Motivation Daily by Motiversity - THERE'S ONLY WINNING - Powerful Motivational Speech Compilation for Athletes

Episode Date: October 1, 2026

SpeakersMichael Jordanhttps://www.instagram.com/jumpman23/Muhammad Alihttps://www.instagram.com/muhammadali/Patrick MouratoglouGet Patricks book "Champion Mindset: Coach Yourself to Win at Life": https://www.patrickmouratoglou.com/en/champion-mindset-pre-order/www.patrickmouratoglou.comhttps://www.instagram.com/patrickmouratoglouhttps://www.youtube.com/@patrickmouratoglou_officialFull interview: The Icons: https://www.youtube.com/@theiconsbymotiversityEric Thomashttps://www.youtube.com/user/etthehiphoppreacherMichael Phelpshttps://www.instagram.com/m_phelps00Tom Bradyhttps://www.instagram.com/tombrady/LeBron Jameshttps://www.instagram.com/kingjames/Kobe Bryanthttps://www.instagram.com/kobebryantChris Williamsonhttps://www.youtube.com/@ChrisWillxPatrick Bet-Davidhttps://www.youtube.com/@VALUETAINMENTSerena Williamshttps://www.instagram.com/serenawilliams/Tim Groverhttps://www.instagram.com/timgrover/Aaron Rodgershttps://www.instagram.com/aaronrodgers12/Morgan Houselhttps://x.com/morganhousel?lang=enChris Bumsteadhttps://www.instagram.com/cbum/Stephen A. SmithInstagram: http://bit.ly/2oiTFWNTwitter: https://twitter.com/firsttakeFrank Brunohttps://www.instagram.com/frankbrunoboxer/Mike Tysonhttps://www.instagram.com/miketyson/Greg Plitthttps://www.instagram.com/gregplitt/?hl=enAlex Hormozihttps://www.instagram.com/hormozi/?hl=enRyan Holidayhttps://ryanholiday.net/Stephen Curryhttps://www.instagram.com/stephencurry30/?hl=enCoach PainYouTube: http://bit.ly/2LmRyeaInstagram: http://bit.ly/2XLcLW5Facebook: http://bit.ly/32tZdNiMarcus “Elevation” TaylorYouTube: https://bit.ly/MarcusATaylorChannelPatrick Bet-Davidhttps://www.youtube.com/@VALUETAINMENTRobert Greenehttps://www.youtube.com/@RobertGreeneOfficialArnold SchwarzeneggarThanks to Jürgen Höller: https://bit.ly/JürgenHöllerYouTubeMusic: Secession Studios - Forever Upward, De Profundis, A Phoenix Rises, The Untold IIhttps://www.youtube.com/user/thesecession Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your confidence level was through the roof. Where is it now? On top of the roof, I don't think my confidence changed. A lot of guys who can run and jump and probably shoot, but if they don't have the killer instinct or the confidence in themselves to form those skills. I'll never lose the fight. It's impossible. Tell it. It's impossible. Never lost a fight in your life. I'm too fast.

Champion from the dream. I'm the king. King. That in order to become successful, you've got to make it your personal. your personal business to do it. People look at champions and try and find something that that champion has that they don't have, but it's not that at all. They lack something everyone else has, which is an off button.

They just don't stop. I do not get up at 3 o'clock in the morning to lose. I expect to win. I expect it to be a great day. People talk about what you sacrifice to be great at things, waking up at 5 a.m., going through the day, weigh myself, weigh my food, do my check-ins in the mirror, like, go to the gym, work out, what's wrong? Everything is just like, am I good enough?

being enough. What does winning look like in your life, get crystal clear on that, and then figure out what are the, so the measurable analytics that will increase the chance that I will win in that domain, and then just focus on those things. In basketball, it was different because I expected to win. It's a direct competition. Like, I know how hard they're working. I know how hard we're working. I know what their strategy is. I know what ours is it, you know? Like, yeah, we expected to do that. But now we're going to come back and we're going to do it again. I don't care how you get there. I don't care what you do to get there.

Goals to it. Period. If we're optimizing for outcomes, then the most broken person will win. The person who has the absolute biggest desire for achievement, the absolute biggest fear or pain that they're running away from, like that person will win, period. You have to be prepared to sacrifice all of those things

or not have them in the first place. Do you want to win because that's the price right there? And that's what it comes down to like, what are you willing to sacrifice at the end of the day? But women will sacrifice. cost you something. It's about heart. The most important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you will become. It's not over until I win. I went five straight years without missing a single day of workout, 365 days a year, every single day I was in the water.

There are days you're not going to want to do it. I mean, everybody has those days, but it's what you do on those days that help you move forward. Winning is in all of us. Everybody wants the end result, but what you have to endure to win, no one wants to talk about. If you know that you were destined for something, then you can withstand the setbacks, the difficulties,

the bulk, criticism, and all the other things. You know, everybody can compete when they're feeling good, happy, excited, but it's the best people who can overcome when they're tired, sore, mental power that the greatest athletes have can push all the pain aside. The first time I had met Stefan Curry back in 2007, it was after his freshman year at Davidson, which is before he blew up. No one knew who Stefan Curry was after his freshman year. But I remember there's a few things really remarkable about him, but the most impressive thing was at the end of the first workout. He came over to me, and Steph said, when you rebound for me, because I don't leave the gym until I swish five free throws in a row.

I mean, he was conditioning himself to be in that state. He was conditioning himself to do that and to not accept anything less. And one of the reasons I think he'll go down in history as the best shooter we've ever seen is his ability just to move on to the next shot. But at the root of it is you want to be the best. I love competing and you want to dominate. The greatest athletes in the world don't make excuses. I wanted to do something that nobody had ever done before.

And that started with a dream and a goal. I wanted to be the greatest of all time. And I think I always felt like I wanted to be good at everything I did and be great at what I did. And I never expected to be as good as I was. No matter what you do in life, where you're at, this is what winning takes. And it's in all of us. We all have fear.

But if you harness it and it takes you to play. places that you couldn't even imagine. There's mistakes. There's regrets. There's sadness. There's joy. There's frustration. There's sorrow.

There's heartbreak. There's elation. It's all part of it. It's all part of life. You know, I said to myself, I'm going to do this, and no one's going to stop it. I think that's the biggest thing. In order to win, you have to be seen. Winning is everything.

It's everything. 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. It'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 the stress that happens when we're there. I feel I'm the best ever.

It's not bragging the bozzet. 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. You've got to win tomorrow. You're going right now. If you're passionate about what you're doing, keep going, keep believing, reach for the stars. Everything is always impossible until someone does it.

Maybe it has never been done before. That's perfectly fine with me. But I'm going to do it. But I'm gonna do it. Never say never. Because limits like fears are often just an illusion. 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 them. And that's the separation. It means you have to be more disciplined 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.

Smiling doesn't win you go in Meadows. I'm too fast. I'm too skillful. And I'm going to show everybody out there watching this show and the whole world and the world will vow and admit that I am the greatest of all times when you see what I do to George Ford. I believe that whatever I put my mind to you 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 vicious and most ruthless champion that's ever been. There's no one can stop me. I'd like to take this chance to apologize to absolutely nobody. Maybe someone's, he 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. Tired don't mean nothing.

Tired is only in the mind. You tell yourself, you're going to be tired. I don't get tired. I'm going to beat you. I'm going to let you know I beat you. I'm going to want you to reconsider your professional life choice. My father who raised me, his thing was son. You may not be the best, but leave everything on the floor.

You put 120%. I'm just asking you to do 120. Like every day when you come in 120. You got to want it so bad. You got to give all of yourself to get it. You've got to be obsessive. Because I didn't grow up with things being handed to me. I had to work hard.

I had to dedicate myself. And I had to be determined. And I was. The bottom line is that if you're talking about beating everybody else on the planet to a thing, what you're actually talking about is what are you prepared to sacrifice psychologically, physically, existentially, relationally, socially, in terms of your self-esteem, you're confident, everything, right? All of that. That pain you feel?

That's a pain and success. You must be willing to shoulder that pain to get success. The success is something that's a very lowly path in this world. Because few are willing to make that down payment of pain, that futuremen of success are better to life. Very few are. So if you want to be the top, you've got to move different. There wasn't a lot of smiley faces with me out there.

There wasn't a lot of smiley faces with Michael Jordan. There weren't a lot of smiley faces with Kobe Bryant. There weren't a lot of smiley faces with Tiger Woods. Even when I watch sports today and see these guys on the range, like, they're all buddies. And I'm like, that's not the killer instinct. That's just not. I don't think Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson were trying to be friends with anybody.

I think they were going out there on a mission. And if there was someone in their way, they had to crush them. There's never any doubts in my mind because I'm the best in the world, even though a lot of you don't like to hear it. It's fast. I'm the best. You know what I mean? I sometimes I don't want to believe in myself, but it's the truth. I'm the best.

You can love me. You can hate me. I'm not here to make friends. I'm here to win. At the end of the day, even Alexander, one of his famous quotes is, I have met the enemy. It is I, right? And although that is one element of an enemy, that's great. We need that. Michael had it, Brady had it, Kobe had it. but there's a crazy psychologically, you can call it, you know, psycho-competitor that they're constantly in the search of recruiting their next enemy. It's like, you know, life is boring if I don't have my next target. You know, I'm almost, you know, bad for myself if I don't have the next target, the next enemy and if I choose it the right way then I'm able to bring God aside of me I've never seen before

success is the only revenge as you expand they shrink into irrelevance as you get louder no one can hear them you don't beat them you cast a shadow so big no one can see them to begin with and that's what it comes down to like what are you willing to sacrifice at the end of the day you know people don't understand the level of sacrifice is going to take and there's been moments where I realize that I compete because I want to win I love I love winning. I love being the best in the world. I've sat many times trying to find the balance of what I want within all this. If I was losing, I wouldn't be competing. I'm here to win. It is hard. It's hard when you're young to wake up in the off season at 6 a.m. to go train and work out, knowing that all your friends are sleeping in and eating pancakes. It's hard when you're on your way to practice, way down with all your gear, and it's 90 degrees out, and all the other kids are at the pool or at the beach.

No matter who you are, there are bumps and hits and bruises along the way. And my advice is to prepare yourself because success and achievement come from overcoming adversity. When the rest of the world says no to you, you say yes to yourself. You say yes, I believe. You say yes, I can do it. You say yes! Nothing can stop me! You want to be a great player. If you play every single day, two, three hours, every single day, or a course of a year, how much better you get?

People are champions when they really see themselves with no limits, when they really see themselves great. Because when you see yourself there, you are much more willing to do the work. You are much more willing to break barriers that others don't break because they don't really see themselves. tracking those barriers. And this young guy, Djokovic, is 19 years old, and he plays Roger for the first time in a grand slam. He's nobody. When Novak Djokovic started,

Graf and Roger were winning everything, it's impossible to win a grand slam with those two guys. You can't beat them. They're just way better than everyone. And he's interviewed before the match, and he says, I'm going to beat this guy. And I remember the press went really bad against him. Who does they think he is?

But he was seeing him there. He was seeing himself there. He was seeing himself better than them, which maybe people saw that as being cocky, but he was just very confident about his abilities. And he ended up being the best of the three. He beat all the records, he beat them on every level because his self-belief was extremely high. His self-esteem the way he was seeing himself.

That's how I know if someone is a champion. And a lot of people fake it, which is better than not faking it, but it's not as good as really believing it deeply inside. You talk to the young players, they will say, I want to be number one. I mean, they wish. Yeah. The ones who really want to, you know,

because they're not only saying it, but they're putting on the work. And this is a big difference, because when you really believe you can get there, it's much easier. It's never easy to work hard, but in a way, you are willing to do everything to get there. When you wish it,

you do things halfway or you don't do it fully. So that's a big difference. But when you look at the road to winning, people look at you, and they're like, you're a success. But your road has so many more steps. Those steps are infinite. Sometimes you get to see them. Sometimes you don't.

Sometimes they're there. Other times they're wobbly. You don't know if that next step is going to be there, but you have enough belief in yourself to say, I know it's there. I'm going to take that. step I may miss the step, I may fall, I may get scraped, that step may go into quickstance, but I know there's another step. I know it, I believe inside me that there's another

step that I have to take, that somebody else isn't making me take. Those steps are infinite. Winning is infinite, those steps are infinite. Of course if your self-esteem is big, like huge champions, I mean legends like Serena or Venus and I had this discussion with Richard William thought their father, and he told me, my main focus was to create two young ladies that were believing in themselves in general. And he said to me this, and I believe it, whatever they would have done, they would have been successful. We chose tennis, but if they would have wanted to be runners or singers or whatever, they would have succeeded because they had this incredible self-esteem that they have. And you'll see that whatever they're going to do

after tennis, they're going to be successful. I think from the get-go, I believed I could do it. You know, it just seems so real to me. I'd already gotten sponsors. I was already winning competitions. And I saw the pros, you know, making a great living at what they're doing. And I just figured like, God, if I could just get to that point, you know, I think I could make a bit of a living out of this. Why would you do crazy efforts working crazy hard to achieve something you don't really believe in? Why would you put yourself at risk

who fail if you don't deeply believe that at the end you're going to make it? Nothing that people never fail. Of course they fail and Serena failed many times in tennis too. But we remember what she achieved which is much bigger. I mean, I just never think I'm going to lose. I just don't want people to think I'm too cocky or anything. You're only as good as your last win.

So I hate losing. I mean, that's no secret. But you gotta lose. I feel like every time I lose, I get better. And I think it's important for me to have the losses. Just the fewer, the better for me. I think a lot of people just, they see you run and they say, oh, it looks so easy, you really look effortless.

But before it gets to that point, it's hard. It's like hard work. Staying there out, sacrifice, stay in there out. The confidence comes from preparation. You know, so when the game's on the line, I'm not asking myself to do something that I haven't done thousands of times before When I'm prepared, I know what I'm capable of doing I know what I'm comfortable doing and I know what I'm not comfortable doing it And so in those moments if it looks like ice cold or not nervous

It's because I've done it thousands of times before so it's one more time No, I've never been afraid. I mean obviously you're nervous But afraid means you're not confident in your skills I have total confidence in my skills so I'm not afraid. You know if you put your mind to doing or whatever you want to do, you know, good things can happen. That shot gave me the idea that I could be better than what people think and I can, you know, surpass any expectations that I may have for myself. The start is just every day do something you didn't do the day before. If you just pay attention to the details, you pay attention to the details, those distinctions are easy to see.

Everybody talks about working hard, showing up early, showing up, late, doing all. Everybody can do that. Everybody can do that. It's the mannerisms of the way they carry themselves. It's the way they compete. It's the way they listen. It's the way they absorb information. How coachable they are.

The one thing, all my athletes in business, in sports, the best of the best are so coachable. They listen. They listen. They absorb the information. pay attention. They're there. Of course you want to win, but winning is not a goal. Winning is a result. The goal is what do I focus on?

I focus only on things that I can control. Winning, you cannot control everything, but there are a lot of things you can control. A lot of things happen. A lot of emotions come in. A lot of thoughts come in. You have to take them away, and the only way to take them away

is to talk to yourself in a way that makes you better. But you also have to make efforts every day and you do to have those small victories and build yourself as a as a person that is able to achieve his dreams by no means if I never made a mistake I made lots of mistakes both in and out of the pool and you know I've I've been able to learn from every one of those mistakes and I've been able to you know help people not make the same mistakes that I've made so keep keep going you're doing the right thing 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, well, I don't care who it is. It does not matter to me. 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. Sure. 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 of 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 to do. that can get it done. I am of the belief that if you 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 to get done. And in most instances, you are going to be successful. Then I. You want to go with status quo. You're perfectly fine with flowing along, just to get along, save, secure, whatever. But when you're trying to win, you're constantly looking to get back. 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. That's the mentality and that's the mentality that I strictly get from 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 effort that you 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 their 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. You know obstacles or standing in if you do. Right. And so that challenge that you have to embrace and you have to deal with, that's hard to deal with when you have achieved. You don't work hard to play hard. You work hard to have the ability to play when you want to. But 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 wrong 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 play. 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. 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 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 I was 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? You sure you didn't do anything? And I thought about all of the stuff. I'm like the what is she talking about this is just not true. This is not right. I work hard. I do this. I do that. And then I started thinking about it. Yeah, I was a pain in the ass. I did kind of complain a 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, I learned that no boss wants to talk to anybody It 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 hole. When I rupture my Achilles, I knew the severity of the injury, and I didn't know if I was gonna come back from it. Like, this is it, like my career could be older right now.

You know, I went home and I was just really angry. I worked so hard for us to get to the playoffs and to have a chance to win another championship, and then this happened. So I had a lot of anger. Then from the anger, then I was sad. And then you say, what am I gonna do now? I mean, it's just, it's an obsessiveness that comes along with it.

You want things to be as perfect as they can be. understanding that nothing is ever perfect. But the challenge is try to get them as perfect as they can be. And what can you do? It's in your control. So control what you can. You're not as good as Magic Johnson. You're not as good as Larry Bird.

You're good, but you're not as good as those guys. You know, I had to listen to all this. And that put so much wool on that fire that it kept me each and every day. I'm trying to become the best that I can. It became personal with me. Tough life. That's what life is. Life is going to always be tough.

But just remember, it's up to you to carry on. Remember you owe you something. Continue to believe that. We all have desires and dreams. Make your dream a reality. You look for any kind of messages that people may say or do to get you motivated to play the highest level. You have the power to lose the best.

lead and still come back and back up. If you don't get up, when the count is at nine, you're wanting enough. I've had many rejections. I had many doors slammed in my face, but I didn't give up. I didn't quit, and neither should you. I know you're bleeding, but get up. I know it hurt, but get up. I need you in this moment to get up and try again.

Every word I say it, the sound of a comeback. You have this innate ability, this instinct on the inside, that you can come back from anything. Good times create weak people. Weak people create bad times. Bad times create strong people. Strong people create good times. This comeback is personal because I owe it to myself

It's like Muhammad Ali once said he goes It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up to win And can't nobody stop me but me That's how bad you gotta want it It drives me crazy when people say that they don't have enough time To go to the gym For 45 minutes a day and work out Or do something for 45

minutes to an hour a day to improve if it is physically improve or if it is mentally to improve imagine you read one hour a day about history how much you will learn after 365 hours in one year think about if you study about the history of musicians of composers how much you would know imagine if you will work on the business and some business that you want to develop every day for an hour. Imagine how far along you will go and get. So it drives me nuts because we have,

when people say we don't have the time, we have 24 hours a day. We sleep six hours a day, so it gives you still 18 hours. There's someone shaking the head out here in front, they say probably, I don't sleep six hours, I sleep eight hours, right? But just sleep faster. So we have 18 hours a day, the average person works around 8 to 10 hours.

So let's assume it's 10 hours. So we have 8 hours left. Then you travel around an hour a day, maybe two hours a day. So now you have still six hours left. So what do you do with this six hours? What do we do with the six hours? Then we eat a little bit, then we schmooze a little bit, talk a little bit to people and all that stuff.

people and all that stuff, but you can see how much time there is available if you organize your day. So you got to work hard. I mean, let me tell you something. When I went to America, I went to college, I went and worked out five hours a day, and I was working on construction. Because in those days in bodybuilding, there was no money. We didn't, I didn't have the money for food supplements or anything. So I had to go to work. So I worked in construction. I went to college.

I worked out in the gym and at night from 8 o'clock at night to 12 midnight. I went to acting class four times a week. So I did all of that. There was not one single minute that I wasted. And this is why I'm standing here today.