can't analyze.
I didn't know that starting a YouTube show
for my wine business was gonna be the reason
that I was gonna have a huge investing career.
I couldn't see that.
This 30 seconds is your life passing you by,
an opportunity to change.
It's your prerogative.
You want to go down the path you have right now.
Of your life and where it's going.
Where you see an alternate path.
That's not flatline.
But climbing up.
An echelon of remembrance.
A possibility.
Where dreams exist.
Legacy exists.
The possibility of change.
So within the grasp of these hands, within the craft of 30 seconds,
it's within you.
You had the will.
You're here.
I know you had the will.
You had the intestinal fortitude.
You had the want of change.
You only live once, so do what you feel passionate about.
Take chances.
Don't be afraid to fail.
How do you know true strength? When you never tasted the roots. When you never was down on your luck.
When you were at the bottom. I had to ask you something. And I realized, you gotta go through this hell, man.
This is it. Because as long as you're living, you got to keep moving.
It all starts with a thought.
But changing your thoughts is easy.
It's free.
It can be instant.
What's the point of making it complicated?
How does that help anyone who says, well, I'm messed up and so hard to change and people can't change?
It's like, well, that's not correct who taught you that
you from the minute you're born you're changing oh you know it's it's long and arduous to recover
no it isn't some people recover like that some people don't but you could be one of the ones that
changes your thoughts changes your feelings changes your actions after all. When do you experience the positive emotion that's associated with happiness?
The answer is not when you've attained a goal, but when you're pursuing one.
Don't you realize excuses will kill you?
It will destroy your well-being.
And the more excuses you make, the less effort you're going to give.
There's a million things I've done wrong.
It's because I didn't do something that would have sent me somewhere else.
But I have no idea.
You don't know.
You don't.
If you do not apply what you hear and it goes over your head, you will miss your moment.
Nothing changes if nothing changes, man.
Do it your way.
You don't need their permission, but you need yours.
You don't need their permission, but you do need yours.
You do need to look at yourself and declare who you are,
and you need to believe it.
You think my dreams are too big?
I said, absolutely not.
You're just telling them to the wrong person.
For some of you, the reason why you're not taking advantage of this opportunity is not because you don't believe in it.
You don't believe in you.
In order to achieve greatness, you must first believe you can.
Because I get to decide. I'm running my life now I'm finally in control of my life I'm finally the boss of my life are you ready to be the boss of your own
life are you ready to be in control of your own life are you ready and you
deserve to have everything you want you deserve to live your best life
You deserve it and stop listening to the people who tell you you don't kill the noise. What do they know?
We're gonna do the hard work now, so here's the hard work I need you to confront you I was created to be great I was created to do great things I was created to have
great things and I will no longer ask others for their permission that person
who is your hater they thought they defeated you that person who told you
you'll never come out to anything they thought they defeated you you want me to tell you to defeated you. You want me to tell you to give up?
Huh? You want me to tell you to quit?
Huh? Is that what you want me to say?
You want to hear E.T. say,
it's all right to give up.
It's all right to surrender.
That's what you want me to say?
Well, listen to me, I can't tell you that.
Some of us just grind.
Some of us don't make excuses.
Some of us don't surrender. Some of us don't make excuses. Some of us don't surrender.
Some of us don't give up and give in.
It's our dream.
Nobody's going to see it like you do it.
It's your dream.
Nobody's going to feel it like you feel it.
It's your dream.
Nobody's going to be as dedicated to it as you are.
It's your dream.
And they don't have to understand.
And they don't have to like it.
And they don't have to do it.
It doesn't make a difference.
It's your dream.
And you, my friend, have been given the task to make it happen.
And you can't let anything stop you from doing what you were called to do.
What we do with the pressure is we say, I got to take it.
I got to take it to another level.
Once you start questioning yourself, you're already lost.
All of us will be successful in life if we don't quit. I gotta believe in me before anybody else believe
in me. I was gonna rip his heart out. I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal in this
Michigan, most ruthless champion there's ever been. I'll show you how much you can truly
burn. They left you for dead.
I know what that feels like to be left for dead after you gave everything you had. Tomorrow night,
I'm gonna smash your boy, guys. I'm gonna smash your boy. There's the tag. Still undisputed! They will not see you coming! As you rise!
As you work!
Every single day!
Tirelessly!
Work!
Work!
Work!
Work!
Work damn it!
Work!
Work!
Work!
Work!
Work!
Work!
Work! Work! Work! Ward! Ward!
Ward!
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Ward! Ward! Ward! Ward! Ward! It's time you realize
That weakness
It is my strength
That pain
It is my development
That struggle
It is my triumph Everything you struggle. It is my triumph.
Everything you think that is here to take me down is here to fill me up.
I ask you, what is happening to us, my friends?
What is happening to us? my friends? What is happening to us?
And what are we becoming?
What are we becoming?
What are we becoming, my friends?
What are we becoming?
You know we've been fighting 400 steel fighting to this day.
To this day.
To this day.
At practice, when I'm training or doing games,
I switch my mind to something else.
I switch my mode into something else.
For me, it's the equivalent of Maximus, Desmus, Meridius and Gladiator picking up the dirt,
smelling the dirt. It's go time.
I never underdid things, I always overdid things.
When the war drums sound, the people that have been to war are the ones that actually say,
let's think about this first.
Because, like I said before and like everyone
says all the time and they say it like it's no big deal but war is hell
before you do that you should think about why you're doing it and understand
if if the people have the will to fight.
And the will to fight, as I've said many times before,
the will to fight is the will to kill and it's the will to die.
And those are some pretty big wills that you need to have.
This is your life, my friend.
And I'm sure when it's all said and done, you don't want to look back and see that you wasted it.
This is your life, my friend.
So you stand up.
This is your life, my So you stand up This is your life my friend
So you rise up
This is your life my friend
So you keep going
This is your life my friend
So you never give up
This is your life my friend
You need to keep going
This is your life my friend
This is where you take control
Though you may fail This is where you take the call.
Though you may fail, you refuse to tolerate it.
Though you may fall, you refuse to stay down.
Though you may lose the battle, you refuse to lose the war.
Reach the point of no return, my friend, where you're always willing to give more. My style is impetuous.
My defense is impregnable.
And I'm just ferocious.
I want your heart.
I want to eat your children.
Me and all in the same room ain't saying nothing to each other.
Everybody's game face.
Like, we're going to war with each other.
The way I look back then, you know, that was all good and great,
but I wasn't in it to look a certain way.
I was in it to be great.
Out of the hundred men that go into war,
ten shouldn't even fucking be there.
Eighty of them are just targets.
Nine do most of the fighting.
One is a warrior. And bodybuilding initially made me have to look at who I am as an individual.
Do I want to do the training?
Okay, fine, I can train.
But do I really want to diet?
Do I really want to give up time with friends?
Do I want to be misunderstood?
All humans are not created equal.
Some people just have a beautiful hand of cards.
Yes.
That guy's got four aces and he puts them right in your face.
Boom.
I know if I bet on myself, I know I can dictate everything.
I run everything. I'm the boss
take 10 seconds get it again beast
get it baby come on yeah there you go there you go energy let. Let it out. Seven. Eight.
Nine.
Ten.
The machine here.
There you go.
Nobody works like David in this house.
Thirteen.
Come on.
Fourteen.
Come on.
Fifteen.
Shut that muscle down.
Sixteen.
Come on.
Get it.
Seventeen.
Come on, we want to see it Good, 22
Who's going to carry the boats and the logs?
That's not all you have
There's more left in you
I know you're tired
I know you're weary
I know you've been brought to tears
All the blood, all the sweat
All the sacrifice, all of the suffering
I know you want to quit right now
But this is not the time to let go
This is not the time to doubt This is not the time to let go.
This is not the time to doubt.
This is not the time to quit.
Keep going.
It will be to your advantage.
You got to put yourself in that cage.
When you're in that cage, you are that character.
And when you leave there, it completely different when i'm in that
cage bro don't touch me don't talk to me leave me alone
push that last rep push with everything you got tell excuses to step aside
let weakness know that it is not welcome in your house.
Go get it.
Go get it now.
And give it everything you got.
Be productive.
Be powerful.
And from the bottom of my heart, conduct your business.
It doesn't matter how hard you work, I'm willing to work harder than you.
I know every motherfucker ain't gonna do what I'm gonna do. That's how you level up.
Stop being average when your potential is crying to come outside and be more than that.
No one will outwork me. No one.
It's so easy to be great nowadays, my friend, because most people are weak.
Most people don't want to go that extra mile. Most people don't want to find that extra, because it sucks.
Of course, talent without work is nothing.
You got to be hungry.
People that are hungry are willing to do the things that they others won't do.
There's no excuse not to be the hardest model to work for in the room.
You have to want it.
And you're going to fail. And you're going to fail. And you're going to fail. And you're going to fail.
And you're going to fail.
And you're going to fail.
And you're going to fail.
And then you're going to win.
And that's life.
Life without those challenges,
it's just existence.
Don't just exist.
Go live.
Eventually, inaction will cost you.
But your default setting should be, I'm going to do something.
Just get up, move towards that challenge, and go attack it.
Go do something that's hard.
Struggle sucks. Depends on how you frame it. Go do something that's hard. Struggle sucks.
Depends on how you frame it.
If you want freedom in your life,
you have to have discipline.
Move towards that challenge,
whatever that challenge is.
And you may be successful
and you may not be successful,
but you will be better.
And the next challenge, you're going to be more prepared for.
Because we're going to have wins.
We're going to have losses.
We're going to have successes.
We're going to have failures.
We're going to have good nights.
We're going to have bad nights.
We're going to have good relationships.
We're going to have bad relationships.
We're going to have good ideas and bad ideas.
We're going to make money.
We're going to lose money. All these things are going to happen.
And if you oscillate emotionally up and down drastically, it's going to be problematic.
Embrace those emotions, but don't let those emotions embrace you.
Keep pushing through things that suck. This is a very difficult thing to do because it hurts.
I'm going to go forward. I'm not going to quit. So hurts i'm gonna go forward i'm not gonna quit so i'm gonna go forward bring it on i don't care how good you are in anything you don't have discipline
you ain't nobody because you give up on the slightest struggle without discipline
discipline is doing what you hate to do but do it like you love it you might not know this now
but you're this close,
to igniting your inner champion
and reclaiming your destiny.
It's just that I wanna be up more than anybody
on the planet want me to be down.
Be champion before you become champion.
Wanting to get the best out of yourself,
not competing with anyone else but you.
I don't back down from anyone, And that's what got me in trouble. I don't play games.
I don't kiss anyone's ass. And I'm a real man. And that's why, regardless of being a
fighter or anything, I'm a man. And that's why I want to be a man. And if I die, I want
to die a man.
And when you're really focused, you hear everything. When I come to the ring, I notice everybody can hear you breathing.
I can hear you talking. I hear everything.
When I come out, I have supreme confidence.
I'm scared to death.
I'm totally afraid. I'm afraid of everything.
I'm afraid of losing. I'm afraid of being humiliated.
But I'm totally confident.
The closer I get to the ring, the more confident I get.
The closer, the more confident I get.
The closer, the more confident I get. But the closer I get to the ring, the more confident I get. The closer, the more confident I get. The closer, the more confident I get.
The closer I get to the ring, the more confident.
Once I'm in the ring, I'm a god.
No one can beat me.
There's no one who's not missing.
The world will know my name until the end of time.
They call me the greatest.
Because I'm a savage. That's who I was. I didn't want nothing until I got
something. And when I said something, I mean the crown.
You knew from the beginning the world was going to know who Mike Tyson was?
A hundred percent%, yeah.
At what age did you know that?
14.
Why is that?
Because I was beating everybody at 14.
More than my skills, I had the mindset.
To kill, destroy, break them down.
It's just, I'm the greatest.
You know, success is all about a lifestyle.
I lived a lifestyle as a champion at 14.
In order to be a champion, you have to live a lifestyle as a champion.
It's all about discipline, doing what you hate to do, but doing it like you love it.
That's what it's all about.
If you don't have discipline, I don't care how skillful you are, you're nothing.
If you don't want to be the best ever, why are you here?
Confidence breeds success, and success breeds confidence.
It's all about the belief that you can do it.
Belief is more powerful than anything.
Only thing we can do is just have that focus and believe in ourselves
and believe that I want to be up, then anybody in the world wants me to be down.
And it's all about, like I said before, self-belief.
My whole success is from belief.
I just believe in me.
And I'm going to overcome all my adversities.
The truth will set you free, but it's going to make you miserable first.
And that's how we improve as a person.
Improving ourselves.
You have to first have the aptitude
to do what you claim you wanna do.
And if you have that, and the determination,
and the will to win, there's nothing that you can't do.
Impossible is nothing compared to anybody that tries.
Nothing's impossible then.
Confidence breeds success.
Success breeds confidence.
And confidence applied properly
will supersede a genius.
Life is just a circle.
They're going to hate me again one day.
And then God willing,
they're going to respect me again one day.
Because in order to be a master, you have to first be a fool I guess.
You have to believe in yourself before you believe in anything else God we live in. You have to believe in you. Once you believe in you and have a relationship with you
there's nothing that you can't do. You have to be the champion in this to be the champion in this when I
win the morning I won the day so that's why exercise is important to
relieve your stress when the morning you win day. And so I realized life is all about in here.
It's all about your belief system. Faith fear. Never lose when you face it. Trust me, never
lose when you face fear. No, our mistakes don't define us. Our high points don't define us. Life defines us.
As long as you have happy moments,
take as many of them as you can because life is just a flick of the eye.
Well, that's what life is about.
You got to sit in your room sometime,
give your subconscious some time
and spend time and just envision yourself being
with the most exciting people in the world, doing the most exciting things in the world
and just living that fantasy and that fantasy will become reality one day.
Discipline could be taking your illusions and turning them into a reality.
You dream for yourself something bigger than what you can ever imagine and you become it.
Now that's discipline.
In order to be able to change anything, you have to change yourself.
You don't have to look in the mirror and say, what do I want to do to make me a better person?
Or what is it that I can do that could define myself as being a better person than
I am now you know who can I help who could I worship who can I do something to or with that
would make me feel like a better person to help me reach my highest potential you have to find that
first what is it that I can do to help people you know that's all think about. How can we help somebody? Visualizing, looking into the mirror, that's what it's all about. Touching your inner core of your consciousness.
I don't believe in talent.
Well, some people, they have talent.
That's good.
It helps when you have talent.
As long as you have a lot of determination and willpower, that's all you need.
You have to have the will to win.
I think anybody with the will to win and the desire not to lose, that's what you need.
I think anybody with the will to win and the desire not to lose, that's what you need.
I think anybody with the will to win and the desire not to lose, that's what you need.
I think anybody with the will to win and the desire not to lose, that's what you need.
I think anybody with the will to win and the desire not to lose, that's what you need.
I think anybody with the will to win and the desire not to lose, that's what you need.
I think anybody with the will to win and the desire not to lose, that's what you need.
I think anybody with the will to win and the desire not to lose, that's what you need.
I think anybody with the will to win and the desire not to lose, that's what you need.
I think anybody with the will to win and the desire not to lose, that's what you need.
I think anybody with the will to win and the desire not to lose, that's what you need.
I think anybody with the will to win and the desire not to lose, that's what you need.
I think anybody with the will to win and the desire not to lose, that's what you need.
I think anybody with the will to win and the desire not topower. That's all you need. And you have to have the will to win.
I think anybody with the will to win and desire not to lose will succeed.
I would think of myself as a roaring gladiator,
like Alexander the Great.
I feel like I'm a ruler when I'm in my mind
thinking about accomplishing something.
I think possible, nothing's impossible to somebody who tries.
So I never think about failure in that perspective. I think about feeling, but not in that perspective.
I need the pressure. Without the pressure, there's no me. Without the pressure, I don't
have the guts to say, hey, I'm going to fight this guy. I have to have the pressure. Anything
that I'm afraid to do, I do it. And that's just how I live
my life. The more you're comfortable with you, the more you'll be comfortable with death.
And the more comfortable you are with death, the more at peace you are with yourself.
I knew never to get discouraged. I knew that I would get my day if I continued to try hard and believe in myself.
I am 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.
It's all about what you believe.
I got belief in myself,
and belief is more powerful than anything.
Life was given for a reason.
We exist for a reason.
We were put on this earth to do great things.
But the challenges, ladies and gentlemen, the challenges had to happen.
They must happen.
But we must carry on.
What do we do with the life that has been given?
How do we face the circumstances that have been brought before us?
Do we give up?
Do we stand up? Do we stand up?
Do we push through?
Those are the questions that we ask each and every day when we are faced with adversity.
No one said it was supposed to be easy.
Hard times
create tough mass.
Tough mass creates
tough characters.
But you've got to carry on.
So when it
gets tough, you
gotta get tough.
We are born
to do great things.
Not everybody is going to stand with you.
Not everybody is going to support you.
Not everybody is going to be by your side.
So when you're standing alone,
make sure you stand with a pure heart
that you do have something that you must do.
Learn to walk alone sometimes.
Learn to be strong when you need to be strong.
Learn to understand that not everybody will be with you.
I dare you to go down that path that many refused to go.
I dare you to show up and show the world that you have something that is special and unique about you.
I dare you to show the world something they ain't never seen before about you.
I dare you to stand up.
I dare you to breathe life into your purpose.
I dare you to do it!
I dare you to be strong.
I dare you to be a man.
I dare you to be a woman.
I dare you to be the one that they never even knew existed.
All you got to do is just stand for what you do
pain
passion
focus
faith
you
put it together
you will be
an unstoppable force
not everything you do in life is meant for you An unstoppable force.
Not everything you do in life is meant for you.
Not everything that you want out of life is designed for you.
But there comes a time in your life that you have to just say, let's be patient. Let's take the necessary steps. Let's make a few
mistakes. I'm talking about the mistakes that happen throughout life just to get to a common accept the challenges but don't give up so when you're standing alone make sure you have the
right mindset within you to know that hey at the end of the day i must stand i must work. I must believe. I will fight.
I will work.
I will push.
And I will never quit on me.
You let the naysayers tell you that you didn't have it.
You let negativity surround you.
You let doubt and fear control you do not excuses kill
you
now what do you do
you gotta get up stop sleeping on your dreams stop sleeping on your desires. Stop sleeping on your passion.
Ladies and gentlemen, no one said it was supposed to be easy.
I will make everything count each and every day of my life.
For my life is in my hands.
And I must be willing to do what I must do to get where I need to be in my life.
Hard times.
What do we do?
How do we get through it?
Do we stress?
Or do we take a rest from it?
Do we know how to turn it up?
Or do we know how to turn it up? Do we know how to turn it off?
You don't know enough about yourself because you believe everything negative about you.
But you didn't have the truth within you.
You didn't understand that you were made for a reason.
You didn't understand that you had power.
Ladies and gentlemen, get out there and fight for your life.
What you do right now matters.
How you pursue your life, how you go further in your life is what you put inside of your mindset and say, I am ready. I must go forward. And if I look back, I'm too distracted to see what's in front of me. Do you have to keep going? The moment you doubt,
you step too far back and not enough forward, you will lose. You will lose yourself because you have given up.
You will lose yourself and you will never find your way back because you gave up too soon.
You will lose yourself because you didn't think you had it anymore.
Battles are meant to fight. You will fight each battle of your life and some
you will win and some you will lose but if your heart is beating and your brain is
functioning and your eyes are open ladies and gentlemen get out there and
fight for your life it's. Deal with it.
Every day you breathe is a chance for you to live.
Every day that you breathe is a chance for you to make a difference.
Every day that you breathe is a chance for you to stand up.
Every day that you breathe is a chance for you to make a difference within yourself.
Every day that you breathe is a chance for you to make a difference within yourself. Every day that you breathe is an opportunity for you to fight.
Every day that you breathe is an opportunity for you to let the world know that you are about your business.
Let the hard work begin.
Let the testimony be the testimony.
When you are tested, be the testimony. When you are tested, be the testimony.
When you have been pushed back, push back even harder.
When you feel that you can't carry on, feel within yourself that you are alive and you've got a job to do.
It is all business, never personal.
Be productive. Be strong. Be powerful. do it is all business never personal be productive be strong be powerful hard work never quit and
from the bottom of my heart ladies and gentlemen conduct your business
again again again again type it in the chat again, again, again. Type it in the chat.
Again, again, again, again, again.
If it's life-giving, if it's serving your purpose,
if it's going to transform you into something you never thought you could be,
then do it again.
Do it again.
Type it in the chat.
Drop it in the comments, man.
Again, again, again, again.
This thing served me.
This thing helped me.
It hurt, but it's helping me.
And it's building a bridge to the future and the destiny that I've been called to fulfill.
Period.
Every time you go back, you're building muscle.
You're building mentality.
You're building endurance. You're building mentality.
You're building endurance.
You're establishing faith.
It takes faith to get out of this, to crawl yourself out of a messy history and leave a legacy.
It is the man that refuses to quit.
It is the man that refuses to put down his gloves that separates winners from wannabes.
It is diligence and dedication and determination that separates the all-time greats from the one-hit wonders. Do you want to do this thing one time?
Or do you want to be notorious for winning over and over and over again. I just want to know, is anybody listening that wants to do it again?
I don't want to win one time.
I don't want to be noticed one time.
I don't want to make history one time.
I want to do it over and over and over again.
Do it again, no matter how hard it was.
No matter how much you cried and you sweat and you bled. Do it again, no matter how hard it was, no matter how much you cried and you sweat and you bled.
Do it again.
Again, again, again, again, again, again, again, again, again.
Your goals are posted on your wall.
You commit privately and publicly to the call that's on your life. You think about it day
and night. Whatever the goal is, it's time to shatter the ceiling above your head, to break
records, to shatter the status quo, to punch through targets. It's your time. It's your turn.
You've doubted yourself long enough. People have left you, overlooked you, undervalued you, underpaid you.
It's your time to connect. It's your time to get paid. It's your time to sign the deal. It's your time.
Everybody's great when they're not tired.
When they're tired, that's when the real champions come out. That's when a real dog come out.
That's where I think the real truth comes out.
Because I think there are a lot of people who are very talented who can make it there.
There are very few people who can deal with the pressure and the stress that happens when we're there.
I feel I'm the best ever.
It's not bragging or boasting.
The proof is in the pudding.
In my mind, I'm always the best.
I am the greatest fighter of all time.
And when I hit you with a hard right hand,
you will fall.
You've got to win tomorrow.
You've got to win right now.
If you're passionate about what you're doing,
keep going, keep believing, reach for the stars.
Everything is always impossible until someone does it. Maybe it has never been done
before. That's perfectly fine with me, but I'm going to do it. Never say never because limits
like fears are often just an illusion. Hungry dogs run fast.
And let the big dogs eat.
If you look at the greats in any walk of life,
the greats do things when they don't always want to.
And that's the separation.
It means you have to be more disciplined than not disciplined.
I wanted to be the best I could be, period.
I was waiting for you to smile at some of the compliments.
You didn't.
Smiling doesn't win you gold medals.
I'm too fast.
I'm too skillful.
And I'm going to show everybody out there watching this show and the whole world.
And the world will bow and admit that I am the greatest of all times when you see what I do to George Foreman.
I believe that whatever I put my mind to and if I was willing to make sacrifices and I
was dedicated, that I could achieve absolutely anything.
I'm the best ever.
I'm the most brutal and most vicious and most ruthless champion there's ever been.
There's no one can stop me.
I'd like to take this chance to apologize to absolutely nobody.
Maybe it's someone's who don't like me because maybe I'm too good.
You win some, you lose some.
But you live, you live to fight another day. And I've always believed like I'm the Michael Jordan of this industry. When I'm on the
air, I'm the one that will make you want to hear from me. I don't care who I'm on the air with. I
don't care who it is. It does not matter to me. By the time I finish speaking, I am the one that you're going to want to listen to.
That's my attitude.
If this requires 100% and you give me 99, I might want to fire you.
Because I'm not, I'm about getting the job done.
It's about the results. And I think that, you know,
unfortunately, when we look at our generation today, not enough people preach about that
because I think that we live in a society where people have become masters at pointing the finger
at other people as to reasons why things don't get done. I think there's too much explanation
that goes on. But the bottom line is you ain't getting it done. And if you're not getting it done, I need somebody that can get it done
I am of the belief that if you truly truly adopt that belief in your soul
Do you walk to work every day not looking for excuses?
You're looking for a way for the job to get done and in most instances you are going to
be successful they're not you want to go with status quo you're you're you're perfectly you
know fine with flowing along just to get along secure safe secure whatever but when you're
trying to win you're constantly looking to get better my philosophy philosophy is very, very simple when it comes to my family, particularly,
you know, me being a dad. If they're hungry, it's because I'm starving. I don't eat until they eat.
I'm not comfortable until they're comfortable. I don't have unless they have. That's the mentality,
and that's the mentality that I strictly get from my mother. And so for me, you know, having that kind of mentality. But what comes with that? What comes with that is a certain work ethic that you have to put forth. And it's a willingness to sacrifice. Am I the most disciplined person in the world? No. Am I the most meticulous person in the world? Like some people would believe? No, I'm meticulous enough and I'm disciplined enough. But I think the key thing is,
is that the bottom line is everything to me.
And whatever the bottom line requires
is what I'm going to do.
If the bottom line requires an excessive level of discipline,
I'm going to do it.
But to me, it's whatever the moment or the situation demands.
And it's, I'm a bottom lines oriented kind of person
you don't assume that opportunities are waiting for you no obstacles are standing in if you do
and so that challenge that you have to embrace and you have to deal with
that's hard to deal with when you have achieved
you don't work hard to play home you work hard to have the ability to play
with you there's a difference you handle your responsibilities first when you
work hard and you have that sense of pride it goes right out the window if
you utilize your efforts in the wrong fashion but when you do what's
right and it's based off of that effort that you put in then you feel good about it because you
took care of your responsibilities then you can go play and i was not always confident there's no
doubt about that i've always had my insecurities.
What I firmly believed in as it pertained to me was that I always worked hard.
I was never lazy.
I was always somebody that believed in hard work.
Betting on yourself is believing in you.
Knowing who you are one year worth
having an idea about it anyway
and willing to work towards that
to validate that reality
that's betting on yourself
it's your job
and if you can't do it
you scratch
claw and even die trying.
We make excuses every day, all of us as human beings.
On far more occasions than not, I have to speak on the issue of accountability as it pertains to the entire sports world.
And when it comes to the issue of accountability, I get all of that from mom.
It happened with ESPN when my contract wasn't renewed back in 2008.
I was sitting up there.
I felt betrayed.
I felt ticked off.
My mother let me lick my wounds for a couple of days.
And then she said, what could you have done better?
You sure you didn't do anything? And I thought all of a sudden like what is she talking about this is
just not true this is not right i work hard i do this i do that and then i started thinking about
it yeah i was a pain in the ass i did kind of complain a little bit too much but the biggest
thing that i remember doing is that i always came to the bosses with problems.
I never came to them with solutions.
It was always about the problem, never the solution.
And I learned when I sat back and reflected on the mistakes that I had made in my career at the time.
I learned that no boss wants to talk to anybody that doesn't have solutions.
Instead of working around the clock trying to figure out what somebody else wants from you,
good or bad, there are moments that crystallizes it for you in your mind.
Pay attention and you'll see what they are.
Yeah.
And you'll know what to do accordingly.
That is what I believe makes me the best.
It's my commitment to excellence
for the collective whole.
Life is going to be hard. No one said it was supposed to be hard.
No one said it was supposed to be easy.
Life isn't fair.
Sometimes you just got to do it alone.
What do you do?
How do you live? How do you live?
How do we get through it?
You got to stand up.
You got to get up.
The path that you have chosen
was never designed to be easy.
Some people want it easy.
But I dare you to go the hard way.
What do we do with the life that has been given?
How do we face the circumstances that have been brought before us?
Do we give up?
Do we stand up?
Do we give up? Do we stand up? Do we push through?
Those are the questions that we ask each and every day when we are faced with adversity.
Hard times create tough mass.
Tough mass creates tough characters.
But you got to carry on.
So when it gets tough,
you gotta get tougher.
When you're standing
on your own two feet
and the storm is coming in,
you still gotta
stand. And sometimes
you just gotta stand alone
greatness requires work
and hard work
is how you get it
you don't give up
because it's hard
you don't give up
because it's challenging
you don't give up on you
let the hard work begin You don't give up because it's challenging. You don't give up on you.
Let the hard work begin.
So when you're standing alone, make sure you stand with a pure heart, with a great mindset.
Because there's no one like you.
There's nothing that can stop you.
No one can do the things that you do.
No one can stand like you do.
You have to keep going.
You have to be truthful to who you are inside. It was never designed to be easy.
Don't give up.
Go for it.
The question is.
How hungry are you?
How much are you willing to give of yourself?
Because it's really ultimately up to you.
You can't sit around and waste time.
You can't sit around and determine that everything is going to go your way.
Because it will not go your way all the time.
But I tell you what.
If you keep laying around wasting time, time is going to continue to carry on with or without you because you have already decided to lay in your bed because
you were just too tired to get up.
It's up to you to make a difference so that you can be a difference maker.
It's up to you to be a solution
and not a problem.
That means you got to be serious
and you got to be willing
and you got to be dedicated.
You got to take that leap of faith.
I understand it will never be easy. I understand that I got to take that leap of faith. I understand it will never be easy.
I understand that I got to work.
I understand that sometimes I want to give up, but I will not give up.
So while you're sitting around, moping around, blaming everybody for what you're not doing, guess what?
Nobody's going to sit around and wait for you to do the right thing for yourself.
Because it's all up to you.
So just get busy.
You are on your way.
Success doesn't have time for your excuses.
Success doesn't have time for your laziness.
Success doesn't have time for the person who doesn't truly want to change.
See, I know you are scared.
But turn that fear into fire
we've all been there
we've all been afraid of something
but don't give up
you keep trusting
you keep believing
you keep going
embrace the suck and keep on fighting it's okay that you fail
but don't think you don't have what it takes Don't be ashamed. Trust in who you are.
I must work.
I must believe.
I will fight.
I will work.
I will push.
And I will never quit on me.
I know that I have to work. I know that I have to work.
I know that I have to believe.
I know I have to trust in me.
You got to show up.
Sometimes we are going to have to just deal with the circumstances and the challenges that we face.
You can't be soft. You can't be soft.
You can't be weak
and expect the greatness to come out of you.
You can't expect anything good
to come out of nothing.
If you're not giving nothing,
you get nothing.
Now get up
and do your work when it comes to the work ethic that's when
you have to dig deeper that's when you have to work harder that's when you have
to shut out all the noise and all the naysayers. Sometimes, ladies and gentlemen, you just have to be quiet and listen to your passion.
Listen to your heart.
Listen to your truth.
It's okay sometimes.
Because these things are going to happen no matter how hard you work.
But you don't have the right to give up.
You don't have the right to give in and stop playing the blame game and go about your business.
When you have been pushed back, pushed back even harder, I dare you to go down that path that many refuse to go.
Pain, passion, focus, faith, you put it together.
You will be an unstoppable force.
Float like a butterfly and stain like a bee.
I'm the biggest fighter in all history.
I'm the greatest fighter in all history.
And I don't have to convince nobody now that I am great.
They all know it.
I'll fight any man in the world.
I'll beat any man in the world.
As you know, I'm a confident man.
I don't believe I can see anyone beat me.
Nothing worries me. This is nothing but a small thing that will soon be out of the way.
I put everything on the line because I'm a true fighting champion.
I got the love in the ring. I'm having it.
And I don't worry about nobody being that good to really hurt me.
If you don't believe it, come down here and try.
I'm unranked.
It will be no match.
Oh, I'm so glad.
I'm going to make all of them shut their mouths.
All of my critics, I told you all that I was the greatest of all time.
I'm still the greatest of all time.
I'm going to float like a butterfly and sing like a a bee his hands can't hit what his eyes can't see
nothing can stop me as you know I've been under all types of controversy all
kind of pressures but look at my face I'm the original champion a veteran of
186 fights not a scratch two-time United State Golden Glove champion two-time
United State National AAU champion. Two-time United State National
AAU champion. World Olympic
champion. 13 rounds I was
addicted when I met a fall.
He who is not courageous enough
to take risks will accomplish nothing
in life. I'm a risk taker.
Tell all of the people out there who
bet on Sonny that all of them are
going to lose their money and get to the fight early
because I might get him in more. All of you chumps are going to bow when I whoop him. All of you. I know you got him.
I know you got him picked, but the man's in trouble. I'm going to show you how great I am.
But I'm at such a high level until I don't think like you. I'm not like you.
They just don't want to admit I'm as good as I am.
Leave every excuse behind.
Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Burn the boats.
Eliminate the options.
You're going in again.
And this time, you're coming out with a win.
Period.
Despite everything that happened to you, you're still here.
And I promise you, my friend, that is no mistake.
That's a purpose.
A purpose for you to live, my friend.
A purpose for you to live a life worth living.
Don't you get it?
So right now, I need you to find a way to keep on living, my friend. I need you to live. I need you to live a life worth living, don't you get it? So right now, I need you to find a way to keep on living, my friend.
I need you to live.
I need you to live.
I need you to live.
I need you to live, do you hear me?
You keep on living, my friend.
The darker the night, the brighter the day, my friend.
You see, what anxiety loves to do is it loves to add up.
What fear loves to do is it loves to add up.
What all past trauma loves to do, it loves to add up.
What all worry and doubt loves to do is it loves to add up, my friend,
into one big fist and try to knock you down until you're gone, my friend.
But know, if you keep breathing past the anxiety, you'll make it.
If you keep breathing past the fear, you'll make it.
If you keep breathing past the trouble, you'll make it.
If you keep breathing past the worry and death, you'll make it.
If you don't do something the other man is not doing,
then you're going to get knocked off.
I don't care how many people
have counted you out I don't care how many times you talk yourself out of it
go back and win listen my friend you see you and me we're gonna make it we're
gonna make it my friend we're gonna make we're gonna make it my friend i promise you we're gonna make it
we're gonna make it my friend we're gonna make it we're gonna make it my friend we're gonna make it
we're gonna make it my friend we're gonna make it we're gonna make it my friend we're gonna make it You are breathing to win.
You are breathing to live a life of abundance.
You are breathing to manifest what it is that God has put inside of you.
Write it up again.
Negotiate it again.
Call back.
Send the email again.
Send the text message again.
Do not give up.
Walk on the court again.
Run on the field again.
Step into the arena again.
Try it one more time.
And after you do that, you're going to come back for more.
You are establishing a new
nature a new protocol a fresh government of how you conduct business let me tell
you something my friend because of your downfall will be because of you nobody
else but you you keep looking around trying to place blame on things,
people, everything else, instead of looking in the mirror at oneself and looking at who caused this
in the first place. You close the door on yourself because you are afraid to look within yourself
and see who did it, my friend. You are the one. But you have the key to unlock that door
and become something more.
It's your time.
It's your turn.
The wait is over.
Get up and give back to yourself.
We can get so wrapped up in this swirl of busyness,
distraction, and noise that we lose ourselves I understand my friend the pain it won't stop the
suffering it won't cease and it's hard to see it's hard to see. It's hard to see a better outcome for yourself, my friend.
I understand. But look, if you just believe and you keep believing and you hold on to that belief,
brighter days are coming. Weather through the storm, my friend. Weather through the pain.
And I promise you, you will come out victorious.
You just have to keep believing, my friend.
If you do that, you're gonna be okay.
You are not a quitter! You are not a one-hit wonder!
You are called to do something great.
A lot of you really messed up the first two quarters of your life.
And if you're like me, you've got to believe you've got a third quarter and you've got a fourth quarter.
And after all that's been said and done,
every blessing and every battle, every memory and every image of the past,
release yourself from the trauma, torment, and pain of it all.
Step into your third quarter.
Step into your fourth quarter.
Be fully persuaded
that it's your turn and it's your time.
I don't care what the scoreboard says.
You have an opportunity.
A warrior only needs
one more opportunity to reveal to the world that he is more than just a dreamer. if you're going to do something in your bloodline, if you're going to pass something down generationally,
if you're going to be a light,
then sometimes you're going to have to get up when you don't feel like it.
You know what, my friend?
I think you're stronger than that.
And I think you're capable of much, much more.
So bring it out.
Bring it out every single day that you live on this earth. Bring it out
every single day that you open your eyes. Bring it out every single day. Bring out the best version
of yourself, my friend, because we still have work to do. There are seasons and timetables,
and there are rooms I've got to walk into
And there are hands that I have to shake
And there are contracts that I have to sign
And there are deals that I have to close
That are going to require me to lose sleep sometimes
And so if I believe in the power of the future
Then I've got to be willing to get up
You got the chance to get up.
You got the chance to wake up today, but somebody else didn't.
You got the chance to eat your breakfast, wash your face, brush your teeth, but somebody else didn't.
You got the chance to walk out your door, go to work, go to school, go about your day
like nothing else happened, unfortunately somebody else did it
my friend you get the chance to do it all over again but somebody else will not my friend take
advantage of the time you have give it all you got keep talking more than me
get dialed in if you're listening to me,
let this be a moment of transformation and motivation.
But let this moment not just move you,
but change you to take action,
go back, and win.
Listen, my friend, you see, you and me,
we're gonna make it.
We're gonna make it, my friend.
We're gonna make it. We're gonna make it,'re gonna make it my friend we're gonna make it we're gonna make it my friend I promise you we're gonna make it we're gonna make it
my friend we're gonna make it we're gonna make it my friend we're gonna make it we're gonna make it my friend we're gonna make it we're gonna make it my friend we're gonna make it we're gonna make it, my friends. We're going to make it. We're going to make it, my friends.
But being a person that gives again, believes again, does it again,
picks up the pieces and tries to put the puzzle together again,
try it again and eventually winning will become a habit.
Flight, progress, success will become our way of life, our code of conduct, our government.
This is what I do.
I'm motivated.
I'm dedicated.
I'm grooved.
I'm conditioned.
I'm ready to conquer the day.
You know, the number one excuse is I don't have enough time.
I always tell people there's 168 hours in a week.
If you get eight hours sleep a night, well, there's 50 plus hours gone.
You still have 110, 112 hours left.
If you work 60 hours a week, you still have 55 hours left
to go do what's important to you.
So I don't really buy the time excuse,
but that's the number one excuse that I hear.
It's time to get real.
It's time to get raw.
It's time to look ourselves in the mirror
and come to the resolve that this version of ourself
is not going to carry us in the stretch.
That I've been this version of myself long enough that if I don't change,
if I don't do something about this, then I'm going to find myself bankrupt.
A man is rewarded in public for what he does in private.
Discipline is the single most important thing
that you can use when it comes to being successful.
Motivation is fleeting.
No one wakes up motivated every single day.
The key to success that you're looking for,
the thing that's going to make your dreams
come true is simple discipline. It's doing what needs to be done even when you don't want to,
even when you're not motivated. You're only disciplined once a week. You're only determined
twice a week. You're only enthusiastic about the journey on Sundays
or Wednesdays. And once you get a covenant, once you make a covenant with who you believe God has
called you to be, and you say, you know what? I'm going to commit to this. You're going to put the
blood. You're going to put the sweat. You're going to put the tears in. You're going to lose sleep.
You're going to go days without eating. You you're gonna do whatever it takes to make the sacrifices necessary to man if best we
give up too early and we just had a little bit of perseverance if we just
worked a little bit harder and just took it a day at a time our dreams will come
true
there are so many people in your life who have left you.
There are too many people in your life who have counted you out.
There are too many people in your life who have whispered in your ear
and said you'll be worse off without them.
Prove them wrong.
When I start off my day by investing in myself
I set the tone for the rest of my life and everything else falls into place because i've set a precedent
That i'm important
That i'm worth it that I matter
So And so I tell people, invest in you first, and then you have the energy, the drive, the passion
to just uplift everybody else in your circle. Physical is the easy part. See, the physical part,
all you got to do is show up. If you could show up again, be all in, ask some questions,
maybe we'll add, be willing to suffer a little bit into that mix. You will be
okay. The psychological preparation, that's a different story. I always say the mind is primary
and I always say that a strong mind is a catalyst for change. When you see the best athletes in the
world either perform really well or on the other hand completely bomb out it's
because of that muscle that lives between the ears we only have so much
real estate in our minds and our hearts we only have so much bandwidth in our
mental capacity and the more distractions the more delusions the more
negativity that we allow to take up real estate in our hearts and in our minds, the less energy we have to fulfill the call, to fulfill destiny, to manifest the idea.
Everything that you think about, that you meditate on, everything that has to your attention
has to be worth your time.
So now it's time to navigate and do an appraisal of everything that's in our
life everything and everybody in our life time to do an appraisal and ask it
and ask them this question are you worth my time if you're not it's time to
unplug time to unplug time to unplug three rules Bobby Maximus lives by
number one show up every single day.
Number two, when you do show up, you want to be all in.
You want to be 100% present.
And number three, be curious.
Ask some questions along the way.
Don't be scared to admit that you don't know everything.
And if you can learn a little bit, along with showing up and being all in,
the world is yours.
If you want to be good at something,
if you want to transform your body,
you've got to spend 130 quality hours.
And the next question I'm always asked is,
what does that look like?
It's an hour a day of dedicated practice for six straight months.
If you want something, if you want to be good at something, you want to accomplish something,
you've got to put in the time.
And the minimum amount of time that you can put in is an hour a day of dedicated practice
for six straight months if you
want to be good at something you've got to do it every day like we look at
people like LeBron James why is he good at basketball because he does it every
day you look at Wayne Gretzky in hockey why was Wayne so good in hockey arguably
the greatest of all time because he did it every day and so my number one piece
of advice to people if you want to be good at something whatever that thing that
you desire is whatever your passion is do it every single day that's the real
secret to success we celebrate athletes and we celebrate critical thinkers and
innovators and actors and we praise them and claim them our heroes and we follow
them by the millions.
We love what they do in public, but you don't know the story behind the glory. You don't know
the blood, the sweat. You didn't see the tears that they cried, the prayers that they prayed,
the countless weeks where they went without sleep to get where they are. When you see somebody that's successful, your gut reaction is to think
they're lucky. They had a great trainer. They had it easy. If I was in their shoes, I could do it
too. And the thing that I would want to say is these people work harder than you can imagine.
They show up every day. They do the work. They suffer.
So when you see somebody on a screen, rather than criticize, be grateful. Rather than try to cut
them down, maybe try to learn a little bit from them because the amount of dedication that goes
into that craft, a normal person will never never understand the secret of change is to focus all
of our energy not on fighting the old but building the new and specifically behind closed doors when
nobody's looking when no one is there to affirm you when nobody's there to validate you when
nobody is there to agree with you you build in the dark and you announce it when it's finished