CHAMPION MINDSET motivational advice from Kobe Bryant

um My philosophy was very simple. um and this is where I think film plays a big part of my life. Rudy was one of my favorite movies growing up, but after watching that movie I came to understand if I could work that hard every day. day with the fact of being blessed with the physical tools that I have, what my career would be and I made a promise to myself from that day that I was going to work very hard every day so that when I retired I would not regret it and that The most important thing for My goal was to leave no stone unturned, get better every day and if I lived that way, in time you would know I would have something beautiful, but that was my philosophy, it seems pretty simple, but you know, if you live your life to get better every day, do it. for 20 years, I mean, what do you have?

Yeah, well, Phil introduced us to meditation when he came to our team probably in '99 2000 and it was something that instantly appealed to me because I could see the effects right in you. I used to watch them, you know, study the games of the Bulls teams and watch their demeanor, watch their composure, play in a tough place like Utah, get to the Finals and be down 17. But they were all like that. I couldn't tell if they were down 17 or up 20 or tied the game never changed and I was wondering why the hell is that like that and that's why I started doing more research and when Phil arrived I immediately stepped up and accepted the challenge. to find what that space is and for the 81 point game and to be honest, I wasn't even thinking about the game, my knee hurt so much, I didn't know it at the time, but you know, I had a cartilage joint flap . stuck in my joint line and that's why my mind was really trying to go to a place where I don't feel that pain and the game started and that's why I was in a different space, I wasn't worried about what was coming.

I was worried about what just happened. It was just here and when you are there in the moment of playing plays right in front of you, your concentration increases because nothing else matters. I mean, this is what the practice was important, not for me just a point of view. that I enjoyed playing as I enjoyed being there I enjoy improving but as a team leader it is also your responsibility to elevate the rest of the weapons and I tend to get stuck on many things saying okay, the way to improve players is to pass the ball when are open is a very trivial way of looking at things what you have to do is get them to want to be better emotionally you have to get them into an emotional space where they wake up every morning driven to be the best version of themselves, how do you he does that?

In practice, for me it was an opportunity to push them to challenge them, if they are, and this is where you have to know your teammates because if it's late you just have a back to back and we practice the next day and you show up and the guys don't feel like going through the motions they don't feel like practicing it's important to know each and every one of them individually because then you know bravely touching some guys it's like okay come on let us know we can do this that will get them going. Other guys know you have to figure out which button to press.

You know that pow it was always Spain if I tell them how they lost and the gold medal. us and how they're going to lose again how I'm going to beat your ass in practice just like I beat you in a gold medal game oh that oh you'd hate that he'd hate that but that's the practice you were You gotta lead them, it's absolutely necessary and if the practice is more intense and difficult then the seventh game will be easy, but if it is not then that is when the teams start to withdraw and capitulate. No, you know, I always dreamed of being a player. kid that you know it was possible to get a score of 80, 90 or 100.

I always, as you know, I had a dream, you know, sometimes you lie in bed and you visualize things that you just know, that's all, at least that's how I was going to sleep but I went to bed. I imagined myself playing for the Lakers and I imagined myself wearing the uniforms. I imagined that we would be playing and you know, the smell of sand and all kinds of things and he would see me. You know, you're getting hot, you know, he scored 10 points in a row and then, but in the dream, why did you interrupt that? just keep dreaming and dreaming and dreaming and before I go to sleep I'm like at 120 points, you know, and so, when you grow up, downloading that into your brain over and over and over again, and then you know that summer I took a thousand shots per day, a thousand shots, that's on top of weight training and my conditioning.

I made a thousand shots and they weren't just shots, they were shots that you saw in that game, there were specific shots, I mean, I was coming out of the corner and I was going to The pinch post footwork on the post coming off the screen was very specific. , so when you download it to your system and go out to court, you're just running things that you've done thousands of times before and you have that dream. then that becomes possible, that would be the way you would phrase it, sure, well, no, I mean, you know, that's the trick, isn't it?

It's finding what you love to do when we talk about hard work all the time, it's like man if I have to get up every morning and remind you how hard you need to work, you'll probably choose a different profession, you know, because that shouldn't be there because I I wake up in the morning excited to get to if I'm not training. Missing Him I'm Not Watching the Basketball Game I Miss Him You know there's no place I'd rather be and if you have that feeling then you're truly doing what God has put you to do on this Earth.