Hard Times create Hard Men Hard Men create soft times soft times create soft men soft men create hard times when you the hardest thing in life is figuring out who you are and what you want to do for the rest of your life it's a big decision I I'm very blessed and lucky I always knew who I was and exactly what I wanted to do and once you figure that out you wake up every day and you work toward it that's what you do it's a impossible for you to fail if you know who you are what you want to do and you wake up every day and work toward it if you don't fail you're not even trying I'll say it again if you don't fail you're not even trying my wife told me this great expression to get something you never had you have to do something you never did are you not happy or you're only half happy or still to be happy about you're up to job's not finished job finished I don't think so I became obsessed with being the baddest [ __ ] that God ever created am I that I don't care I believe it and I was trying to tell them once you become obsessed with something obsessed it's okay to be unbalanced for a while it's okay don't be all this stuff people say you got to be balanced to be the best in the world at what you do it's not about being a Navy SEAL people the best at what you do you have to be in Balance to find every bit of [ __ ] energy and strength that you have to pull it off we don't kill nobody we don't push nobody we don't make nobody like if you don't want okay live like even yesterday I was talking with them it was it was Saturday and they everybody complained about they tired what do you want all week he was work hard M end of the week if you don't TI it this is good question you have to worry about yourself this is Saturday your sixth day you work so hard of course you're going to tired if you don't want go back to dagistan and stay with your mom she going to give you everyday good breakfast you don't do nothing stay there but if you come here don't complain you want to become best you want to become champion and now you want to say like you're tired who cares you're tired or not nobody care about you even you if you're going to watch fight you just watch fight they walk out Inside the Cage they fight and they live you don't know what happened behind the scenes this is not your business nobody car about this yeah he was tired he have personal problem family nobody because you don't know like you just see how he fight and he go yeah and for this one you have to train so hard if you don't want Halas somebody go back go back to dagistan nobody going to ask about yourself without you or with you there is is always going to be Champions M with your name this is your choice you want to put your name there okay work no bye-bye yeah what was really your work ethic like and for how long did you stay disciplined I mean every day I mean since you know 20 years it was an everyday process and trying to figure out strengths and weaknesses for example jumping ability man my vertical was a 40 it wasn't a 46 or 40 45 um my hands are big but they're not Mass right so you got to figure out ways to strengthen them so your hands are strong enough to be able to Palm a ball and do the things that you need to do uh quickness I was quick but not insanely quick I was fast but not ridiculously fast right so I had to rely on skill a lot more I had to rely on angles a lot more I had to study the game a lot more and uh but I enjoyed it though so like from the time I was I can remember when I started watching the game I studied the game and it just never changed there's a quote from one of my English teachers at La Maran named uh Mr Fisk he had a great quote that said rest at the end not in the middle and that's something I always live by you know I'm not going to rest I'm going to keep on pushing now there a lot of answers that I don't have even questions that I don't have but I'm just going to keep going I'm just going to keep going and I'll figure these things out as it go right and you just continue to build that way so that I try to live by that all the time Les Brown's a motivational speaker he made an analogy about this he says imagine you're on your deathbed and standing around your deathbed are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled potential the ghost of the ideas you never acted on the ghost of the talents you didn't use and they're standing around your bed angry disappointed and upset they say we we came to you because you could have brought us to life they say and now we have to go to the Grave to together so I ask you today how many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes Dam Ro come on what's the matter with you tomorrow tomorrow there is no tomorrow there is no tomorrow there is no tomorrow they know me son get it 18 me son get it 19 me son yeah 20 you got some more [ __ ] good 22 who's going to carry the boats and the logs that's you buddy when I seen that Bentley at the boxing gym and I seen that diamond Rolex I said I want that and I knew what it took so I know when my opponent isleep I'm out there at 4:00 or 5 in the morning chopping trees working to this day cuz I can retire today I'm well off very comfortable but I got the will to win son don't stop for nobody man Sun don't [ __ ] stop Sun going to be up in the morning regardless that Sun is going to be up in the morning regard regardless of how I [ __ ] feel and how depressed I am the Sun is going to [ __ ] shine in the morning and at night time the moon going to be there and you going to look up these days going to keep going by so do you let the days go by and look up and you don't waste of the year doing what what do you just pick it up all right figure it out made some mistakes and life goes on you figure out life from this point I'm a life goes on type of guy sacrifice temporary fun for permanent dreams or sacrifice your permanent dreams for temporary fun and the reality is a lot of you guys are willing to sacrifice your permanent dreams for some temporary fun that temporary fun is never going to get you [ __ ] anywhere cuz I'll tell you this going to the club partying drinking popping bottles are those people going to be there 10 years from now when you're [ __ ] broy wondering what the [ __ ] you did and your most in the years that you were supposed to be productive let me tell you something they won't [ __ ] be there or you can go ahead and sacrifice that fun right now and then be able to build yourself into a situation where you can go ahead and go to the club and it's not going to set you back it's not going to [ __ ] you up because you built a solid foundation you built an Empire up where now you have the privilege that you've earned by the way to go out and do these things I thank God that I sacrificed my 20s being a division one athlete not doing dumb [ __ ] never taking a drug in my life not drinking not doing all that stupid [ __ ] it taught me through the rudimentary basics of masculinity which is what sacrifice discipline getting [ __ ] done regardless of how I feel all these sentiments are things that you need to become successful in other endeavors in life it's supposed to be hard if it wasn't hard everyone would do it the hard makes it great work work work work work no results but I'm a little bit better work work work work work work work work work no results but I'm a little bit better work work work work work no results I'm a little bit better work boom just got paid just got paid and it looks like overnight success it's like oh [ __ ] it happened in year no bro it doesn't but you have to learn how to fail a lot of us have Big Dreams big goals and when you have goals that are maybe outside your reach you have to know that getting to that goal you're going to have a lot of bad days a lot of setbacks so I had to teach myself how to fail right and what that means is when I fail I can't spend much time in that fail Zone I have to be able to get up and get after the next day just as fast I don't have time to stay here and feel bad for myself for weeks and months and years cuz I'll lose that time so the big thing is know that if you have big goals Big Dreams along the way failure is going to happen so how fast do you get up from that you got to teach yourself that you love this game I mean love it with your whole heart because if you don't let's not even bother let's not open that door they're just going to slam it right in our face I love this game I live this game there's a thousand other guys waiting in the wings who are obsessed with this game obsession is going to be Talent every time you got all the talent in the world but are you obsessed is it all you ever think about let's face it it's you against you out there when you walk on that Court you have to think I am the best guy out there there were a lot of days where I did not want to get out of bed and I guarantee you if I ask the question here if everybody is excited to get out of bed every single day if I saw a hand I'm going to blatantly call you a liar cuz we all know that is far from the truth but if you have those little small goals those little small things that get you excited when you don't want to it's going to make it even better and even easier at the end when you're getting ready for a presentation or the end of the year or this or that whatever event you're leading up to it's going to make it so much easier and I think if you look at the greats in anything that uh in any Walk of Life the greats do things when they don't always want to and that that's the separation the mud consumed each man Till There Was Nothing visible but our heads the instructors told us we could leave the mud if only five men would quit only five men just five men and we could get out of the oppressive cold looking around the mud flat it was apparent that some students were about to give up it was still over 8 hours till the sun came up 8 more hours of bone chilling cold the chattering teeth and the Shivering moans of the train KN were so loud it was hard to hear anything and then one voice began to echo through the night one voice raised in song the song was terribly out of 10 but sung with great enthusiasm One Voice became two and two became three and before long everyone in the class was singing the instructors threatened us with more time in the mud if we kept up the singing But the singing persisted and somehow the mud seemed seemed a little warmer and the wind a little Tamer and the dawn not so far away if I have learned anything in my time traveling the world it is the power of Hope the power of one person if you want to be ordinary you ain't even got to listen to me just go on about your business if you think ordinary is cool ain't no problem it's some really really wonderful Ordinary People but if you are sitting in this room and you have extraordinary aspirations then you going to have to do extra you put extra on top of extra on ordinary and you come up with extraordinary it's no other way I'm sorry but here's the fact all of you have extraordinary capabilities all of you you have to decide if you are willing to do the things to put you in that category rich people don't sleep 8 hours a day that's a third of your life it a 24 hours in a day you cannot be sleep 8 hours a day the Bible says he who loves to sleep and the folding of hands poverty will set upon you like a thief in the night it's easy to give easy it's the easiest thing in the world to do I man I'm I'm done I ain't going I ain't going to keep going I don't feel like going to work done easy it's very easy but what's hard is going yo yesterday I got nothing from working as hard as I could nothing happened for I'm going to do the same thing again a day but I'm going to try to go harder that's the hardest thing in the world to get up every day and give 100% And and be in the same position that you were each day but mentally know that you're trying and trying and trying that's that's a real that's a real grind it's so easy to be great nowadays my friend cuz most people are weak most people don't want to go to that extra mile most people don't want to find that extra cuz it sucks it's miserable it's l only it's hard to be comfortable with yourself so it's very hard to be comfortable with other people that's why I always stress with people like you've got to accept yourself for what you've done wrong do your best and also find some difficult [ __ ] to do cuz that gets away a lot of the anxiety that you carry around in your body a lot of like difficult things make regular life less difficult and that sounds so simplistic but particularly physically difficult things because when you do things that are physically difficult the strain of making yourself do those things it's very valuable it's not just valuable like exercise and fitness and martial arts and running and whatever you're doing that's really difficult it's not just valuable in terms of like health and the way you look but it's also valuable for your mind what's the least amount of sleep you play a game on no sleep you played a game with zero SLE zero sleep kids Natalia had a certain you know Health situation or what have you and you stay up all night and then uh you got to go out and perform because fans don't know teammates don't know nor do they care nor should they that you've been up all night you got to perform right and so um you just got just got to go to work man the average man in the world today what he does is so he's like he's like a little girl starts this is fun like a little girl okay then it gets hard okay this is hard and then he goes back to to Tik Tok point or Jerk It Off oh I I triy I try like a little nine-year-old girl so instead you have to be a man and when a man says he's going to do something he does it even IM itar I'm going to build the pyramids it started off relatively easy now I have to lift the bricks all the way up there it's harder but I want to finish the pyramid so I won't stop because I'm a man I'm not going to start and stop and then wait till I feel like doing it again then starting again then stopping again that's J I think finding uncomfortable moments and embracing uncomfortable moments are one of the most important things a person can do in terms of understanding themselves and understanding how they think and if you don't do it if you just didn't avoid it you have that uncomfortable moment you start boozing or you know you take some pills or something and you just avoid it you're you're never going to figure out what was going on in the first place that led you down that weird Road where now you find yourself crying in a fetal position on your bathroom floor like what how didd you get there like are you looking at it or are you just going to take pills 99% of people are not willing to do what it takes to make their dreams come true the Marines have a saying everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die the center of bringing any dream into fruition is self disipline you know some something as simple as food and eating it is not about your your body as much as it is about your mind it's getting command of your mind to be able to choose actions that are in your own best interest every day we are choosing [ __ ] that's not in our own best interest so if the world is attacking you and the world wants to fight you and the world's trying to hold you down so you going to kick yourself in the balls so you don't stop yourself from getting what you dream discipline eats motivation for breakfast you don't need motivation it's great if it arrives it's some extra fuel on the fire but discipline is the thing that you need what would you tomorrow want you today to do you tomorrow would want you to keep that promise to yourself and it's why discipline is so much more valuable your current situation is not your final destination this storm will eventually run out of rain this struggle that seem like it's lasted forever will eventually run out of pain this hurt you will turn into the greatest you this broken you will turn into the best you let these hard times the hardest times in your life turn into your best life let these bad days create your best stay better things are coming for your life your heart will heal your tears will dry your mind will calm this storm will end it will take time but I promise you things will get better sometimes it takes certain things falling apart for better things to fall in the place sometimes it takes losing what you're settling for to remind you of what you truly deserve sometimes it takes the most uncomfortable pass to lead your life to the most beautiful place I know it's hard but you'll never see the purpose of the storm until you see the growth It produced you'll never see the purpose of someone leading your life and see see what's best for your life you'll never understand why you're going through what you're going through until you see the strength the power the growth that it built inside of you great life is in front of you it's not behind you what you did back there ain't got nothing to do with what God got for you what you did back there was learn the lessons to get you to where you are at this particular moment right here but what God got for you do you know man that you can actually mess your life completely up you can jack it all the way up and you can turn around and get it right I lost everything twice I don't know if you've ever lost everything before but I've been bottomed out twice I done seen Rock bottomed two times I've been through some walls up in here man I'm just trying to tell you man God is really with you so if you're in the woods and you don't know where to go start walking you got to start walking because the perspective is not going to change you have to start moving forward you have to start start taking steps in order to improve your vision improve your perspective change your perspective make some kind of progress and worst case scenario you figure out that you walked the wrong direction okay now you can walk in the other direction and that's that's going to be fine but standing there lost and not doing anything is just waiting to die waiting to starve to death you know there comes a day man everyone's going to have this day it comes a day where being average being mediocre is just sickening to you it's just sickening it makes you want to throw up because you've seen people with far less Talent than you as you're growing up with them their childhood buddies whatever else they didn't have what you had yet now they're [ __ ] to become something that you haven't there comes that day it's either when you're young you know and and it strikes you on the baseball field cuz you're sick of striking out or it's it's when you get fired from your fifth job you know and your wife and kids are on your ass cuz they don't know how to support you anymore there comes a [ __ ] day where push comes to Shell where being mediocre being like average and [ __ ] just [ __ ] Burns it sucks so much you can't deal with it one more day and you get off your [ __ ] ass and you create something that's always been there it's always been inside of you trying to come out but you've never wanted to unwrap it cuz it's too much [ __ ] pain and commitment you were scared you going to fail you were scared if you started you never finish it you didn't want to tell anyone about it you knew it was there but you never wanted to embark on it until something [ __ ] hits you get fired or somebody else gets accessory REM you what you could have been and then the [ __ ] spark is born and no matter what happens I'm never going to be in this boat again and you get up and you go even gets knocked down you keep going keep going you're a wild man and life has never been so sweet that can happen in an early age it can happen at a later age it's going to happen to somebody every you know no matter what it's going to happen to you and when it does happen to you than your lucky stars that finally you're alive it's time to unwrap the potential you can be superior man it's within you it's within every single one of us and the people that that have have risen to that level were no different than any one of us it say they believed it and they willing to work their [ __ ] ass off to get it it wasn't about the potential it wasn't about the genetics it was about the perseverance and it wasn't about being the hardest [ __ ] worker in the room that's what got in there and it didn't happen overnight they got knocked down more than the burger stood up but they kept going and kept going and kept going and kept going cuz what else is the alternative to be average again that sucks man and it really sucks when you've tasted success at one point in your life stop running from the potential of what you can be guys it's inside of you it's always been there grab a buddy of yours say man me and you are going to [ __ ] do this together and you going to be on my ass if I start slacking I going to be on your ass I start slacking and I'll never never accept mediocre again I'm always going to give it my 110 [ __ ] percent that's the only thing I can ever say a solid day's work that's all that will ever find peace in if you guys do not do that I promise you your life will haunt you for the rest of your days if there's potential inside of you which you know it's there but you're too scared to tell anyone else about it and you go on and on get old and old and old and old and the windows of my to start to close and you knew it could have been give birth to but you never did it it's a living nightmare dude going to just stay down or you going to get up the only difference the only way to go is up that's what the squat taught me once you go down you got to get up you got to get up you got to get up so I talk myself through this I'm not talented it was life and death either you live or you die which one do you want Tom that was the decision in the corporate life and in the gym but if you want something bad enough if you want something bad enough you can't let anybody tell you you can't do something I'll repeat that if you want something bad enough you can't let anybody tell you you can't do something not even yourself a lot of days I'm like oh you can't do this Tom you can't be as quick as a 30-year-old on the computer [ __ ] let me show you I mean I I would have arguments with myself I could do it people doubted me I doubted myself sometimes too you know what I watched Arnold fall fell down nobody remembers when he fell down when he was you know Arnold wasn't the glorified winner as he was in the first 70 through 75 he got up I'm become a famous film star he became Governor he kept getting up and getting up I saw Trump do the same thing I saw a lot of these guys I admired in business do it and that's what it takes to do anything successfully in life you've got to want it as bad as you want to breathe and if you want it that bad if you're willing to give it that much you get a big piece of what you want and life and dreams do come true anything you want can happen and become a reality I believe that sincerely and I'll die on that thought most people don't have a plan without a plan of your own life you become the plan of someone else's life you're not running the day the day is running you the differential between those people is belief one person with belief overrides a 100 people with just intent if you want it bad enough you find a way if you don't want it bad enough you find an excuse the last I looked the person that finishes the race with their handheld isn't about the uh you know how big they are how tough they are their potential it's their perseverance meaning it's not about the dog that's in the fight it's the fight within the dog you go after things you try them even if you fail you get back up and you continue to try and fail continue to try and fail and ensuring you never fail or try because nothing's impossible just a spell in of impossible it's spelled ossible only weak [ __ ] in life go after things and attend things they already know they can achieve you got to do something you're not for sur try something new if you want to switch it up that's where growth comes man that's where your body is forced to adapt forced to suffer the discipline today so you never suffer the forign regret tomorrow we all fail in life we all hit failure it's a way in which you hand handle failure if you find out destroys or not last I look failure is temporary giv me up that's permanent listen to The Voice from within the energy inside knowing you can be more than this well there are limitations excuses negative energy there just high voltage of positive energy many battles easily won on a daily occurrence but war will never be worn because that war is a better life when everyone else wants to quit I will stand when everyone looks down on me I will stand when everyone thinks that I don't have what it takes I will stand I will stand as long as I can but I will not bow down I will not give up I will do my work I will make everything count each and every day of my life for my life is in my hands and I must be willing to do what I must do to get where I need to be in my [Applause] life I refuse to say that I don't have it I refuse to say that I can't do it I refuse to say that can't matters to me ladies and gentlemen what do can't have to do with you have you ever got to a point of your life where you looked at something you just said I can't do it well guess what ladies and gentlemen you will never do it because you believed in not getting it done you believ that can't matter more to you than you matter to yourself just because you felt it couldn't be done you surrounded yourself with things that did not matter you let other people and other obstacles stand in your way and you refused to challenge yourself you refuse to say this is my day where I must do what I got to do for me for my peace of mind I got to do something I can't wait for it to happen by itself if if I'm looking over here to the left side if I'm looking to the right side hoping for someone to rescue me you're going to be waiting a long time because other people got other things they got to do for themselves so when you're standing alone make sure you have the right mindset within you to know that hey at the end of the day I must stand I I must work I must believe I will fight I will work I will [Music] push and I will never quit on [Music] me this is the time where you must be able to get to a point that you've never been to be able to get to a place that's never been seen before to be able to believe that no one can touch you get inside of yourself get in tune with who you are trust in who you are stop doubting yourself if you really want to be the best of yourself then know that you are the best at what you do because there's no one like you no one can do the things that you do no one can stand like you do no one can take away your power because your power belongs to you so don't give it up don't give it to someone else don't let anything or anyone take away your power don't let anyone steal your peace of mind don't let anyone say that you are not worthy we all have unique gifts we all have special talents we are born to do great things not everybody is going to stand with you not everybody is going to support you not everybody's going to be by your side so when you're standing alone make sure you stand with a pure heart with a great mindset with faith with understanding that you do have something that you must do being alone gives you power from time to time it does not mean that you are in it by your yourself for a long time but just enough for you to be able to rectify something within you and when the time comes for you to get out and show out there's nothing that can stop you because you have developed something within you that no one has ever seen maybe no one would ever understand but as long as you understand it then you keep going you keep trusting you keep believing when it comes to the work ethic that's when you have to dig deeper that's when you have to work harder that's when you have to shut out all the noise and all the naysayers sometime ladies and gentlemen you just have to be quiet and listen to your passion listen to your heart listen to your truth because when it's all said and done when this is all over you are still the only one that is left standing ladies and gentlemen when you get to a point in your life and you feel that you have hit the end of the road when you feel that you don't have the strength to carry [Music] on then you have to find another source of power and strength wherever your mind is right now if it's not building you up if it's not making you better if it's not making you stronger you have to disconnect it 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 stop looking for other people to lift you up when you are down remember many people in the world got just as many problems as you do if not more not everybody cares about your problems not everybody wants to hear your problems sometimes you just got to say you know what it's up to me now I have to be the one to take the steps I have to be the one that make the mistakes I have to be the one that may fail from time to time but I must never give up [Music]