Motivation Daily by Motiversity - IT TAKES EVERYTHING - Best Motivational Speech featuring Kobe Bryant's Trainer Tim Grover)

Episode Date: March 22, 2024

IT TAKES EVERYTHING YOU’VE GOT! Winning will take everything and ask you to step up to the plate and sacrifice. "When you fail your feelings give you excuses. Your mind makes you more resilient" - Tim GroverSpeakerTim Grover: Website: https://timgrover.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/attackathleticsFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/timsgrover/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timgrover/MusicAudiojungle Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Winning is not about the trophy and the accolades. It's about the grind. It's about the obstacles. It's about the challenges. It's about the pain. The reason I know so much about winning is because, I've had to deal with so much losing. Everybody wants to win, but in order to know how to win,

you've got to know how to lose, because you're going to lose more than you're going to win. But what are you gained from it? You've trained some of the greatest of the grades, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Charles Barkley, Dwayne Wade. So you know something about winning. You know something about sustained winning over time. Your mind has to immediately shift back

because now you felt it tasted something that you can only get through winning. Are you willing to do it again? And that was one of Kobe's favorite words winning related to winning. He says you have to be obsessed with whatever your win is. Be all in. Three greatest lessons I learned from Michael, competing, accountability, and then winning at all of us. winning all levels, what does that mean? You just don't win in one arena.

You win in your sports. You win in business. You win in your personal life. Other people win because you win. It isn't just about you. It's about being able to pull the team and show them what it feels like. And this isn't about playing basketball like Michael Jordan did, like the late great Kobe Bryant, Dwayne Wade.

this is about having the mindset to win. When you fail, your feelings, your mind makes you more resilient. You look at when Kobe, his first playoff series, he had this horrible game, but he shot like four or five straight air balls. Now, he could have came back next year and said, I got to prove everybody that's man, you're too young, why did you take it? He was just like, you know what? That's on me. I have to own that moment.

Now, I got to prove to myself I can overcome this because now everybody else is doubting me, but I can't doubt myself. Everybody told MJ, don't go to North Carolina. You'll never play. You shouldn't be here. And Michael went out and he said, I don't need to prove to coach. I don't need to prove to Buzz. I need to prove to myself that I belong here. I always say you can have fear, but you can't have doubt. When I was working with my professional athletes, it required me to do a lot of traveling. And this story gets me every time. So when people say, it didn't hurt, it still hurts.

I was packing for a trip. My daughter walks into her room. She says, Daddy, why do you travel so much? It's a sweetheart. This is I provide for the family. This is how I take care of you and mom. This is how I put food on the table. She looks at me and says,

Daddy, if I eat less, will you stay home more? Now people would think in a fairy tale or most people were that I unpacked my suitcase. I'm not going to take this trip. Let's go grab some ice cream or let's go out.

I kept packing. Why? I had to send an example for her early. of what it meant to work and what you have to leave behind sometimes in order to pursue what's unique to you. I wanted her to understand this is who I am and I want to send an example for you. I had a conversation with her later on to tell her why I did all those things. In the middle of the conversation she stopped me. She goes, I get it. I understand.

She saw the results. She saw how it brought us closer together. She understood my dedication to my craft and what it took to excel and what it took to be different. And what it took to stand by unpopular decisions, knowing that every successful person that I've met, Every successful person that I know had to make those decisions over and over again. There are things that are going to have to take a backseat. You're going to have to leave a lot of things behind. The hardest thing with Kobe was getting him to stop.

Yeah, okay, take a break, rest. Yes. Take the day off. That was the most challenging thing with him. Because over all the years that he had his success, it was about go. Go, go. And then when I came on, I was to complete eye. I said, go, I got to get you to stop.

His 3 a.m. workouts. Yeah. Crazy. Crazy. You know, having to keep the staple center open later because he wasn't happy the way he performed at that game. And I would not leave till he would leave. Really? Yeah, so we would be in the arena sometimes 2, 3 o'clock in the morning.

Shut up. All the lights are turned off. except on the court and we just keep going we just keep going what is the mindset of winning they both had that so I look at it I look at it three ways so you have individuals that compete you know a lot of people that compete yeah you know every we all know how to compete everybody knows how to how to compete we just decide not to anymore but some a lot of people compete just to finish then there's individuals that win but they only win one time it's Easy to win and then never win again.

And then there's people that win and winning. You can't come back the same. Cannot come back the same. You have to come back different. You have to come back better. Winning wants you to be different. Winning requires you to do different things. Winning requires you to think in a different way.

Winning speaks its own language. Winning has its own way of recognizing you. Winning wants you to write your own story. Stop looking for steps. Those steps are infinite. Find your own path to winning. Because as the late great Kobe Bryant said, winning is everything.