Most emotional speech you’ll ever hear | David Goggins

armen commander-in-chief tested brian duffy edge in general first off um I'm very humbled to be up here talking to you all today for a living I'm a motivational speaker and I speak to thousands of professional athletes from the biggest names to the smallest names even I saw a doc walk in here with the Congressional Medal of Honor this the first time my life I got nervous to speak in front of a crowd that's unless I respect this man up here I was reading about this man back in the day so I like to thank the VFW very much for giving me this this award it means more than meeting anything I've ever received in my entire life I like to thank my grandfather starring Jack Gardner who is now deceased this would be the happiest day of his entire life like to think my mom up here who [Applause] [Music] who never picked me up who never picked me up when I fell she taught me how to get up and I was not gown I think my uncle for I was being there for me but I think all you are here who fought in these wars you have no idea how big of a deal assist to me I was not always this strong guy you see I went through a lot of hard times in my life to get here today and a story I'll tell you with real quick I tried once to get in the Air Force to be Air Force pararescueman and I quit for fear of the water I was 175 pounds I left the Air Force four years later at 300 pounds I went from 175 to 300 pounds there's a long story in there on how that came to be by sat around and read a book on the Medal of Honor in those guys all I wanted to be was an uncommon man in my whole life I was not that much worse than that I read stories about men like you doc who had the courage to jump on grenades and stuff like that so I came home one day from working at a job called ecolab where I spray for cockroaches made $1,000 a month weighing 300 pounds and I got home and I watched a show on Discovery Channel of guys carrying boats and logs maybe still training and it started to make a change in my life and I called the recruiter up and he asked me these questions he had to reanimate a certain a like a certain height in weight limit I was 6 foot 1 and 300 pounds he laughed at me 7 other recruiters laughed at me one recruiter finally said come on in I'm too busy talked to on the phone he didn't know how much I weighed I walked through the recruiters office and he looked at me and he said you're fat and you're black got someone to be a Navy SEAL I didn't know they'd only been 35 african-american Navy SEALs at that time in over 70 years he said I basically had to lose 106 pounds in less than three months because of my age I was getting too old I came back three months later 106 pounds lighter I thank you [Music] and literally I spent 18 months going through buds which is a six-month program went through three hell weeks that is where I went marcus luttrell Danny Dietz Michael Murphy another Medal of Honor winner I went through hell week with all these guys real heroes I am NOT a hero I served with real heroes and from there I went on to raise over 2 million dollars for Special Operations Warrior Foundation but I'm gonna do with this right here I have the most respect I can possibly muster up for all of you in this room I know what it takes to be a combat soldier and I used to look for courage I thought courage was a man who won the medal of honor it is the courage is a man who's willing to put those boots on every single day of his life to go out there and fight for this country where nobody even knows what the hell they're doing or what the hell they're at do you do for the man beside you thank you [Applause]

Channel: Ben Tylecote

Views: 2,161,743

Keywords: David Goggins, Emotional, Motivation video, Motivational, Inspiration, david goggins motivation, david goggins interview, motivational video, try not to cry

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Length: 5min 41sec (341 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 05 2020