Top 5 LEGENDARY Speeches | Motivation For When Life Gets Hard | Goalcast

[Music] got my arms out I got my head up he gets to my feet and he's coming back up my body and he poses the question what's your playing oh man I still am going d1 on the college he said you'll probably end up in cell block D 1 and went to walk off I walked with him I tapped his arm turn around so you got the wrong guy he said no I know about you sarcasm fix it said then you have two uncles that came in the same school so yes sir he said weren't they little athletes just like you like people talked about him and how they could play sports and all that say yes sir he said aren't they served in 13 and 40 years at the federal penitentiary not even ten minutes away from these front doors said yes sir he said absolutely apple doesn't fall far from the tree they probably end up in cellblock D one walk it off I walk with him I tapped his chest he turned around I said I'm telling you you got the wrong guy he said we'll see I said we will and I had this dream that man if I could just make it to the NFL I could get my mother all for that double shift at Wendy's my man if I could make it to the NFL me and my cousins you won't have to miss mills if I could just make it to that NFL man everything will make sense and when I got my scholarship from Tennessee you know the first person I went to see a cop I went to him and he said something to me and it ranged so true I slipped my paper across the table to him and he stood up and he said I want to ask you a question how did you do it he said every kid that comes in these doors they say that but they end up selling drugs across street at the gas station or they end up going to prison going to jail like everybody wants something out of life he said the reason I said that to you he said I want you to understand something I'm here every day he said the only reason I said it to you he said I wasn't even trying to break you I just wanted to see what juvie wasn't a fight for the thing that you said you wanted when somebody came at you when they tried to crush you and say because of your family history because of your lineage you're probably going to end up just like them I wanted to see would you be willing to fight for what you said you own it coming into my junior year I get my paperwork back from the NFL and I'm a projected first-round draft fan who new kid from the two-bedroom home 14 people that come out my first game have a great game and the quarterback just so happens to drop back and he releases the ball to a guy coming down my sideline and as soon as I made contact with the guy I knew something was wrong it seemed as if every breath of my body left my body went completely left I fell to the ground I blacked out they had never had my eyes open my teammates ran over to me and said ain't get up let's rock let's close it out let's go I said I can there's a shotgun for my neck to my toes I can't feel anything now I remember they brought the spine board out put me on it they're willing me off to the field doctors came running from the opposite side and the lead doctor says guys get in here we got a rush this kid back to emergency surgery he's about to die you ruptured up subclavian artery in your chest you're bleeding internally we don't take you back and perform surgery right now he said you won't be here in the morning and a game of football on my skull of life who stepped in the NFL that big and I'm like man that's all you really woman was a contract from the NFL that was it I was embarrassed I just got up every day went through drills and man i'ma make it to the NFL NASA beat that'd be it no value no substance nothing there's a quote that says when do a person start to really live when a person has encountered death not encounter death not survive it and I guarantee you it was literally as if somebody pulled the shades up on my lifeless and now you see life what it's really worth you thought it's about the NFL now you really see life for what is really worth like I thought I was driven when I plays for a man every day I get up that drive different like every single day I get up to impact life that is why god life with the drive the dedication and the commitment level that I do and when adversity opposition and the thing that should have crushed me I step back I'm embracing the same light that's all you got this was your best shot and I find an amazing man how in life people say man I'm gonna do something I'm on fire I'm committed to it but a change in circumstance a change in situation I don't get what I thought I was gonna get now the mission that they what set out on to change the world by impact people it means nothing to them as long as what you're doing what you're connected to serves a greater purpose than just yourself son you will always trample the opposition you will always temple to adversity you will always trample the challenges of life one thing about it character is not something that you're born with character is something that you get up every single day you fight it you built it and every single day the process is happening constantly and life through opposition through adversity and through challenges at the end of the day it's about who we become listen about what we did go get it when I walked out here I got to be honest I was pretty nervous I hope I didn't you know bomb this hey you know cuz last time what happened so on the screen you were gonna see my best friend my wife Kelsey she winds up telling me with excitement in fear that she's pregnant nine months go by and my daughters born and the reason I know that my wife is the best in the world it's cuz when I looked at my wife and I said what do you want to name her you think Madison or Avery she looked at me and said no we have to name Chloe Lin don't we and I said we don't have to do that why would you even think that and she said because you idiot you already got your ex-girlfriends name tattooed on your arm yeah so I named her after my ex-girlfriend it's not true it's not true now my ex-girlfriends the devil but it's done so everything's going my way I'm coming up in my third deployment I gotta go over to Afghanistan for my third time start putting her stuff on like normal as we're going over what we're gonna do we're strapped in our gear on we go out with a minesweeper we start sweeping the ground back and forth back and forth nothing alarms there's anything there I took my backpack off I set it on the ground it hits the ground and underneath it is a bomb man takes my right arm right leg automatically they rushed me into surgery right we're gonna fast forward into the surgery here and they cut my left leg off because it's already gone and then two days later they have to cut my left arm off because the skin in necrotized so I'm a quadruple amputee three days later I arrived at Walter Reed in Bethesda Maryland my wife came up to me right and I saw her and I finally got a chance to talk to her I said Kelsey you don't have to do this take the house take the cars take whatever money we have saved up and go this is not the life I would choose for you and she thought about it and she said you know I was thinking that yeah I mean she came around and she said you know what handicapped parking sounds enticing I'm I'm gonna stay but if you can imagine she actually at 23 and I'm 25 and our daughter six months old said you know what I'm gonna be here we're gonna get through this together so I'm at Walter Reed and I'm trying to recover I had to find motivation by find motivation in my wife and my daughter and all of a sudden there's a Brotherhood at Walter Reed a robot walked into my room and first thing I this guy's mouth was hey man welcome to the club I said I wanna be in your club he said kind of late now don't you think so no he got me there his name was Todd nicely he showed me that with hard work and determination I could walk again and two things went off number one this guy showed me the way that I can get better I can still be there for my family and number two he's a Marine and if a Marine can do without dumb they are you know so the things I wanted to accomplish I want to be able to feed myself again I want to be able to pick a fork up and put food in my mouth you see I couldn't do that for five weeks at five weeks I was out of my recovery stage enough where I was healed up and I could grab a fork I also was tired of sitting in a wheelchair I thought you know what I won't be able to walk again so seven weeks and four days into my recovery I took my very first steps at Walter Reed it was very painful it was not easy and as I was walking around the track I said you'll walk one lap today and I went ahead and walk three laps that day and when I got done I sat down took a breather and realize this could be something that now the next thing ladies and gentlemen is my hand listings the coolest in the world on the screen you're gonna see the most important hand that I own right there it's not the one I'm wearing no that one that one's called a dry fur that hand is in a Crown Royal bag on the top shelf of my closet yeah and nobody touches that hand because that hand closes 25 pounds of pressure you see my daughter is seven years old yeah in nine years Jonny's gonna come knock at the door he's gonna be like hey bro like just bro me Johnny that's 25 pounds of pressure is like ah dude that hurts Johnny there's no strike 2 & 3 this is 2 & 3 right here crunch I break his hand I know sad he's like let me go let me go I pulled Johnny close I don't let him go no I say Johnny guess what I don't know what no fingerprints Johnny remember that Johnny [Applause] when I got blown up when I was down and out I was wondering why did this happen I was embarrassed I was angry I was questioning my bad person does God hate me and the biggest question I honestly had this gentleman was why didn't I just die why did I live through this and I found the answer of my family and I found the answer and Todd nicely that corporal that came to see me that was retired from the Marine Corps that told me I would be fine so I decided I was going to talk to everybody I could that was at that hospital and I Walter Reed amputees are that what you normally see and me missing all four limbs that was the worst you're gonna see so I'd go room to room and I'd say hey I'm Travis you're gonna be fine same message Todd gave me from that experience some people found out I did that I became known as the mayor of building 62 and they made a documentary on me I don't think my problems outweigh anybody else's I am fortunate to live in a nation where I can wake up in the morning with no arms no legs strap my legs on right throw my arm on go in the elevator and go out and live life to the fullest take my wife and my daughter where we want to go the two life lessons that I have learned that I want you to go and pass along to everybody that you meet is number one don't dwell in the past I learned that because when I was sitting in my hospital bed close my eyes and wishing that this did not happen I realized you're not going to change the past I can't change what happened yesterday and I can't change what happened six years ago in Afghanistan so I reminisce 225 great years I had with legs and arms and I've had six pretty great years without but with that experience and so many more as you can't always control your situation but I can always do so my attitude [Applause] I was 18 years old when I got married I belonged to a very conservative family a Balochi family we're good daughters never say no to their parents my father wanted me to get married and all I said was if that makes you happy I'll say yes and of course it was never a happy marriage just about after two years of getting married about nine years ago I made a car accident somehow my husband fell asleep and the car fell in the ditch he managed to jump out saved himself I'm happy for him but I stayed inside the car and I sustained a lot of injuries list is a bit long Gradius a lot of my right arm were fractured the wrist was fractured shoulder bone and collarbone were fractured my whole ribcage got fractured but that injury that changed me and my life completely was the spine injury many people came to rescue they gave me CPR they dragged me out of the car and while they were dragging me out I got the complete transection of my spinal cord those two and a half months in the hospital were dreadful I was at the words of despair one day doctor came to me and he said well I heard that you wanted to be an artist but you ended up being a housewife I have a bad news for you you won't be able to paint again next day doctor came to me and said your spine injury is so bad you won't be able to walk again I took a deep breath and I said it's alright next day doctor came to me and said because of your spine injury and the fixation that you have in your back you won't be able to give birth to a child again that day I was devastated I started to question my existence why am I even alive so what kept me going was one day I asked my brother's I knew I have a deformed hand but I'm tired of looking at these white walls in the hospital and wearing these white scrubs bring me some colours bring me some small canvas I want to paint so the very first painting I made was on my deathbed where I painted for the very first time what an amazing therapy it was without uttering a single word I could paint my heart out I could share my story people used to come and say what lovely painting so much color nobody could see the grief in it only I could and that day I decided that I'm going to live life for myself I am NOT going to be that perfect person for someone I am just going to take this moment we'll make it perfect for myself but I'm going to fight my fears so I wrote down one by one all those fears and I decided that I'm going to overcome these fears one at a time you know what was my biggest fear divorce but the day I decided that this is nothing but my fear i liberated myself by setting him free and I made myself emotionally so strong there the day I got the news that he is getting married I sent him a text that I'm so happy for you and I wish you all the best and he knows that I pray for him today number two was I won't be able to be a mother again and that was quite devastating for me but then I realized there are so many children in the world all they want is acceptance so there is no point of crying just go and adopt one and that's what I did [Applause] I gave my name in different organizations different orphanages and I waited patiently two years later I got this call from a very small city in Pakistan I got a call and they said are you money by Missouri there is a boy baby boy and would you like to adopt I could literally feel the labor pains yes yes I am going to adopt him I am coming to take him on and that day I was two years old two days old and today he's six you know when you end up being on the wheelchair what's the most painful thing people think that there will not be accepted by the people because we in the world of perfect people are imperfect so I decided to appear more in public I started to paint I've done a lot of modeling campaigns I decided that I'm going to join the national TV of Pakistan as an anchorperson I became the National goodwill ambassador for UN Women Pakistan and now I speak for the rights of women children I was featured in BBC hundred women for 2015 I'm one of the first 30 under 30 for 2016 so when you accept yourself the way you are the world recognizes you it all starts from within we have this amazing fantasy about life this is how things should work this is my plan it should go as per my plan if that doesn't happen we give up I never wanted to be on the wheelchair never thought of beam this life is a test and a trial and tests are never supposed to be easy so when you're expecting ease from life and life gives you lemons then you make the lemonade and then do not blame life for that it is okay to be scared it is okay to cry everything is okay but giving up should not be an option they always say that failure is not an option failure should be an option because when you fail you get up and then you fail and then you get up and that keeps you going embrace each and every breath that you are taking celebrate your life live it don't die before your death real happiness lies in gratitude so be grateful be alive and live every moment [Music] it still haunts me to this day it was a shriek the I grew up in this really normal beautiful middle-class family my father was 35 years old he was the breadwinner of the family my mom was a homemaker that was the role in the 1970s she stayed at home raised the kids I don't know if you can relate with this but my dad was my key role not everybody has that kind of dad but my dad was my hero he was a hockey coach he was a baseball coach he was the kind of man you wanted to be your best for and I felt in his shadow I could do or be anything and I felt loved and accepted in in August 1975 I remember the the night the priest from the local parish came and knocked on our door and I I remember because I remember the sound that my mom made and it still haunts me to this day it was a shriek a horror because all of a sudden our world completely turned inside out literally in one day what happened within a year is mum remarried and the man that she hooked up with was a violent abusive alcoholic and so I went from a message of your loved and you can do and be anything to you're stupid you're dumb you'll never mount anything and I was eight I honestly I didn't know how to process that I begin to believe lies about who I was and how I fit into the world shortly after my ninth birthday an opportunity presented itself to to do drugs for the first time by the time I was 15 years old I was non-compliant at home I grew an extra two feet not so good for my stepfather there was a lot of tension between him and I and he paid the bills so I had to go for me it was jumping out of the pot and straight into the fire 15 years old I was on my own just try and get through another sunset at 16 years old I began getting in trouble with the legal system I remember going back out to the street completely broken as a human being walking up East Hastings with the pouring rain and I said to myself how did I get here I'm a good kid from a good family how did I end up in this much trouble what it up happening is I remember this the day it was a beautiful sunny day just like today see back in those days I was a was a liar a thief a cheatin a mooch and I landed in this park and I saddled up beside this guy sitting at a bus stop named Gus because he had a cigarette and he gave me a cigarette he was a really nice guy and he gave me a couple bucks too but he gave me something more the entire time I was sitting there talking to him Gus said to me sis you know Joe he says there's more to you than you can see he said but life is it's kind of dirtied your windows and so the light doesn't get in and your light doesn't get out you could go on to do extraordinary things because you're a real bright guy I remember when he was talking to me and he was speaking his truth into my life I was looking over my shoulder for someone else because what stood before him did not align with his words but he said to me he said there's more to you than you can see remember my heart absolutely seek four years of my life I didn't take accountability for my own actions I blame society I blame my stepfather I blamed everybody else except me and that that kept me from actually taking responsibility for my own behavior in my own life it deflected it but on that moment the miracle happened for me and the miracle was that I became teachable I became pliable and I became willing to do just about anything you know one of the things that I know today is that discontentment is the catalyst of change and what I mean by that it's oftentimes not until we're backed into a corner where we become teachable where we become willing to do something different but you see possibility always exists it never goes away it's always present even at my lowest point the possibility of transformation was there I started to flower I started to come out and I started to do incredibly well I went from a kid pushing a shopping cart just try and get through another sunset - being on the cover of Canadian business is inside every single one of us is infinite possibility and she says the most offensive thing to me that you can say to a person of color in the United States of America she asks me were you born in this country and I was immediately offended I put my hands on my hips and I said yeah I was born in this country she then goes on to ask me how old are you I said in 19 years old she says are you married I said no ma'am she says do you have any kids I said no ma'am and may I help you find something she then goes on to tell me something that changed my life forever she says you look like you could be the next Miss USA and I laughed at this woman hysterically I said lady I don't know what you're talking about I'm a I'm going into my sophomore year at Virginia State I'm about to Commission in three years go on active duty be a military officer somehow this crazy woman convinced me to meet her at Starbucks the very next day she brought this foot tall stack of pageant books and she goes on to convince me to compete in my very first pageant I compete in my first pageant three months later and I lose I go back the second year compete in my state pageant and I lose I go back the third year competing my state pageant and I lose go back the fourth year compete in my state pageant and lose go back the fifth year compete in my state pageant and lose but guess what happens the sixth year I lose I called her on the phone six years after our target conversation and I said you told me I could be the next Miss USA and she says dashana keep trying keep trying keep trying in June of 2015 this amazing kind of cuckoo woman passes away from leukemia in December 2015 I win Miss District of Columbia USA in June 2016 I'm crowned the first soldier to win Miss USA and last January in Manila Philippines I walked the Miss Universe stage and placed top nine amongst 80s countries [Applause] do not fear failure but please be terrified of regret when you walk out this door into the real world you'll receive a lot of shut doors a lot of turn down applications you will hear way more noes than you hear yes giving up is something I did a lot of growing up and I don't think I really challenge myself to stick anything through until I joined the track team in middle school I remember having to ask my mom after tryouts and making it to the team for my very first pair of track shoes now at the time she walks into our house and she has a bag that has a nice Nike check sign on it so I get excited because I wasn't getting these shoes very often I go to take the shoe box out the bag and I notice that it says a size 9 on it mind you in the seventh grade I was a size five I opened the box and I slide my feet into the shoe and I look at my mother and I said these shoes are too big she says I know I did that on purpose I was like why would you buy shoes that are too big on purpose mom and she says because I know that you're going to grow into them coach has us lined up on the starting line and he wants us to run her lap around the track as we go to take off I immediately fall to the ground twist my ankle because the shoes are entirely too big see I couldn't run at the speed that I wanted to because I didn't fit the shoes I was wearing at the time now many of us have goals we're trying to achieve but the person we are right now is not the person that we need to be when we cross the finish line to our dreams so we must walk and pace ourselves on this journey to our goals because we haven't grown enough in ourselves to fit the shoes that we need to achieve our aspirations but let me tell you something if I have won Miss USA my very first year I would not have been Miss USA I would not have been the version of myself that I needed to be to properly handle a national title many of us aren't ready to walk the rate but understand that as we walk this race we pace ourselves and as we pace ourselves we grow and as we grow our foot gets bigger and as our foot gets bigger our shoes begins to fill in as our shoes begin to fill we can now run a little bit faster and as we pick up the pace we get to the finish line at the exact time we are destined to cross it do not fear the word no but from be afraid of the possibility of a yes that you have prematurely destroyed because you decided to quit before the clock strikes 12:00 there are a lot of questions that is going to keep you up at night but I guarantee there isn't one question that will keep you up longer at night than the question what if I didn't give up [Applause]

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Length: 28min 35sec (1715 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 21 2020