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 you must first believe you can cuz 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 and stop listening to the people who tell you you don't kill the noise what do they know we 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 I was created to have great things and I will no longer ask others for their permission that person who was your hater they thought they defeated you that person who told you you'll never amount anything they thought they defeated you you want me to tell you to give up huh you want me to tell you to quit huh that is that what you want me to say is you you want to hear ET 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 it excuses some of us don't surrender some of us don't give up and give in it's our Dream nobody's going to see it like you do it it's your dream nobody's going to feel it like you feel it it's your dream nobody's going to be as dedicated to it as you are 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 task to make it happen and you can't let anything stop you from doing what you were called to do what we do with the pressure is we say I got to take it I got to take it to another level once you start questioning yourself you 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 [Applause] me you can't
have excuses you can't play the blame game game cuz great people don't make excuses they make up you still must grind I'll never be in the Olympics I'll never be a professional athlete but still I grind I fail at most things I do but still I grind I don't want to do half the I do but still I grind when you working at your dream somebody said the heart of the battle the sweeter the victory oh is sweet to you it's good to you why see you when it's hard there's a struggle see what you
become in the process is more important than to dream no more will I be treated like this no more will I be overweight no more will I be in a job that I hate just decide man what you need to do is to train your mind and focus on the pain you'll get if you don't act listen to me you are in full control of your destiny of your future of your dreams nobody else is responsible for don't you give up on your life don't you give up on those Reps don't you give up on
giving it what it takes to get the most of yourself still I grind and that one day you see me down a dark alley run at 1:00 in the morning no one thing I was grinding [Music] [Music] I didn't get 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 nope I'm 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 cuz I owe it to myself and can't nobody stop me but me you will not destroy us you will not defeat us till 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 it's the same thing like you got to have more and more and more of it just
like when you in poverty you can keep doing it when you become successful so I went with the Master's Degree then when I went with the PHD I just kept we came out with an album I wrote three books are you hearing what I'm telling you now I'm at a point where I'm I'm 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 a Nobel Peace Prize now we trying
to do a reality show telling you you would get from the Dark Side you get from being a loser low self-esteem doubt and fear that you can find your way on this side guys it's sweeter on this side many of you have not activated who you are cuz you don't know what you want execution is worship execution is worship execution is worship execution is worship 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 a whole another level what do you want
and there are those of you in this room you are great you are phenomenal and you 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 you're probably not but it's been given to you [Music] anyway for many of you you're just not tired enough yet you haven't hit rock bottom you're not desperate enough you're not hungry and thirsty enough for it and this is why you can't show up in the world of consistency we get deeply immersed in the whirlpool
of another version of ourselves every single day for me it's deeper than get up at 2: a.m. and grind because I can get up get dressed get in my car get to the gym and sit on my phone and so really the question we have to ask ourselves is are we implementing the information that we know what we've written down what we're listening to what we know to do are we doing it are we implementing many of you are too ambiguous with your future not only are we not aware of who we are but we
have no idea where we're going and why we're going there once we get identity our why and our where our mission our purpose I do the this thing effortlessly I do this thing at 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 in the morning I can lose sleep I can miss a meal you can step out of my life and I'm just going to keep going when it seems as though life has not only got me sliding down a wall but it's knocked me flat on my back all of a sudden I've got a bounce back in me because
I'm disciplined I'm calculated I'm principled I'm aimed I know who I am and I know where I'm going I don't know how many of you need to hear this but this is the hour that you climb out of the depression walk out of this thing run out of this thing claw out of this thing crawl out of this thing but today you come out [Music] be on your craft execute show up forgive love build create believe try again I don't care how good you are and anything you don't have discipline you ain't nobody cuz 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 not but you're disclose 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 wanting to get the best out of yourself not competing with anyone else but you we 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 that's regardless of being a figh anything I'm a man and that's why I want to be a man and if I die I want to die man 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 confidence but I'm scared to death I'm totally afraid I'm afraid of everything I'm afraid of losing I'm afraid of being humiliated but I'm totally
confident closer I get to the ring the more confident I get the closer more confident I get closer more confidence I get but what closer I get to the ring I'm more confident once I'm in the ring I'm a God no one can beat me no one stop the world will know my name till the end of [Music] time they call me the [Music] greatest because I'm a Savage yeah that's who I was I didn't want nothing until I got something and when I said something I inan the [Applause] crown you knew from the beginning
the world was going to know who Mike Tyson was 100% yeah at what age did you know that 14 why why is that because I was beating everybody at 14 more than my skills I had the mindset the kill destroy break them down it's just say I'm the greatest you know success is all about a lifestyle I live the um lifestyle of the champion at 14 in order to be the champ you have to live a lifestyle of 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 if you don't have discipline I don't care how skillful you are you're nothing if you want to be the the best ever while are you here confidence breathes success and success breathes confidence it's all about the belief that you can do it belief is more powerful than anything only thing we could do is just um have that focus and Bel in ourself and believe that I want to be up then anybody in the world wants me to be down and it's all about like I said before self-belief my whole
success um is from belief I just believe in me and um I'm going overcome all my adversity the truth uh set you free but it's going to make you miserable first and that's how we approve 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 impossible is nothing compared to anybody that tries nothing's impossible then confidence breeds success success breeds confidence and confidence applied properly with supersede
a [Music] genius life is just a circle they're going to hate me again one day and then God willing they 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 God we living you have to believe in you and once you believe in you and have a relationship with you there nothing that you can't do you have to be the champion in this to be the champion in this 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 meat listen to me as as 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 listen to what I'm saying I knew what I wanted and the first thing some 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 but if you don't know what you want what are you even waking up for et why why am I not fired up et why am I sleeping in cuz 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 but doors start opening opportunities 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 and so 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 just win one day at time you cannot give up what you got to do is you heard it you heard it Champions keep going when they don't have anything left in their tank that's the difference between the greates 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 are you hearing me it's when you have nothing left it's when you depleted all your money when all your
energy gone when you have nothing left that's when it's showtime when you find a way out of nowhere when you find breath that you don't have when you find energy that did not exist when you want this thing as bad as you want to breathe that's when you find a [Music] way I wish I could tell you you 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 the weight is going to
get light I wish I tell you that but that's not the truth the truth is you got to find something within so I need you to me a favor guys I need you to I need you to win until you know what you want you will not you will not get good rest if you don't know what you want then you've not begun to live yet you got 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 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 no 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 going 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 cuz somebody told you it was going to be a part of your life you need to start rejecting some of the stuff people 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 that's not my life and the reason why I say it's my fault 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 fault it's my problem I'm coming
up with a solution for it can we try are you hearing what I'm saying some of y'all you're not even trying you don't even try to do it 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 it some things you can skill yourself through some stuff you got to whe your way through and where there is no struggle there is absolutely no progress I will come on I will I will come on I will I will
I must I must the M mentality simply means trying to be the best version of yourself that's what the mentality means it means every day you're trying to become better when you have a dream the one thing you have to watch out for are those out there that'll try to crush your dream I once had a gance counts tell me that I shouldn't play basketball that it would never amount to anything for me that's good the black m strikes again one of the NBA's alltime greats right there it is Job's not finished job finished I
don't think so if we want to get to that Elite level really have to put in the work day in and day out this man played with a broken finger and won a championship hand I play games with the flu I play games with 102° fever man Bryant has not sat tonight he is literally Lally on his last leg right now when the game is more important than the injury itself you don't feel that damn injury every time I step on a basketball court I'm going to put a strong effort out there on the floor
I'm I'm not going to leave anything on the floor M the toughness that you need to get in there and get the job done are you getting better every single day that's the question the key factor for me was wasn't whether or not I was ready it was the fact that if I wasn't ready I was determined to figure out how to get ready at the end of every day you look yourself in the and you ask yourself did I get better today so I challenge you to have your dream go after it with all
you have and uh be legendary in your own right my name is Kobe Bryant don't you ever forget it it's a great feeling to know that you set a goal and you were able to reach that goal and to knock it down those times when you get up early and you work hard those times when you stay up late and you work hard those times when you don't feel like working you're too tired you don't want to push yourself but you do it anyway um that is actually the dream that's the dream it's not the
destination it's the journey and if you guys if you guys can understand that then what you'll see happen is that you won't accomplish your dreams your dreams won't come true um something greater will it's it's amazing thing about passion if you love something if you have a strong passion for something you would go to the extreme to try to understand or try to get it whatever you have a love for if you have to walk you will go get it if you have to beg someone you'll go get it I don't think you guys understand
how present you guys were with me you know you guys were there with me at 5:30 in the morning when I was running the track and I was midway through my workout and I didn't know if I could make it through and I thought about the expectations you guys had for me and you had for our team and it pushed me through it got me through those 800s and 400s and 100s at 5:30 in the morning so I thank you we're not on this stage just because of Talent OR ability we're up here because of
4:00 a.m. we're up here because of two a days we're 5 a days we're up here because we had a dream and let nothing stand in our way if anything tried to bring us down we used it to make us strong we were never satisfied never finished we'll never be retired my high school English teacher Mr the fist he had this beautiful quote and and it read rest at the end not in the middle and I took that to heart I believe there's time for resting at the end but for me that time is not
now thank you for this tremendous honor acknowledging my basketball career but I'm far from done my next dream is to be honored one day for inspiring the next generation of athletes to have a dream sacrifice for it and never ever rest in the middle rest at the end not in the middle be yourself that's it be you be you there's no gimmick there's no you don't have to contrive anything who are you where are you today what is your story where does that come from and uh if you guys can understand that that I'm doing
my job as a father thank you guys so much I love you Mamba [Applause] out 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 [Music] happen they must happen but we must carry on 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 got to carry on so when it gets tough you got to get tough 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 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 have something that is special and unique about you I dare you to show the world something ain't never seen before about you I dare you to stand up I dare you to breathe life into your purpose I dare you to do it dare you to be strong dare you to be a
man I dare you to be a woman I dare you to be the one that they never even knew exist all you got to do is just stand on what you do pain passion Focus Faith you put it together you will be an Unstoppable Force everybody's great when they not tired this is when they tired that's when the real champions come out out that's when a real dog come out it's where I think the real truth comes out cu 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 stress that happens when we're there I feel I'm the best ever it's not bragging AB bosing the proof is in a put in my mind I'm always the best I am the greatest FAL of all time and when I hit you with a hard right hand you will pause you got to win tomorrow you 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 until someone does it maybe it has
never been done before that's perfectly fine with me but I'm going to do it never say never because limits like fears are often just loser hungry dogs run faster 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 to and that's the separation it means you have to be more disciplined than not disciplined 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 being smiling when
you go medals 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 for me I believe that 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 vicious and most ruthless Champion there ever been there's no one can stop me I'd
like to take this chance to apologize to absolutely nobody maybe someone's don't like me because I'm maybe I'm too good you win some you lose some but you live you live to fight another [Music] day you've never looked at yourself in the mirror and say you let you down until you get to that point you let you down tell me what you complained about Winners complain winners want to hit themselves talk Champions do not complain why because they're focusing on what they said they wanted to do as a goal so so the only thing you're
missing now is are you willing to get up and do the work well we going we going we going to complain y'all we going to work you have a chance to control your destiny that my friend is the American dream not a Cadillac I need you to give you your best come on I'm pleading with you look I'm going say it one more time I need you to give you your all I didn't say your kids I didn't say your spouse I didn't say your best friend I need you for the next 30 days to
give you every single thing you got so do me a favor do you want it or not the truth is you got to find something within you got 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 have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror and said I'm not getting up on time I'm not going to work on time I'm not putting in 120% when I'm at work I let me down you are a champion think like
[Music] one I value myself enough to give 120% or don't do it [Music] [Music]