Kobe Bryant's Life Advice Will Change Your Future (MUST WATCH)

[Music] what 17 years old no hunger motivation desire to be the best possible basketball player that could be with the 13th pick in the 1996 NBA Draft the Charlotte Hornets select Kobe Bryant from Lower Merion High School in Pennsylvania [Applause] 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 I made that deal with myself at 13 years old 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 so at 13 years old I had a I had a kill list and so you know they used to do these rankings who Street and Smith basketball rankings and I was nowhere to be found because I was like six four scrawny like 160 pounds soaking 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 with club teams they played for so when we're going to a you 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 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 it's not about you man like okay you feel embarrassed you're not that important like get over yourself yeah that's where you go get over yourself right like you're worried about how people may perceive you and like you're walking around and it's embarrassing because you shot five air balls get over yourself right and then after that it's okay well why did those air balls happen got it high school year before we played 35 games max right week in between spaced out plenty of time to rest and the NBA is back to back to back to back to back to back to back 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 but I got to get stronger I got a train differently the weight training program that I'm doing I got a 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 earbuds because my legs aren't there I go home next year they'll be there that was it done done so many guys tell stories about your work ethic yeah what was really your work ethic like and for how long did you stay disciplined well it means I mean every day I mean since 20 years it was an everyday process and trying to figure out strengths and weaknesses for example jumping ability now my vertical rows of 40 it wasn't a 46 or 4045 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 a 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 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 the technical question here how you gonna answer this who would Shaq be if he had your work ethic he'd be the greatest of all time if Shaq had you'll work may be the greatest moment of all time by shore he he'd be the first to tell you that for sure I mean this guy was a force like I have never seen I mean it was crazy you know a guy that size generally guys at that size or a little timid and they don't want to be tall they don't want to be big and this dude was he did not care he was mean he was nasty he was competitive he was vindictive I mean he was yeah I wish he was in a John would have [ __ ] twelve rings what is the conversational life were like with your wife and kids to say listen this is what I'm doing how did that conversation go well what the kids is different so like the communication with with our children is a Pop's is working hard this is the level of attention to detail you need to have and everything you do so it's it's setting the example same thing with my wife my wife's a stay-at-home wife it's the hardest job man so she works really hard at that I mean it's you know it's so her attention to detail with that as well or examples for our children and then for my wife it's you know she's as competitive as I am she's like listen man if you're gonna be out here training eight hours a day you're gonna spend nine months out a year away from your family you better [ __ ] win the championship but it's a balancing act and that's the thing that's important is understanding that we have to have so much energy because for like Natalia and Gianna when they were babies especially Natalia because it was doing prime years and I go to practice and I train and play the game and I come home and I'd be sore and I'd be tired and she wants to go swimming she wants me to take her to the park she wants to just jump on my back or whatever the case may be you can't say I'm too tired I'm going to lay down mmm that's not fair she don't know what the hell is going on right and if this was a game you'd suck it up and play I'll play games with the flu I play games with 102 degree fever man I can't do that okay all-powerful you gotta be on man no there's story where it's like you know no one knows about what you went and played a game and it was so insane for whatever reasons no sleep you played a game games Rosalie Nichols seriously it was like you know kids Bali had a certain you know health situation will have you and you staying up all night and then you got to go out and perform because fans don't know teammates don't know nor do they care nor should they that you've been up all night you got to perform right and so she's got it's got to go to work man you got a lot of people playing their heart or money to come watch it before before before sure a job to be in shape is your job to be strong enough to perform at that level every single night as a competitor I'm not I'm not ducking [ __ ] like it's not oh my god I'm my back hurts I'm sore we got to play Vince Carter and Toronto Raptors tonight we actually had this happening we had a game against Toronto in 2000 and Vince was tearing the league oh my back was jacked jacked like the perception of that like blood Kobe's missing the game against Toronto Vince Carter because my back was really spasming but people will be like what oh he's ducking Vince excuse me no I don't think so so I would be in the 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 gonna you gonna have to see me today yeah oh man yeah 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 on all of a sudden boom you're Healy's happens right he went and hit the free throws and then you walked off the stage yeah we got the surgery God how the hell do you tolerate that kind of pain you know I tell this example and I think this is the best way to explain it you know you have a hamstring injury pull your hamstring really really badly you can barely walk right let alone play anything soccer basketball volleyball whatever it is can't do anything doctor tells you go home sit up on the couch rest your hammy alright stay off of it don't get up no sudden movements you're at home all of a sudden of a fire breaks out in the home the kids are upstairs wife is wherever she may be you know as shits going down right I'm willing to bet that you're gonna forget about your hamstring you're gonna sprint upstairs you're gonna grab your kids you'll make sure your wife's good getting out of that house right hamstring be damned you're not gonna fill your hamstring right 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 damaged not at that time I win 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 all right dad's gonna be all right it'd be fine it'll be all right you'll be all right it'll be all right as a parent you gotta set the example you gotta set the example this this is another obstacle this obstacle cannot define me it's not going to [ __ ] me it's not gonna be responsible for me stepping away for the game that I love I'm gonna step away on my own terms and that's when the decision was made that you know what I'm doing it don't it there's parents you got to lead by example if you want your kids to do whatever it is they want to accomplish in life you have to show them hmm you can't you got a show and that's what I tried to do [Music] you [Music]

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Length: 10min 45sec (645 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 26 2020

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[u/nopesoapradio]

What an inspiration. Well spoken, focused legend.

[u/DarkHelmet1976]

"Take an Uber."