Motivation Daily by Motiversity - MOTIVATION DAILY - BEST OF 2024 | Best Motivational Speeches Compilation 2 Hours Long

Episode Date: December 10, 2024

Our best motivational speeches of the year.From everyone at Motivation Daily, Motiversity, and the speakers, thank you so much for another great year.Special thanks to our partners:Patrick-Bet David f...rom Valuetainment: http://bit.ly/ValuetainmentYouTubeThe Diary of a CEO:  @TheDiaryOfACEO  Tom Bilyeu: http://bit.ly/ImpactQuotesSpeakers:Greg Plitt @GregPlittOfficial  Cru Mahoney  @crumahoney  Jon Joneshttps://www.instagram.com/jonnybones/Chadwick Bosemanhttps://www.instagram.com/chadwickbosemanValtteri Bottashttps://www.instagram.com/valtteribottas/Full interview with Motiversity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBT3aEpFNmIDavid Gogginshttps://davidgoggins.com/Les Brownhttps://lesbrown.com/Marcus TaylorYouTube: https://bit.ly/MarcusATaylorChannelInstagram: http://bit.ly/3aLfu3PFacebook: http://bit.ly/2TB9uoiTwitter: https://bit.ly/3xXlFCPBook Marcus to speak at your organization: https://bit.ly/BookMarcusATaylor Ed Myletthttps://www.edmylett.comBobby Maximushttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSzAriYndMjGjJciDYyj47wKobe Byranthttps://www.instagram.com/kobebryant/?hl=enGregg Plitthttps://gregplitt.com/Eric ThomasYouTube: http://bit.ly/2ua2os4http://etinspires.com/Coach PainYouTube: http://bit.ly/2LmRyeaInstagram: http://bit.ly/2XLcLW5Website: http://bit.ly/2YTgWvqBook Coach Pain to speak at your organization: https://bit.ly/BookCoachPainWilliam "King" HollisYouTube: http://bit.ly/WillHollisYouTubeInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/williamkinghollis/Website: https://www.kinghollisspeaks.com/Walter BondYouTube: http://bit.ly/WalterBondMotivationhttps://www.instagram.com/walter_bond/https://walterbond.com/Cole "The Wolf" DaSilvaWolf Mentality YouTube: https://bit.ly/49ZFgzhCole YouTube: https://bit.ly/30oIKO9Instagram: https://bit.ly/33sdGhLTikTok: https://bit.ly/3IIpUmFPodcast: https://apple.co/3IPa0qoBuild your fitness biz course: bit.ly/BuildYourOnlineFitnessBuizMike Tysonhttps://www.instagram.com/miketyson/Stephen A. SmithInstagram: http://bit.ly/2oiTFWNTyrese Gibsonhttps://www.instagram.com/tyrese/Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi  Jordan Peterson  @jordanpetersonrulesforlife  Kobe BrayntViola DavisTheo Vonhttps://linktr.ee/theovonLes Brown MUSIC:Really Slow Motion Buy their music:iTunes: http://bit.ly/1ee3l8KSpotify: http://bit.ly/1r3lPvNBandcamp: http://bit.ly/1DqtZSoWhitesand https://whitesandcomposer.com/Scott Buckley https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUuUqWLLsUjheuYkP9AWxTASecession Studios https://www.youtube.com/user/thesecessionAudiomachine https://www.youtube.com/user/audiomachine1Audiojungle Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello listeners. Motivosity is excited to share that we have launched a new podcast called Morning Motivation by Motivore. If you are looking to start your day with positivity and the most uplifting motivational audio, this is the show for you. For today's episode of Motivation Daily by Motivority Podcast, we are sharing a recent episode from the Morning Motivation Podcast. If you like it, go follow the show. New episodes are being released every week.
Starting point is 00:00:36 The link is in the description. I'm thankful to see another day. No things aren't what I want them to be. But I'm thankful that I'm still here. Another day to live. Another chance to contribute. Another chance to make a difference in life. Keep pushing through things that suck.
Starting point is 00:00:58 This is a very difficult thing to do. because it hurts. I'm going to go forward. I'm not going to quit, so I'm going to go forward, bring it on. It's the moments in life, the decisions you make
Starting point is 00:01:07 on a moment-to-moment basis that add up to be the guy or not the guy. I want you to believe! You may be in a courtroom, you may be in a cage, you may be on the basketball court, you may be on the football field,
Starting point is 00:01:21 you may be down by 40 at halftime. It is the man that comes back round after round that may have. taking a beating physically, but he is not broken mentally. That comes back. And he puts on a show.
Starting point is 00:01:38 Put on a show. That's all I needed for him to do that. And it became personal with me. If I'm feeling strained and stressed, I go over my gratitude says, because gratitude will reduce stress all day long. You are a champion. Think like one. Because deep down in every human being,
Starting point is 00:01:56 they want to see the greatest version of themselves. but most people quit whatever it is that's been running through your family I pray that your testimony is that it ran in your family until it ran into you I'm the best ever
Starting point is 00:02:16 I'm the most brutal than Michigan most ruthless champion there's ever been there's no one can stop me links is a conqueror no I'm Alexander he's no Alexander I'm the best ever
Starting point is 00:02:25 when you find your why you don't hit snoo's no more when you find your why you find your why You find a way to make it happen. And you may be successful, and you may not be successful, but you will be better. It's the days and the minutes and the moments and the hours and the reps that you put in. It's the meals that you missed.
Starting point is 00:02:50 It's the times that you lost sleep. And people may have thought you were losing your mind to build something. So you can see it finally. Nothing can stop you. Get up now! And work! Dess yourself off and try. Did you do this thing alone?
Starting point is 00:03:25 I've trained 99% of my life alone. No one pat me on the back. I did all of the work alone. Wolves don't lose sleep over the opinions of a lesser species. Be alone. Grow that dark space. You may not want to fight that battle. But you need to.
Starting point is 00:03:49 A beast is someone who can go through hell and be grateful that their legs are working. What are you? Are you a sheep or you a wolf? When you train alone, I can take myself to such a level of real, real passion and purpose. Nobody's going to feed us. You're going to feed yourself. The feeling I get is something I can't even expect. I don't need anyone.
Starting point is 00:04:20 It's on you. You've got to want it as bad as you want to breathe. Success starts with you. It's all on you. If you want to be strong, you've got to learn to fight alone. Yes, you're tired. Yes, your mind is saying give up. Yes, it's saying quit.
Starting point is 00:04:41 But you cannot quit because you realize you have not reached the goal yet. Day in and day out, you've got to keep on working. And if you get knocked down, so warm. What? And get up! Nobody's going to believe in you until you've already done it. Nobody's going to come and celebrate with you until you've already done it. Which means you're going to have to work for a long time by yourself with no applause, with no awards.
Starting point is 00:05:10 No one's going to believe in you in the beginning. Nor should they. Be okay with it. To do it alone, I will. But get started. I'm thankful to see another day. No thing's not what I want to be. No, I don't have all the things I want to have.
Starting point is 00:05:35 I want to have. But I'm thankful that I'm still here. I have another opportunity. Another day to live. Another chance to contribute. Another chance to make a difference in life. It is ridiculously impossible to become a human being. I am one.
Starting point is 00:05:54 I have other good things going for me as a human being. And I'm just grateful. You're dwelling and looking at what you don't have versus looking at what you have. You are alive against stupid things. You are breathing air, observing sunsets, gazing into the night sky. Most people who could exist will never experience that. I need to constantly remind myself, I'm not yet where I want to be, but I know I'll get there.
Starting point is 00:06:42 I'm not where I want to be. But I'm grateful. I am so grateful that I'm not where I used to. not where I used to be. I find 10 things to be grateful for before my feet hit the ground. 10 things and they can't cost money. And especially if I'm feeling strained in stress, I go over my gratitude since,
Starting point is 00:07:05 because gratitude will reduce stress all day long. Happiness only requires that you are grateful. If you've got a billion dollars and three beautiful children that love you and a beautiful husband or wife, but it doesn't matter what you have if you're not grateful, in an emotional home, a habitual pace of worry or frustration, your life's called worry and frustration. Perspective. And once you seek gratitude and opportunity, life is fun. You get to decide if you're going to dwell and play prevent defense or if you're going to see opportunity and be grateful
Starting point is 00:07:39 and going off. I am not where I want to be, but I am so grateful. I am not where I used to be. If you didn't make me, you can't break me. If you didn't make the sun come up, you can't stop me. If you didn't make the moon shine at night, you can't stop me. My purpose, my will, my dedication, my motivation is all about doing the business. Because guess what, ladies and gentlemen, that's what I'm about. I'm about that business. I'm about that life.
Starting point is 00:08:09 You have to stay grateful. You can't take things for granted. We have so much abundance in the world, so much opportunity. And too many people are crying about what they do. don't have instead of being so deeply grateful for what they have. All you can within your power and the power of others who love you to maximize what you can be, what you can think, what you can learn, how you can love, whatever it is. That's what you've got.
Starting point is 00:08:41 Use it. Do it your way. You don't need their permission, but you need yours. You don't need their permission, but you do need yours. You do need to look at yourself and declare who you are. And you need to believe it. You think my dreams are too big? I said absolutely not. You just telling them to the wrong person For some of you the reason why you're not taking advantage of this opportunity is not because You don't believe in it. You don't believe in you in order to achieve greatness
Starting point is 00:09:22 You must first believe you can because I get to decide I'm running my life now I'm finally in control of my life. I'm finally the boss of my life Are you ready to be the boss of your own life? Are you ready to be in control of your own life? Are you ready? And you deserve to have everything you want. You deserve to live your best life. You deserve it.
Starting point is 00:09:50 And stop listening to the people who tell you you don't. Kill the noise. What do they know? We're going to do the hard work now. So here's the hard work. I need you to confront you. I was created to be great. I was created to do great things.
Starting point is 00:10:10 I was created to have. have great things and I will no longer ask others for their permission. That person who is your hater, they thought they defeated you. That person who told you you will never amount to anything. They thought they defeated you. You want me to tell you to give up? Huh? You want me to tell you to quit?
Starting point is 00:10:30 Huh? Is that what you want me to say? You want to hear E.T. say, it's all right to give up. It's all right to surrender. That's what you want me to say. But listen to me, I can't tell you that. Some of us just grind. Some of us don't make excuses.
Starting point is 00:10:45 Some of us don't surrender. Some of us don't give up and give it. It's our dream. Nobody's gonna see it like you do it. It's your dream. Nobody's gonna feel it like you feel it. It's your dream. Nobody's gonna be as dedicated to it as you are.
Starting point is 00:10:58 It's your dream and they don't have to understand. And they don't have to like it. And they don't have to do it. It doesn't make a difference. It's your dream. And you, my friend, have been given the time. have been given the test to make it happen and you can't let anything stop you from doing what you were called to do we do with the pressures we say i got to take it i got to another level once you start questioning yourself
Starting point is 00:11:25 you're already lost all of us will be successful in life if we don't quit i got to believe in me before anybody else believe in me win some you lose some but you live you live to fight another day It doesn't matter how hard you work. I'm willing to work harder than you. No one will outwork me. No one. Be the guy who embraces hard work, the grind.
Starting point is 00:11:57 Don't be afraid of being hurt. Don't be afraid of a sacrifice to some blood. Some of us don't make excuses. Some of us don't surrender. Some of us don't give up and give it. Go do something that's hard. If you want it, you gotta go get it. Most people don't want it that badly.
Starting point is 00:12:14 Badly, it's time to unwrap the potential you can be. Superior, man. It's within you. No one said it was supposed to be easy. Some people want it easy. But I dare you to go the hard way. I just believe in me. And I'm going to overcome all my adversity.
Starting point is 00:12:45 They will not see you coming as you rise, as you work. every single day, tirelessly. In order to achieve greatness, you must first believe you can. If you want to be good at something, you want to accomplish something, you've got to put in the time. So right now, I need you to find a way to keep on living, my friend. I need you to live. I need you to live. I need you to live.
Starting point is 00:13:13 Do you hear me? There's no excuse not to be the hardest one of the working in the room. Life is going to be hard. And you're going to fail, and you're going to fail, and you're going to fail, and you're going to fail, and you're going to fail. You're going in again. And this time, you're coming out with a win. It's life-giving. If it's serving your purpose, if it's going to transform you into something you never thought you could be, then do it again.
Starting point is 00:13:49 When a lion walks up and sees an elephant, he thinks lunch. A elephant thinks run. If you're a monster and you don't act monstrously, then you're virtuous. But you also have to be a monster. I was once like you, being the same animal, attacking fast all the time. Then I became a different animal. I learned to attack strong. Are you a different animal and the same beast?
Starting point is 00:14:21 I need you every single day you wake up to smell blood. and go after that dream. I'm never for. I'm never for. I'm never for. When you're hungry, you don't care about the facts. You don't care about the odds. Nothing can resist the will of a people
Starting point is 00:14:45 that will stake even their existence on the extent of their purpose for good. That when you have a made-up mind, the power to hold on in spite of everything, the power to engage. duel, this is the winner's quality. The hunger, the ability to face defeat again and again without giving up, this is a winner's quality.
Starting point is 00:15:09 Tell me, boy, what are you made of? If you can stay hungry, you can get the resources. If you can stay hungry, you can get the strategy. If you can stay hungry, the idea's going to come. If you can stay hungry, the connections will be aligned. If you can stay hungry, the problem with many of you, there's you go. fool you got complacent you got lazy you got to get hungry hungry hungry hungry there is a new breed of champions emerging out of the ashes of doubt so how does the
Starting point is 00:15:46 lion become the king of the jungle is an talent run after your tweet what are we were coming You know, the hero has to be a monster. I'm a beast. And you're going to fail, and you're going to fail, and you're going to fail, and you're going to fail, and you're going to fail, and you're going to fail, and then you're going to win. And that's life. Life without those challenges, it's existence. Don't just exist. Eventually, inaction will cost you.
Starting point is 00:16:42 But your default setting should be, I'm going to do something. Just get up. Move towards that challenge and go attack it. Go do something that's hard. Struggle sucks. Depends on how you frame it. If you want freedom in your life, you have to have discipline. Move towards that challenge, whatever that challenge is.
Starting point is 00:17:06 And you may be successful, and you may not be successful, but you will be better. And the next challenge, you can be more prepared for. because we're going to have wins, we're going to have losses. We're going to have successes. We're going to have failures. We're going to have good nights. We're going to have bad nights. We're going to have good relationships.
Starting point is 00:17:27 We're going to have bad relationships. We're going to have good ideas and bad ideas. We're going to make money. We're going to lose money. All these things are going to happen. And if you oscillate emotionally, up and down drastically, it's going to be problematic. Embrace those emotions, but don't let those emotions embrace you. keep pushing through things that suck.
Starting point is 00:17:47 This is a very difficult thing to do because it hurts. I'm going to go forward. I'm not going to quit, so I'm going to go forward, bring it on. When you talk to people that went to seal training that didn't make it, most of the time, it's some reason. There's a medical reason. There's a family problem. There's very few people that look at you and say, oh, I quit because it sucked, which is what happens to the vast majority of people. The vast majority of people that don't make it through seal training, they didn't make it through because they quit.
Starting point is 00:18:27 Your excuses will destroy you and take everything that you ever wanted from you if you let them. When your excuses make you feel a little bit better about the fact that you didn't execute on what you needed to execute on, then they can make you feel better. But they're not helping you. They're not helping you at all. This went wrong. This failed. didn't accomplish this,
Starting point is 00:18:53 and it's not the fault of my boss, it's not the fault of my girlfriend, it's not the fault of my parents, it's not the fault of the weather, it's my fault. And I'm going to take ownership of it, and I'm going to fix it. That's what extreme ownership is.
Starting point is 00:19:06 Because when you look around at your life, and you look around at your job and your financial situation and your relationship and your physical health, and when you look at all those things and all the problems that you may have with those things, and you say, the reason I have all of those problems
Starting point is 00:19:22 is because of me, that can hurt. That can sting. And a lot of times, our ego rejects that and makes excuses and lies. And then we don't have to change anything. And then nothing changes. When the excuses all go away and people can actually confront the fact
Starting point is 00:19:44 that this is all because of me, it hurts, but is also unbelievable. unbelievably empowering. Because the more discipline you have in your life, the more freedom you will end up with. So if you lack the discipline to exercise and eat healthy, you will end up being a slave to disease. If you lack the discipline to work hard, save your money, you will end up a slave to finances. If you lack the discipline to manage your time correctly, you will end up with no free time.
Starting point is 00:20:27 If you have self-discipline, if you have the discipline to save your money and work hard and invest your money properly, if you have the discipline to manage your time correctly and not waste a bunch of time, if you have the discipline to exercise and eat healthy, you will end up with freedom. and you're going to start to progress in every aspect of your life. And you'll see that if you have that kind of discipline right now, you're going to end up with freedom. If you have discipline, you will attain freedom. Go try and accomplish something that's hard.
Starting point is 00:21:04 You may win, you may lose, you may succeed, you may fail. I'll tell you what, you'll be better. And if you don't have that kind of discipline, and you don't work hard, and you don't exercise and you don't apply yourself, you're going to end up shackled. So if you're in the woods and you don't know where to go, start walking. You've got to start walking because the perspective is not going to change.
Starting point is 00:21:33 You have to start moving forward. But standing there lost and not doing anything is just waiting to die, waiting to starve to death. Don't let that happen. I think it's really important because as men, we don't, we get conflicting messages about emotion and how to express it and what that looks like. And there's a lot of men struggling right now. Every human faces challenges and you don't know what they've been through. Suppressing them isn't going to help and nor is letting them run your life.
Starting point is 00:22:12 Because you're sad, now you're going to make a bunch of bad decisions because you're sad. No, no, it doesn't work like that. It doesn't work like that. You're sad. Okay. You get emotional sometimes? Okay. Got it.
Starting point is 00:22:23 Now, get control of your emotions and carry on with your life. And sometimes you're going to get hit with those waves. And that's okay. Oh, I'm having an emotional moment right now. There's something wrong with me. No, there's nothing wrong with you. There's nothing wrong with you. The other extreme is, oh, I'm letting my emotions run my life,
Starting point is 00:22:46 and I'm making a bunch of bad decisions. And my excuse is, well, you know, I lost. from friends or I had this traumatic experience happen to me. That's why I'm doing, that's just an excuse. And it's a very easy excuse. Guess what? It's time to carry on. Remember, don't dwell.
Starting point is 00:23:03 I'm in control. This is my life. If you are in the problem, you won't see the solution to the problem. Take a step back, detach from the chaos, detach from the mayhem, detach from your emotions, detach from your ego, and be able to assess the best way. to execute that is the job of a leader. If you take any trait of a human being and you take it to an
Starting point is 00:23:31 extreme, masculine or feminine or otherwise, you take it to an extreme, it's going to be a problem. Is it good to have no emotions whatsoever? No, that's called a sociopath. Is it good to let your emotions run your life and make your decisions based on your emotions? No, that's not good either. What do we want to be as a human, as a man? I want to be balanced. It's my, it's my, it's my, It's much easier to be extreme. It's much easier to say, oh, no emotions, cool, and turn them off. That's easier. Or total emotion, mayhem, that's easier.
Starting point is 00:24:07 It's harder to find balance. It's harder to find balance. In business, it's hard to find balance. Life is hard to find balance. But you have to be balanced. Because what I want is for the team to win. So be balanced. Nothing changes, and nothing changes, man.
Starting point is 00:24:37 You know, we'll sit around forever wondering, What if I, you know, what if I was a dog catcher? Would I be the best? What if I was a, you know? Every day we change the world. But to change the world in a way that means anything, that takes more time than most people have. It never happens all at once. It's slow.
Starting point is 00:24:57 It's methodical. It's exhausting. What if it's a mistake? It's a mistake. Rest assured. What do you know? You're going to stumble around, right? And what's going to happen is this.
Starting point is 00:25:12 You're going to move to you're going to not. stay in stasis, you're not going to wander around in circles. And I see people like that. They said, well, I never knew what to do and now I'm 40. It's like, that's not so good. That's not so good. And you might say, well, and there is a literature too that suggests that people are a lot more unhappy when they look back in their lives about the things they didn't do than they are about the mistakes they made while they were doing things. It's how they get you to give up. They say it's not that simple than any. So what's the truth?
Starting point is 00:25:49 There it is. I want people to understand that they're not alone, that there are other people feeling exactly the way they're feeling, that their behavior is not insane, that they have a disease, and it's not their fault. There's a very famous kind of line that people don't change. I happen to know that people do change,
Starting point is 00:26:12 and I see that every day. I see people getting better. I see the lights in their eyes. come on. There's a million excuses I could make to rationalize, not getting up early, doing the ice bath and going for a run. There comes a time when all these potential excuses turn into fuel that motivates you to keep going. You got to get out there. You got to give it everything you got, whether it's your time, your talent, your prayers, or your treasures. Because remember this. You will never see a U-Haul behind a hearse.
Starting point is 00:26:52 If you want to know something about yourself, sit on your bed one night and say, what's one thing I'm doing wrong, that I know I'm doing wrong, that I could fix, that I would fix. You meditate on that, you'll get an answer. And it won't be one you want, but it'll be the necessary one.
Starting point is 00:27:10 It's the whole issue. People have a feeling that they can change, but they have no effort. They don't want to get into game because they feel It's just too much time. It doesn't work. And I tried it.
Starting point is 00:27:21 And it didn't work. And then they give up. And then life just goes on. It's seamless. You don't see it. It's just the way you've been living. And my older brother, who was 12, got into an electrical accident. And he died in my arms.
Starting point is 00:27:36 And really come to terms with that I was the one who got to live. That this life that we live, And when I really started to take that in, I felt this tremendous urge to do something with my life, to do something that mattered. At some point, everything's going to go south on you. Everything's going to go south and you're going to say, this is it. This is how I end. Now, you can either accept that or you can get to work. You can't stop. You can't quit. You can't say I'm a failure. You're not a failure.
Starting point is 00:28:29 You're not. You're a wonderful, strong, intelligent youngster. Take advantage of that. Trust in God. Trust in yourself. Until you say, yeah, I'm going to, you know what? I'm going to take action. Nothing changes if nothing changes, man.
Starting point is 00:28:45 And I'm not preaching at you. I just want to remind you because I, you know, I've spent a lot of time in my life. sitting around wanting things to change and not being able to make them change and not thinking I could. And I wish somebody had told me that earlier sometimes that in order for something to change there needs to be change. You cannot stand still because the world moves away from you if you stand still and there's no stasis, there's only backwards.
Starting point is 00:29:17 And so if you're not moving forwards, then you're moving backwards. How much harder will you work in this off-season now to get back to the championship? I'll push myself too exhausted. Probably we thank you for your time. I just, I feel like we sort of focus on right ways and wrong ways too much. And I think it's in a sense sort of scary to just be born and live life. And I understand the idea of kind of grasping onto a particular thought of wanting to kind of feel like you somehow have a handle on the unknown, but you know what?
Starting point is 00:29:51 The unknown is the unknown. Every time you have changed, you've been. feel pain. You stepped out of one relationship to another and you feel pain. You leave one neighborhood to another and you feel pain. You go from one job to another and you feel the fire of transition. See change as growth. See change as transformation. See change as evolution. See change as necessary. See change as critical. See change. as inevitable. Do something.
Starting point is 00:30:28 Stop being scared if you have not jumped on the bandwagon of doing exactly what the fuck you want to do, which is skiing for the next three years
Starting point is 00:30:37 or working at a job that's not what your parents want or what society wants. Do something. Stop being scared. And so enough. Enough parents, the kid that's sitting
Starting point is 00:30:47 right now at a desk and saw this in a feed and you hate your fucking job, enough. Stand up, get the fuck out of here and do you Live your life. You've got one life.
Starting point is 00:30:58 And so if you're not willing to be a fool, then you'll never start anything new. And if you never start anything new, then you won't develop. And so the willingness to be a fool is the precursor to transformation. And that's the same as humility. And so if you're going to write your destiny, you can do a bad first job. You're going to get smarter as you move forward. When you can learn to do things when you don't want to, when you don't feel like it, when you're hired,
Starting point is 00:31:25 When you can learn to push yourself to do them, that's when the world opens up to you. That's when success knocks at your goal. There will never come a time when you can just happily coast through life. It's hard to stay governed by anxiety. It's hard to be inconsistent. It's hard not to have daily disciplines. It's hard not to believe in yourself. It's hard to be broke.
Starting point is 00:31:48 It's hard to be poor. It's hard. It's all hard. So choose your heart. What I am telling you to do is chase after that verse. of yourself that you know you could be. What happens when I decide for myself that I'm going to do something different? Got the gift of life.
Starting point is 00:32:13 You have the privilege of being here. Quit playing small. You were meant to do great things. Nothing changes if nothing changes, man. Loat like a butterfly and stain like a bee. I'm the biggest fighter in all history. I'm the greatest fighter in all history. fighter in all history.
Starting point is 00:32:41 And I don't have to convince nobody in there that I am great. They all know it. I'll fight any man in the world. I'll beat any man in the world. As you know, I'm a confident man. I don't believe I can't see anyone beat me. Nothing worries me.
Starting point is 00:32:57 This is nothing but a small thing that will soon be out of the way. I put everything on the line because I'm a true fighting champion. I got the one in the ring, I'm handling it. And I don't work by nobody being that good to really hurt me. See? If you don't believe, you come down here and try. I'm unranked.
Starting point is 00:33:18 It will be no match. Oh, I'm so glad. I'm going to make all of them shut the mouths. All of my critics, I've told you all that I was the greatest of all times. I'm still the greatest of all times. I'm going to float like a butterfly and sing like a bee. His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see. Nothing can stop me.
Starting point is 00:33:40 As you know, I've been under all type kind of person, all kind of pressures. Look at my face. I'm the original champion, a veteran of 186 fights not a scratch, two-time United States Golden Glove champion, two-time United States National AAU champion, World Olympic champions, 13 rounds I was predicted when I'm being appalled. He who is not courageous enough to take risk for accomplishment in life. I'm a risk taker. Tell all of the people out there who bet on Sonny that all of them are going to lose their money and get to the fight early because I might get him in more. All of you chumps are going to bow when I whip him.
Starting point is 00:34:17 All of you, I know you got him. I know you got him picked. But the man's in trouble. I'm going to show you how great I am. I'm in such a high level until I don't think like you. I'm not like you. They just don't want to admit I'm as good as I am. What would you like people to think about you when you've gone?
Starting point is 00:34:43 I'd like for them to say he took a few cups of love. He took one tablespoon of patience, one teaspoon of generosity. one pint of kindness. He took one quart of laughter, one pinch of concern, and then he mixed willingness with happiness. He added lots of faith, and he stirred it up well. Then he spreaded over a span of a lifetime, and he served it to each and every deserving person he missed. Ahamah, lady. Thank you very much. Some people can see farther the lovers. Some people are impressed with the limitations. We all live in our own world. of limitations. Some people can see farther on others. So therefore, when people
Starting point is 00:35:37 to judge what I'm doing with their logic, it can't be done. Their reasoning said it shouldn't be done. Their knowledge of history says it can't be done. So that reasoning, their knowledge, and their logic clashes of my superior belief. Therefore, the result is they don't believe. Here's how the fights will sound on the radio for those who can't afford to buy the expensive He ain't a seat. And the fight goes like this. Ding, Ali comes out to meet Frazier, but Frazier starts to retreat. If Frazier goes back an inch farther, he'll wind up in the rain side seat.
Starting point is 00:36:12 Ali swangs with the left, Ali swings with the right. Look at the kid to carry the fight. Frazier keeps backing, but there's not enough room. It's a matter of time. There Ali lowers the boom. Now Ali lands on the right. What a beautiful swing! And the punchless Frazier clean out of the rain.
Starting point is 00:36:28 I've had two minute fight. I fought all contenders. I fought every two months. I gave everybody breaking the title. I didn't duck nobody. But really, I don't know who I'm going to fight next. And I really don't see nothing around good enough to give me a warm-up.
Starting point is 00:36:43 And I'm going to fight George Furman, knock him out, and truly retire, well, investor. And you tell everybody that I'm still the champion of the world, and I'm going to take him, I'm going to clean up the rain with it. I'm going to just sweep them all around the rain. I am the champion. I'm still the greatest and I cannot lose. I'm going to prove the whole world that I'm still the best.
Starting point is 00:37:11 I'll always be the best. I cannot lose. It's impossible for me to lose. Are we going to get the title, Bats? Yeah! Aren't we the king of the rain? Let's just not with you. Everybody has a purpose in life.
Starting point is 00:37:49 Mine was just to be the World Heavyweight Champion. To be declared by all as the greatest of all times. That's right. I'm going to make you eat everything. thing you say against me, all of my critters. I am the greatest. I cannot lose. I'm pretty.
Starting point is 00:38:09 I'm prove to the world that I'm still the fastest, the prettiest, the most classest, the most scientific, the greatest fighter of all the time. For this fight, I've wrestled with alligators. I've tussled with a whale out of handcuffed lightning and put thunder in jail. You know I'm bad. I've murdered a rock. I injured a stone and a hospitalized a brick. I'm so bad I make medicine sick
Starting point is 00:38:36 I'm so fast man I can run through a hurricane and don't get wet When joyful meets me He'll pay his death I can drown to drink of water and kill a dead tree wait do you see Mohammed Ali I don't believe that I'm going to be knocked out
Starting point is 00:38:55 and pushed around I've experienced is why I know I'll win And it's the fist that controls the brains And my brains are so wise My brains beat Jofracian I'll think to Ken Norton. I plan my fight round by round.
Starting point is 00:39:13 See, I'll thank a man. See, the Matador beats the bull. The bull is the strongest. Bull hits the hardest, but the Mattador is the smartest. Man conquered all the beasts in the jungles, got him in cages, but the beasts can whip the man. I told you, I'm the champion of the world. All of your bow! I'm not a fighter. I can't fight. I'm nothing.
Starting point is 00:39:32 I've only had 250 fights, never lost none. World Olympic gold medal, one or two-time United States A. The EU champion, international Pan American game champion, national AAU champion 59 and 60. I have predicted what round my opponents will fall in 16 fights. Don't have a mark on me, but I can't fight. Ain't people have a critical gym. Now everybody bet on me. Ain't that something?
Starting point is 00:39:57 I'm still trying to talk it into these people's head to listen to me. They don't have a man around the hoodman. I look at the world! I look at the world! Because I'm the champion. I'm the real. champion there'll never be one like me I'm gonna prove I'm the greatest I'm gonna prove to you I'm the greatest we're gonna prove to the world I'm the greatest
Starting point is 00:40:23 I am the king of the world I must be the greatest be the guy who embraces the ugly the miserable be the guy who embraces hard work the grind don't be afraid of being hurt don't be afraid of sacrifice to some blood it's the moments in life the decisions you make on a moment to moment basis that add up to be the guy or not the guy. Tonight I did something, you know, that I feel more of a guy for me, who I am, my guy. Make the hard decisions, make the sacrifices, make the unpopular decisions, and become comfortable in your own skin.
Starting point is 00:41:14 And if you are not a person that you are comfortable being alone with, that is the one person in this universe that you have. full power, full right, full responsibility to change. If you had to create a human, what would you put them through to make them tough? It probably wouldn't be a really chill life. What would you put them through to make them patient? You probably wouldn't give them things immediately. And so it's like we want these traits, but each of the traits has a price tag attached to it.
Starting point is 00:41:45 It's just like, do you want to pay the price tag to get the thing? And so I think if people reframe the period of life that they're going through as the price that they're paying out of their wallet, but the wallet is their time, the seconds of life that they're trading for it, then I think more people will be willing to make the trade. Because at least when I look at myself, like when I'm 80-something years old, and I'm looking back in my life,
Starting point is 00:42:02 I want to have these traits. But in order to have those traits, I know I have to go through these things. And I think for me, that's giving me a lot of... Right now in life, your family's looking for that one guy right now. They're looking for that one guy who's strong, who's that pillar for the family in hard times.
Starting point is 00:42:22 Make sure they look around. They look around and find you. These are the times right now for you to step up. Be that guy that can take anything. Stay hard. The biggest regret of the dying is never becoming your ideal self. I do believe that we're thrust in the world that we don't fit in. And I believe the journey is that a lot of people sell your bill of goods along their way. That if you get some awards, you mean something. You go to a certain school, you got it. You're cute. Classical beauty, you got the right man, you got the right zip code, and you swim through all that filthy swill until you come to the really, really stark conclusion that I want to leave this earth becoming who I know deep within.
Starting point is 00:43:22 I am supposed to be. The next time you want to just give in to that desire for comfort, remember that your future son. is going to be the one to suffer the consequences. It's so easy to just put it off and act like it doesn't exist. But that future self that you're passing all these burdens to will one day be yourself of the present. And you'll wish you chose to do otherwise. Everything that you do counts.
Starting point is 00:43:49 The biggest mistake that people make is they think that only what they want to count counts. You read a book, when you listen to an audio program, when you go to a course, when you go to bed early and get up early, You work and all counts. Never fucking apologize for being yourself. If people don't like how you act, how you look, how you speak,
Starting point is 00:44:10 that just means those aren't your fucking people. Don't change who you are to match your surroundings. Pick better fucking surroundings and be yourself. I don't know, most men would understand that when a man cries and he's whimpering, he's hurting. You know, because I've been there. And there's no shame in crying, gentlemen. Men, it's okay to cry. We can still be a man.
Starting point is 00:44:31 We can still be a man, but you're also human. And it does show a little bit of your vulnerability. Do it for your loved ones. Do it for your wife. Do it for your husband. Do it for your children. Do it for generations to come. Come on, after you're dead and gone, what will they say about what you did?
Starting point is 00:44:47 Yes, there's so many people depending on you, but it's got to start with you and the man upstairs. If you want to be great, oh man, prepare to get up off that mat. You're going to get knocked down. over and over and over and even when you feel like no nobody it can't be hit this hard or if you're down there thinking it's no way I can get up from this that's when you're just starting for some strange reason this world wants to see you water down the reality of who you are our society wants to see you think like everyone else and feel just like those around you.
Starting point is 00:45:34 Maybe for somebody who's so distracted from their true desires as a person that doesn't sound so bad. But the pain of seeing through limitation in full absence of distractions is almost unbearable. You see, it hurts because the resistance
Starting point is 00:45:56 wants you to give in and mold to what's expected of you. And if I can provide some advice, don't. I don't know where you are in your game of life. You may be in your third quarter. You may be in your fourth quarter. Come on, you're not going to live forever, not in this world. Come on.
Starting point is 00:46:19 You may be in your first quarter, your second half, and this time it's got to be personal. See, last time you were just running through the plays. Last time you were just running the songs that you rehearsed in rehearsal. Last time you were just going through the motions. emotions and you got numb, come on, and you got tired and weary, and now you're broken and bitter and angry because you lost. And I'm just wondering if you're courageous enough, bold enough, if you have enough faith, come on, if you have enough inside of you, resilience to come back to the sea. His life is relentless.
Starting point is 00:46:52 You better keep coming back from all your failures, all your doubts, all your shit. You better keep fighting, keep getting up. Never fucking lay down for shit. That's one thing we should all agree on. If you've been broken once, you know how that shit feels. That means fucking try and break me again. You got a lot of people playing their hard-on-on-money to come watch you perform. It's your job to be in shape.
Starting point is 00:47:22 It's your job to be strong enough to perform at that level every single night. And as a competitor, I'm not ducking. Like it's not, oh my god, my back hurts, I'm sore. Soar, we got to play Vince Carter and Toronto Raptors tonight. Pick your mountain, whatever that mountain is, and each journey of the mountain is a million steps. And each day you have to take that step. Each day you take that step, you look up at the mountain,
Starting point is 00:47:46 you say, that's where I want to go. And then each next day you take your step over and over and over again. Everything was done to try to learn how to become a better basketball player. Everything, everything. And so when you have that point of view, then literally the world becomes your library to help you to become better at your craft. Let yourself go. Fall free into it.
Starting point is 00:48:10 Step into it. You are worthy. You are an unrepeatable miracle and there is none like you in all the earth. There will never be another you. Your DNA, your fingerprint. Come on. Your gate, your presence, your authenticity. Come on.
Starting point is 00:48:22 You're special. You're special and you're necessary. It doesn't matter how hard you work. I'm willing to work harder than you. I know every mother. ain't gonna do what I'm gonna do. That's how you level up. Stop being average when your potential is crying
Starting point is 00:48:41 to come outside of you more than that. No one will outwork me. No one. It's so easy to be great nowadays, my friend, because most people are weak. Most people don't want to go to that extra mile. People don't want to find that extra, because it sucks.
Starting point is 00:49:00 Of course, talent without work is nothing. You gotta be hungry. People that are hungry are willing to do the thing today others don't do. There's no excuse not to be the hardest one of you work her in the room. You have to want it. I was going to rip his heart out. I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal of Michigan, most ruthless champion there's ever been. I'll show you how much you can truly burn.
Starting point is 00:49:29 They left you for dead. It was like to be left for dead after you gave me think you had. I'm gonna smash your boy guys. I'm gonna smash your boy. rise as you work every single day tirelessly. Work, work, work. Yeah, lose one more. Time you realize that weakness, it is my strength, that pain, it is my development,
Starting point is 00:50:47 that struggle, it is my triumph. Everything you think that is here to take me down. It's here to fill me up. I asked you what has happened to us, my friend. What has happened to us?
Starting point is 00:51:12 And what are we becoming? What are we becoming? My friend? What are we become? No, we've been fighting 400 steel fighting to this day. To this day. To this day.
Starting point is 00:51:36 At practice, Maximus Desmus Meridian, and gladiator picking up the dirt, smelling the dirt. I never under did things, always overdid things. When the war drums sound, the people that have been to war, the ones that actually say, let's think about this first. Because like I said before, and like everyone says all the time, and they say it like it's no big deal, but war is hell.
Starting point is 00:52:19 Before you do that, you should think about why you're doing it and understand if the people have the will, have the will to fight. And the will to fight, as I've said many times before, the will to fight is the will to kill and it's the will to die. And those are some pretty big wills that you need to have. This is your life, my friend. And I'm sure when it's all said and done,
Starting point is 00:52:44 you don't want to look back and see that you wasted it. This is your life, my friend, so you stand up. This is your life, my friend, so you rise up. This is your life, my friend. So you keep going. This is your life, my friend, so you never give up. This is your life, my friend. You need to keep going.
Starting point is 00:53:04 This is your life, my friend. This is why you get control. So you may fail, you refuse to tolerate it. Though you may fall, you refuse to stay down. Though you may lose the battle, you refuse to lose the war. Reach the point in no return, my friend, where you're always willing to give more. My style is impetuous My defense is impregnable
Starting point is 00:53:36 And I'm just ferocious I want your heart I want to eat his children Me all in the same room They're saying nothing to each other Everybody's game-faced Like we're going to war With each other
Starting point is 00:53:47 The way I look back then You know, that was all good and great But I wasn't in it to look up A certain way I was in it to be great Out of the hundred men that go into war Tensioning would fucking be there 80 of them are just targets nine do most of fighting
Starting point is 00:54:21 one is a warrior and bodybuilding initially made me have to look at who I am as an individual do I want to do the training okay fine I can train but do I really want to diet do I really want to give up time with friends do I want to be misunderstood
Starting point is 00:54:46 all humans are not created equal some people just have a beautiful hand of cards yes that guy's got four aces and he puts them right in your face. Boom! I know if I bet on myself, I know I can dictate everything. I run everything. I'm the boss. Take 10 seconds and get it again, Bees.
Starting point is 00:55:23 Get it, hey, there you go. There you go. Energy, let it out. Seven, hey, nine. Tannen machine here. There you go. Nobody works like that in this house. Thirteen, come on.
Starting point is 00:55:38 Fourteen, come on. Come on. 15. Shut that muscle down. 16. Come on. Get it. 17.
Starting point is 00:55:46 Who's going to carry the boats in the lawns? Put yourself in that cage. When you're in that cage, you are that character. And when you leave there, it's something completely different. But when I'm in that cage, bro, don't touch me. Don't talk to me. Leave me alone. Push that last rep.
Starting point is 00:57:05 Push with everything you got. Tell excuses to step aside. That weakness. It's not that it is not welcome in your house. Go get it. Go get it now. And give it everything you got. Be productive.
Starting point is 00:57:26 Be powerful. And from the bottom of my heart, conduct your business. You wouldn't have suffered enough. I've been suffering all my life. I'm sorry. It's not enough. The amount of suffering that you understand,
Starting point is 00:57:43 the amount of pain that you've gone through makes you appreciate the happiness and the beautiful moments with much more intensity. You know what it's like to be poor and you know what it's like to work hard. And you will want so much for them to like you and they just won't. And it'll break your heart. And that'll make your heart bigger and open your eyes. And finally you will realize that there's more to life than proving you're the smartest person in the world.
Starting point is 00:58:08 This whole thing about suffering. Yeah, it sucks. Really bad. Really, really bad. But we all live on this side of suffering. on this side, this nice box that's very comfortable that we know when everything is going to happen. We're in it, it's good. We know how everything's going to turn out. It's those few people who are willing to go on this side of suffering. And once they get through that, ask him how he feels now, his mind, how far he grew.
Starting point is 00:58:41 In that short period of time, he grew so much more than the normal person because he was willing to go. outside himself because on the other end of suffering is greatness. We're built to walk uphill and when you reach the pinnacle of the hill you want to stop and appreciate the vision but the next thing you want is a higher hill in the distance because it's the uphill climb that it's it's from the uphill climb that we derive our value and I mean this technically so almost all the positive emotion we feel that's experienced in relationship to a goal. And so in some sense, you want a goal that you can never attain, right? So you can always move closer to the goal that recedes as you move towards it. You think, well, that's frustrating. It's
Starting point is 00:59:30 like Sisyphus pushing the rock uphill. But it's not because as you pursue that goal, you put yourself together and your life does get better and richer and more abundant. You want them to be above everything you're doing so you can continually move towards something that's more sublime and better. That's what you are. You're here to live, not to, not to sleep. Because you wouldn't have prayed like you pray had you not been hurt. You wouldn't love like you love had you not been hurt because you know what it's like to hate somebody.
Starting point is 01:00:01 So you refuse to go down that path. Feelings has nothing to do with it. This is my dream. This is what I'm going to do. And I'm going to do the things that I don't feel like doing. I'm going to do the things I don't want to do. I'm going to do the things that don't come easy to me that do not come natural to me I'm going to get up and do it you can't live your life on feelings you cannot let your feelings
Starting point is 01:00:28 dictate what you are or are not going to do today don't get that fire inside to make it happen out there until you go to the fire in here leaving it all here expecting it all out there that's how it works when you leave it all here guys You then have the right to expect it all out there. It doesn't work the other way around. You can't half-ass it here and expect anything but a half-ass life out there. You know it doesn't get easy, my friend. Running 12 plus miles a day, doing 800 plus bushups a day, lifting weights every single day, working two jobs,
Starting point is 01:01:10 working out of my comfort zone at the club. But it's worth it. Because if you think it's about fitness, You're wrong. If you think it's about the money, you're wrong because it all goes back to one point. One important point, my friend. I'm waiting for the mentality, the mentality to keep going no matter what happens. Nothing should be easy. If it's easy, it's not going to be worth doing. So many people love to have the opportunity to find the easy way out and celebrate something that they need.
Starting point is 01:01:51 never really worked hard to get. It gives you an opportunity to appreciate the challenges more than letdowns, the failures. It gives you more ammunition. So when you do eventually get to where you want to be, just in case that moment comes and you get knocked back down, you understand what it feels like and you know you're not going to stay down for very long because you know what that ground feels like. This life is relentless. You better keep coming back from all your failures, all your doubts, all your shit.
Starting point is 01:02:28 You better keep fighting, keep getting up. Never fucking lay down for shit. That's one thing we should all agree on. If you've been broken once, you know how that feels. That means try and break me again. One thing in life, suffering has no inspiration date. It don't give a f*** if you're black, white, poor, rich, where you come from, how you were raised.
Starting point is 01:02:56 You will keep coming after you. Stay home. It hurts. What we've lifted these weights and we're trying to accomplish a goal, it hurts. It's painful. It's daunting. It's cumbersome. I don't want to do it.
Starting point is 01:03:10 I'm sweating. I'm bleeding. I'm crying. I'm suffering. But after I've suffered, there is a reward. So we spent too much time thinking about how bad it hurts. instead of how good the future will be after the pain. And so after the blood, after the sweat, after the tears, after I've cried, all I'm going to cry,
Starting point is 01:03:34 I want me to need to pay to my advantage. At what age should you have everything together? For us, normal people, it takes time. Because not only do you have to mature and grow, there's things in life that if you have a big enough dream, you're not the person you need to be right now to fulfill that dream. Now, you keep moving towards it. You keep doing what needs to be done. But at the same time, you realize that you yourself are gaining in knowledge
Starting point is 01:04:11 and in experience and in personal growth. Do you still struggle with all of the shit that you talk about? Oh, my God. Yes. That's why I'm so fucking relatable. I do not have this stuff figured out. I am shoulder to shoulder with everybody. They look and see, and then I quit to adjust your ability.
Starting point is 01:04:36 But they weren't there. They weren't there through the struggle. They weren't there through the sleepless nights. They weren't there through the pain. They weren't there through the trauma. They weren't there through the tears. They weren't there to pick you up. You didn't there.
Starting point is 01:04:53 that. So what gives them the right? What gives them the right to judge you? They don't know your ability, my friend. They don't know what you're capable of. They don't know what you can do. So you find a way to push through. You find a way to keep going because nobody can tell you anything when you're the one who dragged yourself out the dark. When you're the one who dragged yourself back into the light, my friend, they have no business in your business. So you're keep going. We all going to go through it. We all have to go through it, including myself. I'm going to tell you something, when you are doing everything in your power to be the best makeup of yourself, it's always going to be an adversary that's going to try to take that away from you.
Starting point is 01:05:47 Now, the best way you can overcome this is having the faith. Now, it doesn't matter what you believe in, As long as it's something that's positive, that's going to get you through it. Imagine if you can use pain as a fuel. Imagine if you can use the pain as a passport. Imagine if you can use the pain to push you, to condition you, to prepare you for the stages and the rooms you've got to walk into and the tables you've got to sit at and the stages you have to stand on. What if the pain can make you better?
Starting point is 01:06:17 What if the pain could build muscle? What if the pain can cause you to reach higher to leap further? to run faster what if the pain could help you what if all pain isn't hurt but it's help i'm sick right now my friends that can't stop and run in a world where everybody is so comfortable and lazy why don't you be the one to do i'm talking about you be the one to take on the chariot why don't you be the one to never give up why don't you be the one to never stop why don't you be the one The thing of dreams, what you see in the movies can become your reality when you work for it. It's the deposits and the contributions that we make behind the scenes where nobody can see it.
Starting point is 01:07:22 It's the days and the minutes and the moments and the hours and the reps that you put in. It's the meals that you missed. It's the times that you lost sleep. And people may have thought you were losing your mind because you logged out of social media for months at a time to build something. You paused on hanging out with the boys or the girls. So you can manifest it. So you can see it finally.
Starting point is 01:07:57 I've come to the resolve that every table that I see, sit at, every room that I walk in, every stage that I stand on, every life that I enter, the question I want to ask myself, and the question that I want to ask you is, did things get better because you were there? It is what we do in secret. It is what we do in silence. It is how we work on ourselves and condition ourselves when nobody can see it that will determine how we execute in public. And I'm just wondering if there's anybody listening to me out there
Starting point is 01:08:42 that has come to the resolve that now it's the time to become the person you know you've been destined to be. Most of us are not okay with silence. You've got to talk. We got to hear TV. We got to listen to the radio.
Starting point is 01:09:01 We got to watch social media. It's just a constant wrapped in the swirl of distraction noise. We never get to the place manifestation. Learn how to do this thing without talking about it. Multi-tasking is not for most people. Being a jack of all trades is not something to be proud of. It's not a badge of honor. That you will have a desire and hunger to master something to work smart and not just hard. Release what God has given you. Master one thing at a time. Everything that is with
Starting point is 01:09:39 In us, we give to an idea. When we can get alone with ourselves, we can execute relentlessly. Because whatever it is that's been fighting your bloodline, whatever it is that's been running through your family, I pray that your testimony is that it ran in your family until it ran into you. And the moment that it ran into you, it got a rude awakening. We can be steady and persistent under pressure. We won't buckle or grow fatigue if we can understand our design and how to faithfully fulfill the assignment that is on our life. Not everybody needs to know your every move, your every step, because sometimes there are outsiders that will come in and they will distract you from your destiny. When you quiet yourself, when you turn down the value from.
Starting point is 01:10:47 all of the things that are holding you back and turn up the value within you and knowing that you have all you need within yourself to push forward, then all things are possible. So if I can tell you anything in this moment, it will be to divorce distractions
Starting point is 01:11:09 living vicariously through the lives of people that are posting on social media, not their journey, not step by step, not the process, but they're posting their highlight reels. They're showing you the best of their life and you're comparing your worst days to their best days. You're distracted. Get off social media for a moment. Anybody that built something significant in the age of social media took a step back. They unplugged. They uninstalled the app for a season. You've got to live at edge of your abilities. Constantly challenging yourself to jump higher, leap farmer, run faster,
Starting point is 01:11:55 to break through, not to go around. And we're going to manifest the future that we see in our heads and holding in our hands that we have to rewrite the code. We've got to unlock new paradigms, new behaviors. Beat on your craft and work on yourself so diligently, so vigorously, so energetically, dynamically, so very strategically that we force ourselves to achieve. Just be quiet. Work in science. This is all that is needed from you. So whatever life has for you, and you stand up,
Starting point is 01:12:41 and you work hard, and you keep moving, and you keep believing, and you stay power, You stay powerful. There are many of you listening to me right now. You could drop it in the comments. You've never been single. That some of you have been single your whole lives. But here's my question.
Starting point is 01:13:03 Can you create? Can you implement? Can you build? Can you execute? Can you invent it? Can you imagine it and fulfill it alone? Without sharing the details, without spilling the beans, can you build something so beautiful,
Starting point is 01:13:20 so life, giving so unbelievable with just you and yourself or perhaps you and your coach you and your mentor you and that one person that you know you can depend on i don't need to communicate this thing to the world i just need to get to you can't build a business you can't erect an empire with the wrong people and the wrong systems we never really get to the place of releasing We are brilliance of uncovering our gifts, talent, and ability because we don't spend enough time with ourselves, beating on our craft, becoming the best version of ourselves. We spend so much time talking about what we're going to do, posting on social media about
Starting point is 01:14:12 what we think. We spend so much time and resource and energy, and we never really become. Most people grossly underestimate the power of working on themselves. Life is going to be hard. No one said it was supposed to be easy. Isn't fair? Sometimes you just got to do it alone. What do you do?
Starting point is 01:14:58 How do you live? How do we get through it? You got to stand up. You got to get up. The path that you have chosen was never done. designed to be easy. Some people want it easy, but I dare you to go the hard way. What do we do with the life that has been given? How do we face the circumstances that have been brought before us? Do we give up? Do we stand up? Do we push through? Those are the questions that we
Starting point is 01:15:44 ask each and every day when we are faced with adversity. Hard times create tough mass. Tough mass creates tough characters. But you got to carry on. So when it gets tough, you gotta get tougher. When you're standing on your own two feet and the storm is coming in, you still gotta stand.
Starting point is 01:16:17 And sometimes you just got to stand alone. Greatness requires work. And hard work is how you get it. You don't give up because it's hard. You don't give up because it's challenging. You don't give up on you. Let the hard work begin. So when you're standing alone,
Starting point is 01:16:46 makes you you stand with a pure heart with a great mindset because there's no one like you there's nothing that can stop you no one can do the things that you do no one can stand like you do
Starting point is 01:17:07 you have to keep going you have to be truthful to who you are inside it was never designed to be easy Don't give up. Go for it. The question is, how hungry are you? How much are you willing to give of yourself? Because it's really ultimately up to you.
Starting point is 01:17:45 You can't sit around and waste time. You can't sit around and determine that everything is going to go your way because it will not go your way all the time. But I tell you what? If you keep laying around wasting time, time is going to continue to carry on with the way. without you because you have already decided to lay in your bed because you were just too tired to get up it's up to you to make a difference so that you can be a difference maker it's up to you
Starting point is 01:18:22 to be a solution and not a problem that means you got to be serious and you got to be willing and you got to be dedicated you got to take that leap of faith. I understand it will never be easy. I understand that I got to work. I understand that sometimes I want to give up, but I will not give up. So while you're sitting around, moping around, blaming everybody for what you're not doing, guess what? Nobody's going to sit around and wait for you to do the right thing for yourself. Because it's all up to you. So just get busy.
Starting point is 01:19:17 You are on your way. Success doesn't have time for your excuses. Success doesn't have time for your laziness. Success doesn't have time for the person who doesn't truly want to change. I know you are scared. Return that fear and to fire. We've all been there.
Starting point is 01:19:45 We've all been afraid of something. But don't give up. You keep trusting. You keep believing. You keep going. Embrace the suck. And keep on fighting. It's okay that you fail.
Starting point is 01:20:08 But don't think you don't have what it takes. Don't doubt. Don't be ashamed. Trust in who you are. I must work. I must believe. I will fight. I will work.
Starting point is 01:20:30 I will push. And I will never quit on me. I know that I have to work. I know that I have to believe. I know I have to trust in me. You got to show up. Sometimes we are going to have to have. have to just deal with the circumstances and the challenges that we face.
Starting point is 01:20:58 You can't be soft. You can't be weak and expect the greatness to come out of you. You can't expect anything good to come out of nothing. If you're not giving nothing, you get nothing. Now get up and do your work. When it comes to the work ethic, that's when you have to dig deeper. That's when you have to work harder. That's when you have to shut out all the noise and all the naysayers.
Starting point is 01:21:37 Sometimes, ladies and gentlemen, you just have to be quiet and listen to your passion. Listen to your heart. Listen to your truth. It's okay sometimes Because these things are going to happen no matter how hard you work But you don't have the right to give up You don't have the right to give in And stop playing a blame game
Starting point is 01:22:11 And go about your business When you have been pushed back, push back even harder I dare you to go down that path that many refuse to go. Pain, passion, focus, faith, you put it together. You will be an unstoppable force. I want you to know that you're beautiful. I want you to know that you're beautifully made.
Starting point is 01:22:45 I want you to know that you're worthy. Understand that, yeah, you're worthy. You're deserving of the good things, the final things in life. And that's not just on a financial aspect. talking about, you know, great, healthy connections and all of that, you know what I'm saying? I'm talking about peace. I'm talking about sanity, all that good stuff. You know what I mean? And I want you to know that if you're still right here, then baby, you still got some purpose.
Starting point is 01:23:12 Hello, somebody, you still got some purpose. A lot of times we walk around and we feel like we're worthless. We walk around and we feel like we don't have anything to offer. We walk around and we feel like, you know what I'm saying, the whole entire world is against us. Hello, yeah, let's just be real about it. Some of us we toyed with it all night long. Some of us we struggle with it, and that's one of the things that we battle with the most. It's the fact that we feel like, you know, we're not this or we're not that. I want you to know that you've got purpose.
Starting point is 01:23:46 As long as you've got breath in your body, as long as you got clothed with your right mind, you have some purpose. Stop letting the enemy trick you into thinking that you're not supposed to be here. Stop allowing the enemy to trick you into thinking that you don't have anything to offer or that the world will be a better place without you. Stop allowing the enemy to come in and trick you up out of your position, up out of your spot. I want you to understand that if you're still right here, sweetheart, whether they like it or not you're supposed to be here,
Starting point is 01:24:14 whether they're on board with you or not you're supposed to be here. One of the things that I want you to jot down real quick is, I want you to one, I want you to write down, baby, I still got some purpose in me. Hello, somebody, I want that's a note for you. I want you to understand that you still got some purpose in you, baby. Hello, somebody. I need you to write that in your wrist in me. I got some purpose in me. Might not look like what you want me to look like.
Starting point is 01:24:35 Understand that I might not look like greatness right now. That's right. I might not look like it right now. I might look like I'm struggling right now. Are you in a place in your life where you can honestly say that you're living up to your fullest potential? Are you waking up every single morning and giving you the best that you got? I'm not talking about what you're doing for other folk. You've got to get to that impetus in your life when you become selfish with yourself. You've got to get to that place in your life or you understand that you deserve more, you deserve better. You gotta get to that place in your life or you're willing to go to war. You want all the smoke about you. Baby, I want you to understand that when it comes down to me and the person that I am, when it
Starting point is 01:25:13 comes down to me being able to live up to my fullest potential, when it comes down to me, being able to live the life that I deserve to live, then baby, I want you to understand something about this here, baby. I'm willing to give it all that I got. I'm willing to do it all by myself. I'm willing to do it with one leg and a kickstand. I'm willing to do it with what? wet in my eyes. I'm willing to do it with tears falling down my face. I'm willing to do it. If I got to crawl on my belly by any means necessary, I am going to do what I got to do in order for me to make sure that I am setting myself up for success. Don't be so lawyer to other folk that you're disloyal to yourself. Interested people, watch obsessed people change the world.
Starting point is 01:26:05 Kobe Bryant was not interested in winning championships. He was obsessed for really have an obsession to figure it out, you will figure it out. Look in the mirror, motherfucker, is you versus you. An obsession comes in the small details that nobody pays attention to. Because our obsessions become our possessions. You hear this all the time. Don't sweat the small stuff. The one percenters, the 0.01, they sweat every single detail.
Starting point is 01:26:43 I'm obsessed with it. A winner bus. You obsess about most regular that you will eventually possess in your life. You have to be obsessive. You have to be obsessive. You have to be obsessive. You have to be disciplined. The key there is you.
Starting point is 01:27:00 Winning requires you to be different and different scarce people. It's never enough. Nothing great is going to come without you having to deal with adversity and pain tolerance. The price you will pay for not. winning is infinitely greater than the price you will ever pay to win. It's everything, and it's in the details. If I can do it, why can't think? You've got to fight like hell.
Starting point is 01:27:33 And if you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it. It's the ones that can fight, the ones that come back, those are the ones that succeed. Those are the icons. Paradise starts in hell. And if you simply go after that thing that you're just, you're simply going to have to that thing. You want. You're not a fucking ball of greatness. You earn greatness.
Starting point is 01:27:55 I don't care how you get their goals to win, period. Different scares. And anytime anybody's told me I'm crazy, I've always thanked them for that. Because it gave me the ability to see and do things that other people can't do and acknowledge things that other people won't acknowledge. If you're obsessed with taking your business, your sport whatever it is
Starting point is 01:28:32 to another level stand up you must be able to deal with pain and the more understanding you have of what's causing you the pain and how you've dealt with it
Starting point is 01:28:48 is going to determine how successful you will be in whatever you choose in life it's on you your failure and your success is on you I think
Starting point is 01:29:06 The thing that people misunderstand about success is they're looking for the easiest way to get there. Look at the most successful people in the world. They're the most coachable. They have the least amount of doubt. They have the least amount of doubt. You usually have doubt because of what somebody else is going to think of you. So there are people that aren't going to see your vision. People didn't see Jeff Bezos's vision.
Starting point is 01:29:34 People don't see Elon Musk. We won't see Kobe and Jordan's vision. And that's okay, but you've got to be willing to see it in yourself. Everyone's going to hit adversity. It's how you deal with that adversity. And the key word is you. Not letting somebody else deal with that adversity. You have to deal with that adversity.
Starting point is 01:29:53 And how you deal with it, are you going to fight through it, or are you going to curl up and just roll over into the corner? People talk about this all the time. Losing Bill's character. How much character do you need? It better be so big that they better scare you. They better scare you. Because you're not thinking big enough that, you know what?
Starting point is 01:30:21 It has to be something that nobody else has thought about before or done before. The process it takes to be number one and stay at number one, you have no idea. Very few people understand what winning and success does. to an individual's mental health. Everybody wants to sit in your seat until they have to sit in your seat. But it takes a special individual, and there's very few people that can do that.
Starting point is 01:31:02 I always say this, the most driven individuals. They live a life years, and certain times without balance. Everybody strives for balance, balance, balance, and in order to be that obsessed with something over and over again, over again, there is going to be times where things are going to be out of balance. It just is.
Starting point is 01:31:30 The best at something and try to balance everything else around your life. You don't find balance. You create it. And it's different for every individual out there. The balance I've created may be completely different than the balance you've created. And there's certain times in your life that the scales are definitely going to be way, towards one side more than the other. In early part of Kobe's career,
Starting point is 01:32:08 there was about basketball and winning. About basketball and winning. And towards the end of his career, it became less about winning. It was still about basketball, and it became more on spending time with the family. But you have to surround yourself with people. You have to surround yourself with people
Starting point is 01:32:28 with individuals that would be selfish for you. They understand your obsession. They understand your drive. They understand your attention to detail. Make sure you're all in. Your obligation to yourself to be the best to achieve the highest level has to be greater. The pressure you put on yourself has to exceed anybody else's pressure that puts on you. You've got to start winning.
Starting point is 01:32:59 It's a mindset. Before you have an exceptional skill set, you have to have the right mindset. You have to have a great mindset. Stronger your mindset is, the greater your skill set is going to be. They got to want it. It's what fuels you. What's fueling that desire? Individuals that can control it, harness it, acknowledge it, know how to use it.
Starting point is 01:33:29 It takes them to a completely different level. Everybody can handle pressure. You know what? people decide not to. But why is it worth it? Because the results are self and good. My best. Be here making excuses. You got to get to the point where it hurts. I got sick and tired of being sick and tired. But I'm not going to cry about it. No, I'm not a part of the country club. No, I'm not. I don't hang out with them, but I'm still going to be successful. I'm still going to get to where they are. Why? Because I owe it to myself. And can't nobody stop me but me.
Starting point is 01:34:25 You will not destroy us. You will not defeat us to the day I die. It's your mental toughness, your mental strength. We can, we will, and we must get through this. This is what's so sweet about success, that as long as you stay in failure, that, like, you know, you get satisfied with that when you actually come over to success.
Starting point is 01:34:50 It's the same thing. Like, you've got to have more and more and more of it. Just like when you're in poverty, you can keep doing it. When you become successful, I went with the master degree. Then when I went with the PhD, I just kept, we came out with an album, I wrote three books.
Starting point is 01:35:05 Are you hearing what I'm telling you? Now I'm at a point where I have this sensational desire for more success. So after I finish with the degree, now I start working out. I'm ready to hit this marathon. Now I got another book coming. Now I'm trying to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Now we're trying to do a reality show.
Starting point is 01:35:25 Telling you would get from the dark side. Forget from being a loser, low self-esteem, doubt, and fear that you can find your way on this side, guys. You're sweeter on this side. Any of you have not activated who you are because you don't know what you want. Execution is worshiped. Execution is worship. Execution is worship. Execution is worship.
Starting point is 01:35:52 You get away with a lot of stuff when you start executing. And I'm telling you, if you execute, you're going to be on the whole other level. What do you want? And there are those of you in this room, you are great. You are phenomenal and you're not walking in it. Accept it. And now let's walk in it. The dream is yours, but you're saying I'm not worthy of the dream.
Starting point is 01:36:19 You're probably not, but it's been given to you anyway. I really don't know what I want. I am not walking in my greatness. My esteem is not where it should be. I am accepting things that I probably shouldn't accept. And when I leave today, I'm ready to embrace the true me. Listen to me as you're trying to get to that next level of success, you legitimately have to know what that is if somebody's going to be able to help you out.
Starting point is 01:36:55 Listen to what I'm saying. I knew what I wanted. And the first thing some of you in this room have to do, you've got to get to the place where you know what you want. And then once you find out what you want, spend the rest of your natural life waking up and going after it. That's what I do. I wake up every single day and I go after what I want.
Starting point is 01:37:17 But if you don't know what you want, what are you even waking up for? E.T. why am I not fired up? E.T. why am I sleeping in? Because you don't have a reason to get up. You don't have a reason to wake up early in the morning. You don't have a reason to work out. But you better stop making excuses and find a way to win. Because once you start winning, I'm telling you, I can't explain it to you.
Starting point is 01:37:38 But doors start opening. Opportunity start happening. But what you cannot do is you cannot quit doing the process. You cannot give up because it ain't what you see. You cannot give up. And when you become a winner, they start seeing you with winners. That's why I need you to create a culture of winning and do me a favor. You don't have to win at a whole bunch of stuff.
Starting point is 01:37:59 Just win one day at a time. You cannot give up. What you gotta do is you heard it, you heard it. Champions keep going when they don't have anything left in there. their tank. That's the difference between the greats. That's what separates them. When they don't have no more, when it's over, when they're tired, when they're frustrated, when they're ready to give up, when they spent their last dime, that's when they get started. How you hear me, it's when you have nothing left. It's when you depleted all your money, when all your energy go,
Starting point is 01:38:30 when you have nothing left, that's when it's showtime. When you find the way out of no way, when you find breath that you don't have, when you find energy that did not again. You know, When you want this thing as bad as you want to breathe, that's when you find a way. I wish I can tell you you're tired, go take a break. I wish I could tell you it's going to get easier. I wish I could tell you that if you just keep going, it's going to get lighter. The weight is going to get lighter. I wish I could tell you that, but that's not the truth.
Starting point is 01:39:01 The truth is you gotta find something within. So I need you to be a favor, guys. I need you to win. Until you know what you want, you will not get good rest. rest. If you don't know what you want, then you've not begun to live yet. To find something within and that's got to push you and that's got to elevate you and that's got to drive you and that's got to move you. And when you find out what your why is and your why got to be deeper than you, when you find your why, you don't hit snooze no more.
Starting point is 01:39:38 When you find your why, you find a way to make it happen. There is no excuse for not living up to your fullest potential, nor your excuse and I can't explain it but you better feel me winners win and losers lose I can't explain it any better than that what changed I changed and I stopped being a victim I stopped saying I've got to wait for good things to happen to me and I said I'm a grind I'm going to fight I'm going to work I'm going to press toward I'm going to learn I'm going to do everything in my power every single day I'm going to do everything in my power to become a victor and not a victim. Do not say this is going to be a part of my life because somebody told you was going to be a part of your life.
Starting point is 01:40:36 You need to start rejecting some of the stuff people are telling you. You need to stop embracing it. Just because they said it, it doesn't mean it's true for you. Just because you don't believe. Just because you're going to be in poverty. Just because your marriage ain't going to work out. Just because your kids aren't going to be successful. I'm not owning that.
Starting point is 01:40:53 That's not my life. And the reason why I say is my father. even when it's not my fault because when I say it's your fault I give you power I give you control over my life and I will never give another human control over my life it's my thought it's my problem I'm coming up with a solution for it can we try are you hear what I'm saying some of y'all you're not even trying you don't even try to do you've given up before you even tried I'm taking ownership you get to determine how you Live. You live life on your terms. Go again, will your way through. Some things you can skill yourself through. Some stuff you got to wheel your way through.
Starting point is 01:41:43 And where there is no struggle, there is absolutely no progress. I will. Come on, I will. Come on, I will. Come on, I will. I will. I must. It's madness if I stay poor. It's madness if I stay poor. It's madness if I stay depressed. It's madness if I stay broke. It's madness if I don't get fit. It's madness if I don't put into work. It's madness if I don't believe. It's madness if I don't get my family part of the hood. That's madness. Madness is not working for it. Madness is sitting in your bed, giving up on your dream. That is madness. But the real freedom isn't putting in the work. This is madness. So if they think that you are mad, let them talk. Let them wonder.
Starting point is 01:42:56 Because the madness sets you apart from everyone else. And so let me look crazy for a season. And I'll live the rest of my life like a legend. If it breaks me, it's making me into something I could have never been. You can hate all you want to, but I understood the work that was required to put in. Because I'm working at this thing so hard, and I look mad and crazy. That's when people start questioning your mental state. This is madness.
Starting point is 01:43:35 The Naysay says let them talk, because they're too lazy to do the work. I am committed, and I don't care if this thing takes everything I have. I'm going after it. You will believe, even when others don't, bring the madness. We're going to make it, we're going to make it, my friend. We're going to make it through. It was never designed to break you. It was designed to make you.
Starting point is 01:44:13 Call me mad now. Call me legend later. Don't you dare look down on yourself? Well, everybody's going to think on this, everybody's going to think on that. Let them think. Let them wonder. But they'll never be able to stand with you. They'll never be able to stand next to you.
Starting point is 01:44:40 Don't be ashamed to be different. Don't be a shame to walk a path no one has ever walked before. If you're going to choose this path, it will require suffering. It's not going to be easy every day. All that matters right now is where. you believe within yourself. I don't care what anybody says. I visualize myself.
Starting point is 01:45:07 Driving what I've been called to drive. Living where I've been called to live. Getting my family a part of the hood. I visualize myself. My family won't have to struggle. If I'm going to eat, everybody going to eat. If I'm going to win, everybody go win. This is the time for you to realize who you are inside.
Starting point is 01:45:24 That blood that flows through your veins, that's who you are. There's no weakness there. There's nothing that's holding you back but yourself. But the madness, you got to stay with it. And sometimes I've got to amputate some people out of my life because they don't understand. Because they don't understand what I'm doing and why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And it's draining me to keep explaining to them why I'm doing what I'm doing.
Starting point is 01:45:57 Some people are never going to get it until you're doing. lift the trophy in the air. Some people are never going to get it until you lift the diploma in the air. Some people are never going to get it until you win. Then they're going to ask you, how did you do it? I did it when you thought I was crazy. I did it when you thought I should have quit. I did it when you thought I should have got more sleep. When you thought I should have went on vacation, I was willing to look crazy. I was willing to look foolish. I was willing to look like I wasn't going out of the right path. So if someone
Starting point is 01:46:32 thinks that you're a little out of control no, they're out of control. You in control because they can't control you. No one has that power for you unless you give it to them. Stop buying it till the nonsense that's out there today. Start trusting
Starting point is 01:46:51 in yourself today. Because this is not the time to look down. This is the time to get up. This is time to show up. Who you are right now has gotten you as far as you're going to get. And so whatever it is that you're going after, you're going to become another person to get there.
Starting point is 01:47:12 It's the people that are willing to look foolish in front of everybody to accomplish that one thing. It's the crazies that make history. If you're going to accomplish something great, sacrifice will be required. There will be a measure of suffering. You're going to look foolish. You're going to look like the guy who's lost his mind.
Starting point is 01:47:38 Then there are going to be seasons and chapters and moments in your life where nobody is going to understand why you're not sleeping like everybody else. I've done has gotten me where I am. And if I'm going to accomplish more, and if I'm going to do more and see more and become more, I must give my all to this. but there are some goals in life that if I'm going to hit, if I'm going to have an aim and I'm going to punch through, that I've got to be willing to look crazy. I've got to be willing to look foolish. You can't be what you think you are
Starting point is 01:48:17 if you're not willing to go through the storm. You can't be strong if you never tasted weakness. There will be many people out there that will look down on you. They will literally think you have lost your mind. Why? Because you're dedicated, because you're driven,
Starting point is 01:48:43 because you refuse to sleep on your destiny, on your dreams, on your ideas. So many people were rather to sit back on the sidelines and wait. But not you.
Starting point is 01:49:00 You're going to look crazy to some people because you are pursuing the dream that you believe that you've been destined to accomplish in life. This is where we look a little crazy. This is where the madness begins when I get to the business of getting it done. I'm working at this thing so hard and I look mad and crazy and nobody believes in. Everyone's calling me to quit. That's when I keep going.
Starting point is 01:49:29 That's when I keep emailing. That's when I keep pushing. That's when the grind gets real good. There was a fighter that once said, I don't start counting my push-ups until it hurts. Man, if I have to, I'll look crazy if I have to. To many, it will seem as though I've lost my mind, but it is right at that point where I shot the world. And I'm going to give it everything I have. I'm the man that decided to start unknown and finish unforgettable.
Starting point is 01:50:10 You know, the number one excuse is I don't have enough time. time. I always tell people there's 168 hours in a week. If you get eight hours sleep a night, well, there's 50 plus hours gone. You still have 110, 112 hours left. If you work 60 hours a week, you still have 55 hours left to go do what's important to you. So I don't really buy the time excuse, but that's the number one excuse that I hear. It's time to get real. It's a It's time to get wrong. It's time to look ourselves in the mirror and come to the resolve that this version of ourself is not going to carry us in the stretch. That I've been this version of myself long enough that if I don't change, if I don't do something about this, then I'm going to find myself bankrupt.
Starting point is 01:51:03 It's rewarded in public for what he does in private. Discipline is the single most important thing that you can use. when it comes to being successful. Motivation is fleeting. No one wakes up motivated every single day. The key success that you're looking for, the thing that's going to make your dreams come true is simple discipline.
Starting point is 01:51:36 It's doing what needs to be done even when you don't want to, even when you're not motivated. Your only discipline once a week. You're only determined twice a week. You're only enthusiastic about the journey on Sundays or Wednesdays. And once you get a covenant, once you make a covenant with who you believe God is called to to be, and you're saying, you know what, I'm going to commit to this.
Starting point is 01:52:03 You're going to put the blood, you're going to put the sweat, you're going to put the tears in, you're going to lose sleep, you're going to go daze without eating, you're going to do whatever it takes to make the sacrifices necessary to manifest. We give up too early and if we just had a little bit of perseverance, if we just worked a little bit harder and just took it a day at a time, our dreams will come true. There are too many people in your life who have left you. There are too many people in your life who have counted you out. There are too many people in your life who have whispered in your ear and said you'll be worse off without them. Prove them wrong. When I start off my day by investing in myself, I set the tone for the rest of my life and everything else falls into place because I've set a precedent that I'm important, that I'm worth it, that I matter.
Starting point is 01:53:10 And so I tell people, invest in you first and then you have the energy, the drive, the passion to just uplift everybody else in your circle. Physical is the easy part. See, the physical part, all you got to do is show up. If you could show up, again, be all in, ask some question. Maybe we'll add be willing to suffer a little bit into that mix. You will be okay. The psychological preparation, that's a different story. I always say the mind is primary,
Starting point is 01:53:40 and I always say that a strong mind is a catalyst for change. When you see the best athletes in the world, either perform really well or on the other hand, completely bomb out, It's because of that muscle that lives between the ears. We only have so much real estate in our minds, in our hearts. We only have so much bandwidth and our mental capacity. And the more distractions, the more delusions, the more negativity that we allow to take up real estate in our hearts and in our minds,
Starting point is 01:54:11 the less energy we have to fulfill the call, to fulfill destiny, to manifest the idea. Everything that you think about, that you meditate on, Everything that has to your attention has to be worth your time. So now it's time to navigate and do an appraisal of everything that's in our life, everything and everybody in our life. Time to do an appraisal. And ask it and ask them this question, are you worth my time? If you're not, it's time to unplug, time to unplug, time to unplug.
Starting point is 01:54:48 Re-rules Bobby Maximus lives by, number one, show up. every single day. Number two, when you do show up, you want to be all in. You want to be 100% present. And number three, be curious. Ask some questions along the way. Don't be scared to admit that you don't know everything. And if you can learn a little bit, along with showing up and being all in, the world is yours. If you want to be good at something, if you want to transform your body, you've got to spend 130 quality hours. And the next question, I'm always asked is what does that look like? It's an hour a day of dedicated practice for six straight months. If you want something, if you want to be good at something, you want to
Starting point is 01:55:41 accomplish something, you've got to put in the time. And the minimum amount of time that you can put in is an hour a day of dedicated practice for six straight months. If you want to be good it something, you've got to do it every day. Like we look at people like LeBron James. Why is he good at basketball? Because he does it every day. You look at Wayne Grexky in hockey. Why was Wayne so good in hockey, arguably the greatest of all time?
Starting point is 01:56:08 Because he did it every day. And so my number one piece of advice to people, if you want to be good at something, whatever that thing that you desire is, whatever your passion is, do it every single day. That's the real secret to success. We celebrate athletes. and we celebrate critical thinkers and innovators and actors and we praise them and coined them our heroes and we followed them by the millions.
Starting point is 01:56:33 We love what they do in public, but you don't know the story behind the glory. You don't know the blood, the sweat. You didn't see the tears that they cried, the prayers that they prayed, the countless weeks where they went without sleep to get where they are. When you see somebody that's successful, your gut reaction is to think they're lucky.
Starting point is 01:56:56 They had a great trainer. They had it easy. If I was in their shoes, I could do it too. And the thing that I would want to say is, these people work harder than you can imagine. They show up every day. They do the work. They suffer.
Starting point is 01:57:14 So when you see somebody on a screen, rather than criticize, be grateful. Rather than try to cut them down, maybe try to learn a little bit from them because the amount of dedication that goes into that craft, a normal person will never understand. The secret of change is to focus all of our energy, not on fighting the old, but building the new. And specifically behind closed doors when nobody's looking, when no one is there to affirm you, when nobody's there to validate you, when nobody is there to agree with you,
Starting point is 01:57:48 you build in the dark. and you announce it when it's finished. Life was given for a reason. We exist for a reason. We were put on this earth to do great things. But the challenges, ladies and gentlemen, the challenges had to happen. They must happen. But we must carry on.
Starting point is 01:58:24 What do we do with the life? that has been given. How do we face the circumstances that have been brought before us? Do we give up? Do we stand up? Do we push through? Those are the questions that we ask each and every day when we are faced with adversity. No one said it was supposed to be easy. Hard times create tough mass. Tough mass creates tough characters. But you've got to carry on. So when it gets tough, you've got to get tough.
Starting point is 01:59:15 We are born to do great things. Not everybody is going to stand with you. Not everybody's going to support you. Not everybody is going to be by your side. So when you're standing alone, Make sure you stand with a pure heart that you do have something that you must do. Learn to walk alone sometimes. Learn to be strong when you need to be strong.
Starting point is 01:59:50 Learn to understand that not everybody will be with you. I dare you to go down that path that many refuse to go. I dare you to show up and show the world that you. You have something that is special and unique about you. I dare you to show the world something they ain't never seen before about you. I dare you to stand up. I dare you to breathe life until you're perfect. I dare you to do it.
Starting point is 02:00:24 I dare you to be strong. You be a man. I dare you to be a woman. I dare you to be the one that they never even knew existed. All you got to do it. to stand for what you do. Pain, passion,
Starting point is 02:00:45 focus, faith, you put it together, you will be an unstoppable force. Not everything you do in life is meant for you. Not everything that you want out of life is designed for you.
Starting point is 02:01:13 But that's, come to time in your life that you have to just say, let's be patient. Let's take the necessary steps. Let's make a few mistakes. I'm talking about the mistakes that happen throughout life just to get to a common ground. Accept the challenges, but don't give up. So when you're standing alone, make sure you have. the right mindset within you to know that, hey, at the end of the day, must stand.
Starting point is 02:01:54 I must work. I must believe. I will fight. I will work. I will push. That will never quit on me. You let the naysayers tell you that you didn't have it. You let negativity surround you.
Starting point is 02:02:16 You let doubt and fear control you. Do not excuses kill you Now what do you do you got to get up Stop sleeping on your dreams stop sleeping on your desires stop sleeping on your passion Ladies and gentlemen no one said it was supposed to be easy I will make everything count each and every day of my life For my life is in my hands and I must be willing to do what I must do to get where I need to be in my life. Hard times.
Starting point is 02:03:06 What do we do? How do we get through it? Do we stress or do we take a restroom? How to turn it up! And then we know how to turn it off. You don't know enough about yourself because you believe everything negative. everything negative about you, but you didn't have the truth within you. You didn't understand that you were made for a reason. You didn't understand that you had power. Ladies and gentlemen,
Starting point is 02:03:36 get out there and fight for your life. What you do right now matters. How you pursue your life, how you go further in your life is what you put inside of your mindset and say, I am ready, I must go forward And if I look back, I'm too distracted To see what's in front of me Keep going But the moment You doubt
Starting point is 02:04:12 You step too far back And not enough forward You will lose yourself Because you have given up You will lose yourself And you will never find your way back Because you gave up too soon You will lose yourself
Starting point is 02:04:30 Because you didn't think you have had it anymore. Battles are meant to fight. We'll fight each battle of your life. And some you will win and some you will lose. But if your heart is beating
Starting point is 02:04:47 and your brain is functioning and your eyes are open, ladies and gentlemen, get out there and fight for your life. It's hard. Deal with it. Every day you breathe is a chance for you to live
Starting point is 02:05:05 every day that you breathe is a chance for you to make a difference every day that you breathe is a chance for you to stand up every day that you breathe is a chance for you to make a difference within yourself every day that you breathe
Starting point is 02:05:20 is an opportunity for you to fight every day that you breathe is an opportunity for you to let the world know that you are about your business let the harm work began. Let the testimony be the testimony. When you are tested, be the testimony. When you have been pushed back, push back even harder. When you feel that you can't carry on, feel within yourself
Starting point is 02:05:51 that you are alive and you've got a job to do. It is all business. Never personal. Be productive. Be strong, be powerful, hard work, never quit. And from the bottom of my heart, ladies and gentlemen, conduct your business. You're going to do this? Okay, friend. That's all I needed. That's all I needed for him to do that. And it became personal with me. For me, anger was good.
Starting point is 02:06:27 Anger was good because it was motivating. The more I could create an enemy, the more I wanted to go on and kill those guys. I've been listening to them laugh my whole career. An Irishman win a fight in the UFC, hell no, laugh, laughs, laughs all around. Hell no, he's all talk, he's all hype, he's a joke. The sound of laughter and the sound of doubt motivates me. I saw you celebrate my losses like I wasn't going to win again. You gotta want to be successful so bad that you forget to eat.
Starting point is 02:06:55 That's how bad you gotta want. I'm just wondering if you are bold enough, dearing enough, if you can believe in your dream again, if you can get committed, If you can make it personal. It's personal. Because it's about you. It's personal. It's personal.
Starting point is 02:07:09 It's personal. It's personal. It's person. It's person. It's person. It's personal. As I talk to Cuts, and Cuts talk to me over and over again,
Starting point is 02:07:19 over and over again, every night and every night for hours and hours. I used never had to worry about nobody ever bullying me again. Because I know I will fucking kill them if they fucking me. You've got to create a lot of different, emotion to height your sense of awareness and focus. It's about you ultimately actively moving through your emotions rather than being stopped by them towards a goal.
Starting point is 02:07:42 I think when change hits and it's personal, that's when the perspective shift comes. Get into something that's really personal. It means something to you. I think that's the key to what we do. It's got to be personal. It's up to you to carry on. Remember you owe you something. Continue to believe.
Starting point is 02:08:03 We all have desires and dreams. Make your dream a reality. I'm talking concrete commitment. The commitment that says, can I stay true to what I said I would do long after the mood that I've said it has left. See, when you get personal, can you make it personal? Everything changes.
Starting point is 02:08:22 Don't make it personal. What a joke. It has been personal. When week after week, I'm choked up fighting back tears with every single. It's personal. I have waited my whole life. I will wait no more. That's why they say many a call few are chosen. It's about you have a vision of possibility for yourself that that has to do with being great. Because I'm going to make it personal. Because it's always been
Starting point is 02:08:55 personal to me. So you found out that the secret sauce in your life is the guy in your mirror. that it's not some outside variable that's going to come and save you. The cavalry's not coming. It's up to you, baby. Get up off the couch. I got to go leave the cave, kill something, and drag it home. You've found that truth in that moment. Despite my doubts and all of those sort of things,
Starting point is 02:09:27 I'm going to put my trust in that and try and then go for things and not be scared to fail and not be driven by fear and all those sort of things because it's personal. It's about your journey. Your goals. Listen to me, you got it. You have to eat the dream. You have to sleep the dream. You have to dream. You have to see it when nobody else sees it. You have to feel it when it's not tangible. You have to believe it when you cannot see it. Do they have what it takes? Are they willing to do whatever it takes? A lot of people give up. That's just the truth. Come on, there are too many people riding on you. You got a mother. She's been doing everything she can to put food on the table.
Starting point is 02:10:16 You got to do it for her. You got a father that's counting on you. You got to do it for him. You got some siblings that are watching you right now. You got to do it for them. But guess what else? You got to do it for you. Because deep down in every human being,
Starting point is 02:10:34 they want to see the greatest version of themselves. but most people quit. Most people stop believing. It's personal. It's personal. No matter what challenges I face, no matter what the statistics are, I will maintain unwavering faith
Starting point is 02:10:54 that I can achieve the outcome that I want, and if I don't, I'll be at peace with it. That was my why. I'm willing to do everything in my power to fulfill my potential and become the best version of myself. It's an unwavering faith in politics. That's it.
Starting point is 02:11:10 You got to get fueled on the inside and say, now is my time. And it's about you. It's personal. Yes. It's about your core. It's about your mindset. What do you actually want? How do you want all of your life to go?
Starting point is 02:11:27 I believe everything happens for a reason. I think we get to choose the reason. And I decide my faith. Nothing that you want will manifest. itself unless you aim for it. And you won't aim for it unless you know what it is, and you won't know what it is unless you ask yourself. And then you might say, well, why don't you ask yourself?
Starting point is 02:11:48 And the answer is, well, maybe no one ever explained to you that you needed to, which is a crucial issue, and then maybe you don't also trust yourself. If you had the job or career track that would motivate you, just hypothetically, what might that look like? This is dreams we're talking about. We're talking about dreams. This is just really rigid.
Starting point is 02:12:11 If you become the best, you have to almost become fanatical. You know, this is my life, this is all I live for. This is my heir. This is AmiPay. Dreams require sacrifices. People don't want to sacrifice. Following your dreams is a lonely, solitary, scary, dangerous pursuit. You can't wait for somebody to think you can do it.
Starting point is 02:12:36 And when you get it, to the point where all you want to do is be successful as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful. And I'm here to tell you number one that most of you say you want to be successful, but you don't want it bad. You just kind of want it. You don't want it bad than you want to party. You don't want it as much as you want to be cool.
Starting point is 02:12:56 Most of you don't want success as much as you want to sleep. Nobody knows but you. You can't get advice on what you should do with your life. You take control of the circumstances. You take control of the outcome. You take control of your life. It's in our hands. It's on us. And nobody can make that decision for us.
Starting point is 02:13:15 It doesn't start with them and they. It starts with me. Whatever the fuck you're doing, just prove to yourself it's the shit that you want to be doing. Build around that. This is the only life that I have. And I'm going to take the leap of faith. I'm going to jump in it. I must live what's in me.
Starting point is 02:13:31 And all of us have something in us that we must live. And if we don't know what it is right now, You must create it or we must find it. All of us have this, whatever this, this something is, that gives our life that meaning, that value, that power, and that happiness. See, when you get married to purpose, married to destiny, married to who you've been destined to be, everything changes. It's not about external validation, it's about your relationship to yourself.
Starting point is 02:14:00 And you know when your head hits the pillow at night and when you wake up in the morning what that relationship looks like. It's not about them. It's about you. Every excuse behind. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Burn the boats. Eliminate the options.
Starting point is 02:14:27 You're going in again. And this time, you're coming out with a win. Period. Despite everything that happened to you, you're still here. And I promise you, my friend, that is no mistake. That's a purpose. A purpose for you to live, my friend. A purpose for you to live a life worth living, don't you get it?
Starting point is 02:14:49 So right now I need you to find a way to keep on living, my friend. I need you to live. I need you to live. I need you to live. I need you to live. Do you hear me? You keep on living, my friend. The darker the night, the brighter the day, my friend.
Starting point is 02:15:10 You see, what anxiety loves to do is it loves to add up. What fear loves to do is it loves to add up. What all bad trauma loves to do, it loves to add up. What all worry and doubt loves to do is it loves to add up, my friend, into one big fist and try to knock you down until you're gone, my friend. But no, if you keep breathing past the anxiety, you'll make it. If you keep breathing past the fear, you'll make it. If you keep breathing past the trauma, you'll make it.
Starting point is 02:15:40 If you keep breathing past the worry and death, you'll make it. is if you don't do something the other man is not doing, then you're going to get knocked off. I don't care how many people have counted you out. I don't care how many times you talk yourself out of it. Go back and win. Listen, my friend, you see you and me, we're going to make it. We're going to make it, my friend, we're going to make it. We're going to make it, my friend, I promise you, we're going to make it.
Starting point is 02:16:12 We're going to make it, my friend. We're going to make it. We're going to make it, my friend. We're going to make it. We're going to make it, my friend. We're going to make it. We're going to make it, my friend. We're going to make it.
Starting point is 02:16:26 You are breathing to win. You are breathing to live a life of abundance. You are breathing to manifest what it is that God has put inside at you. Write it up again, negotiate it again, call back, send the email again, send the text message again do not give up walk on the court again run on the field again step into the arena again try it one more time and after you do that you're gonna come back for more you are establishing a new nature a new protocol a fresh government of how you conduct business let me tell you something my friend because of your
Starting point is 02:17:25 downfall will be because of you You, nobody else but you. You keep looking around trying to place blame on things, people, everything else, instead of looking in the mirror at oneself and looking at who caused this in the first place. You close the door in yourself because you are afraid to look within yourself and see who did it, my friend. You are the one, but you have the key to unlock that door and become something more. It's your time. It's your turn. The weight is over.
Starting point is 02:18:05 Get up and give back to yourself. We can get so wrapped up in the swirl of busyness, distraction, and noise that we lose ourselves. I understand, my friend, the pain. It won't stop. The suffering. It won't cease. And it's hard to see it. It's hard to see a better outcome for yourself, my friend.
Starting point is 02:18:33 I understand. But look, if you just believe, then you keep believing, and you hold on to that belief, brighter days are coming. Weather through the storm, my friend, weather through the pain. And I promise you, you will come out victorious. You just have to keep it.
Starting point is 02:19:05 You are not a quitter. You are not a one-hit wonder. You are called. to do something great. A lot of you really messed up the first two quarters of your life. And if you're like me, you've got to believe you got a third quarter and you got a fourth quarter. And after all that's been said and done, every blessing and every battle, every memory and every image of the past,
Starting point is 02:19:29 release yourself from the trauma, torment, and pain of it all. Step into your third quarter. Step into your fourth quarter. Be fully persuaded that it's your turn and it's your life. time. I don't care what the scoreboard says. You have an opportunity. A warrior only needs one more opportunity to reveal to the world that he is more than just a dreamer. If you're going to do something in your bloodline, if you're going to pass something down generationally, if you're going to be a light, then sometimes you're going to have to get up when you don't feel
Starting point is 02:20:17 like it. You know what, my friend, I think you're stronger than that. and I think you're capable of much, much more. So bring it out. Bring it out every single day that you live on this earth. Bring it out every single day that you open your eyes. Bring it out every single day. Bring that the best version of yourself, my friend, because we still have work to do.
Starting point is 02:20:48 There are seasons and timetables, and there are rooms I've got to walk into them. There are hands. that I have to shake and there are contracts that I have to sign and there are deals that I have to close that are going to require me to lose sleep sometimes. And so if I believe in the power of the future, then I got to be willing to get up. You got the chance to wake up today, but somebody else didn't. You got the chance to eat your breakfast, wash your face, brush your teeth, but somebody else didn't. You got the chance to walk out your door
Starting point is 02:21:25 Go to work, go to school Go about your day Like nothing else happened But unfortunately Somebody else did it My friend you get the chance To do it all over again But somebody else will not
Starting point is 02:21:38 My friend take advantage The time you have Give it all you got He's nothing me What's the time to have Get down in If you're listening to me Let this be a moment of transformation and motivation, but let this moment not just move you but change you to take action, go back and win.
Starting point is 02:22:04 Listen, my friend, you see you and me, we're going to make it. We're going to make it, my friend, we're going to make it. We're going to make it, my friend, I promise you, we're going to make it, we're going to make it, we're going to make it, we're going to make it, my friend, we're going to make it, my friend. We're going to make it. We're going to make it, my friend. We're going to make it, my friend. We're going to make it, my friend. By being a person that gives again, believes again, does it again,
Starting point is 02:22:40 picks up the pieces, and tries to put the puzzle together again, try it again, and eventually winning to become a habit. Slight, progress. success will become our way of life, our code of conduct, our government. This is what I do. I'm motivated. I'm dedicated. I'm grooved. I'm conditioned. I'm ready to conquer the day. Everybody's great when they're not tired. This is when they're tired. That's when the real champions come out. That's when that real dog come out. That's where I think the real truth comes out. Because I think there are a lot of people who are very talented who can make it there. There are very few people who can deal with the pressure and
Starting point is 02:23:24 stress that happens when we're there. I feel I'm the best ever. It's not bragging the bosa. The proof is in the pudding. In my mind, I'm always the best. I am the greatest fighter of all times. And when I hit you with a hard right hand, you will fall.
Starting point is 02:23:43 You've got to win tomorrow. You've got to win right now. If you're passionate about what you're doing, keep going, keep believing, reach for the stars. Everything is always impossible. Someone does it. Maybe it has never been done before. That's perfectly fine with me.
Starting point is 02:24:02 But I'm going to do it. Never say never. Because limits like fears are often just an loser. Hungry dogs run fast. And let the big dogs eat. If you look at the greats in any walk of life, the greats do things when they don't always want it. And that's the separation.
Starting point is 02:24:30 It means you have to be more discipline than not discipline. I wanted to be the best I could be, period. I was waiting for you to smile at some of the compliments. You didn't. She's being real. Smiling doesn't win you go in Meadows. I'm too fast. I'm too skillful.
Starting point is 02:24:49 And I'm going to show everybody out there watching this show and the whole world. And the world will bow and admit that I am the greatest of all times when you see what I do to George Pumman. I believe that way. whatever I put my mind to, and if I was willing to make sacrifices, and I was dedicated, that I could achieve absolutely anything. I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and most ruthless champion that's ever been. There's no one could stop me. I'd like to take this chance to apologize to absolutely nobody.
Starting point is 02:25:18 Maybe someone's, you don't like me because maybe I'm too good. You win some, you lose some. But you live. You live to fight another day. And I've always believed, like, I'm the Michael Jordan of this industry. When I'm on the air, I'm the one that will make you want to hear from me. I don't care who I'm on the air, I don't care who it is. It does not matter to me.
Starting point is 02:25:54 By the time I finish speaking, I am the one that you're going to want to listen to. That's my attitude. If this requires 100%, and you give me 99, I might want to fire you. Because I'm not, I'm about getting the job done. It's about the results. And I think that, you know, unfortunately, when we look at our generation today, not enough people preach about that. Because I think that we live in a society where people have become masters
Starting point is 02:26:26 at pointing the finger at other people as to reasons why things don't get done. I think there's too much explanation that goes on. But the bottom line is you ain't getting it done. And if you're not getting it done, I need somebody that can get it done. I am of the belief that if you try. truly, truly adopt that belief in your soul that you walk to work every day, not looking for excuses. You're looking for a way for the job that you're done. And in most instances, you are going to be successful than I.
Starting point is 02:26:58 You want to go with status quo. You're perfectly fine with flowing along just to get along, safe, secure, safe, secure, whatever. But when you're trying to win, you're constantly looking to get better. My philosophy is very, very simple when it comes to my family, particularly, you know, me being a dad. If they're hungry, it's because I'm starving. I don't eat until they eat. I'm not comfortable until they're comfortable. I don't have unless they have.
Starting point is 02:27:29 That's the mentality, and that's the mentality that I strictly get for my mother. And so for me, you know, having that kind of mentality, but what comes with that, what comes with that is a certain work ethic that you're not. have to put forth. And it's a willingness to sacrifice. Am I the most disciplined person in the world? No. Am I the most meticulous person in the world? Like some people would believe, no, I'm meticulous enough and I'm disciplined enough. But I think the key thing is, is that the bottom line is everything to me. And whatever the bottom line requires is what I'm going to do. If the bottom line requires an excessive level of discipline, I'm going to do it. But to me, it's whatever the moment or the situation demands and it's I'm a bottom lines oriented kind of person you don't assume that opportunities are waiting for you know obstacles or standing in every do right so that
Starting point is 02:28:27 challenge that you have to embrace and you have to deal with that's hard to deal with when you have a cheated you don't work hard to play hard you work hard to have the ability to play when you also. There's a difference. You handle your responsibilities first. When you work hard and you have that sense of pride, it goes right out the window if you utilize your efforts in a long fashion. But when you do what's right and it's based off of that effort that you put in, then you feel good about it because you took care of your responsibilities. Then you can go. And I was not always confident. There's no doubt about that. I've always had my insecurities. What I firmly believed in was as it pertained to me was that I always worked hard. I was never lazy. I was always somebody that believed in hard work.
Starting point is 02:29:31 Betting on yourself is believing in you. Knowing who you are, one year worth, having an idea about it anyway, and willing to work towards that to validate that reality. That's betting on yourself. It's your job. And if you can't do it, you scratch, claw, and even die trying. We make excuses every day. All of us as human beings. On far more occasions than not, I have to speak on the issue of accountability
Starting point is 02:30:09 as it pertains to the entire sports world. And when it comes to the issue of accountability, I get all of that from mom. It happened with ESPN when my contract wasn't renewed back in 2008. I was sitting at the hour. I felt betrayed. I felt ticked off. My mother let me lick my wounds for a couple of days. And then she said, what could you have done better?
Starting point is 02:30:34 You sure you didn't do anything? And I thought about all of the time. I'm like, what is she talking about? This is just not true. This is not right. I work hard. I do this. I do that.
Starting point is 02:30:42 And then I started thinking about it. Yeah, I was a pain in the ass. I did kind of complain. little bit too much. But the biggest thing that I remember doing is that I always came to the bosses with problems. I never came to them with solutions. It was always about the problem, never the solution. And I learned when I sat back and reflected on the mistakes that I had made in my career at the time,
Starting point is 02:31:12 I learned that no boss wants to talk to anybody that doesn't have solutions. Instead of working around the clock trying to figure out what somebody else wants from you, good or bad, there are moments that crystallizes it for you in your mind. Pay attention and you'll see what they are. And you'll know what to do accordingly. That is what I believe makes me the best. It's my commitment to excellence for the collective whole. I don't care how good you are in anything.
Starting point is 02:31:56 you don't have discipline, you ain't nobody. Because you give up under the slightest struggle without discipline. Discipline is doing what you hate to do, 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. 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.
Starting point is 02:32:22 Wanting to get the best out of yourself, not competing with anyone else, but you. They don't back down from anyone, and that's what got me in trouble. I don't play games. I don't kiss anyone's ass, and I'm a real man. And that's why, regardless of being in a fight, anything, I'm a man, and that's why I want to be a man. And if I die, I want to die, man.
Starting point is 02:32:42 And when you really focus, you hear everything. When I come through the ring, I notice everybody I can hear you breathing. I can hear you talking. I hear everything. When I come out, I have supreme car. I have supreme confidence, I'm scared to death. I'm totally afraid. I'm afraid of everything.
Starting point is 02:33:00 I'm afraid of losing. I'm afraid of being humiliated. But I'm totally confident. Closer I get to the ring, the more confidence I get. The closer, more confidence I get, the closer more confidence I get. But what's closer I get to the ring,
Starting point is 02:33:12 I'm more confident. Once I'm in the ring, I'm a god. No one can beat me. The world will know my name until the end of time. That's who I was. I didn't want nothing until 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?
Starting point is 02:33:47 100%. Yeah. 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. Did the kill, destroy, break them down.
Starting point is 02:34:07 It's just, I'm the greatest. You know, success is all about a lifestyle. I live the lifestyle of the champion. You're at 14. In order to be the champ, you have to live a lifestyle with the champ. It's all about discipline doing what you hate to do, but doing it like you love it. That's what it's all about. You don't have discipline.
Starting point is 02:34:33 I don't care how skill for you are you nothing. You don't want to be the best ever. Why are you here? Confidence breeds success and success breeds confident. It's all about the belief that you can do it. Belief is more powerful than anything. The only thing we can do is just have that focus and believe in ourselves and believe that I want to be up, then anybody in the world wants me to be down.
Starting point is 02:35:02 And it's all about what, like I said before, self-belief. My whole success is from belief. I just believe in me, adversity. The truth will 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, there's nothing that you can't do. Nothing compared to anybody that tries.
Starting point is 02:35:46 Nothing's impossible then. Fitness breeds success, success breeds confidence. And confidence applied properly with superseded genius. Life is just a circle. They're going to hate me again one day. And then God willing, they're going to respect me again one day. Because in order to be a master, you have to first be a fool, I guess. You have to believe in yourself before you believe in anything else.
Starting point is 02:36:17 God, you have to believe in you. And you 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, 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 realized life is all about in here. It's all about your belief system.
Starting point is 02:36:56 Faith fear. Never lose when you face it. Trust me. Never lose when you face fear. No, mistakes don't define us. High points don't define us. Life defines us. As long as you can have happy moments, take as many as you can.
Starting point is 02:37:14 Because life is just a flick of the eye. Well, that's what life is about. You got to sit in your room sometime, give your subconscious sometimes. time and spend time and just inventing yourself doing being with the most exciting people in the world doing the most exciting things in the world and just living that fantasy and that fantasy would become reality one day discipline could be taking your illusions and turn them into a reality dream for yourself something bigger than what you can ever imagine and you become it now that's discipline to change anything you have to change yourself and then have to look in the mirror and say what
Starting point is 02:38:02 I want to do to make me a better person. Or what is it that I can do? I could define myself as being a better person than I am now. You know? Who can I help? Who can I worship? Who can I do something to or wit
Starting point is 02:38:17 that would make me feel like a better person and help me reach my highest potential? You have to find that for us. What is it that I can do? Help people. You know, that's all I think about. How can we help somebody? Visualizing and looking into the mirror
Starting point is 02:38:31 and that's what it's all about touching your inner core of your consciousness. I don't believe in talent. Well, some people, they have talent. That's good. It helps when you have talent. As long as you have a lot of determination and willpower, that's all you need.
Starting point is 02:38:47 You have to have the will to win. If 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.
Starting point is 02:39:06 nothing's impossible to somebody who tries. 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 going to fight this guy. I have to have the pressure.
Starting point is 02:39:24 Anything that I'm afraid to do, I do it. 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 I would get my day of continue to try hard and believe in myself.
Starting point is 02:39:49 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.

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