Motivation Daily by Motiversity - CAN'T STOP ME - Motivational Speech ft Dwayne Wade

Episode Date: September 6, 2024

Speaker: Dwyane WadeDwyane Wade, selected fifth in the 2003 NBA Draft by the Miami HEAT, quickly displayed his talent from his Chicago roots and Marquette University. He earned NBA All-Rookie Team in his debut season and led the team to their inaugural NBA Championship in 2006. Wade excelled in international competitions, winning gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He secured two more NBA titles in 2012 and 2013 after rejoining the HEAT in 2018. Notably, during the 2018-19 season, he achieved a rare milestone by becoming the third player in NBA history with over 20,000 points, 5,000 assists, 4,000 rebounds, 1,500 steals, 800 blocks, and 500 three-pointers, also setting a record for blocked shots by a guard. His legacy was further celebrated as the Miami HEAT retired his jersey and a street was named in his honor. Wade's influence extended beyond basketball, as his production company contributed to impactful projects like the Emmy-nominated "Shot in the Dark" documentary and the Oscar-winning animated short "Hair Love." Recently, he was recognized as one of the NBA's 75 greatest players and played a pivotal role in capturing his remarkable journey in the documentary "D. Wade: Life Unexpected."MusicReally Slow Motion Buy their music:Amazon : http://amzn.to/1lTltY5iTunes: http://bit.ly/1ee3l8KSpotify: http://bit.ly/1r3lPvNBandcamp: http://bit.ly/1DqtZSo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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With the fifth pick in the 2003 NBA draft, the Miami Heat select Dwayne Wade from Marquette University. Right at that next level. There's really not a lot he can't do. Do you want to be great? If you want to be great, this is what you do. The champion, a 13th time all-star, is Twain Wayne. You're gonna be great.

And if you are great, even if you're good, you gotta work hard at it. He gets deflection, steals, he can block shots. All my brothers and I did was eat, sleep, talk, think, and dream basketball. It was my obsession. Michael Jordan didn't understand the impact he made on me. Just by being himself or just by, you know, speaking out on certain things or facing the media out of the bad game or whatever it was. I looked at it all.

But I just wanted to be like that guy. Nothing is accomplished without hard work. The saying is, stay ready. So you don't have to get ready? Yeah. I need to show up every day. I'm on the stage because my beliefs have always been stronger than anyone's doubt. They questioned this shooting.

There was a real question Mark whether he handled. the ball well enough. It's never about your setbacks. It's how you respond. The blows you take are fewer. The limitations people put on you are actually inspiration. I'm curious what is your most proud moment? Getting drafted because that was the moment that showed me I can do it. I worked on just to get drafted. Once I got drafted, then it really started. It's a place where I feel I belong. That moment for me would forever go down in history is I can do anything. I'm like, oh, okay, I did it all I can now. Just wait and see what happened.

The goal is, every day is to put one foot in front of the next. The matter how hard yesterday was, it's every day, get out of bed. It's something that you believe in and you want. Then go at it every day. And to me, that's consistency. It's putting enough consistent days together. You mess around and you have a good life. I guess the moments for me, which is probably the most special moments, is the Olympic moments.

I remember getting into one of the cities. And, like, very late, and we couldn't really sleep. You all kind of time zones, whatever. So, you know, with my crew, you know, with Brian or with Mello and CP and, you know, the crew. Yeah. We all together. And so we decided, we're like, yo, tomorrow, man, first person up, wake me up. We're going to go to breakfast.

We're going to go eat. Like, you know, whatever. Like the foods should open up at this hour We were hungry Let's go to sleep And then let's get up So we can eat As we get down there

Colby's sitting at the table Already he's sitting at the table So we walk up What's up Cole In Kobe Bryant fashion Look at us and he's like Yo, what's good? He's like I just got

He's got my second workout here He already finished He just finished his workout I think he did a basketball workout On the court And I think he did a weight room workout Before you guys got the breakfast This early morning.

We were only sleep for about three hours. Oh, my goodness. So I'm like, in my mind, I'm like, okay, I had always heard about the work ethics of Kobe Bryant, but I never seen him. I'm like, I'll work hard too. Yeah. He set himself apart in so many different ways.

The mental edge that he had on people, he understood that I'm playing on a team with all these great young players who're trying to come and take the spot. and I'm not only going to do what they do just as good or better, I'm going to do more than them, a lot more than them, just to separate myself. It was a different level, and that level made us go to a different level. In that moment of the Olympics, when I know we're tired, these flights are alone.

We're playing, we're traveling, we're practicing that. He's older than us, and to see that. That's another level. That's another level. Did you ever doubt yourself? Did you ever have insecurity? And if so, how did you learn to manage or overcome self-doubts within a cripple you? Oh, my.

Self-doubt creeps in all the time. I don't know because I don't get to talk to every great human being in the world. But I'm sure all of them have. It has half and do have self-doubt at times. How often was it for you? Self-doubt can be in moments. You can come into a game with all the confidence, and then you miss seven shots in a row. Now you've got self-doubt.

You know, sometimes you're looking around the arena. See a kid and you're just a kid. journey. You know, you like, all right, speaking to me. You can be down on yourself and have self-doubt very easy, not thinking you're great enough, lacking confidence in your shot, you know, and whatever it was, I definitely had a lot of self-doubt, but I was always able to pull from things or poor from people and allow them to bring me back. You never do it by yourself. Who was the most influential adult figure in your life growing up? Michael Jordan. Really? I watch how he did interviews.

You watch how you walk. You watch it all because I didn't see anybody that was in my life that I was like, oh, I want to be like that person. So I had to go find someone. Once again, I had to think I had to go into this vision. I had to think outside of the box in a sense. And outside the box is outside of my community and my family. And I found Michael Jordan.

I grew up in Chicago. I was able to tune in and watch the game. We got the interviews. I was like after the game. And my brothers are sitting and watch the TV waiting for Jordan interview. He just became that much of a figure in our lives. Yeah, it's crazy. What was it like when you first met him?

Surreal. And what was the best piece of advice that he told you? It was something so simple. He just told me to go get it. And it's crazy, right? That's like, go get it. But for me, that's all was in my mind while I was playing the game. Go get it.

Wow. And I went and got it. He said, hey man, I don't want to see these shoes on the floor. I want to see these shoes in the air. In my mind, all these things, I was like, yo, you got to see these shoes in the air. And so I'm coming down the court, and I see Andy, and he backing up. And I'm like, I'm going for it. And if you see the highlight, I dunked it, right?

Boom. And I'm about to go to the bench where my team had, like, go that way. It talks to me. But I was like, nope. Jordan's over here. No way. And I went that way. And I'm like, that's how you do it.

But I'm really over there like, Joe, I want to Jordan to see me, right? Want him to be proud of it. Just the power of an influence, it goes a long way. And that's why I tell those stories because Michael didn't know that all these moments, he didn't know the influence that he was having on a little kid, you know, grown up in the city of Robbins, Illinois, in Chicago. I wanted different. I didn't want what I seen. I just knew what I would see. I'm like, I don't want this.

It should be great. You got to be consistent. But just take assistance. Say true of you. Stay consistent to the work. Yeah, go do something special. Don't just be here. That's the thing I strive for. What it takes to actually win.

It's built on discipline. It's built on respect. It's built on toughness. Not giving up. Not quitting. I could have given up. But we're in a Hall of Fame, dog. Your destiny.

This is my time.