Motivation Daily by Motiversity - IT'S THE JOURNEY, NOT THE DESTINATION - Kobe Bryant Motivational Speech

Episode Date: June 29, 2024

Those times when you get up early and you work hard. Those times when you don't feel like working, but you do it anyway. That is actually the dream. It's Not The Destination, It's The Journey. One of the Best Motivational Speeches Ever by Kobe Bryant."Rest at the end, not in the middle."SpeakerKobe BryantFollow:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kobebryant/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KobeTwitter: https://twitter.com/kobebryantMusicAudiomachine - Restorehttps://audiomachine.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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those times when you don't feel like working, you're too tired, you don't want to push yourself, but you do it anyway. That is actually the dream. That's the dream. It's not the destination, it's the journey. And if you guys can understand that, then what you'll see happen is that you won't accomplish your dreams.

Your dreams won't come true. Something greater will. It's an amazing thing about passion. If you love something, if you have a strong passion for something, you would go to the extreme to try to understand or try to get it. Whatever you have a love for, you'd have to walk, you would go get it. If you have to beg someone, you would go. I don't think you guys understand how present you guys were with me.

You know, you guys were there with me at 5.30 in the morning when I was running the track and I was midway through my workout. And I didn't know if I could make it through. And I thought about the expectations you guys had for me and you have for our team. And it pushed me through. It got me through those 800s and 400s and 100s at 5.30 in the morning. so I thank you. We're not on this stage just because of talent or ability.

We're up here because of 4.8M. We're up here because of 2 a day or 5 a day. We're up here because we had a dream and let nothing stand in our way. If anything tried to bring us down, we used it to make us strong. We were never satisfied, never finished, will never be retired. My high school English teacher, Mr. Fisk, he had this beautiful quote in the rest at the end, not in the middle. And I took that to heart.

I believe there's time for resting at the end, but for me, that time is not now. Thank you for this tremendous honor and acknowledging my basketball career, but I'm far from you done. My next dream is to be honored one day for inspiring the next generation of athletes to have a dream, sacrifice for it,

and never ever rest in the middle. Rest at the end, not in the middle. Where does that come from? And if you guys can understand that, and I'm doing my job as a father. Thank you guys so much. I love you. Mamba out. Play with the fear of failing.

You'll have the pressure on yourself to play, you know, to capitulate to that fear. If you play with the sense of I want to win, I want to win, then you have the fear of what happens if you don't. But if you find common ground in the middle, in the center, then it doesn't matter. You're unfazed by either, right? And that enables you to really just stay in the moment, stay connected to it. not feel anything other than what's in front of you. So I try to just be dead center. Start with what do you want your game to be?

What would make your game most unstoppable or hard to deal with? And now you work backwards from there. And you start building it one piece at a time, one move at a time, one counter at a time. Who would Shaq be if he had your work ethic? He'd be the greatest of all time. If Shaq had your work... He'd be the greatest of all time. Sure.

He'd be the first. tell you that for sure. I mean, this guy was a force. Like, I have never seen. I mean, it was crazy. You know, a guy at that size, generally guys at that size are a little timid and they don't want to be tall. They don't want to be big. Man, this dude was, he did not care. He was mean. He was nasty. He was competitive. He was vindictive. I mean, he was, yeah, I wish he was in a gym. I would have had and 12 rings. He had to work yet, yeah. My God, yeah.

We ain't be close. If you're lazy, man, I don't want to talk to you. I want to deal with you. You don't make me feel dumber. You know, you're going to lower my level. I don't think so. You can go over there. There's plenty of teams in here where you'll fit right in.

I don't deal with people that don't commit at that level, but then act as if they do. I don't deal with that. I don't. It's real shit. I mean, listen. So, like, we used to getting this stuff all the time because it was like, you know, he would say, okay, Kobe's not throwing me the ball.

You know, media would take it and run with it and all this stuff. And I'm like, well, bro, if you were in shape, by the time I run down on a fast break and run back and then run down, you're still coming down the first time, bro. Like, what the hell do you want me to do? Right? So a lot of our contention came from that, came from that. And even though he was older, you were still confronting him. You didn't care.

Oh, I didn't care. Man, listen. From day one, bro. From day one. I knew for sure Rick Fox, my teammates, they all thought I was absolutely crazy the day me and Shaq got in the fist fight. After that day, they were like, okay, Kobe, you're certifiable. Fist fight.

Oh, yeah. Fist fight. I'm not backing down. Listen, either you want to work my ass or we want to have. have a night. But, you know, there's a level of respect. And for Shaq, too, by the way, I know he's told me that that day was a big turning point for him because it was like, you know, he's generally used to talking trash and saying what he wants and nobody really stepping up and challenging him on that. And when he saw me challenge him on that,

He was like, this kid's crazy. All right, I can win with that. And so that's kind of the beginning of our relationship, I think. That's probably never happened to him. That's probably not something that's common to him. No. I mean, seven feet tall since my three years old or something, right? This is all coming back to me right now.

It was also a game in Phoenix. My first year, we were playing. And he kept posting up. But they kept following him. So he kept going on the free throw line and kept missing him. And so he throw the ball out to me. I'm not throwing that. Back in there.

So I kept shooting him, right? So we getting the timeout. He's like, hey, hey, hey, I'm open. I'm like, okay. And so we go out and same thing. Hey, hey, hey, hey, I'm open. Okay. Come back in.

Hey, dude, you got to throw me the ball. Say, man, fuck that. Get it off the rebound if I miss, bro. You told him this. First year. 18 years old, man. 18 years old. I must have been out of my damn mind.

The story continues. The story continues. So if you fail on Monday, the only way it's a failure on Monday is if you decide to not progress from that. Right. So to me, that's why failure is not existing. Because, you know, if I fail today, okay, I'm going to learn something from that failure and I'm going to try again on Tuesday. Those times when you don't feel like working, you're too tired, you don't want to push yourself, but you do it anyway. That's the dream. It's not the destination. It's the journey.