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Kobe Bryant’s Best Speech 2.0 | GREATEST Motivation Ever
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I've always said that I wanted to be
remembered as a player that didn't waste
a moment didn't waste a day and
uh um I felt Extremely Blessed U by the god-given
god-given
talent at the same time I didn't take
take it for granted at [Music]
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all the most important thing for me is
to leave no stone unturned get better
every single day and if I live that way
then over time you know I'd have
something that was beautiful but that
was my philosophy it seems like a pretty
simple one but you know if you live your
life to just get better every single day
and do that for 20 years I mean what do
you have my kids at two could do a lot
of things MH right at two I could
dribble a basketball I could shoot a
basketball on the Nerf hoof at the house
and I would go to practice with my
father I would observe my father I'd sit
and watch games with him and so was he
your first coach um yeah man I guess you
could say that you know a lot of things
I learned by being just being around the
game right so by the age of six I was
already strategizing versus other
six-year-olds my
brain cannot it cannot process failure
it will not process failure
um because if I have
to if I sit there and have to face
myself and tell
myself you're you're you're a failure
I think that's that's a
worse that's almost worse than
death at 13 years old and I played the
longer game cuz my game wasn't about
being better than you at 13 it was to be
better than you when you know the chips
are really on on the line so when we
played at 13 I would size you up and see
what your strengths and weaknesses are
how do you approach the game are you
silly about it are you goofy about it
are you good at it just because you're
bigger and stronger than everybody else
right is your actually thought and skill
that you put into it right and when I'd
play I'd played in my weaknesses I
wouldn't played in my strengths I played
my weaknesses cuz when you're playing
summer basketball there's so many games
so there's not a lot of skill work being
done so when are you going to get better
right when you're playing in competition
situations you're only playing to your
strengths why because you want to win
right so what I would do I was work on
the things during those games that I was
weak at left hand pull up jump shot uh
post game right so I have a strategy and
so then fast forward to when I'm 17 and
my game is completely well-rounded and
that player at 13 that I saw at 13 is
still doing the same at 17 now you
got a problem what was really your work
ethic like and for how long did you stay
disciplined um well I mean I mean every
day I mean since you know for 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 wasn't a 46 6 or 4
45 um my hands are big but they're not
massive 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 we were playing against
the Lakers Tom and we were out here in
La you know like I always try to outwork
people right that's just how I made my
mark so the game was at 700 I was like
you know what I'm going to come to the
stap center cuz we're playing this one
Lakers had Kobe and sha okay this is
this is like the championship Lakers I
like you know I'm going to get there at
3:00 and I want to make sure I make 400
made shots before I go back into the
room and then I sit in the sa and I get
ready for the game so you know get in
the car get to the gym get there and as
I'm walking onto the court who do I see
I see Kobe Bryant already working out so
once I set my foot across that line I
started working out and so I worked out
for a good hour hour and a half and when
I came off after I was done I sat down
and of course I still heard the ball
bouncing I look down I'm like this guy's
this guy's still working out he was
working out like it looks like he was in
a dead sweat when I got here and he's
still going and it's not like his moves
are nonchalant or lazy he's doing like
game moves you know um I sit there and I
unlace my shoes I'm like I want to see
how long this goes I sit out there and
watch another 25 minutes and he got done
I said okay I think I've seen enough go
play you know come back get in the sauna
get ready for the game that game he
drops 40 on us okay and after the game
is over I'm like I I have to ask this
guy I I have to understand like why why
he he works like that so after the game
was I'm like hey Co like why why were
you in the gym for so long he's like cuz
I saw you come in and I I I wanted you
to know that it doesn't matter how hard
you work that I'm willing to work harder
than you you know basketball for me was
the most important
thing so everything I saw whether it was
TV shows whether it was books I read
people I talked to everything was done
to try to learn how to become a better
basketball player everything everything
and so when you have that that point of
view then literally the world becomes
your library to help you to become
better at your craft you have to do the
hard stuff and watch that game and study
that game to not make those mistakes
over and over again just because you
weren't brave enough to face it got to
deal with it got to deal with it face it
learn from it and all those little
things and it sucks but but you don't
want to have that feeling again do you
right so you got to really study it face
it and uh not to say you winning the
next time you f but at least you you'll
give yourself a better a better chance
yeah so when you think about the
greatest players of all time 90 80% of
them have God gift of natural Talent
ability body right so Jordan 48 in
vertical right you got the big hands
right you got
LeBron right you have Shaquille O'Neal
right then magic 69 point guard with vision
vision
be standard M if I give you 66 and then
took every 66 guard in the NBA and NBA
history you would never find him right
you would never find Kobe cuz he didn't
have big hands right he wasn't quick he
wasn't fast 38 in vertical that's
standard like if you don't have a 30in
vertical you you you you're not even a
shooting guard in today's game right and
what he did with that body it's like you
took you took a
S500 and he was pushing it like a Botti
mhm that's what we look at we look at
the normal person fighting Gods yes
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
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 just going to keep going and I'll
figure these things out as we go right
and you just continue to build that way
so that I try to live by that all the
time you're playing against the Golden
State Warriors score is 107
109 you guys are close to getting into
the playoffs you're about to take your
shot and then all of a sudden boom falls down
down
again he's struggling he's at the line
to shoot free throws so he can't be
taken out of the game right now right
after you were injured you went on
Facebook and you posted a lengthy blog
this is such BS all the training and
sacrifice just flew out the window with
one step that I've done millions of
times the frustration is unbearable the
anger is Rage why the hell did this
happen makes no damn sense now I'm
supposed to come back from this and be
the same player or better at 35 how in
the world am I supposed to do that I
have no clue maybe I should break out
the rocking chair and reminisce on the
career that was maybe this is how my
book ends yeah maybe father time has
defeated me then again maybe not there
are far greater issues and challenges in
the world than a torn Achilles stop
feeling sorry for yourself find the
silver lining and get to work with the
same belief same drive and same
conviction as
ever one day the beginning of a new
career Journey will commence today is
not that day if you see me in a fight
with a bear pray for the bear I wanted
to be one of the best basketball players
to ever play and anything else that was
outside of that lane I didn't have time
for at at what age did that goal become
crystal clear I made that deal with
myself at 13 years old at 13 years old
13 years old that's the deal made clear
about it crystal clear and where did
inspiration come from um the Love of the
Game the Love of the Game the challenge
like I I would watch Magic play I'd
watch Michael play
and I would see them do these
unbelievable things and I'd say you know
can I get to that level I don't know but
let's find out let's find out and so
that Curiosity to see where I could push
this thing led me down that path I think
we were in Vegas for the start of
training camp and we're getting ready
for the Olympics in Beijing we're going
to head to Beijing and I wanted to
establish myself as a young leader on
the team by waking up bright and early
day one so the goal was to be the first
one at breakfast so I set my
alarm I make sure I'm up by Sunrise I
get out of bed I put on my gear and I head
head
downstairs but when I get there Kobe's already
already
there with ice packs on his knees
drenched in
sweat now it took me a minute to figure
it out but this guy wasn't only awake
before me he had already worked out he
had just played in the finals days
earlier meaning
meanwhile I'd been off for months and I
was still
exhausted what he had done that morning
was incomprehensible to me that
dedication he had only days after
falling short of an NBA
championship that taught me something
I've never
forgotten Legends aren't defined by their
their
successes they're defined by how they
bounce back from their failures doubt is
such a strange thing I mean it's um you
know be times where you succeed and
there times that you
fail so waste wasting your time doubting
whether you're going to be successful or
not is
pointless it is and you just put one
foot in front of the other you control
what you can't control and then you see
what the outcome is right if you win
great you're going to have to wake up
the next day and do the journey over
again if you lose sucks but you're going
to have to wake up the next day and do
the journey all over again anyway those
times when you get up early and you work
hard those times when you stay up late
and you work hard those times s 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 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
something greater will I think the
greatest fear that we face is ourselves
actually you know I think it's um it's
not anything that's external or anything
that's superficial I think the greatest
fear you face is yourself because you
know we all have dreams and and it's
very scary sometimes to accept the dream
that you have and it's scarier still to
say Okay I want that it's scary because
you're afraid that if you put your heart
in Soul into it and you fail then how
are you going to feel about yourself
right so being Fearless means putting
yourself out there and going for it no
matter what go for it not for anybody else
else
but for
yourself if your job is to try to be the
best basketball player you can be right
to do that you have to practice you have
to train right you want to train as much
as you can as often as you can so if you
get up at 10:00 in the morning train at
11:00 right 12 say 1200 train at 1200
train for 2 hours 12:00 to 2 um you have
to let your body recover so you eat
recover whatever you get back out you
train start training again at 6:00 train
from 6:00 to 8:00 right and now you you
go home you shower you eat dinner you go
to bed you wake up you do it again right
those are two sessions right now imagine
you wake up at 3:00 you train at 4:00
you go 4: to 6 come home breakfast relax
so so now you're back at it again 9: to
11: right you relax and now a sudden
you're back at it again 2 to 4 and now
you're back at it again you know 7 to n
look how much more training I have done
by simply starting at 4: right and so
now you do that and as the years go on
the separ insiration that you have with
your competitors and your peers just
grows larger and larger and larger and
larger and larger and by year five or
six doesn't matter what kind of work
they do in the summer they're never
going to catch up cuz they're 5 years
behind right so it makes sense to get up
and start your day early because you can
get more work in if I start earlier I
can train more hours and I know the
other guys aren't doing it because I
know what their training schedule is
right so I know if I do this
consistently over time
the gap's just going to widen and widen
and widen and widen and widen and they
won't be able to get that back so to me
it was just common sense I'm like
thinking how can I get an advantage oh
start earlier and this is right after
that playoff game we flew back to LA
that night and I got home it's probably
like 3:00 in the morning and I went down
to the high school which is down the
street from our house and the janitor
let me in the gym and I shot all day
all day I mean all day and um I didn't
leave the gym I just kept shooting
shooting and shooting and shooting and
shooting and shooting and practicing and
practicing and uh I got a chance to let
out the steam of disappointing my
teammates and millions of fans I got a
chance to let all that out instead of
bottling it up and envision that moment
over and over and over and over and over
that that was a huge summer for me
because I I um I felt like everybody had
written me off after those air balls you
got a lot of people playing their hard
ear money to come watch you perform it's
your job to be in shape it's your job to
be strong enough to perform at that
level every single night and as a
competitor I'm not I'm not ducking
like it's not oh my God my back hurts
I'm sore we got to play Vince Carter and
Toronto Raptors tonight we actually had
this happen we had a game against
Toronto and in 2000 and Vince was
tearing the league up um my back was
jacked jacked like the perception of
that like what Kobe's missing a game against
against
Toronto Vince Carter because my back was really
really
spasming but people will be like what oh
he's ducking Vince excuse me no I don't
think so so I would be in the layup line
like okay there's a lot of days where
you know you can rest and recover today
ain't one of them your back can bother
you any other day that ain't
bothering me today we going he going to
have to see me today yeah am man yeah a
lot of the kids that I was playing
against were inner city kids and so they
looking at me as if okay this kid is
soft right he's from the suburbs of
Philadelphia his father played in NBA
played professionally got it easy got it
easy born on second you know all this
sort of stuff right and so they felt
like they could try to be physical or
try to intimidate me and do all other
stuff which they couldn't right but now
I'm saying okay well you're trying to
attack me how am I going to attack you
how can I mentally figure out ways to
break break you down how can I show you
that no I have the edge right and so
that's when it first started for me is
figuring out how to get the upper handle
on an opponent that way and what would
you do to mentally break people down
then we used to have an All-American
camp that I used to go to and you know
at the time when I first showed up was a
sore and um one of the things I would do
is everybody would be at the cafeteria
work you know eating doing all other
stuff I just go back to the gym I just
go back to the gym they be resting they
and they see me leave right but now
you're in a tough position cuz you're
like okay I want to be like I'm
following the kid to go work out but I
know he's working he's up early and he's
doing all this s stuff so that was my
way of show of showing them yeah I may
be from the suburbs but you're not going
to outwork me wow and I'm mentally going
to did someone teach you that was that
just a thing that you decided like I'm
going to get in people's mind
um I think it's just it's just figuring
out ways to to to be better what does
losing feel like to you uh it's
exciting why is it
exciting um because it means you have
different um ways to get better there's
certain things that you can figure out
that you can take advantage of right
certain weaknesses that were
exposed um that you need to shore up
right so it was exciting I mean suck to
lose right but at the same time their
answer is there you just look at them um
cuz you get the information from losing
more than from winning probably yeah
yeah I mean the answers are there when
you win too you just have to look at
them yeah right so it's a constant
process it's exciting when you win it's
exciting when you lose because the
process should be exactly the same
whether you win or you lose as you go
back and you look and you find things
that you could have done better you find
things that you've done well that worked
figure out how did they work why did
they work and how you make him work
again yeah and uh but the hardest thing
is to face that stuff I think the best
way to prove your your value is to work
it's to learn it's to absorb um to be a
sponge you always want to outwork your
potential you know as hard as you
believe you can work you can work harder
than that and that's what I tried to do
when I first came in the league but you
know basketball is such a direct
competition Sport and me coming in at 17
I hated when like my teammates say you
know I get hit with an elbow right Shaq
would hit me with an elbow in practice
and like you
know Nick Van XEL would come up and say
are you okay what
what M are you okay the hell is wrong
with you you know so like I always had
that extra chip on my shoulder so like
every day in practice for me was really
trying to annihilate everybody that was
that I was playing against cuz I wanted
to prove you don't need to babysit me
like I I'm fine you know Mama 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 and it's
a constant Quest it's an infinite Quest
so starting at the age of two when I
first started playing the game and on
and on and on I always ask questions I
always try to get better every single
day the lesson I cherish the most is how
important it is to love what you do if
you love what you do and it's making you
happy all the hard work and perseverance
will pay off when you know you're truly
giving it your all there is no greater
feeling in the
world I once had a gallons counselor
tell me that I shouldn't play
basketball that it would never amount to
anything for
me you know what much to your
surprise I took that counselor's
advice I took it and I used it to be the
best basketball player I could be his
negativity towards me Made Me Stronger
you can't stop people from trying to
limit your dreams but you can stop it
from becoming a reality your dreams are
up to
you I encourage you to always be curious
always seek out things you love and
always work hard once you find it so
with that I'll let you carry on with
your evening please know I'm thinking of
you supporting you and encouraging you always
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