Kobe Bryant's 8 minutes speech will CHANGE YOUR MENTALITY- Motivational Video

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passion first when I retired from the game I said they were asking the wrong questions and what's the biggest industry I can get into and it's all the wrong things and you have to sit there and ask

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self, okay? I'm really passionate about what I enjoy doing and when you feel that way I honestly mean you feel like you've never worked a day in your life? It's the funniest thing in the world. You wake up in the morning excited about what you do. you're doing and you have to be very honest with yourself about it.

Get up in the morning and you're afraid to go to work, man, do something else, do something else and those are hard decisions to make, but when you make those decisions it's very freeing. experience and you

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come in handy. I want to start um by um right after your injury you said this you want to read the old days I'm going to read some of that this is nonsense all the training and sacrifice just went out the window with a step I've taken millions of times the frustration It's unbearable the anger is the anger why the hell did this happen it doesn't make any sense now I'm supposed to come back from this and be the same player or better at 35 how am I supposed to do that?

I have no idea if I have the constant will to get through this maybe I should break up the rocking chair and remember the race that was maybe this is how my book ends maybe father, time has defeated me, maybe not, it's 3 :30 a.m. m. my foot feels like dead weight, my head is spinning from the painkillers and I'm wide awake, sorry to vent but what's the purpose of social media if I don't bring it? For you, no real image makes you feel good to vent and let it out because after all, the real perspective sets in, there are much bigger problems and challenges in the world than foreigners.

Inspire, you always want to develop your potential as hard as you are. I think you can work, you can work harder than that and that's what I tried to do when I first got into the league, but you know basketball is such a direct competitive sport that when I got to 17 I hated when, like my teammates were saying, I get Hit him with an elbow, right Shaq, hitting me with an elbow in practice, like you know. Nick Van Nuxel will come up and say, Are you okay tomorrow? Are you OK? What the hell happens to you?

You know, like I've always had that extra chip on my shoulder. So, like every damn practice for me was really trying to annihilate everyone I was playing against, so I wanted to show that you don't need to babysit me like I'm okay, you know? And so it's always that competitive nature that Work ethic and curiosity because I asked a lot of questions playing with Byron Scott. I asked a lot of questions to Eddie Jones, who was great at kicking guards off screens and I didn't understand how to do it. I was sick with him before practice.

After practicing magic in all the Laker grades, he would always sit me down and ask them questions about certain games I studied growing up, what really happened there, what you felt and then why, what do you think about losing. Oh, it's exciting, why is it exciting? It means that you have different ways to improve, there are certain things that you can discover and that you can take advantage of, certain weaknesses that were exposed and that you need to shore up, so it was exciting, I mean, it sucks to lose, but at the same time for your answers to be there, just look at them because you get more information from losing than from winning, probably yes, yes, I mean the answers are also there when you win, you just have to look at them, yes, right, so it's a constant process, it's exciting when winning is exciting when you lose because the process should be exactly the same whether you win or lose when you go back and look and find things that you could have done better and find things that you did well and that worked.

How did they work? Why did they work? How can you make it work again? Yes, but the most difficult thing is to face those things. We're playing the Lakers and we're here in Los Angeles, so the game was at seven, you know what? I'm going to the Staple Center, the Lakers had Kobe in shock, okay, this is like the Lakers championship, so now I'll get there at three o'clock. I want to make sure I make 400 successful shots. car, get to the gym, get there and as I walk to the court, who do I see? It's Kobe Bryant already working out, so I worked for a good hour, hour and a half and when I came out, after I was done, I sat down. and of course I still heard the ball bouncing, it seems like he was sweating a lot when I got there and it's still going on and I felt like his movements are indifferent, lazy, he's making game-like movements, you know, um, I sit there and I untie my shoes, I say , I want to see how long this lasts, another 25

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and it's done, okay, I think that's enough, go play, you know, come back, get in the sauna, get ready for the game, that game drops 40 yards and after it's over the game, I think I have to ask this guy.

I have to understand why he works like this. So after the games I say, hey Cove, why were you in the gym for so long? He says because I saw you come in and I wanted you to know that no matter how hard you work, I'm willing to work harder than you if your job is to try to be the best basketball player you can be. that you have to practice you have to train well you want to train as much as you can as often as you can you are playing against the Golden State Warriors the score is 107 109 you are close to making the playoffs you know exactly what happens in the game you go up you are about to take your shot and suddenly a boom happens.

Achilles happens, he went and made the free throws and then you walked off the stage, yeah, and then you had surgery, yeah, how? Damn, can you tolerate that kind of pain? So when the game is more important than the injury itself, you don't feel that damn motor. Not at that time, when I walked into the trainers room, my kids were there and you know they were watching. to you and stuff and I look at them and I think you know it's okay dad is going to be okay it will be okay it will be okay it will be okay everything will be okay as a father you have to set the example you have to set the example this is another obstacle this obstacle It can't define me it's not going to be for me it's not going to be responsible for me walking away from the game that I love I'm going to take a step on my own terms and that's when the decision was made that you know what I'm doing okay. , that's something I always live for.

I am not going to rest and I will continue to press, there are many answers. I don't even have any questions. I'm going to move on. I'm going to move forward and figure these things out as we go down that path, so I try to live now. We're not on stage just because of talent or skill, we're here because of the foreign, we're here for two of these over five days, we're here because we had a dream and we don't let anything get in our way if anything tries to bring us down. we use to make ourselves stronger.

Can I say Mamba?