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We used to sit right here. I'd hold you up to say to your mother, this kid gonna
be the best kid in the world. This kid gonna be somebody better than anybody I ever
knew. And you grew up good and wonderful. It was great just watching you, every day
was like a privilige. Then the time come for you to be your own man and take on
the world, and you did. But somewhere along the line, you changed.You stopped
being you. You let people stick a finger in your face and tell you you're no good.
And when things got hard, you started looking for something to blame, like a big shadow.
Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and
rainbows.It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are it
will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or
nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard ya hit. It's
about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep
moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now if you know what you're worth
then go out and get what you're worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits,
and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her,
or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain't you! You're better than that!
Oh my god! x5
What do I even say to that? What do I even say to that? Oooh! Oh my god.
That did not just happen, that is so amazing.
Because in either game - life or football the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early
and you don't quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast and you don't quite
catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break of
the game, every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch.
He said when you were underwater, what did you want to do?
He said I want to breath. He told the guy, he said when you want to succeed as bad as you want to breath then
you'll be succesful. The only thing you try to do is get some air. You don't
care about no basketball game, you don't care about what's on TV, you don't care about
nobody calling you, you don't care about a party. The only thing you care about
when you try to breath is to get some fresh air, and that's it! And when you get
to the point where all you want to be is succesful as bad as you want to breath, then you'll
be succesful! And I'm here to tell you number one that most of you say you want to
be succesful, but you don't want it bad. You just kinda want it. You don't want
it as bad as you want to party. You don't want it as much as you want to be cool. Most
of you don't want succes as much as you want to succeed. I don't do well at math,
you're right! You've never studied! I'm not good at writting cause you've never
written before. But I dare you to fail for writting for a whole year to see if you
can get to the end. I dare you to fail. I dare you to take that same class over and
over again. I dare you to stop dropping classes.
The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel, who have dreams, who want to do things.
Talent you have naturally.
I'm working. There's no easy way around it. No matter how talented
you are, your talent is going to fail you if you're not skilled.
If you don't study, if you don't work really hard and dedicate yourself to being
better every single day.