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Motivate Me; Inspirational Speeches
Michael Jordan - You Don't Have Time to Be Average | Motivational Speech
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I miss more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games, 26 times. I've been trusted to take the game, running shot and missed, have failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan tells me one day he wants to be the best player that's ever played here. And I said, well, you got to work harder than you did in high school. He said, I worked as hard as everybody else. I said, oh, excuse me, I thought you just told me you wanted to be the best player to ever play here. He said, I'm going to show you nobody will ever work as hard as I work. Winning has a price. I don't have to do this. I'm only doing it because it is who I am. That's how I played the game. That was my mentality. To win, you gotta lose. To be successful, you gotta have something that's not successful. To be happy, you gotta have disappointment. So I think all of those things have evolved and happened to make me who I am and understand the benefits and the privileges I have have for being who I am, you know, and not to wear it on my sleeve. Be very humble about it. That's one thing my parents taught me very well is, you know, don't wear your reputation, don't wear your accolades, don't wear your, you know, your personality on your sleeve. Let it happen. Let it be you. It is who you are. Don't hide from it, but don't, you know, don't wear it. Rub it in people's faces. You ask. 20 years from now, I'm pretty sure LeBron may beat me, you know, based on who's going to be making the voting. So I say that to say to understand that, you know, it is what it is. If you ask me, I can never give you an opinion about things like that, because as an athlete, all you want to do is be the best athlete. So quite naturally, you're going to make mistakes. You're going to understand you're going to make mistakes. The most important thing about making mistakes is being able to learn from them and not be able to duplicate the same mistake. Circle puts the shot in the air. Good. The game's over and the Bulls have won. And with that, mistakes you got to, you know, be able to make, adjust. I never played against Will Chamberlain. I never played against, you know, Jerry West. To now say that, you know, one's greater than the other is being a little bit unfair. How much impact did each change or evolve the game? You know, the thing that I remember the most about my father, and, you know, I had him for 32 years, the thing that I do remember all the time, you know, I think about him practically every day. The thing he's always said, take a pause before you make a decision and say, what if? And the purpose for saying what if is that whatever decisions you make always either going to have consequences, either pro or con. If you think about the consequences, pro or con, you make the right decisions that you feel is the right decision. Now, all the decisions I made, other people may view to be not the right decisions from their perspective, but for me to go play baseball, and everybody says, oh, it was a. It was a failed opportunity to play baseball. You know, that's what they think. For me, it was the best thing that could have happened for me because it allowed me to go back to the game with a stronger passion. At the same time, I was able to understand the love that these minor league baseball players have to me. To see that helped me put things in perspective, to understand the platform that I was on in 93, that when I went back to it in 95 and 96, I appreciated even greater. So when we won those championships and we went through those, those things mattered to me far greater than what I did in 91, 9293 people don't see that and people will never understand that to be success. Don't be afraid to fail. A great example for if you love something, your agenda is to be successful and to be to win. It's a certain price you have to pay and it's a certain accountability you have to hold. Don't be afraid to try. The worst thing that can happen is it doesn't then pan out the way that you envision it. But at least you know that by giving it a shot. What's your greatest disappointment in sports? I hadn't had any disappointments. I mean, you know, sports is a tool that teaches, you know, and it teaches you bad things. It can also teach you good things. It's how you perceive those things. I've looked at every experience that I've had negative and positive and taken that as a positive, you know, if I wouldn't change anything because I think it would alter some of the other things that happened, you know, so when I look back, I can't say that I've had any bad things happen. Sure. I mean, you don't want bad things to happen, but you deal with bad things. You can't have good or and without bad. Maybe it's my fault. Maybe I led you to believe it was easy when it wasn't. Maybe I made you think my highlights started at the free throw line and not in the gym. Maybe I made you think that every shot I took was a game winner, that my game was built on flash and not fire. Maybe it's my fault that you didn't see that failure gave me strength, that my pain was my motivation. Maybe I led you to believe that basketball was a God given gift and not something I worked for every single day of my life.
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Maybe I destroyed the game. Or maybe you're just making excuses. Have you ever been afraid on the court ever, against anybody? Never. Have you ever been intimidated by anybody? Never. I mean, these guys put on their shorts just like me. I don't see. I don't even feed anyone on the basketball court. My competitive drive is far greater than anyone else that I've met, and I think that I thrive on that. I think that's my biggest motivation in life, you know, is to, to compete, find different competitions and certain things in life and try to overcome that, you know, be it positive or negative. But I have yet to meet someone who is as competitive as me, you know, and I just feel that much confident about my competitive drive. A lot of times I had to battle with myself to keep challenging myself, you know, that to me was why I would say the biggest battle was myself. Because when you get to a certain pinnacle, you got to find some ways to keep going out there for 82 games. I mean, I love the game and every day I try to play it as hard as I can when I'm playing it. But that's an unbelievable graphic. I mean, I imagine if I didn't play basketball profession, I probably would play 126 games anyway. So it really did make a difference. There's a lot of conversations about what your game is capable of achieving. And I'm a firm believer that if you have a good game, your game is going to say that. You don't have to say it. So I guess just trying to play down some of the trash talking, you know, animosity that's between in words and the whole promotional thing. Let your game be your promotion, your marketing tool. And that was our era. Our game gave the labels of what our basketball skills were. And then the marketing came around that now it's changed. So I'm trying to revert back to where your game do all your talking instead of what we may say and what someone else may say about you. I can remember a game coming off the basketball court and we were down, I don't know, five, 10 points, and I go off about 25 points. We come back and win the game, and we're walking off the floor and Texas look at me and says, you know, there's no iron team. I say Texas not. It's not an iron team, but it's iron win. I think he got my message. I'd do anything to win. You know, if that means we play team format, we win. That means I have to do whatever I have to do. You're gonna win no matter how you look at it. And then you had all your media naysayers, oh, scoring champion. Can't win it. Can't win an NBA title. Or, you know, you, you're not as good as Magic Johnson, you're not as good as Larry Bird. You're good, but you're not as good as those guys. You know, I had to listen to all this, and that put so much wool in that fire that it kept me each and every day trying to get better as a basketball player. Now, I'm not saying that they were wrong. I may have looked at him from a different perspective, but at the same time, as a basketball player, I'm trying to become the best that I can for someone like me who achieved a lot over the time of my career. You look for any kind of messages that people may say or do to get you motivated to play the game of basketball at the highest level, because that Is when I feel like I excel at my best. We don't have bad games or we're not expected to have bad games. We gotta be consistent. We have to be good every night. We have a challenge every night. Something was given to us by the notoriety, by the media, by the fans, that superstardom. And we have to protect it because everybody's coming in and trying to get it. I was being given that MVP by my teammates, by people that I play with and I'm with eight months out of the year. Instead of media, I see quite a bit. But my players actually gave me that because of the way they played. I feel. And that was very. That was very touching for me. Tell me what you're thinking about when you were going in for that jam. Were you thinking about what you've been doing? I was thinking too much. I knew in my mind, I think I was going to throw it off the backboard. It was really embarrassing, but it was. Everybody makes mistakes. I don't think anyone should be afraid going to the hole. And a lot of guys are getting to that point where they're afraid, going too hard to go. Yeah. You ever afraid to go? Never. I never. I mean, I had to live that way. Mj, right? Oh, man. Jordan tries to get it. Nobody's bad, right? Nobody's bad. I mean, you're talking about the cream of the crop. It's the mind. You know, a lot of guys, you can run and jump and probably shoot, but if they don't have the killer instinct or the confidence in themselves on those skills, we must be considered one of the best teams ever. Personally, I mean, individual goal was at Magic Bird. Isaiah never did this, so that meant a lot to me. To do it for the third time. Yes. You know, I won't say that I'm better than those people, but I think in terms of success, continuous and consistently, that puts me right up there with them. If not, you know, a step above them, you know, so I'm not here campaigning for the best player in the world or in the history. I'm not saying that, you know, because everybody plays differently in different eras. But to say that we won three in a row and I was a part of that team, that means a lot. I don't look at this moment as a defining end to my relationship with the game of basketball. It's simply a continuation of something that I started a long time ago. One day you might look up and see me playing the game at 50. Never say never. Because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. Thank you very much.
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