Dick's Sporting Goods & Dr. Eric Thomas: I Can, I Will, I Must

where you guys are everybody going to be trying to give a hundred so you got to go 120 right when I tell you motivation is life I tell you that I need you to next hundred days I need you to stay plugged in right because the days you're not plugged in are the days you don't get 120 they said alligators so ferocious in to kill a lion but I can kill it I can kill a alligator with my bare hands little et ha they say when you want to kill a alligator you kill it right after eat because right after you eat you get satisfied and it goes to a state like it's almost paralyzed some of your on this room were you paralyzed you had a little success you've done with nobody else in your family has done and not you chilly come on you ain't hungry no more next hundred I need you to stay focused why you should still be hungry what have you eaten that's got you satisfied what have you done what have you accomplished that got you so full I'm a contender but the next hundred gonna change my life it's gonna change this world we're ordinary people doing extraordinary things if that's you and you feeling me just say I can come on come on I can't I can't go on more time yep I will yeah I must alright come on come on one for some context into it one put some context they set my mother-in-law home eight years ago the cancer metastasized throughout our whole body they're like it ain't none we can do for you go home spend time with your family and people was like yup that's it first she says not in for me they said what do you mean it's not over for you the doctor said she don't care none about a doctor I got to see my grandson I graduate from high school he's a junior now at Michigan State University he said I got to see my granddaughter graduated my only two grandkids I see my granddaughter graduate from high school and she graduates in June she said after that I might die but up until then I ain't going nowhere are you hear what I'm telling you and what we said to each other is I can't get through this I will get through this I must get through this so so I just need to think about three people in your family that you love three people three people that you love three people you got her hey there you got it it's what I need you to do for me cuz some of you have a hard time staying motivated fourth straight hundred days so what I need you to do for me is I need you to think about those people every day when you're doing what you're doing you have some days where you just wanna hit the snooze button raise your hand for me you want either snooze right right so I said this is what has to happen that person that you think about has to be louder than the snooze button so when you think about granny you not think about like do I hit the snooze button or do I get up and make it happen for ready are you hearing what I'm saying who are you doing this for so the days you don't feel like getting up just think about them somebody tell me in this room when you think about your siblings when you think about mom and dad and grandma when you think about your uncle my aunts when you think about those coaches those people have been there for you just raise your hand if you said ET sleep is better than that raise your hand and tell me anybody room sleep is better than their bed right your hands somebody tell me NT you don't get it you'll know how hard it is e I probably don't I just live in abandoned buildings hey I trash cans I probably don't maybe I never been through what you've been through but I've been through my go through and you don't you don't you don't get here by quitting when you tired you get here by quitting when you finish when you've done you don't stop when you tired you stopping you done you stop when you completed me executing execution is worship and so I exit you for my mom I asked you for my grandma I execute for my sister I execute for those kids in the hood who looking for a warm out that's why I wear the hat with a PhD that's why I wear the James so when the kids in the hood look at me they say if he can do it I can do it that's why I can quit and give up even though I get tired just like everybody else why because this is what I do this is my lane this is your leg you got a murder it so I ask you you got energy don't play with me I check what I said yeah you got that energy special day I need to feel your soul in his room I can't come on I can't come on get some energy come on this uncommitted crap we wish you the basket lovely do you 100 as here to go you

Channel: DICK'S Sporting Goods

Views: 421,622

Keywords: Dick's Sporting Goods, Eric Thomas, Olympics, Paralympics, Team USA, Rio, 2016, Contenders, Kerri Walsh Jennings, Motivation, Inspiration, Sport

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Length: 4min 57sec (297 seconds)

Published: Sun May 15 2016