Kobe Bryant's Greatest Speech | BEST Motivation Ever

I had a purpose: I wanted to be one of the

best

basketball players to

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play and anything else that was outside of that lane that I didn't have time for. There's a quote from one of my English teachers, a little marion 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 are many answers that I don't even have. Questions I don't have, but I'll move on. I'm going to go ahead and figure these things out as you go.

You just continue to build that way so that I try to live by that all the time at what age that goal became very clear I made that deal with myself at 13 years old at 13 years old 13 years clear about it and where the inspiration came from um the love of the game the love of the game, the challenge, like I'd watch the magic game, I'd watch Michael play and I'd watch them do these amazing things and I'd be like, you know? Can I reach that level? I don't know, but let's find out. And then that curiosity to see where I could push this led me down that path.

I think I had a summer where I played basketball when I was like 10 or 11 years old and here I come playing and I don't score a point. All summer not a free throw or anything not a lucky shot or a breakaway layup zero points and I remember crying about it being upset about it my father just gave me a hug and said listen if you scored zero or 60 I'm going to tell you I love no matter what happens wow that is the most important thing you can say to a child because from then on I said okay, it gives me all the confidence in the world to fail, I have the confidence there, but to hell with that. with a score of 60.

From there I just went to work, I just stayed with it, I kept practicing, I kept practicing, the project came, I think that's when the idea of ​​understanding a long-term vision became important because I wasn't going to catch these kids in a week. I wasn't going to catch them for 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. Let's focus on this. half a year six months do nothing but shoot immediately after that, okay, create your own shot and then concentrate to start.

I started creating a menu of things when I returned the following summer. It was a little better. I scored, yes, it was. Not very good, but I got a score that is 12 13 12 13. Then came 14, half of 13 14 years and then I was killing

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yone and it happened in two years and I didn't expect it to happen in two years, but I did it because I did it. What I had to do was work on the basics and the fundamentals, they relied on athleticism and their natural ability and because I stuck to the fundamentals, it just caught up and then my body, you know, my knees stopped hurting, I grew. in my frame and then it was a game, wow, were you always competitive from the day you were born, were you super competitive, uh, competitive with things that I participate in, so I like it, I'll put it to you this way, so do you know basketball for me? was the most important thing, so everything I watched, whether it was TV shows, books, reading people I talked to, everything was done to try to learn how to become a better basketball player, everything, everything, and 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 I had a kill list and you know they used to make these rankings they were Street and Smith basketball rankings and I was nowhere.

I found him because he was like six four skinny like 160 pounds soaking so he was like 57 on the list so I'll look from 56 55 all the way up to number one who are these players what clubs did they play for so when we go. On a travel circuit, I had to hunt them down properly and that became my mission in high school: tag all the other people. All those other 56 names, hunt them down and take them down, so we play at 13. I would evaluate you. and see what your strengths and weaknesses are, how do you approach the game?

Are you stupid about it? You are stupid? Are you good at it just because you are bigger and stronger than everyone else or is there really thought and skill that you put into it? right and when I play, I take advantage of my weaknesses. I always work on things during those games where I was weak with my left hand, I would pull up the jump shot after the game with my right, so I have a strategy, what was your work ethic really like and how long did you stick with it? disciplined? Well, I mean, every day, I mean, since you know, 20 years ago it was a daily process and trying to figure out the shrimps and the weaknesses, for example, the ability to jump, now my vertical was a 40, it was not a 46. or 40 45 My hands are big but not huge, so you have to find ways to strengthen them so that your hands are strong enough to be able to hit a ball and do the things that you need to do, uh, quickly.

Fast but not incredibly fast. I was fast but not ridiculously fast. So I had to rely a lot more on skill. I had to trust the angles a lot more. I had to study the game a lot more. But I enjoyed it. Since I was I don't remember when I started watching the game, I studied the game and it never changed. How do you feel about losing? Oh, it's exciting, why is it exciting? Because it means you have different ways to improve. There are certain things that you can discover that you can take advantage of, certain weaknesses that were exposed, that you need to shore up, so it was exciting, I mean, it sucks to lose, but the hardest thing is facing those things, that's really a really difficult challenge, right?

How did you become so mentally and emotionally strong that it doesn't bother you? You know you have to look at the reality of the situation, you know it's not for me, you know you have to get over yourself. okay and then after that okay, well, why did those air balls happen? Got it, I had no legs, so look at the shot, every shot was in line, every shot was in line, but every shot was short, right, I have to get stronger, I have to train differently weight training program What I'm doing, I have to adapt it for an 82-game season so that when the playoffs come my legs are stronger and that ball gets there, so I look at it realistically and say, well, the reason why I shot balls in the air because my legs are not there.

I have all the things next year will be there. 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 just because you weren't. You're not brave enough to face it, so you have to deal with it, you have to deal with it, face it, learn from it, you don't want to have that feeling again, are you okay, so you really have to study it and face it and , uh, don't do it. Say you'll win the next time you face each other, but at least you'll give yourself a better chance.

Yes, it is an obsession that accompanies it. You want things to be as perfect as possible. Understand that nothing is perfect except him. The challenge is to try to make them as perfect as possible and what you can do is under your control, so control what you can. You have this mindset, but how did you develop that? I don't know if that's what you call a mother mentality. but how did you develop that and when did it start? It started in middle school and high school because a lot of the kids I played against were inner city kids and then you look at me like okay, this kid is soft, they felt.

Like they might try to be physical or try to intimidate me and do all these other things that they couldn't do well, but now I'm like, okay, you're trying to attack me, how am I going to attack you, how can I mentally understand? Find ways to bring you down, how can I show you no? I have the right advantage and that's when the first thing that started for me was figuring out how to get the advantage on an opponent like that and what you would do to mentally take people down. Back then, one of the things I did was while everyone was in the cafeteria working, you know, eating and doing all kinds of things, I would just go back to work, so that was my way of showing them, yeah, maybe be from the suburbs, but you're not going to work more than me.

Wow, I see a lot of gamers taking vacations with other gamers who are close friends or just taking vacations just to take vacations or just hanging out just to hang out like I don't. Why didn't you do so well? Because when I retired I didn't want to have to say I wish I had done more. I don't want him to play with the flu. I play with a 102 degree fever. Man we had a game against Toronto in 2000 and Vince was tearing up the league, my back was up so I would be on a layup line, well there are a lot of days when you know you can rest and recover, today is not one of your back can bother you any other day that doesn't bother me today we are going to have to see me today you are playing against the Golden State Warriors the score is 107 109. you are close to entering the playoffs you know exactly what happens in the game, you go up, you're about to shoot and suddenly a boom happens, Achilles, my friend, nema, he's here just to listen, he played ball and he told me, says patrick i.

I don't think you understand, he says that when I tore my Achilles tendon in high school, four friends of mine dragged me to my husband. He was crying from there straight to the hospital. He says I have no idea how the hell this guy did it. and you made the free throws and then walked off the stage how the hell do you tolerate that kind of pain? uh you know, I use this, I'll tell you this example and I think this is the

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way to explain it, you know you have a hamstring injury you pull your hamstring very, very badly you can barely walk let alone play anything you're at home, suddenly there's a fire in the house your kids are upstairs wife is wherever she is you know I'm coming down willing to bet you'll forget about your hamstring you're going to run up the stairs you're going to grab your kids you're going to make sure your wife is okay you're going to get out of that house and the reason is because your family's life is more important than the hamstring injury and that's why when the game is More important than the injury itself, you don't feel that injury.

At that point I went to the coach's room, my kids were there and you know. They're looking at you and stuff and I look at them and I think you know it's okay, everything will be okay, everything will be okay, everything will be okay, everything will be okay. I will be fine as a parent, you have to lead by example, you have to lead by example, this is another obstacle, this obstacle cannot define me, it is not going towards me, it will not be responsible for me taking away from the game that I love. I'm going to walk away on my own terms and that's when the decision was made that you know what I'm doing, you have to lead by example as parents, you have to lead by example if you want your kids to do anything.

What do they want to achieve in life? You have to show them. You have to show them. The definition of greatness is inspiring the people around you. Yes, I think that's what greatness is or should be. It's not something that lives and dies with you. person is how you can inspire one person to then inspire another person who inspires another person and that's how you create something that I think lasts forever and I think that's our challenge as people is to discover how our story can impact people. the rest. and motivate them in a way to create their own greatness.