Dare to DREAM BIG | Motivational Speech by Kobe Bryant

rest at the end not in the middle and that's something I always live by not going to rest I'm going to keep on pushing now a lot of answers that I don't have even questions that I don't have I'm just going to keep going and I'll figure these things out as you go right and you just continue to build that way so that I try to live by that all the time have a dream sacrifice for it and never ever rest in the middle when I get up in the morning my daughter goes with me

4 AM 4 AM my 15 year old goes with me she goes with me before school and becomes a daddy daughter thing that's cool through that process she understands the value of hard work and so it's through those behaviors is where I find the motivation I think the definition of greatness is to inspire the people next to you you know I think that's what greatness is or should be it's not something that's that that lives and dies with one person is how can you inspire a person to then in turn Inspire another person that then

inspires another person that's how you create something I think lasts forever it's not sit around and all it's all happy your lucky time if your leader your job is to get the best out of them gotta deal with it face it learn from it it's exciting when you win it's exciting when you lose because the process should be exactly the same but the hardest thing is to face that stuff but what if today is the day that you that's it now what do you do you want to accomplish something I'm not just going to sit

here and say yes you can do whatever you want yes you can but you have to also put in the work to get there and when you grow up as a kid thinking that the world is your oyster all things are possible if you put in the work to do it you grew up having that fundamental belief my father was really influential at a really critical time where I had a summer where I played basketball when I was like 10 or 11 years old and here I come playing and I don't score one point the

entire summer not one you need to score once not one were you in the game I was in the game how did you not score because I was terrible not a free throw not a nothing not a lucky shot not a breakaway layup zero points and I remember crying about it and being upset about it my father's gave me a hug and say listen whether you score zero or score 60 I'm gonna love you no matter what wow that is the most important thing that you can say to your child because from there I was

like okay it gives me all the confidence in the world to fail I have the security there but hell with that I'm scoring 60s let's go right right and from there I just went to work I just stayed with it I kept practicing kept practicing I think that's when the idea of understanding a long-term View became important because I wasn't going to catch these kids in a in a week I wasn't going to catch him a year right so that's when I sat down and said okay this is going to take some falling right we

all want to work on first all right shooting all right let's knock this out let's focus on this half a year six months nothing to shoot right after that all right creating your own shot start I started creating a menu of things when I came back the next summer I was a little bit better [Music] and then 14 came around back half of 13-14 years old and then I was just killing everyone and it happened in two years and I wasn't expecting to happen in two years but it did because what I had to do

was work on the basics of the fundamentals but they relied on athleticism and their natural ability and because I stick to the fundamentals it just caught up to me and then my body you know my knees stopped hurting I grew into my frame and then your athleticism once you have the fundamentals that the hard work the mindset and you tackle me a lot of things wow been you have to make certain decisions of okay what buttons do I need to push for this player to get them to the next level so it's never it's not

sit around and all it's all happy or lucky the leader your job is to get the best out of it even if they may not like it I don't I don't deal with people that don't commit at that level but then act as if they do