OUTWORK EVERYONE - Kobe Bryant (Motivational Video)

There's a quote from one of my English teachers, a little Marian named uh Mr Fisk, she 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 pushing now there's a lot of answers that I don't even have questions that I don't have but I'm going to keep going I'm going to keep going and I'm going to figure these things out as you go. I just keep building that way, so I try to live by that all the time.

It had a purpose. I wanted to be one of the best basketball players to ever play and anything else that was outside of that lane that I didn't have time for. At what age did that goal become very clear? I made that deal with myself at 13 years old at 13 years old 13 years clear about it very clear and where the inspiration came from um the love for the game the love for the game the challenge like I watched Magic Play, I watched Michael play and the I saw them doing these incredible things and I said, you know, can I get to that level?

I don't know, but let's find out. I had a summer where I played. basketball when I was like 10 or 11 years old and here I come playing and I didn't score a point all summer. I remember crying about it and being upset about it. My father just gave me a hug and told me: listen, if you score zero or score 60 I'm going to love you no matter what happens wow that's the most important thing you can say to a child because from then on I thought okay, that gives me All the confidence in the world to fail, but to hell with that.

I have a score of 60. From there I just got to work. I stayed with it. I kept practicing. I kept practicing. I kept practicing. I think that's when the idea of ​​understanding the long-term vision became important because I wasn't going to catch these kids. in a week I wasn't going to catch them in a year, so that's when I sat down and said, okay, this is going to take some thinking, okay, what do I want to work on first, okay, shoot, okay, let's get this out of the way. focus on this half a year six months I did nothing but shoot when I came back the following summer I was a little better I got a score yes it wasn't very good but I got 12 13. then came 14, half of 13 14 years old and then I was killing

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all I had to do was work on the basics and the fundamentals, they relied on athleticism and their natural ability and since I stick to the fundamentals it just caught up with them and then my body, you know my knees stopped hurt, I grew up and then it was a game, right?

Wow, now you were always competitive from the day you were born, you were super competitive, uh, competitive with the things that I participate in, so I like it, I'll tell you that. In this way, you know that basketball for me was the most important thing, so everything that I watched, whether it was television shows, whether it was books, whether it was books, whether it was reading people that I talked to, everything was done to try to learn how to become a best basketball player, everything, everything and So when you have that point of view, then literally the world becomes your library to help you get better at your craft, so at 13 years old I had a kill list and you know who used to make these classifications.

Street and Smith basketball rankings and they couldn't find me anywhere because I was like six four skinny like 160 pounds soaking wet so I was like 57 on the list so I'm going to look at 56 55 until I get to number one who are these players. Do I have to hunt them correctly? So that became my mission in high school: to mark all the other people. All those other 56 names, hunt them down and take them down so I can evaluate yourself and see what your strengths and weaknesses are. How do you approach the game? Are you stupid about it?

Are you stupid about it? Are you good at it just because you're bigger and stronger than

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else? Or is there really thought and skill that you put into it correctly and when I play? I would play with my weaknesses, you always work on things during those games where I was weak with my left hand, I would lift the jump shot, a play post to the right, so I have a strategy, yeah, how Was it really your work ethic and for how long? stay disciplined, I mean every day, I mean, since you know, 20 years ago, it was a daily process and trying to figure out strengths and weaknesses, for example, the ability to jump, man, my vertical was a 40, no it was a 46 or 40 45, my hands are big but you're not huge, so you have to find ways to strengthen them so that your hands are strong enough to be able to hold a ball and do the things that you need to do.

Speed. I was fast, but not incredibly fast. I was fast, but. It's not ridiculously fast, 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, so from the time I was, I can't. You remember when I started watching the game, I studied the game and it never changed how you feel about losing. Oh, it's exciting because it means you have different ways to improve. There are certain things that you can discover and that you can take advantage of.

True, certain weaknesses that were exposed, you need to shore up, but the most difficult thing is to face those things. You have to look at the reality of the situation. You know for me it's not like you know you have to get over yourself. and then after that it's okay, well, why did those air balls happen? Got it, I didn't have legs, so I look at it groundedly and say, okay, well the reason I shot air balls is because my legs aren't there, I have to do it. I'm sure they will be there, I have to get stronger, you have to do the hard things and watch that game and study it so you don't make those mistakes over and over again, you have to face it face to face, you have to face it, face to face, learn from It sucks to lose, you don't want to have that feeling again, are you okay?

So you have to really study it, deal with it and, um, I don't want to say you'll win the next time you fake it, but at least you will. give yourself a better chance, yes this is an obsession that comes with that, you want things to be as perfect as possible, understand that nothing is perfect, but the challenge is to try to make them as perfect as possible and what can you do? It's under your control, so control what you can. I don't know if that's what you call the mom mentality, but how did you develop that and when did it start?

It started in middle and high school because a lot of the kids I was playing against were inner-city kids, so you look at me like okay, this kid is soft, they felt like they could try to be physical or try to be physical. bully me and do all those other things they couldn't try. to attack me, how can I attack you? How can I mentally find ways to bring you down? How can I show you no? I have the advantage and what would you do to mentally take people down. So one of the things I would do.

It's just that everyone would be in the cafeteria working, you know, eating and doing that kind of stuff. I just go back to the gym, so that was my way of showing them that you're not going to

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me. Wow, I see a lot of players taking vacations with others. players who are close friends and/or just take vacations just to take vacations or just hang out just to hang out like me, I never did, why didn't you do so well? Because when I retired I didn't want to. I have to say I wish I had done more.

I don't want to play with the flu. I play with a 102 degree fever. We had a game against Toronto in 2000 and Vince was destroying the league for me. It was jacked jacked so I would be in the layup line like well there are a lot of days that you know you can rest and recover today, that's not one of them, your back can bother you any other day that doesn't bother me today. He's going to have to see me today You're playing against the Golden State Warriors You're about to shoot and suddenly, boom, yeah, Achilles tendon happens, my friend Nema, he says I have no idea how the hell this is.

The guy did it, he went and made the free throws and then you walked off the stage, how the hell did you tolerate that kind of pain? You know, I use this. I tell this example and I think this is the best way to explain it. Know? you have a hamstring injury you pull your hamstring very, very bad you are at home suddenly a fire breaks out in the hole i bet you are going to forget about your hamstring you are going to run upstairs you are going to grab your children you will make sure that your wife is okay by leaving that house safely and the reason is because the life of your family is more important than the injury to your hamstring and so when the game is more important than the injury itself you don't feel that injury not at that moment so you go to the locker room and then one of the reporters says but if someone is going to get through this you're probably right, you hang your head and say oh man, right, and you have tears in your eyes , yeah, what were you thinking and all that pressure?

I was thinking I don't know if I can do this. I don't know, there are so many factors, there is the surgery that has to be done. The surgery has to go well and then think about what the recovery process will be like. It is long. I want to do that. I don't know. I don't know if I want to do it. I don't know. You don't know if you want to do it. If I can do it, I don't know if I want to do it. I understood it when I walked into the coach's room, my kids were there and you know they're looking at you and stuff and I looked at them and said, "You know it's okay, dad will be fine as a father, you have to lead by example, you have to lead by example, this is another obstacle, this obstacle cannot define me, it will not be for me, it will not be responsible for me walking away from the game that I love, I'm going to walk away on my own terms and it was then when the decision was made that you know what I'm doing, yes, you have to set the example as parents, you have to set the example if you want your children to do what they want to achieve in life you have to show them that you do the work, You work hard enough, dreams come true, you know we all know that, but hopefully, what you'll get out of tonight is the understanding that those times when you get up early and work hard, those times when you stay . you wake 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's actually the dream that's the dream it's not the destination it's the journey and if you guys can understand that, then what you will see happen is that you will not achieve your dreams, your dreams will not come true, something bigger, I think the definition of greatness is inspiring the people who are next to you.

Yes, I think that is or should be greatness. It is not something that lives and dies with a person. It's how you can inspire one person to then inspire another person, that inspires another person and that's how you create something that I think lasts. forever, yes, and I think that is our challenge as people, is to discover how our story can impact others and motivate them in a way to create their own greatness, what can I say mamba?