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don't mean nothing. Tired

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tell yourself you're tired, you're going to be tired. I

1:43

don't get tired. I'm going to

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beat you. I'm going to let

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want you to reconsider your professional life choice.

1:52

My father who raised me, his thing was,

1:54

son, you may not be the best, but

1:56

leave everything on the floor. You put 120%.

1:58

I'm just asking you to do 120, like

2:00

every day when you come in, 120. You

2:02

got to want it so bad. You

2:04

got to give all of yourself to get it. You

2:07

got to be obsessive. Because

2:10

I didn't grow up with things being handed

2:12

to me. I had to work hard,

2:14

I had to dedicate myself, and I

2:16

had to be determined, and I was. The

2:20

bottom line is that if you're talking about

2:22

beating everybody else on the planet to a

2:24

thing, what you're actually talking about is what

2:26

are you prepared to sacrifice? Psychologically,

2:29

physically, existentially,

2:31

relationally, socially, in

2:33

terms of your self -esteem, your confidence,

2:35

everything, right? All of that. That pain

2:37

you feel? That's a pain

2:39

in success. You must

2:41

be willing to shoulder that

2:43

pain to get success. The

2:45

success is something that's a

2:47

very lonely path in this

2:49

world. There's fewer willing to make that down

2:51

payment of pain, that futurement of success is

2:53

better to life. Very few are. So

2:56

if you want to be the top, you

2:58

got to move different. There

3:00

wasn't a lot of smiley faces with

3:02

me out there. There wasn't a lot of

3:05

smiley faces with Michael Jordan. There weren't

3:07

a lot of smiley faces with Kobe Bryant.

3:09

There weren't a lot of smiley faces

3:11

with Tiger Woods. Even when I watch sports

3:13

today and see these guys on the

3:15

range, like they're all buddies and I'm like,

3:17

that's not the killer instinct. That's

3:20

just not. I don't think Muhammad Ali or Mike

3:22

Tyson were trying to be friends with anybody. I

3:24

think they were going out there on a mission. And

3:26

if there was someone in their way, they had to crush

3:28

her. There's never any doubts in my mind, because I'm the

3:30

best in the world, even though a lot of you don't

3:32

like to hear it. I just, it's fast, I'm the best,

3:34

you know what mean? I sometimes, I don't want to believe

3:36

in myself, but it's the truth, I'm the best. You

3:39

can love. At

3:48

the end of the day, even Alexander, one

3:50

of his famous quotes is, I have met the

3:52

enemy, it is I, right? although

3:55

that is one element of

3:57

an enemy. That's great,

4:00

we need that. Michael had

4:02

it, Brady had it,

4:04

Kobe had it, but there's

4:06

a crazy psychologically, you

4:09

can call it, you

4:11

know, psycho competitor that

4:13

they're constantly in the

4:15

search of recruiting their

4:17

next enemy. It's

4:19

like, you know, life is boring

4:21

if I don't have my next target.

4:24

You know, I'm almost, you know, bad

4:26

for myself if I don't have

4:28

the next target, the next enemy. And

4:31

if I choose it the right way, then I'm able

4:33

to bring out a side of me I've never seen

4:35

before. Success is the only

4:37

revenge. As you expand, they shrink

4:39

into irrelevance. As you get louder,

4:41

no one can hear them. You

4:43

don't beat them, you cast a shadow so

4:45

big, no one can see them to begin

4:47

with. And that's what it

4:50

comes down to, like, what are you willing to

4:52

sacrifice at the end the day? You know, people don't

4:54

understand the level of sacrifice it's going to take.

4:56

And there's been moments where I realized that I compete

4:58

because I want to win. I love

5:00

winning. I love being the best in the world. I've sat many

5:02

times trying to find the balance of what I want within

5:04

all this. If I was losing, I wouldn't be

5:06

competing. I'm here to win. It

5:08

is hard. It's

5:11

hard. when you're young to wake up

5:13

in the off season at 6 a .m.

5:15

to go train and work out, knowing that

5:17

all your friends are sleeping in and

5:19

eating pancakes. It's hard when you're

5:21

on your way to practice, way down

5:23

with all your gear, and it's 90 degrees

5:26

out and all the other kids are

5:28

at the pool or at the beach. No

5:30

matter who you are, there

5:32

are bumps and hits and

5:35

bruises along the way. And

5:37

my advice is to prepare

5:39

yourself because success and achievement

5:41

come from overcoming adversity. When

5:44

the rest of the world says no

5:46

to you, you

5:48

say yes to

5:51

yourself. You say

5:53

yes, I believe. You

5:55

say yes, I can do

5:58

it. You say yes, nothing

6:00

can stop me. If

6:02

you want to be a great player, if you play every single

6:04

day, two, three hours, every single

6:06

day, for a course of a year,

6:08

how much better you get? Most

6:13

kids will play maybe, you know,

6:15

an hour and a half, two days

6:17

a week. It's not gonna

6:19

get it done. You

6:22

have to be obsessive. You

6:25

have to be obsessive. You have to

6:27

be addicted. You have to be disciplined.

6:29

The key there is you. Everyone

6:31

else is looking for other

6:34

individuals to do stuff for

6:36

you. Stop looking for fucking

6:38

help from everybody else. Okay,

6:40

it starts and it ends

6:42

with you. Your identity

6:44

starts and it ends

6:47

with you. Every

6:49

day is an opportunity based on your

6:52

choices on how you look at things.

6:54

The choices you make every day. That

6:57

is what you are in the mirror to that.

7:00

From the captain to the cashier,

7:02

there is more in you. Stay

7:04

at home, father, stay at home,

7:06

mother, lawyer, doctor, hygienist, author. I

7:08

don't know who you are, where

7:10

you're from, but there's more in

7:13

you that becomes a part of

7:15

who you are, that changes how

7:17

you think, that changes how you

7:19

move, that changes how you behave.

7:21

If you could become an executor,

7:23

if you could execute, I'm coming

7:25

to learn it. I'm coming to

7:28

put it deep within. You

7:30

had to realize that there's always work to

7:32

do and you want to be the hardest working

7:34

person in whatever you do and you'll put

7:36

yourself in a position to be successful. Muhammad

7:39

Ali said, suffer now and

7:41

live the rest of your

7:43

life a champion because he

7:45

knew that the training wasn't

7:47

killing him. The training was

7:50

making him. It was forging

7:52

him in fire. I

7:54

got the trust that

7:56

nothing out there can stop

7:58

Who I am inside. You

8:01

got to stand on your faith.

8:04

You got to stand on your strength. You

8:06

got to stand on who you are. I

8:10

will rise again and I

8:12

will push. I

8:14

will be the victorious one.

8:16

I will conquer. Listen

8:18

to me, if you work for it, if

8:20

you want to put in that sweat, that blood,

8:22

and those tears, baby, I'm telling you, you

8:24

can have what you want, be what you want,

8:26

do what you want, are you hear me?

8:28

Don't give up, don't give in, you hang in

8:31

there, you hang in there, because if you

8:33

quit right now, you ain't gonna never see it,

8:35

you ain't gonna never get it, but if

8:37

you hold on, baby. But

8:39

if you hold on, if you

8:41

hold on, everything you dreamed of,

8:43

everything you envisioned, everything you worked

8:45

for, it's coming. If you

8:47

work hard, you can't have it. It ain't nothing

8:49

you can't have. You deserve it. It ain't

8:51

nothing you can't have if you willing to work

8:54

for it. Look

8:57

yourself in the mirror and

8:59

ask yourself how much more can

9:01

you take? What

9:04

tried to kill you

9:06

only made you stronger? So

9:10

what are you waiting for? You

9:13

have greatness within

9:15

you. Everybody's

9:19

great when they're not tired. This

9:21

is when they're tired. That's when the real champions

9:23

come out. That's when a real dog come out.

9:27

It's where I think the real truth comes out

9:29

because I think there are a lot of people

9:31

who are very talented who can make it there.

9:33

There are very few people who can deal with

9:35

the pressure and stress that happens when we're there.

9:37

I feel I'm the best ever. It's

9:39

not bragging or boasting. The proof is in

9:41

the pudding. In my mind, I'm

9:43

always the best. I am

9:46

the greatest fighter of all time.

9:49

And when I hit you with a hard

9:51

right hand, you will

9:53

fall. got to win

9:55

tomorrow. You've got to win right now. If you're passionate

9:57

about what you're doing, keep going,

9:59

keep believing, reach for the stars. Everything

10:02

is always impossible

10:04

until someone does it.

10:08

Maybe it has never been done before. That's

10:11

perfectly fine with me. But

10:13

I'm gonna do it. Never

10:17

say never. Because

10:19

limits, like fears, are

10:22

often just an illusion. Hungry

10:26

dogs run faster! And

10:28

let the bit dogs eat! If

10:31

you look at the greats in any walk

10:33

of life, The greats

10:35

do things when they don't always

10:37

want to. And that's the

10:39

separation. It means

10:41

you have to be more disciplined than

10:43

not disciplined. I wanted to be

10:45

the best I could be, period. I

10:48

was waiting for you to smile at

10:50

some of the compliments you didn't. Smiling

10:53

doesn't win you gold medals. I'm

10:57

too fast, I'm too skillful, and I'm gonna show

10:59

everybody I've been watching this show in the whole

11:01

world, and the world will bow, and admit that

11:04

I am the greatest of all times, when you

11:06

see what I do to George Foreman. I

11:09

believe that whatever I put my mind to,

11:11

and if I was willing to make sacrifices,

11:13

and I was dedicated, that I

11:15

could achieve absolutely anything. I'm

11:17

the best ever. I'm the most brutal of

11:19

those vicious and most ruthless champion they've ever been.

11:21

There's no one can stop me. I'd

11:23

like to take this chance to apologize. Absolutely

11:26

nobody! Maybe

11:29

it's someone who don't like me

11:31

because maybe I'm too good. You

11:35

win some, you

11:37

lose some. But you live.

11:40

You live to fight another day. And

11:51

I've always believed like I'm the Michael

11:53

Jordan of this industry. When I'm on

11:55

the air, I'm the one that will

11:57

make you want to hear from me.

11:59

I don't care who I'm on the

12:01

air. I don't care who it is.

12:03

It does not matter to me. By

12:05

the time I finish speaking, I am

12:07

the one that you're going to want

12:09

to listen to. That's my attitude. If

12:14

this requires 100 % and you

12:16

give me 99, I might want

12:18

to fire you because I'm not

12:20

I'm about getting the job done.

12:23

It's about the results. And I

12:25

think that, you know, unfortunately, when

12:27

we look at our generation today,

12:29

not enough people preach about that.

12:31

Because I think that we live

12:33

in a society where people have

12:35

become masters at pointing the finger

12:37

at other people as to reasons

12:39

why things don't get done. I

12:41

think there's too much explanation that

12:43

goes on. But

12:45

the bottom line is you ain't getting it done.

12:48

And if you're not getting it done, I

12:50

need somebody that can get it done. I

12:54

am of the belief that if you

12:56

truly, truly adopt that belief in your

12:58

soul, then you walk to work every day

13:00

not looking for excuses. You're looking for

13:02

a way for the job to get done.

13:04

And in most instances, you are going

13:06

to be successful than not. You

13:09

want to go with status

13:11

quo. You're perfectly fine with

13:13

flowing along, just to get

13:16

along, safe, secure, whatever.

13:18

But when you're trying to

13:20

win, you're constantly looking to get

13:22

better. My philosophy

13:24

is very, very simple when it

13:26

comes to my family, particularly, you

13:28

know, me being a dad. If

13:30

they're hungry, it's because I'm starving.

13:33

I don't eat until they eat.

13:35

I'm not comfortable until they're comfortable.

13:37

I don't have unless they have.

13:40

That's the mentality, and that's the

13:42

mentality that I strictly get from

13:44

my mother. And so for me, you

13:46

know, having that kind of mentality,

13:48

but what comes with that? What comes

13:50

with that is a certain work

13:53

ethic. that you have to put forth

13:55

and it's a willingness to sacrifice.

13:57

Am I the most disciplined person in

13:59

the world? No. Am I the

14:01

most meticulous person in the world like

14:03

some people would believe? No, I'm

14:05

meticulous enough and I'm disciplined enough but

14:07

I think the key thing is

14:09

is that the bottom line is everything

14:11

to me and whatever the bottom

14:13

line requires is what I'm going to

14:16

do. If the bottom line requires

14:18

an excessive level of discipline I'm going

14:20

to do it but to me

14:22

It's whatever the moment or the situation

14:24

demands. And it's I'm a bottom

14:26

lines oriented kind of person. You

14:30

don't assume that opportunities are waiting

14:32

for you. You know obstacles are

14:34

standing at every door. And so

14:37

that challenge that you have to

14:39

embrace and you have to deal

14:41

with, that's hard to deal with

14:43

when you have achieved. You

14:47

don't work hard to play hard. You

14:49

work hard to have the ability to

14:51

play when you want to. There's

14:54

a difference. You

14:56

handle your responsibilities first. And

14:59

when you work hard and you have that sense

15:01

of pride, it goes right

15:03

out the window if you utilize your

15:05

efforts in the wrong fashion. But when

15:07

you do what's right, and it's

15:09

based off of that effort that you

15:11

put in, then you feel good

15:13

about it because you took care of

15:15

your responsibilities, then you can go play.

15:19

And I was not always

15:21

confident. There's no doubt about

15:23

that. I've always had my

15:25

insecurities. What I firmly

15:27

believed in as it pertained to me

15:30

was that I always worked hard. I

15:33

was never lazy. I

15:35

was always somebody that

15:37

believed in hard work.

15:42

Betting on yourself is believing in

15:44

you. Knowing who you

15:46

are, when you're worth. Having an

15:48

idea about it anyway and willing

15:50

to work towards that to validate

15:52

that reality. That's betting

15:54

on yourself. It's

15:57

your job. And

16:00

if you can't do it,

16:02

you scratch, claw, and

16:04

even die trying. We

16:10

make excuses every day. All of us

16:12

as human beings. On

16:15

far more occasions than not, I

16:17

have to speak on the issue

16:19

of accountability as it pertains to

16:21

the entire sports world. And when

16:23

it comes to the issue of

16:25

accountability, I get all of

16:27

that from my own. It

16:30

happened with ESPN when

16:32

my contract wasn't renewed

16:34

back in 2008. I

16:36

was sitting at the hours. I felt betrayed. I

16:39

felt ticked off. My mother

16:41

let me lick my wounds for a couple of days. And

16:43

then she said, what could you have done better? You sure

16:46

you didn't do anything? And I thought about

16:48

all of a sudden, like, what is she talking about? This

16:50

is just not true. This is not right. I work

16:52

hard. I do this. I do that. And then I started

16:54

thinking about it. Yeah,

16:56

I was a pain in the ass. I

16:58

did kind of complain a little bit too much.

17:01

But the biggest thing that I remember

17:03

doing is that I always came

17:05

to the bosses with problems. I

17:08

never came to them with solutions. It

17:11

was always about the problem,

17:14

never the solution. And

17:16

I learned when I sat back and

17:18

reflected on the mistakes that I had

17:20

made in my career at the time, I

17:23

learned that no boss wants

17:25

to talk to anybody that

17:27

doesn't have solutions. Instead

17:31

of working around the clock

17:34

trying to figure out what

17:36

somebody else wants from you,

17:38

good or bad, There

17:40

are moments that crystallizes it

17:42

for you in your mind. Pay

17:44

attention and you'll see what

17:46

they are and you'll know what

17:48

to do accordingly. That

17:51

is what I believe makes me the

17:53

best. It's my

17:56

commitment to excellence

17:58

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18:00

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