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# Kobe Bryant's Greatest Speech | BEST Motivation Ever
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00:00:00.080 i had a purpose i wanted to be one of

00:00:01.839 the best basketball players to ever play
00:00:04.560 and anything else that was outside of
00:00:07.040 that lane
00:00:08.080 i didn't have time for
00:00:09.150 [Music]
00:00:12.080 there's a quote from one of my english
00:00:14.559 teachers a little marion named uh
00:00:16.640 mr fisk he had a great quote that said
00:00:19.439 rest at the end not
00:00:20.480 in the middle and that's something i
00:00:23.119 always live by
00:00:24.720 you know i'm not going to rest i'm going
00:00:26.480 to keep on pushing now
00:00:27.760 a lot of answers that i don't have even
00:00:31.119 questions
00:00:31.920 that i don't have but i'm just going to
00:00:33.680 keep going i'm just going to keep going
00:00:35.600 and i'll figure these things out as you
00:00:36.880 go right you just continue to build that
00:00:38.719 way
00:00:39.280 so that i try to live by that all the
00:00:40.879 time at what age did that goal become
00:00:44.239 crystal clear
00:00:45.280 i made that deal with myself at 13 years
00:00:47.440 old at 13 years old 13 years old
00:00:50.079 clear about it crystal clear and where
00:00:51.840 did inspiration come from
00:00:53.600 um the love of the game the love of the
00:00:56.640 game the challenge like i
00:00:58.000 would watch magic play i'd watch michael
00:01:00.160 play
00:01:01.199 and i would see them do these
00:01:02.320 unbelievable things and i'd say you know
00:01:04.879 can i get to that level i don't know but
00:01:08.240 let's find out let's find out and so
00:01:10.960 that curiosity to see
00:01:12.479 where i could push this thing let me
00:01:14.560 down that path i think
00:01:16.080 i had a summer where i played basketball
00:01:17.920 when i was like 10 or 11 years old
00:01:19.920 and here i come playing and i don't
00:01:22.560 score one point
00:01:24.080 the entire summer not a free throw not a
00:01:26.560 nothing not a lucky shot not a breakaway
00:01:28.640 layup
00:01:29.040 zero points and i remember crying about
00:01:31.360 it being upset about it my father just
00:01:32.880 gave me a hug and said listen
00:01:34.640 whether you scored zero or score 60 i'm
00:01:37.439 gonna love you no matter what
00:01:39.040 wow that is the most important thing
00:01:41.680 that you can say to a child
00:01:43.520 because from there i was like okay it
00:01:45.680 gives me all the confidence in the world
00:01:47.040 to fail
00:01:48.000 i have the security there but to hell
00:01:50.640 with that
00:01:51.520 i'm scoring 60. from there i just went
00:01:53.520 to work i just
00:01:54.720 stayed with him i kept practicing kept
00:01:56.240 practicing came project
00:01:58.240 i think that's when the idea of
00:02:00.000 understanding a long-term view
00:02:02.320 became important because i wasn't going
00:02:04.479 to catch these kids
00:02:05.680 in a week i wasn't going to catch them
00:02:06.960 in a year right so that's when i sat
00:02:09.038 down and said okay
00:02:10.000 this is going to take some thought all
00:02:11.760 right what i want to work on first
00:02:13.840 all right shooting all right let's knock
00:02:15.280 this out let's focus on this half a year
00:02:17.040 six months
00:02:17.680 do nothing but shoot right after that
00:02:19.840 all right creating your own shot and
00:02:21.120 then you focus so you start i started
00:02:22.480 creating a menu of things
00:02:24.160 when i came back the next summer i was a
00:02:25.599 little bit better i scored yeah it
00:02:27.040 wasn't much
00:02:27.920 right but i scored this is 12 13 12 13.
00:02:30.879 then 14 came around
00:02:32.400 back half of 13 14 years old and then i
00:02:35.840 was just
00:02:36.640 killing everyone and it happened in two
00:02:38.800 years and i wasn't expecting to happen
00:02:40.160 in two years but it did
00:02:41.280 because what i had to do was work on the
00:02:43.200 basics and the fundamentals
00:02:45.360 well they relied on athleticism and
00:02:47.840 their natural ability
00:02:49.440 and because i stick to the fundamentals
00:02:51.519 it just caught up to them
00:02:53.120 and then my body you know my knees
00:02:54.800 stopped hurting i grew into my frame
00:02:56.800 and then it was game wow
00:03:00.319 were you always competitive from the day
00:03:02.879 you were born you were super competitive
00:03:05.200 uh competitive with things that i
00:03:08.239 i participate in so i like i'll put it
00:03:10.400 to you this way so like
00:03:11.440 you know basketball for me was the most
00:03:14.560 important thing
00:03:16.560 so everything i saw whether it was tv
00:03:19.360 shows whether it was books i read
00:03:21.680 people i talked to everything was done
00:03:24.400 to try to learn how to become
00:03:26.239 a better basketball player everything
00:03:28.560 everything and so when you have that
00:03:30.159 point of view
00:03:31.440 then literally the world becomes your
00:03:33.519 library
00:03:34.640 to help you to become better at your
00:03:36.319 craft so at 13 years old i had a
00:03:40.959 i had a kill list and so
00:03:44.080 you know they used to do these rankings
00:03:46.159 it was street and smith
00:03:47.440 basketball rankings and i was nowhere to
00:03:50.080 be found
00:03:50.640 because i was like six four scrawny like
00:03:53.200 160 pounds soaking wet
00:03:55.439 so i was like 57 on the list
00:03:58.560 and so i will look at 56 55 all the way
00:04:00.959 up to number one
00:04:01.920 who these players are what club teams
00:04:04.959 they played for
00:04:06.000 so when we go on an aau travel circuit i
00:04:09.120 i got to hunt them down right and so
00:04:11.760 that became my mission in high school is
00:04:14.080 to
00:04:14.560 check off every other person all those
00:04:16.959 56 other names
00:04:18.798 hunt them down and knock them down so we
00:04:21.358 played at 13 i would size you up
00:04:23.440 and see what your strengths and
00:04:24.560 weaknesses are how do you approach the
00:04:26.400 game are you silly about it are you
00:04:28.000 goofy about it are you good at it just
00:04:29.680 because you're bigger and stronger than
00:04:30.960 everybody else
00:04:32.160 or is there actually thought and skill
00:04:34.000 that you put into it
00:04:35.600 right and when i play i'd play to my
00:04:37.440 weaknesses i always work on the things
00:04:39.280 during those games that i was weak at
00:04:41.360 left hand pull up jump shot
00:04:44.400 post game right so i have a strategy
00:04:47.919 what was really your work ethic like and
00:04:50.000 for how long did you stay disciplined
00:04:52.400 um well i mean i mean every day i mean
00:04:55.919 since you know
00:04:56.720 20 years it was an everyday process and
00:04:59.199 trying to figure out shrimps and
00:05:00.320 weaknesses for example
00:05:02.160 jumping ability now my vertical was a 40
00:05:04.560 wasn't a 46 or 40
00:05:06.320 45 my hands are big but they're not
00:05:09.600 massive
00:05:10.479 right so you got to figure out ways to
00:05:12.000 strengthen them so your hands are strong
00:05:13.840 enough to be able to palm a ball and do
00:05:15.360 the things that you need to do
00:05:17.039 uh quickness i was quick but not
00:05:19.600 insanely quick
00:05:20.880 i was fast but not ridiculously fast
00:05:23.440 right so i had to
00:05:25.520 rely on skill a lot more i had to rely
00:05:28.400 on angles a lot more i had to study the
00:05:30.320 game
00:05:30.960 a lot more and uh but i enjoyed it
00:05:33.840 though so like from the time i was
00:05:35.600 i can't remember when i started watching
00:05:37.120 the game i studied the game
00:05:39.199 and it just never changed what does
00:05:40.960 losing feel like to you
00:05:43.360 oh it's exciting why is it exciting
00:05:48.000 because it means you have different ways
00:05:51.440 to get better there are certain things
00:05:52.960 that you can figure out that you can
00:05:54.800 take advantage of
00:05:56.240 right certain weaknesses that were
00:05:58.000 exposed
00:05:59.360 um that you need to shore up right so it
00:06:02.240 was exciting i mean it
00:06:04.319 sucks to lose but the hardest thing is
00:06:06.240 to face that stuff
00:06:09.120 that's a really really tough challenge
00:06:11.680 how did you get
00:06:12.720 mentally and emotionally so strong where
00:06:16.080 it doesn't bother you well you know it's
00:06:18.639 you got to look at the reality of the
00:06:20.080 situation
00:06:20.960 you know like for me it's not you know
00:06:22.960 you kind of got to get over yourself
00:06:25.039 right and then after that it's okay well
00:06:27.120 why did those air balls happen
00:06:30.240 got it i didn't have the legs so you
00:06:32.880 look at the shot
00:06:33.840 every shot was online every shot was
00:06:36.000 online but every shot was short
00:06:38.960 right i got to get stronger i gotta
00:06:40.960 train differently the weight training
00:06:42.639 program that i'm doing
00:06:43.680 i gotta tailor it for an 82 game
00:06:47.120 season so that when the playoffs come
00:06:48.800 around my legs are stronger and that
00:06:50.319 ball gets there
00:06:51.440 so i look at it with rationale and say
00:06:54.319 okay well the reason why i shot air
00:06:55.759 balls because my legs aren't there
00:06:57.199 i got all next year they'll be there you
00:07:00.000 have to do the hard stuff
00:07:01.599 and watch that game and study that game
00:07:04.880 to not make those mistakes over and over
00:07:07.120 again
00:07:08.080 just because you weren't brave enough to
00:07:10.000 face it so you got to deal with it
00:07:12.000 got to deal with it face it learn from
00:07:13.759 it you don't want to have that feeling
00:07:15.360 again do you
00:07:16.000 right so you got to really study it and
00:07:17.680 face it and uh not to say you'll win the
00:07:20.080 next time you face but your least
00:07:21.360 you'll give yourself a better better
00:07:22.880 chance yeah it's an obsessiveness
00:07:26.160 that comes along with it you want things
00:07:27.680 to be as perfect as they can be
00:07:29.440 understanding that nothing is ever
00:07:30.639 perfect but the challenge is try to get
00:07:32.800 them as perfect as they can be
00:07:34.960 and what can you do it's in your control
00:07:37.919 so control what you can
00:07:39.759 you have this mindset but how did you
00:07:41.360 develop that i don't know if that's what
00:07:43.520 you call a mom of mindset but how did
00:07:45.039 you develop that
00:07:47.360 and when did it start it started in
00:07:50.479 middle school and high school because a
00:07:52.720 lot of the kids that i was playing
00:07:54.000 against
00:07:54.560 were inner city kids and so you're
00:07:56.800 looking at me
00:07:57.680 as if okay this kid's soft they felt
00:07:59.680 like they could try to be physical or
00:08:01.120 try to intimidate me and do all this
00:08:02.479 other stuff which they couldn't
00:08:03.919 right but now i'm saying okay well
00:08:05.759 you're trying to attack me how am i
00:08:07.039 gonna attack you
00:08:08.160 how can i mentally figure out ways to
00:08:11.280 break you down how can i show you that
00:08:13.199 no i have the edge
00:08:15.039 right and so that's when it first
00:08:16.720 started for me is figuring out
00:08:18.560 how to get the upper hand on an opponent
00:08:20.080 that way and what would you do to
00:08:21.919 mentally break people down
00:08:23.280 then one of the things i would do is
00:08:25.039 while everybody would be at the
00:08:26.000 cafeteria work you know eating and doing
00:08:27.680 all sorts of stuff i just go back to the
00:08:28.960 job
00:08:29.520 so that was my way of showing them yeah
00:08:32.399 i may be
00:08:33.519 from the suburbs but you're not going to
00:08:35.760 outwork me
00:08:36.559 wow like i see a lot of players
00:08:39.760 take vacations with other players that
00:08:41.679 are close friends
00:08:43.120 and or just take vacations just to take
00:08:45.120 vacations or just hang out just to hang
00:08:47.040 out like i
00:08:47.680 i'm not i never did that
00:08:49.420 [Music]
00:08:51.519 why why didn't you do that well because
00:08:53.760 when i retire i didn't want to have to
00:08:55.680 say
00:08:57.120 i wish i would have done more
00:09:00.240 i don't want that i play games with the
00:09:02.880 flu i play games with 102 degree fever
00:09:05.200 man
00:09:05.760 we had a game against toronto in 2000
00:09:10.959 and vince was tearing the league up
00:09:14.080 my back was jacked jacked
00:09:17.360 so i would be in a layup line like okay
00:09:19.519 there's a lot of days
00:09:20.959 where you know you can rest and recover
00:09:22.959 today ain't one of them
00:09:24.399 your back can bother you any other day
00:09:26.640 that ain't bothering me today we're
00:09:28.240 gonna
00:09:28.640 he gonna have to see me today you're
00:09:31.839 playing
00:09:32.720 against the golden state warriors score
00:09:35.519 is 107
00:09:36.800 109. you guys are close to getting into
00:09:40.080 the playoffs
00:09:41.519 you know exactly what happens in the
00:09:43.120 game you go up
00:09:44.640 you're about to take your shot and then
00:09:46.080 all of a sudden boom
00:09:47.920 achilles happens right friend of mine
00:09:51.600 nema he is here just to listen to he
00:09:54.880 played ball
00:09:56.240 and he told me says patrick i don't
00:09:57.760 think you understand he says when i tore
00:09:59.760 my achilles in high school
00:10:01.760 there's four friends of mine dragged me
00:10:04.320 to my husband i was
00:10:05.600 crying from there straight to the
00:10:07.120 hospital he says i have no clue
00:10:08.720 how the hell this guy did it
00:10:11.760 he went and hit the free throws and then
00:10:13.600 you walked
00:10:14.800 off the stage how the hell do you
00:10:17.839 tolerate that kind of pain
00:10:20.160 uh you know i i use this i tell this
00:10:23.760 example
00:10:24.480 and i think this is the best way to
00:10:25.839 explain it
00:10:27.760 you know you have a hamstring injury you
00:10:30.640 pull your hamstring really really
00:10:32.079 badly you can barely walk right let
00:10:35.120 alone play anything
00:10:36.560 you're at home all of a sudden a fire
00:10:38.880 breaks out in the home
00:10:41.040 right your kids are upstairs
00:10:44.240 wife is wherever she may be you know
00:10:47.040 going down
00:10:47.920 i'm willing to bet that you're going to
00:10:50.079 forget about your hamstring you're going
00:10:51.600 to sprint upstairs
00:10:52.880 you're going to grab your kids you'll
00:10:54.800 make sure your wife's good you're
00:10:55.920 getting out of that house
00:10:57.200 and the reason is because the lives of
00:11:00.079 your family
00:11:01.120 are more important than the injury of
00:11:03.680 your hamstring
00:11:05.440 and so when the game is more important
00:11:07.440 than the injury itself you don't feel
00:11:09.440 that
00:11:09.920 injury not at that time
00:11:12.959 i went in the trainer's room my kids are
00:11:14.560 in there and you know they're looking at
00:11:16.959 you and stuff and i'm looking at them
00:11:18.720 and i'm like you know it's all right
00:11:20.320 that's going to be all right it'll be
00:11:21.839 fine
00:11:22.240 it'll be all right it'll be all right
00:11:23.519 it'll be all right as a parent you got
00:11:25.440 to set the example
00:11:27.120 you got to set the example this this is
00:11:28.880 another obstacle
00:11:30.399 this obstacle cannot define me it's not
00:11:32.720 going to me it's not going to
00:11:34.480 be responsible for me stepping away for
00:11:37.600 the game that i love i'm going to step
00:11:39.279 away
00:11:39.760 on my own terms and that's when a
00:11:42.560 decision was made that you know what
00:11:44.160 i'm doing it you got to lead by example
00:11:47.680 as parents you got to lead by example if
00:11:49.519 you want your kids to do
00:11:51.440 whatever it is they want to accomplish
00:11:52.880 in life you have to show them
00:11:55.519 you got to show them the definition of
00:11:58.000 greatness is to
00:11:59.040 inspire the people next to you yeah i
00:12:01.600 think that's what greatness
00:12:02.800 is or should be it's not something
00:12:04.880 that's that
00:12:06.079 that lives and dies with one person
00:12:09.200 is how can you inspire a person to then
00:12:11.600 in turn inspire another person
00:12:13.200 that inspires another person and that's
00:12:15.360 how you create something that i think
00:12:16.639 lasts forever
00:12:17.920 and i think that's our challenge as
00:12:19.600 people is to
00:12:22.240 is to figure out how our story can
00:12:24.320 impact others and motivate them in a way
00:12:26.399 to create their own greatness