YOU VS YOU - Best Motivational Speech Video (Featuring Dwayne 'THE ROCK' Johnson)

my number one competition is me it's always you versus you you have to work hard everybody in this room knows if it's worth something to you you got to put in the effort and I always like to say it's the work we put in when nobody's watching that really matters you versus you you got to be the one to get up every morning be disciplined put in the consistent daily hard work because that gains success cuz my old man taught me that right got to work get your ass in the gym at work how hard

do I work I I work hard you have a insane schedule 4:00 in the morning I wake up 4:30 4:45 I'm doing some sort of cardio it's still dark outside I do this and then I'll have breakfast and then I will go gym for about an hour and then I'll go to set like I'm going to be the baddest mother walking you got to be the hardest workers in the room and don't the opportunity out what I have found is that when you take that kind of action and that kind of Step of following your

gut and your intuition taking that step whatever it is Universe has a funny way of meeting you halfway realize there's more and think more think for more you don't have to be just this man the work ethic the drive that hunger to compete it never goes away the person I compete with most is just me it's you versus you I I can trace back my work ethic to we had a little efficiency apartment in Hawaii um and we were evicted out of there couldn't pay the rent the rent was $280 a month we eventually got

kicked out when we got kicked out I was 15 years old I'll never forget it I was standing there at the door there was the notice in that moment I saw my mom crying and that kind of pain really impacted me and I thought then I want to do everything that I can to make sure we never get evicted like this again and make sure that she is never this upset [Music] again I didn't even know what that meant at 15 years old it just meant I have to work I have to work I have

to do something with my own two hands this is the stuff that you can control we control the controllables as we say the other part is a competitive nature that is in My DNA and it's in my blood where I love the competition I love to win and I also love to to I love to learn I don't say loose I say I love to learn so I would say it's a combination of that for me the work ethic comes from I never want to be evicted again the other side to that is a competitive

nature and that that competitive nature that never goes away the thing that has worked for me is to remember the hard times I would remember that and it allows me then to be present in the moment and understand holy the stuff I have around me right now this is a that I dream of when I was a kid for me the drive just comes from wanting to do more I've gotten really lucky and fortunate over the years to have accomplished what I've been able to accomplish but again the hunger doesn't go away I like to

say I got a full plate but I could always make room for the stuff I love when I wake up in the morning I have got to be running towards the thing that I want to do and not walking towards it not I really don't feel like doing this or God why did I I got to be running to it and I realized that if I'm able to do that get up in the morning and run to it then I'm in that place of joy and happiness it's the grind that we love and sink our

teeth into and just go and get after it cuz I've worked hard to get here whatever it is that you want to do youve got to get after it you you got to get after it there's no substitute for hard work hard work always pays because a lot of times you go down the road and you know there's the phrase you have to walk by faith and not by sight a lot of times you walk by faith not sight nor experience and you just don't know when I first started my wrestling career I got there

in the WWE and I have a meeting with Vince McMahon and Vince says okay he said what's important to you and I said well what's important to me is learning the business even though I grew up in professional wrestling still so much to learn and and I want to be good I want to be really good at what what I do and put in the time and put in the work in a way and I mean this respectfully I said I'd like to do it on my own I don't want to I don't want to

be handed anything or given anything just because my grandfather wrestled for Vince McMahon's dad in the 70s my dad wrestled for Vince McMan in the80s and I said I mean that respectfully I just feel like I want to do it on my own but we all go through our own journey and process so there's something I think that we all can tap into that becomes our Je and our wiring for me you bring up my old man my dad was professional wrestler at a time when professional wrestling I think wasn't as globally renowned as it

is today my my dad was paycheck to paycheck kind of guy and when I decided to get into professional wrestling we had the biggest fight about it and ultimately he said look I I I'm not too sure if you have anything to offer I mean it got to that level along the road of life we always have these moments that are seminal moments where somebody sometimes it's a loved one like my old man sometimes it's a friend sometimes it's a boss some sometimes it's a stranger who says you can't do it you're not good enough

don't even try pack your stuff and go home my back is up against this mother every day it's against this wall but it's up against this [ __ ] cuz it's what I believe in and when my back is against this [ __ ] then there's nowhere to go but that way that's it just because it's never been done doesn't mean it can't be done get your ass kicked get back up and you put the gloves back on and you swing away when I got to Hollywood I was coming out of the world of professional

wrestling WWE and I was really determined hopefully to have a career that had longevity and I was willing to put in the work and commit what I realized at that time was there was a lot of naysayers and there was a lot of cynicism as I was getting into Hollywood and I get it it was a little tricky because I was coming out of the world of professional wrestling when I got there a lot of people around me at that time who were my part of my management team said listen if you really want to

make it in Hollywood and even those who weren't part of my team you know now looking back I could see the chest that they were trying to play back then they said if you really want to make it in Hollywood then you can't call yourself the rock you got to lose weight uh don't talk about wrestling you have to and you have to look and walk and talk and act like these guys and these guys are the biggest stars in the world at that time Johnny Depp Will Smith Etc if you don't know any better

you buy into that stuff like I bought into that back then but then you start to realize something starts to eat at your gut about well this just doesn't feel right because I'm not being authentic I'm not being myself so finally I said um a few years later I said I can't do this anymore I have to be myself I said I'd like to have the same career as these guys only bigger and different and I mean it respectfully and they all looked at me like I had three heads I'm not these guys I'm not

a Johnny Depp I'm not a Will Smith I'm Not A George clany those guys who were big stars at that time I'm me and the most important thing I could be is authentic and if I at least I fail then I fail being myself so I got to be me [Music]