30 Minutes That Will Change Your Perspective on Life | Kobe Bryant Motivation (Greatest Speech Ever)

imagine you wake up at three you train at four go four to six come home breakfast relax now you're back at it again nine to eleven relax and now back at it again two to four and now you're back at it again you know seven to nine look how much more training i have done by simply starting at four and that was the most important thing for me is to leave no stone unturned get better every single day and if i live that way then over time you know i'd have something that was beautiful but that was my philosophy it seems like a pretty simple one but you know if you live your life to just get better every single day you do that for 20 years i mean what do you have overall you know the idea is a very simple one and you know the mama mentality simply means trying to be the best version of yourself that's what the mentality means it means every day you're trying to become better it's a constant quest it's an infinite quest to me the mentality is a really simple one in the sense that the confidence comes from preparation you know so when the game's on the line i'm not asking myself to do something that i haven't done thousands of times before when i prepare i know what i'm capable of doing i know what i'm comfortable doing and i know what i'm not comfortable doing all right and so in those moments if it looks like um ice cold or not nervous it's because i've done it thousands of times before so it's one more time so starting at the age of two when i first started playing the game and on and on and on i always ask questions i always try to get better every single day learn more you'd be surprised like some people like my kids at two could do a lot of things at two i could dribble a basketball i could shoot a basketball on the nerf hoop at the house and i would go to practice with my father i would observe my father um i'd sit and watch games with him you know a lot of things i learned by being just being around the game right so by the age of six i was already strategizing versus other six-year-olds you know the age of six i figured out six-year-olds couldn't dribble with their left hand so like when i was playing these six-year-old kids i would make them dribble with their left because i knew they couldn't and so they dribbled off their foot i'd pick it up lay it up do it again dribble foot pick it up lay it up so at six years old i had 63 points i just constantly looked for things to learn from and uh you know very observant the passion came from the love for the game you know i loved everything about it like the smell of the ball you know the smell of like brand new sneakers and like the sound the ball makes when it hits the ground the ball going through the net like all those things i love and so the passion comes from that because once you have that love you just want to be a part of this thing all the time i was born and i was born to play basketball you know what i mean and i played a lot of different sports um but nothing brought me the sense of of peace and of uh escape you know that the game of basketball did when i need that escape it's there for me right when i need a friend it's there for me and when i need to vent and don't dunk and you so the game is absolutely everything for me i had goals you know i had expectations and things i wanted to accomplish you know and so like the outside world uh could not meet that for sure i knew i wanted to win like five six seven championships that was my goal for me to come out and say that people would think i was a lunatic you know so no matter what they said or what they threw at me my expectations were certainly higher but you know you can't you can't control that passion and you know sometimes you just kind of have a fire you need to you need to keep those flames but yeah nothing you can do about it like you you don't really have much of a choice like you wake up in the morning you go even if you try to dial it back it'll just build up and build up and then it'll just like come out ten times worse than it was before i can't really control it there's a quote from one of my english teachers a little marian named mr fisk and 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 on pushing now there's a lot of answers that i don't have even questions that i don't have but i'm just going to keep going it's going to keep going and i'll figure these things out as you go right and you just continue to build that way so i try to live by that all the time what was really your work ethic like and for how long did you stay disciplined um well i mean i mean every day i mean since you know 20 years it was an everyday process and trying to figure out strengths and weaknesses for example jumping ability man my vertical was a 40 it wasn't a 46 or 40 45 my hands are big but they're not massive right so you got to figure out ways to strengthen them so your hands are strong enough to be able to palm the ball and do the things that you need to do quickness i was quick but not insanely quick i was fast but not ridiculously fast right so i had to rely on skill a lot more i had to rely on angles a lot more i had to study the game a lot more and uh but i enjoyed it though so like from the time i was i can't remember when i started watching the game i studied the game and it just never changed what does losing feel like to you oh it's exciting why is it exciting because it means you have different ways to get better there are certain things that you can figure out that you can take advantage of right certain weaknesses that were exposed that you need to shore up right so it was exciting i mean it sucks to lose but the hardest thing is to face that stuff that's a really really tough challenge as athletes the psychology is before you start a game how can you lock in to get into that mental space where nothing else matters you're completely locked in and focused on what you're trying to accomplish as an athlete out here the noise of the crowd doesn't matter whether the cheering or bullying doesn't matter you're just completely locked in how do you do that if we're talking about you know a basketball decision where you know read a certain coverage or something like that i mean a lot of that comes from the the pre-work pre-work and understanding what their defensive package is and how to put teammates in certain situations for example if you look at players nowadays that are charged with taking game-winning shots or making game-winning decisions and you look at the play and then you look at it and say okay well that shooter was there the double team came and you know the player couldn't do anything but pass the ball right well that's because they didn't do the pre-work so when you do the pre-work you understand okay this team in a situation likes to run a double team from this particular angle all right so i'm gonna clear that side out force the double team to come from a different angle move myself to a space on the floor where it's going to take a long time for the double team to come and now i can circumvent the double team and get to a place on the floor where i can knock down the shot and get to the basket so it's all that pre-work well i mean here's why practice was important to me not from just the standpoint that i enjoyed playing like i enjoyed being there i enjoy getting better but as a leader of a team it's also your responsibility to elevate the rest of the guys and but people tend to get stuck on a lot saying okay the way to make players better is to pass them the ball when they're open that's a very trivial way to look at things what you have to do is you have to get them emotionally to want to be better you want you have to get them to an emotional space where they wake up every morning driven to be the best version of themselves right how do you do that and in practice for me it was a chance to drive them to challenge them right if they're and this is where you have to know your teammates because if it's late we just had a back to back and we had practice the next day and you show up and guys don't feel like going through the motions don't feel like practicing it's important to know each and every one of them individually personally because then you know what nerve to touch some guys it's like okay come on let's you know we can do this that'll get him going other guys know you got to figure out what button to push you know powell is always spain if i tell them how they lost in a gold medal to us and how they're going to lose again i'm going to beat your practice just like i beat you in a gold medal game oh that oh he would hate that but that's what practice was you have to drive them you absolutely have to and if practice is more intense and harder than a game seven will be then a game seven will be easy but if it's not then that's when teams start folding and capitulating i think the best way to prove your your value is to work is to learn is to absorb to be a sponge you always want to outwork your potential you know as hard as you believe you can work you can work harder than that and that's what i tried to do when i first came in the league but you know basketball is such a direct competition sport that competitive nature the work ethic and curiosity because i asked a lot of questions playing with byron scott i asked him a lot of questions eddie jones who was great at chasing guards off the screens and i didn't understand how to do that i would sit with him before practice after practice magic james worthy kurt rambis kareem abdul all the laker greats i would always sit down and just ask them questions about certain games that i studied growing up what actually happened there what did you feel there and why you know very tough to defend why because you look slow to me like i'm missing something so like tell me what i'm missing you know what i mean and so i would always ask questions and try to learn as much as i could i had a purpose i wanted to be one of the best basketball players to ever play and anything else that was outside of that lane i didn't have time for at what age did that goal become crystal clear i made that deal with myself at 13 years old at 13 years old 13 years old clear about it crystal clear and where did inspiration come from um the love of the game the love of the game the challenge like i would watch magic play i'd watch michael play and i would see them do these unbelievable things and i'd say you know can i get to that level i don't know but let's find out let's find out and so that curiosity to see where i could push this thing led me down that path i think were you always competitive from the day you were born you were super competitive uh competitive with things that i i participate in so i like i'll put it to you this way so like you know basketball for me was the most important thing [Music] so everything i saw whether it was tv shows whether it was books i read people i talked to everything was done to try to learn how to become a better basketball player everything everything and so when you have that point of view then literally the world becomes your library to help you to become better at your craft my competitive competitiveness inside was like i'm gonna do something in the next 20 years that is better than these last 20. so at 13 years old i had a uh i had a kill list and so you know they used to do these rankings it was street and smith basketball rankings and i was nowhere to be found because i was like six four scrawny like 160 pounds silk and wet so i was like 57 on the list and so i will look at 56 55 all the way up to number one who these players are what club teams they played for so when we go on an aau travel circuit i got to hunt them down right and so that became my mission in high school is to check off every other person all those 56 other names hunt them down and knock them down so we played at 13 i would size you up and see what your strengths and weaknesses are how do you approach the game are you silly about it are you goofy about it are you good at it just because you're bigger and stronger than everybody else right or is there actually thought and skill that you put into it right and when i'd play i'd played in my weaknesses i wouldn't play them my strengths i played in my weaknesses because when you're playing summer basketball there's so many games so there's not a lot of skill work being done so when are you going to get better i always work on the things during those games that i was weak at left hand pull up jump shot post game right so i have a strategy how did you get mentally and emotionally so strong where it doesn't bother you well you know it's you got to look at the reality of the situation you know like for me it's not you know you kind of got to get over yourself right and then after that it's okay well why did those air balls happen got it i didn't have the legs so you look at the shot every shot was online every shot was online but every shot was short right i got to get stronger i got to train differently the weight training program that i'm doing i got to tailor it for an 82 game season so that when the playoffs come around my legs are stronger and that ball gets there so i look at it with rationale and say okay well the reason why i shot air balls because my legs aren't there i got well next year they'll be there you have to do the hard stuff and watch that game and study that game to not make those mistakes over and over again just because you weren't brave enough to face it so you got to deal with it got to deal with it face it learn from it you don't want to have that feeling again do you right so you got to really study it face it and uh not to say you'll win the next time you face but you at least you'll give yourself a better better chance yeah it's an obsessiveness that comes along with it you want things to be as perfect as they can be understanding that nothing is ever perfect but the challenge is try to get them as perfect as they can be and what can you do it's in your control so control what you can how did you develop that and when did it start it started in middle school and high school because a lot of the kids that i was playing against were inner city kids yeah and so you're looking at me as if okay this kid's soft they felt like they could try to be physical or try to intimidate me and do all this other stuff which they couldn't right but now i'm saying okay well you're trying to attack me how am i gonna attack you how can i mentally figure out ways to break you down how can i show you that no i have the edge right and so that's when it first started for me is figuring out how to get the upper hand on an opponent that way and what would you do to mentally break people down then one of the things i would do is while everybody would be at the cafeteria work you know eating and doing that sort of stuff i just go back to the job so that was my way of showing them yeah i may be from the suburbs but you're not going to outwork me i see a lot of players take vacations with other players that are close friends and or just take vacations just to take vacations or just hang out just to hang out like i i'm not i never did that [Music] why didn't you do that well because when i retire i didn't want to have to say i wish i would have done more i don't want that i play games with the flu i play games with 102 degree fever man we had a game against toronto in 2000 um and vince was tearing the league up my back was checked jacked so i would be in a layup line like okay there's a lot of days where you know you can rest and recover today ain't one of them your back can bother you any other day that ain't bothering me today we're gonna he gonna have to see me today 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 one point the entire summer not a free throw not a nothing not a lucky shot not 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 whether you scored zero or score 60 i'm gonna love you no matter what wow now that is the most important thing that you can say to a child because from there i was like okay that gives me all the confidence in the world to fail i have the security there but to hell with that i'm scoring 60. from there i just went to work i just stayed with him i kept practicing kept practicing care practice i think that's when the idea of understanding a long-term view became important because i wasn't going to catch these kids in a week i wasn't going to catch them in a year right so that's when i sat down and said okay this is going to take some thought all right what i want to work on first all right shooting all right let's knock this out let's focus on this half a year six months do nothing but shoot right after that all right creating your own shot and then you focus so you start i started creating a menu of things when i came back the next summer i was a little bit better i scored yeah it wasn't much right but i scored this is 12 13 12 13. then 14 came around back half of 13 14 uh years old and then i was just killing everyone and it happened in two years and i wasn't expecting to happen in two years but it did because what i had to do was work on the basics and the fundamentals well they relied on athleticism and their natural ability and because i stick to the fundamentals it just caught up to them and then my body you know my knees stopped hurting i grew into my frame then it was game i always dreamed as a kid that you know it was possible to score 80 or 90 or 100. i always just like you know had a dream you know like sometimes you lay down in bed and you visualize things you just kind of you know just that's how that's at least how i would go to sleep i lay down i'd imagine playing for the lakers and i would imagine what the uniforms look like i'd imagine we would be playing and you know the smell of the arena and all sorts of stuff and i would see myself you know getting hot you know scored ten straight points and then but in a dream like why would you ever interrupt that like you're not gonna have a dream and be like okay then he misses his next six like it's not gonna happen so you 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 and then you know that summer i made a thousand shots a day a thousand that's on top of weight training and my conditioning i made a thousand shots and they weren't just shots it was shots that you saw in that game there were specific shots i mean it was coming out of the corner going to the pinch post footwork in the post coming off the screen it was very specific so when you download that into your system and you go on in the court and you're just executing things that you've done thousands of times before and you have that dream then that becomes possible i come to understand if i could work that hard every day being blessed with the physical tools that i have what would my career be and i made a promise to myself from that day that i was gonna work that hard every single day so that when i do retire i have no regrets dreams is uh they should be pure i think a lot of times when we're born into this world we actually wind up going backwards and it seems like the more we mature the more responsible our dreams become and the more governors we put on ourselves and our ability to dream and to reimagine and it's always a fight for us parents and you know for you guys to make sure that your dreams always stay pure and so it's not a matter of of pushing beyond the limitations and expectations it's really a matter of protecting your dreams protecting your imagination that's really the key and when you do that then the world just seems limitless i think the greatest fear that we face is ourselves actually you know i think it's it's not anything that's external or anything that's superficial i think the greatest fear you face is yourself because we all have dreams and it's very scary sometimes to accept the dream that you have and it's scarier still to say okay i want that it's scary because you're afraid that if you put your heart and soul into it and you fail then how are you going to feel about yourself right so being fearless means putting yourself out there and going for it no matter what go for it not for anybody else but for yourself you have to dance beautifully in the box that you are comfortable dancing in everybody's box is different my box was to be extremely ambitious within the sport of basketball your box is different than mine right every kid here has their own box but doesn't mean that your box isn't as beautiful as mine right everybody has their own it's your job to try to perfect it and make it as beautiful of a canvas as you can make it and if you have done that then you have lived a successful life you have lived with mamba mentality so it doesn't mean you have to go out here and do all these crazy things i'll have to be like this person or that person no what are you comfortable being what it is that what what is it that you want to do with your life and once you have that then you try to live it to the best of your abilities never looked at it as like i'm just going to you know [Music] try something completely crazy or like just just go out of my box with a thing i just looked at it as i want to be one of the best basketball players who have ever played that's the end goal okay how do i get there how do i get there and every decision i made in my life was centered around the process of helping me eventually get there so i had that purpose once i had that purpose every decision that i made was centered around that purpose you're playing against the golden state warriors score is 107 109. you guys are close to getting into the playoffs you know exactly what happens in the game you go up you're about to take your shot and then all of a sudden boom achilles happens right friend of mine nema he is here just to listen to he played ball and he told me says patrick i don't think you understand he says when i tore my achilles in high school he says four friends of mine dragged me to my house i was crying from there straight to the hospital he says i have no clue how the hell this guy did it he went and hit the free throws and then you walked off the stage how the hell do you tolerate that kind of pain uh you know i i use this i tell this example and i think this is the best way to explain it you know you have a hamstring injury you pull your hamstring really really badly you can barely walk right let alone play anything you're at home all of a sudden a fire breaks out in the home right your kids are upstairs you know wife is wherever she may be you know going down i'm willing to bet that you're going to forget about your hamstring you're going to sprint upstairs you're going to grab your kids you'll make sure your wife's good getting out of that house and the reason is because the lives of your family are more important than the injury of your hamstring and so when the game is more important than the injury itself you don't feel that injury not at that time when the trainer's room my kids are in there and you know they're looking at you and stuff and i'm looking at them and i'm like you know it's all right dad's gonna be all right it'll be fine it'll be all right it'll be all right it'll be all right as a parent you got to set the example you got to set the example this this is another obstacle this obstacle cannot define me it's not going to me it's not going to be responsible for me stepping away for the game that i love i'm gonna step away on my own terms you gotta lead by example as parents you gotta leave by example if you want your kids to do whatever it is they wanna accomplish in life you have to show them you got to show them but the message we want to get across is that you know kids matter like investing heavily in kids is extremely important in fact more important it is investing in adults because children are our future so instead of spending all of our resources and doubling down on the grown-ups let's double down on kids and so for me it was like okay i have to have to aim for something so i said i want to aim for size i want to aim for bulk right so that's a tangible thing i'm going to go for that right but then also it's you know my children because like your kids can't see how hard you work you go to office they come in the studio they don't really see the effort right so how can we teach our children what it means to work hard well you do it through training right so when i get up in the morning my daughter goes with me 4 am my 15 year old goes with me she goes with me before school and it becomes a daddy-daughter thing she just got a permit right so she drives in the morning it becomes a cool thing right but through that process she understands the value of hard work and things taking time and the same thing with my 12 year old she practices every day right and so it's through those behaviors uh is where i find the motivation to do it and what brings you the most joy right now being with my family really that is man that is the most fun it's just um you know it's hanging out with them all summer being able to like do things that i ordinarily couldn't do because of training because it's just stuff like that so being around them and watching bianca grow up because a lot of things that i missed with natalie and gianna because i was playing so being there every day with them is so much fun man so it brings me the most joy what does love feel like for you what does love feel like i think i would describe love as happiness i think i'd describe it as a beautiful journey you know it has its ups and downs right whether it's in marriage whether it's in the career you know things are never perfect but through love you continue to persevere and you move through you move through and then through that storm beautiful sun emerges right inevitably another storm comes guess what you ride that one out too so i think love is a certain determination and persistence to go through the good times and the bad times with someone or something that you truly love my vision of what my goal is changed drastically as i got older it's like as a kid i said i want to be the best ever right and now you go through your life and everything you do try to be the best ever be the best ever be the best ever as you get older you start understanding that those things are very superficial things and everybody has a different opinion about it no matter what you do i can win 20 championships there's always an opinion on who's the best everybody has different opinions and so i started really kind of understanding maybe that's not the important thing maybe important thing is to you know how do we as a team grow how do i help my teammates be better so that was the first change for me and then as i got older still it became more about how are you inspiring others right to find themselves that is the ultimate championship so i've won five championships that's great another team won a championship this year team's gonna win a championship next year those things come and they go but what stays is how do you use your passion and use that to inspire somebody else to create their passion and then how can they pass that on to the next person that is true success um so my goals have changed drastically from the time i was six years old to the time i was 17 the time i was 25 and now i'm sitting here at 37. it's always teaching the game teaching the game through various ways you know it's we do camps and clinics we do those things but also through storytelling how can you how can you share stories with the rest of the world that challenges them to look internally and and to learn things like process and learn how to navigate the sense of self and all these things how can you infuse that into entertainment in a way that pushes our culture and our society forward you know those are the questions that i'm really really intrigued by and that's what we'll focus on what i have to do now is make sure that the people that we bring in these obsessives that we bring in are challenging themselves to do the best job that they think they can do that's what i'm there for is for them to constantly look in the mirror and self-assess and challenge themselves if we have a project and you're saying okay i can do that that's not the project we want the projects that say i don't know if i can animate that i don't know how to write that story i don't know how to do that those are the things we want because through that curiosity you'll reach a level that you didn't think was possible [Music] the definition of greatness is to inspire the people next to you yeah i think that's what greatness is or should be it's not something that's that that lives and dies with one person it's how can you inspire a person to then in turn inspire another person that then 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 um is to figure out how our story can impact others and motivate them in a way to create their own greatness

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Length: 30min 7sec (1807 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 03 2022