Let me tell you something you already know.
The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows.
It's a very mean and nasty place
and I don't care how tough you are.
It will beat you to your knees and keep you permanently if you let it.
You, me or nobody
is gonna hit as hard as life.
But it ain't about how hard ya hit.
It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
How much you can take and keep moving forward.
That’s how winning is done!
Pain is temporary.
It may last for a minute,
or an hour, or a day, or even a year.
But eventually, it will subside,
and something else will take its place.
If I quit, however, it will last forever.
The margin for error is so small, I mean...
one-half a step too late or too early
and you don’t quite make it...
One half-second too slow or too fast you don’t quite catch it...
The inches we need are everywhere around us.
They’re in every break of the game,
every minute, every second.
You got a dream, you gotta protect it.
People can’t do somethin’ themselves,
they wanna tell you you can’t do it.
If you want something, go get it.
Period.
Don’t be afraid to fail.
You can’t always win,
but don’t be afraid of making decisions.
You have to believe that something different can happen.
“He who says he can,
and he who says he can’t,
are both usually right.” (Henry Ford)
Now most of you say you wanna be successful, but you don’t want it bad.
You just kinda want it.
You don’t want it better than you wanna party.
You don’t want it as much as you wanna be cool.
Most of you don’t want success as much as you wanna sleep!
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
You have to dig deep down.
Dig deep down and ask yourselves,
who do you want to be?
Figuring out for yourselves what makes you happy,
no matter how crazy it may sound to other people.
Make a choice.
You just decide...
what it’s gonna be, who you’re gonna be, how you’re gonna do it.
Just decide.
Why not?
Why can’t I be the MVP of the league?
Why can’t I be the best player in the league?
I don’t see why. Why?
Why can’t I do that?
What did you say to the kid?
It ain’t about how hard you hit.
It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
How much you can take and keep moving forward.
Get up.
Get up!!
And don’t ever give up.
We can stay here, get the shit kicked out of us...
Or...
We can fight our way back into the light.
We can climb, out of hell...
... one inch at a time.
To be able at any moment
to sacrifice what you are
for what you will become.
Most of you won’t be successful because when you’re studying,
and you get tired, you quit.
“I don’t do well in math,” you’re right!
You ain’t never studied!
“I’m not good at writing,”
'cuz you have never written before!
Talent you have naturally.
Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.
If you’re not making someone else’s life better,
then you’re wasting your time.
Don’t cry to give up, cry to keep going.
Don’t cry to quit!
You already in pain, you already hurt.
Get a reward from it!
Now if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth
but you gotta be willing to take the hits
And not point fingers saying,
you ain’t where you wanna be because of him or her or anybody
Cowards do that, and that ain’t you!
You’re better than that!
'Cause everyday is a new day.
Every moment is a new moment!
So now you gotta go out and show them that I’m a different creature!
NOW!
I'mma show you how great I am!!!
In the 17th chapter of St Luke it is written,
"The Kingdom of God is within man.”
Not one man
nor a group of men,
but in all men! In YOU!
You, the people, have the power!
The power to create machines,
the power to create happiness.
You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful,
to make this life a wonderful adventure!
Now... what are you gonna do???
Because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.