Motivation Daily by Motiversity - Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson Will Leave You SPEECHLESS

Episode Date: May 2, 2022

One of the most eye opening speeches you will ever here featuring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.Music by Borrtex (https://www.youtube.com/Borrtex). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The link is in the description. Start strong, finish strong. Wolf is always scratching. Let's roll. Up at 3.45 a.m., cardio by 4.45 a.m., hitting the iron by 6.15 a.m. in my pickup truck by 7.15 a.m. Heading to work. Ready to get after.

Ready to shoot. There's no substitute for hard work. I'm going to make something out of myself, but it's going to be so good. It's bad. Instead telling you what I think you should be doing or how you could be better or I thought, well, let me just speak from the heart, speak from my gut and really not have anything prepared, but just tell you what's worked for me. And maybe some of the stuff that's worked for me might work for you now, currently, presently,

as you guys have your goals and ambitions, but then further on down the line as you guys continue to live your life. idea and this notion that you could be anything you want and you can accomplish anything you want right we hear that you've heard that from the time you were little boys you hear that now you're already incredibly accomplished you guys know that the thing that has worked for me is to remember the hard times so and I'm sure you guys all have your processes and again I'm gonna tell you what to work for me so before a big movie comes out before back in the

the days when I was wrestling with WWE, a WrestleMania match, anything big that would happen, I would always take a moment. And I just remind myself, all right, I was evicted when I was 14. We were kicked off the island. We couldn't live in Hawaii. We had no place to live. A lot of shit happened then when I moved to Nashville. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16 years old. I would remember that. And it allows me then to be present in the moment and understand the stuff I have around me right now. This is the shit that I dreamed of when I was a kid. I am here. I played for University of Miami. Played with great teams. Warren Sapp, Ray Lewis, they were my teammates. They were balling. Warren Sapp was playing tight end at that time.

I was starting defensive tackle. Yeah. They moved him over to D-line. And he looked at me as like, yo, do, I'm going to take your spot. And I said, you ain't taking much of mine. He said, I'm going to take spot. We battled and he took my spot. You can imagine how that with me because there goes my opportunity. He went in, switched a defensive tackle, lit the world on fire. Well, what that did, it crushed me and it crushed my dreams. I had a piss poor senior year. Zero production, no NFL, no combine invite, nothing, finally went to the CFL, Calgary Stampeders, making $250 a week Canadian. Canadian. I had to send you. I had to send a that home to my wife at that time.

I had no money. So I remember that. I got cut from Canada. My dad in his pickup truck came down, four o'clock in the morning, picked me up in Miami from Tampa. We lived in a little apartment in Tampa. He drove down in his little pickup truck to Miami to get me when I was cut from the CFL.

And I thought, well, I leave home, like you guys left home, I'm ready to tie. to tackle the world, get after it, achieve my dreams and goals. Crushed by 22, 23 years old. Now I got to move back in with my mom and dad. I played on great teams, though. Wait a second, this is not supposed to be my future. I'm supposed to be in the NFL right now.

I'm supposed to be making a lot of coin and buying my parents, buying me, she didn't care of my wife, but it never happened. So I pulled out my wallet, I thought, well, let me see how much money I have. I opened it up, I had a five, a one, and change. Well, at least I rounded up to seven bucks. But I thought, God, ain't this a bitch I got seven bucks in my money. I got seven bucks in my pocket. Where the fuck do I go now?

What do I do? I can't go back to CFL. The point comes where you hear that voice, the big runs over. You're done. Right? So I heard that voice. So as coach was saying, man, I hold on to that. I'm telling you, I keep my back is up against this mother.

We laugh, we joke, we have a good time. But my back is still up against this mother fuck. I do not forget it. What this also helps me do, and again, it works for me, is at some point you've got to be tired of not being number one you have to be and you gotta play

angry and I play angry now I'm cool and calm with my approach and when I step out on my field which is a set or you know like there's some and you're always going to have haters

and haters are like well damn man how many movies you're going to make her how much shit are you going to do like you do a lot of shit and I say yes because my ambition Of course, why not? I could do it. Yeah, I love what I do.

And not only that, but in what world do we not work every day? My back is up against this thing, you know? And I started to play angry, by the way, and I still play angry. My last match, Brock Lesnar transitioned, and I realized if I had to be great at something, I wanted to be great in this world of Hollywood and moviemaking and producing and entertainment, I had to commit, and like you guys have to commit. obviously you commit to something, commit to the goal. So I quietly retired.

Two years later, I thought, what did I do in my career? Because my movies were not doing well. I was written off. I was like, it was around 2006, 2007. I was like, I left, I pulled a Jim Brown. I left when I was on top, like number one in the wrestling business. And I left. It was a ballsy, gutsy, some call it stupid move.

But I had to commit and I had to follow it was in my gut. What helps me is to keep the hard times in the front of my mind, because it allows me to go into these big moments that I've worked my ass off, and you guys have worked your ass off. It allows me to go into these big moments with a different perspective. What it also does for me, and again, this is what works for me. Like, my back is up against this mother-full. Every day, it's against him.

But it's up against this mother-fell because it's what I believe in. and when my back is against this. Then there's nowhere to go. But that way. Doesn't mean you don't smile. Doesn't mean you don't laugh and joke. Right? You're happy.

I'm happy. I'm a happy guy. But when it comes to business and when it comes to executing, it's up against this. And I got to go that way. And I don't give a fuck who is in front of me. They're not going to stop me.

The key for me was where does it start? What's the anchor? What's the anchor? So I could have all these ambitions, and you guys have all these ambitions, which is great. It's important. I'll play this role. You'll play that role.

I'll execute this thing, and it'll come out this summer. You guys will execute this thing during the summer, right? When it's time to really put in a lot more work. But the key with me is just always finding what the anchor is. And the anchor is getting up at 4 o'clock in the morning every day before anybody else and grounding my thought process is in the no one will outwork me no one I love and I respect you guys mother woman all starts with this two hands my last match in WW I'll share this with you guys too is that again because there's a little bit of

takeaway here from all this is I wrestled John Sina and I went in and I think it's 2013. I went in WWE champion and we went in MetLife Stadium. We had a record-breaking attendance, which was amazing that night. We accomplished our goal. So I wrestled with John Cena. We had 45 minutes plan for the match. It's nonstop. Go. So your conditioning is tested. And at that time, I wasn't full-time in WWE. I was just doing these spot matches where I was still shooting G.I. Joe, I think, or pain and gain at that time. Or, oh no, it was Fast and Furious Six in London, had to travel in the ring, get all my ring work in, travel back to shoot Fast and Furious,

then back WWRWA doing those shows, the big buildup to WrestleMania against John. We get to MetLife Stadium. It's a big night. This is it. It's game night, right? It's championship night for me. 45-minute match planned out. There's no cut.

There's no, all right, well, let's pick it back up tomorrow. You know, it's go time. It's just like you guys in a game. At the 15 minute mark, I feel something pop. I'm like, boom, what the... I'm laying there, and both of us are out. I said, oh, fuck, something's going on. And I stick my hand.

Now it's 85,000 people, right? And we're just laid out like this. I kind of roll over. I stick my hand down in my trunk, just to see, I want to make sure that there was no bone sticking out. So if there's no bone sticking out, what the f***ing just happened?

Referee comes over, and he's like, Rocky, all right? I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I'm all right. I said, I get up, I go to step, and I can't step. I can't do this. I have to use my leg like momentum. I got to do that.

So now in that moment, and you guys are going to have these moments, you probably already had them already, where you're in the game and you're in the thick of things, and you've got to make a decision. What I got to do? I'm going to stay in the game. I committed to the team. I committed to my team, the entire roster, right?

So I could tell the rest of you okay, and I have one moment. In this moment, it was a defining moment. I could either tell him, no, I'm done. He'd give the signal, match is over. Or let's keep going. We have this decision. And I said, no, let's keep going. I say, how much time is up?

He's like, 32 minutes. I'm like, okay. The rest of the whole match, couldn't move, doing everything like this. I'm getting scared because I'm thinking, man, well, what happens if I, if I pinch something or something like, you know, I don't know, your mind starts fucking with you in the moment. There's 85,000 people. Your adrenaline is rushing. I'm thinking, man, what happens if I'm going to lose my leg or some shit like this?

If I've just done something to my artery. Final move of the match is his big finishing move. And I remember I'm getting up and I'm turning like this because I have to fall into him. He's going to hit me with his big finisher. I remember turning into John and he says, and I remember thinking to myself, God, please don't let this be too bad. Just take care of me. Take care of me. Bang!

I feel boom! I don't know what the fuck just happened. Now luckily the matches over, he pins me, one tooth. Comes in the back, I get to the back, I can't move, now I'm getting a little nervous. Get on a jet, rushed home to my doctors down in Florida, and get the MRI, find out that I have completely torn my ad doctor, the top of my ad doctor, and my top of my quad off my pelvis.

What I was proud of was to walk out on my own, but not only that, but in this moment where the odds are against you, people are watching, your teams depending on you, you either say, I'm done, or this shit, whatever the fuck is going on, it's temporary, and it may fuck me up at some point down the road. But I'm not going to let this opportunity go by without giving it my all. As you guys know, there's nothing you can't accomplish. You're going to go on, you're going to become world champions. The key for me, what I think one of the keys is, remember where you came from, keep that in the front of your mind, and when shit goes bad and it goes sideways, a lot of shit does. You're getting booed out the building,

or you're coming through this injury, or people are you riding you off? You guys ain't make it. You know, any of that, you got to keep it in here. And it really has to, It should drive you. It should. It works for me. It should drive you. You get all the talent in the world. It's all here. Really, the two things I want to say are you got to be the hardest workers in the room.