Motivation Daily by Motiversity - BECOME UNSTOPPABLE - Powerful Mike Tyson Motivational Speech

Episode Date: October 20, 2026

Spoken by Mike Tyson. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I'm the best ever. There's no one that can match me. I'm the most brutal and vicious and most ruthless champion that's ever been. They're going to fear me. You have to be the champion before you become the champion, so that means lifestyle. Have to be him before you become him. You gotta be him before you become him. That's how it starts.
Starting point is 00:00:27 You look at somebody, I want to be like him. You don't say, hey, I'm a bad moble. I want to fight anybody out here, nobody's going to kick my ass. You see somebody and say, hey, I might want to do that. do that. Well, greatness is when you make your delusions your reality. Nothing is impossible for somebody who's going to try. If you're going to try, it's capable of being done. But you'd fight Dyson Fury. Yeah, I fight a line if the price is right.
Starting point is 00:00:55 My whole objective is your total surrender, your total domination. I'm going to destroy you. That's why Rogan said when you watched you, you were intimidated. Your rage is a very unique rage. So that's their fault to be intimidated. How you're going to let's scare you for something you worked for. I respect a person who's willing to die for what he truly wants. Ali had the will of win like nobody to ever live in boxing. He believes he projected to his opponent. Really look at how does Ali beat George Foreman?
Starting point is 00:01:29 How does Ali be Sonny listening? How do he beat these guys? How did he even beat Joe Frazier? Fighting the way he fights. He beats him because he refused to lose. But we have to believe. But we have to believe that we're divine and that we learn from our experience because confidence breathed success and success breeds confidence.
Starting point is 00:01:46 They go hand to hand. You have to know who you are first. You know who I am. People say, they're all the time, you did, you that, whatever they say, I know who I am. Without self-love is nothing. Because self-love is discipline. And discipline is doing what you hate to do, but do it like you love it. I never wanted to be obscure.
Starting point is 00:02:14 I was born in obscurity and I never wanted to deal with that again. I'm invincible. I'm a savage. I'm ferocious. I'm smartest savage. I knew I wasn't going to die before I became champ. When this is over, everybody's going to know my name. Did you ever fight somebody that you were like, that they got you?
Starting point is 00:02:43 Was there ever a kid that got you or no? Absolutely. In order to be good, you have to lose and understand loss. Because loss is life. Adversity makes the strong stronger or the weak, 11, 12, 13, what happens next? So, you get arrested. And I see Muhammad Ali come and visit the institution that I'm in.
Starting point is 00:03:10 You said you're in jail and Ali shows up? I'm 12 years old and Ali comes there and they showed the movie the greatest first. So this is 77. And after the movie, the lights come up and Ali comes in. And I see him, I said, well, I want to be just like him. I don't know how to happen. The spirit of him. Boom, I want to be like him.
Starting point is 00:03:36 And then I get transferred to this other facility, you know, for a real business. you know, for real bad kids. I met a gentleman there that was a boxer. And he used to teach me how to box. So he took me into a great training named Cus de Mado, and that's why I'm here. I respected Ali and I worshiped Ali. Yeah, this is the moment I knew I wanted to be a fighter.
Starting point is 00:03:58 You're freaking believable store. So your inspiration happened at 12 years old. Yeah. Then you meet Cuss. Yes. How is Cuss treating you? What was his way of leading you? It's a degree of his peeling all that dirt and stuff
Starting point is 00:04:15 that insecurity and developing into character. And that's why I had a wonderful time with him, because everything about his life was above me. This world is one big school, and we're the students of this world. The mind is always hungry. The mind wants to do good, but we get so many negative thoughts
Starting point is 00:04:43 in our mind is almost overwhelming to be positive. Listen, I've been down and up, down, broken up and why am I still here? Because life is going to give everybody a bad hand. No one's going to leave here without being tried in life. So inspiration. So is that what got you to be willing to be disciplined to get what you want, like to become a champion?
Starting point is 00:05:21 At 14 years ago, I'm willing to do everything it takes to be a champion? Absolutely. And then I had cuss over there telling me why should he have it? That's one day I never had in my life because I always got picked on and I never had jealousy or enviness about it. And Cuss possessed that, you know, and he was telling me, why should he have all that money and you don't? Why do you believe that he's better than you? Why do you think he should have all that money and you don't?
Starting point is 00:05:48 And he was really serious about it. And that's what the competition sh-you know. That's the right thing, breathing that stuff right in me. Why should he have and he's not better than you? How did you handle that when he told you that, 14? Would it piss you off? Would you like, I'm gonna go train to whoop his ass? His ass and get there one day what was your response to it?
Starting point is 00:06:07 He said one day this guy knows how to really get in my head. He said, man, you're fighting good, but I wish you were bigger. I wish you were like Kenny Norton, Mike Weaver, because they had big bodies and they could intimidate somebody. And that hurt myself, I said, I make sure the whole world will be afraid of me. He trained me to be totally ferocious in the ring and out. Yeah, and that's what I was. That's what I was.
Starting point is 00:06:37 Push yourself more. push yourself when you sometimes you have to submit to yourself. I'm doing everything. First day in the morning, three in the morning, do your four miles, come back in. Three in the morning? Yeah. You four miles come back and do your body exercise and all that stuff.
Starting point is 00:06:58 After that, I go after eat breakfast, go to the school, come back from school, eat my dinner. I go back to the gym at six o'clock, train, come back at eight o'clock, watch fights, start all over. Everybody here's gonna fight to what they love for. Even they never had a fist fight in their life, they're gonna fight. Listen, once I'm involved with something, I want to know the beginning of I wonder what came from, how it started, who's the first guy that invented it.
Starting point is 00:07:31 That's just how my mind works. How could you guys even dare fight me? How dare you even think that you could beat me? And you sound like a mathematician when you're talking about the art of boxing. I was born for it. There's nothing I would do unless I have a possibility of being humiliated. Because when I succeed, I truly succeed. I was bred to climb high and high into the sky and tumble down.
Starting point is 00:08:04 I am truly grateful that I found my wings before I hit the ground. I don't care how good you are in anything. You don't have discipline. You ain't nobody. Because you give up a slightest struggle without discipline. Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but do it like you love it. but do it like you love it. You might not know this now, but you're this close, igniting your inner champion and reclaiming your destiny.
Starting point is 00:08:29 It's just that I want to be up more than anybody in 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. We don't back down from anyone, and that's what got me in trouble. I don't play games.
Starting point is 00:08:47 I don't kiss anyone's ass. and I'm a real man and that's why I, regardless of being a Friday, I'm a man and that's why I want to be a man and if I die, I want to die, man. When you really focus, you hear everything. When I come to the ring,
Starting point is 00:09:03 I notice everybody can hear you breathing. I can hear you talking. I hear everything. When I come out, I have supreme confidence but I'm scared to death. I'm totally afraid. I'm afraid of everything. I'm afraid of losing.
Starting point is 00:09:16 I'm afraid of being humiliated. But I'm totally confident. Closer I get to the ring, the more confidence I get. The closer I'm more confidence I get, the closer I get, the closer I get to the ring, I'm more confident. Once I'm in the ring, I'm a God. No one can beat me.
Starting point is 00:09:30 You know my name till the end of time, because I'm a savage. That's who I was. I didn't want nothing till 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. 100% yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:03 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. Do the kill, destroy, break them down. It's just, I'm the greatest.
Starting point is 00:10:27 You know, success is all about a lifestyle. I live the lifestyle as the champion at 14. In order to be the champion, you have to live a lifestyle with the champ. It's all about discipline, doing what you hate to do, doing it like you love it. That's what it's all about.
Starting point is 00:10:46 If you don't have discipline, I don't care of skill for you, you're nothing. You don't want to be the best ever, why are you here? Confidence breeds success and success breathed confident. 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.
Starting point is 00:11:15 Anybody in the world wants me to be down. And it's all about what like I said before self-belief. My whole success is from belief. I just believe in me. The truth 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 want to do. And if you have that, and the determination and the will to win,
Starting point is 00:11:52 there's nothing that you can't do. Impossible is nothing compared to anybody that tries. Nothing's impossible then. Confidence breathed success, success breeds confidence. And confidence applied properly with superseded genius. Life is just a circle. They're gonna hate me again one day. And then God willing, they're gonna respect me again one day.
Starting point is 00:12:22 You have to first be a fool, I guess. You have to believe in yourself before you believe in anything else. God, you have to believe in you. believe in you. Once you believe in you and have a relationship with you is 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 win the day. So that's why exercise is important to leave your stress. When in the morning, you win the day. And so I realize life is all about in here. It's all about your belief system. Faith fear. You're not going to lose when you're face it. Trust me.
Starting point is 00:13:15 Never lose when you face fear. No, our mistakes don't define us. High points don't define us. Life defines us. The long as you have happy moments, take as many as you can, because life is just a flick of the eye. Well, that's what life is about.
Starting point is 00:13:36 You got to sit in your room sometime, give your subconscious some time and spend time and just inventing yourself doing, being with the most exciting people in the world, doing the most exciting things, things in the world and just living that fantasy and that fantasy would 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.
Starting point is 00:14:06 Now that's discipline. In order to be able to change anything, you have to change yourself. And then have to look in the mirror and say, what are I going 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 wit that would make me feel like a better person and help me reach my highest potential?
Starting point is 00:14:36 You have to find that for us. What is it that I can do and help people? You know, that's all I think about how can we help somebody? Visualizing, looking into the mirror, that's what is all about, touching your inner core of your consciousness. I don't believe in talent. Well, some people, they have talent. That's good.
Starting point is 00:14:56 It helps when you have talent. As long as you have a lot of determination and willpower, that's all you need. And you have to have the will to win. I didn't 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
Starting point is 00:15:24 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 gonna fight this guy I have to have the pressure anything that I'm afraid to do I do it
Starting point is 00:15:41 and that's just how I live by life the more you're comfortable with you the more you be comfortable with death and the more comfortable you are with death, the more peace you are with yourself. I knew never to get discouraged. I knew it. I would get my day to continue to try hard and believe in myself. 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. Well, I fight till I can't fight anymore. You know what I mean? If a situation like that happened and you get hurt,
Starting point is 00:16:24 I'm a strong believer. If you fight, fight to the end. You know what I mean? You don't be afraid. Some guy get hit hard, and they lay down because they don't want to take a beating. Real fight is take their beating like a man because anything can happen.
Starting point is 00:16:35 At what point did you know that you could be the heavyweight champion? 14. 14 years old, I knew you were going to... You have to be the champion before you become the champion, so that means lifestyle. Have to be him before you become her.
Starting point is 00:16:54 You got to be him before you become it. You don't have discipline. I don't care how skill for you are you, nothing. Nothing. But everybody don't get up every morning and run. Everybody don't go to the gym every morning. And everybody don't have enough discipline to wait in the locker room for two hours or three hours.
Starting point is 00:17:09 Then go in the ring and do it. They've been taught all those years in the gym. And so that's what separates the champion. I'm a mediocre fighter. Inside, I'm totally in control of the situation ring. You know, there's just a certain amount of moderation as far as discipline is concerned. My whole success is from belief. something I can feel, but not actually see.
Starting point is 00:17:36 What about talent? Talent? I don't believe in talent. Well, some people, they have talent. It's good. It helps when you have talent. As long as you have a lot of determination and willpower, that's all you need. And you have to have the will to win. My definition of greatness, someone or something that could do the most difficult thing in the world
Starting point is 00:17:55 with the most simple of ease. That's greatness. In my time of life, I thought I've seen it all. I thought I've been everywhere. I think anybody drink, everybody, smoked with it, I did it all. And I realized, that was nothing, I don't know that. You're in control in the ring. You're something that you're prepared for.
Starting point is 00:18:14 You're training months and months for, and then you're going there, and then it's like a diagram. Everything's written out, and everything's planning to do. Outside you, it's just the unexpected so constantly. You know what I mean? Lurking around, and you don't know what's going to happen day by day. That's like I'm going to count the Lord for your blessings because you're really not promised tomorrow
Starting point is 00:18:34 and anything can happen. You have to be the champ before you be the champion. You understand? Does that make sense? Yeah. This is it really because it sounds like you have to be him before you can be him. You can't just pop this by training
Starting point is 00:18:47 and doing push-ups and knocking people out since I'm not the chair. No, you have to be the actual champ. Your conduct, your lifestyle, have to be the champ before you have to be, we're the belt. Why do you think you wanted to respect was the thing you wanted the most from people? Because they bullied me.
Starting point is 00:19:01 all the time. Everybody picked on me. Why do you think they picked on you? I don't know. I had nobody to protect me. Why do I think I'm here? To understand the world before I die. To be lucky to. Understand it and be conscious of it before I die. Life prepares you for everything.
Starting point is 00:19:18 When life is enduring with you, when you're enduring with life and you're making the age limits going to your 50s, your 60s, your age, and you're making it up there. You're prepared. All your friends are no longer around. Most of your family, not around. What am I doing here? then we go so boxing you're coming up
Starting point is 00:19:35 you're coming up at 14 you know you're going to be a champion during that time whatever's Cuss telling you you you're doing it you're not questioning you're fully coachable to him you're committed to him you believe he can help you become a champion what is your training but during that process I'm losing too I'm getting beat I'm getting knocked out
Starting point is 00:19:51 I'm never getting discouraged though I'm doing everything the first day in the morning three in the morning you do your four miles come back here three in a morning yeah do your
Starting point is 00:20:01 four miles come back and do your body exercise and all that stuff, getting a hot tub, go to bed. I'm like watch some fight films. I watch a lot of fight films. That's why I'm very acute with most of the fight. Oh yeah. So after that, I go after the eat breakfast, go to the school, come back from school, eat my food, dinner, go back to the gym at 6 o'clock, train, come back at 8 o'clock, watch fights, start all over again. I just believe in me. And I'm going to overcome all my adversities. I'm not going to, you know, it's like this. The truth set you free, but it's going to make you miserable first. And so I realize life is all about in here.
Starting point is 00:20:48 It's all about your belief system. I love that. Listen, one minute you could say, I'm a nobody. That's me. I'm living in an abandoned building with my family. And next day, I'm Mike Tyson. What does it take to be a true champion, to be the best in the world of something? You lived it for a long time.
Starting point is 00:21:06 What does a mindset have to be like if someone wants to be the best in what they do? It's just dedicating and sacrificing your life to be in a particular way you want to be able to. Like, you want to conduct it. Say you want to be like Tony Robbins. You get all the information you can about Tony Robbins and you conduct you. This is how I want to live my life. This is almost like this is your man. your script.
Starting point is 00:21:31 Yeah. Your blueprint. Yeah. This is what I'm going to do. Yeah. And I'm going to live like Tony. I'm not going to be Tony Robbins, but I'm going to live it. I'm going to conduct myself like Tony Robbins.
Starting point is 00:21:42 Yeah. So you got to live it, you got to breathe it. Yeah, so you have to be that before you actually become the person. Interesting. You're not going to become the person over there. Like, you think you're prepared to be Tony Robbins right now. To warn you Tony Robbins? You didn't know.
Starting point is 00:21:54 It's going to take time, so I'm going to become this guy. You know, I'm going to be this guy before because you're not ready. But when you're not ready. When time comes, you're going to be ready. You're going to be Tony Robbins. This is my life. I'm accustomed to this. Of course I got this role.
Starting point is 00:22:06 Of course I got this job. Of course I got this right. I'm prepared for it. Wouldn't even be surprised. Most people in Marx and say Tyson himself. That remains to be seen. Listen, the results speak for itself. I don't listen to say anything.
Starting point is 00:22:26 Nobody want to deal with crazy. They're trembling bones. Didn't everybody have feared me. You're the barbarians. Mike's patient in the ring of his shirt off. These big men were scared, stiff. I'm not afraid of nobody. Show the real world champion is the best fighter in the era.
Starting point is 00:22:48 Champion of the world, Mike Tyson. Your guys know what I do. You know what I do. I put people in body bags, so we know what's going to happen. I know I really broke his spirit. You don't want to fuck with me? I'm not scared of these guys. They're not thinking, they mean they think that I think that they're scared.
Starting point is 00:23:08 will just get us on them. I'm gonna bring the pain to him. And that's all is, then we go see how tough you are, tough guys. I keep my eyes on, I keep my eyes on, I keep my eyes on. I know when I came to this fight, I was the best fight in the world, and that man, live that can beat me. I'm not worrying about losing to him. The undefeited, the undefeated. The greatest fighter ever lived.

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