Daily Motivations - I WILL WIN FOR Athletes & Working Out

Episode Date: April 4, 2025

Tiredness is only in the mind. Everyone's great when they aren't tired. It's when they're tired is when the real champions come out. Speakers: Lebron James Kobe Bryant Mike Tyson Tom Brady Serena Williams and more. Instagram - @daily_motivationsorg Facebook- @daily_motivationsorg

Happiness. We all know what it feels like. But sometimes it doesn't come easy. I'm Garvey Bailey, the host of Happy Enough, a new podcast from the Globe and Mail about our pursuit of happiness. We know people want to live more fulfilling and positive lives. But how do we actually do that? Is there a happiness code to crack? From our relationship with technology to whether money can really buy you happiness, we'll hear from both real people and experts to demystify this thing we're all searching for, and hopefully find ways to be happy enough. You can find Happy Enough wherever you listen to podcasts. In my early days as an advertiser, running commercials on TV was guesswork.

I knew TV was powerful, but it was impossible to see which ads truly worked. So I teamed up with the best data scientists to create a better way to buy and measure TV ads. TATARI was born. Today, hundreds of brands and agencies use TATARI and we help them optimize with metrics that actually grow the business. Learn more at tatari.tv Tired is only in the mind. You tell yourself, be tired, you're going to be tired. I don't get tired.

I'm going to beat you. I'm going to let you know I beat you. I'm going to want you to reconsider your professional life choice. My father who raised me, his thing was, son, you may not be the best, but leave everything on the floor. You put 120%. I'm just asking you to do 120. like every day when you come in, 120. You gotta want it so bad.

You gotta give all of yourself to get it. You gotta be obsessive. Because I didn't grow up with things being handed to me. I had to work hard, I had to dedicate myself, and I had to be determined, and I was. The bottom line is that if you're talking about beating everybody else on the planet to a thing, what you're actually talking about is

what are you prepared to sacrifice? Psychologically, physically, existentially, relationally, socially, in terms of your self-esteem, your comfort and everything. All of that. That pain you feel, that's a pain in success. You must be willing to shoulder that pain to get success. Success is something that's a very lonely path in this world. There's few willing to make that down payment of

pain that future men have success that better the life. Very few are. So if you want to be the top, you got to move different. There wasn't a lot of smiley faces with me out there. There wasn't a lot of smiley faces with Michael Jordan. There weren't a lot of smiley faces with Kobe Bryant. There weren't a lot of smiley faces with Tiger Woods. Even when I watch sports today and see these guys on the range, like they're all buddies and I'm like, that's not the killer instinct. That's just not not I don't

think Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson were trying to be friends with anybody I think they were going out there on a mission and if there was someone in their way they had to crush them. There's never any doubts in my mind because I'm the best in the world even though a lot of you don't like to hear I just it's fast I'm the best you know me I sometimes I don't want to believe in myself but it's the truth I I'm the best You can love me You can hate me I'm not here to make friends

I'm here to win At the end of the day even Alexander one of his famous quotes is I have met the enemy it is I right and Although that is one element of an enemy. That's great. We need that Michael had it Brady Brady had it, Kobe had it, but there's a crazy psychologically, you can call it, you know, psycho competitor that they're constantly in the search of recruiting their next enemy.

It's like, you know, life is boring if I don't have my next target. You know, I'm almost, you know, bad for myself if I don't have the next target, the next enemy. And if I choose it the right way, then I'm able to bring out a side of me I've never seen before. Success is the only revenge. As you expand, they shrink into irrelevance. As you get louder, no one can hear them.

You don't beat them. You cast a shadow so big, no one can see them to begin with. And that's what it comes down to, like, what are you willing to sacrifice at the end of the day? You know, people don't understand the level of sacrifice it's gonna take. And there's been moments where I realized that I compete because I want to win. I love winning. I love being the best in the world. I've sat many times trying to find the balance of what I want within all this. If I was losing, I wouldn't be competing.

I'm here to win. It is hard. It's hard when you're young to wake up in the off season at 6 a.m. to go train and work out knowing that all your friends are sleeping in and eating pancakes. It's hard when you're on your way to practice way down with all your gear and it's 90 degrees out and all the other kids are at the pool or at the beach. No matter who you are there are bumps and hits and bruises along the way and my advice is to prepare yourself because success and achievement come from overcoming adversity When the rest of the world says no to you

You say yes To yourself you say yes, I believe You say yes, I can do it. You say yes Nothing can stop me. If you want to be a great player, if you play every single day, two, three hours, every single day, over the course of a year, how much better are you getting?

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and we help them optimize with metrics that actually grow the business. Learn more at Atari.tv. Most kids will play maybe an hour and a half, two days a week. It's not going to get it done. You have to be obsessive. You have to be obsessive.

You have to be addicted. You have to be disciplined. The key there is you. Everyone else is looking for other individuals to do stuff for you. Stop looking for help from everybody else, okay? It starts and it ends with you. Your identity starts and it ends with you.

Every day is an opportunity. Based on your choices on how you look at things, the choices you make every day, that is what you are in the mirror to that. From the captain to the cashier, there is more in you. Stay at home father, stay at home mother, lawyer,

doctor, hygienist, author, I don't know who you are, where you're from, but there's more in you that becomes a part of who you are, that changes how you think, that changes how you move, that changes how you behave. If you could become an executor, if you could execute, I'm talking about learn it. I'm talking about put it deep within, not you hear it. You have to realize that there's always work to do and you want to be the hardest working person in whatever you do

and you put yourself in position to be successful. Mahomet Ali said suffer now and live the rest of your life a champion because he knew that the training wasn't killing him. The training was making him, it was forging him in fire. I got to trust that nothing out there can stop who I am inside. You got to stand on your faith, you got to stand on your strength, you got to stand on who you are. I will rise again and I will push.

I will be the victorious one. I will conquer. Listen to me, if you work forward, if you will put in that sweat, that blood and those tears, baby, I'm telling you, you can have what you want, be what you want, do what you want. Are you hearing me? Don't give up. Don't give in. you hang in there,

you hang in there because if you quit right now, you ain't gonna never see it, you ain't gonna never get it, but if you hold on baby, ha ha ha, but if you hold on, if you hold on, everything you dreamed of, everything you envisioned, everything you worked for, it's coming, if you work hard, you can't have it, it ain't nothing you can't have, you deserve it. It ain't nothing you can't have you deserve it It ain't nothing you can't have if you willing to work for it

Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself how much more can you take? What tried to kill you Only made you stronger So what are you waiting for? You have greatness within you. Everybody's great when they're not tired. This is when they're tired. That's when the real champions come out.

That's when the real dog come out. It'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 stress that happens when we're there. I feel I'm the best ever. It's not bragging or bolting. 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 gotta win tomorrow, you gotta 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 gonna do it. Maybe it has never been done before. That's perfectly fine with me. But I'm gonna 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 gonna show everybody out there watching this show

and the whole world, and the world will know and admit that I am the greatest of all time when you see what I do to George Fullman. 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 vicious and most ruthless champion there's ever been. There's no one could stop me. I'd like to take this chance to apologize to absolutely nobody. Maybe it's someone 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 Because I'm not I'm about getting the job done sure about the results and I think that you know Unfortunately when we look at our generation today 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, that 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, then not. You want to go with status quo, you're perfectly fine with flowing along, just to get along,

safe, secure, whatever. But when you're trying to win, you're constantly looking to get better. My philosophy is very, very simple when it comes to my family, particularly 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 gonna do it But to me it's whatever the moment or the situation demands and it's I'm a bottom lines

oriented condom person You don't assume that opportunities are waiting for you. You know obstacles are standing at every door. 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 hard. You work hard to have the ability to play when you want to. There's a difference. You don't work hard to play hard. You work hard to have the ability to play when you want to.

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

was it 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, what are you 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 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 about all this. I'm 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 kinda 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 and your mind. Pay attention and you'll see what they are.

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. Music