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if you don't believe in yourself then
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who's going to believe in you leave in
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yourself okay believe in your power
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that's where it starts out you got this
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so act like you got this you already
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have it know that this is the time to be
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something of worth I think the first
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thing is recognizing that you are not
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what you do inspire yourself into the
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right direction look find things of
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latch on to hook on to things that
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inspire you fill your eyes in your soul
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with them and know that this is your
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power this is the advantage you have
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over everyone else you fill yourself up
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with things that inspire you until you
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day after day after day being around
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people that inspire me not by their
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words but moreso by their actions I hear
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a lot of people talk every single day
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and I was one of these guys and I
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started not to listen to what people
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said I started to watch how people acted
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and how they interact with other people
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and that helped me set the bar for what
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I want to do just know that you can be
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your potential know that you can be this
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know that you have this in that tonight
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you're gonna fight
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a battle for your power a battle but
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knowing that you come out on top this is
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this is what it's all about you know and
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I used to say all the time why me why me
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why me and also in that conversation
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changed it yeah like why not me like why
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not me and I think the more you can
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start looking at facing adversity by
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saying why not me you approach things
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with a completely different mentality
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than a person who feels like they're
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going to be a victim you start becoming
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the hunter again and the more you can
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stay with that hunter mentality it will
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pay dividends everyone wants to eat but
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few are willing to hunt who do you want
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to be how do you want people to see you
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stronger hard-working successful if you
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want people to see you like that you you
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need to change change and grow
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strengthen yourself build up your
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potential construct your future who are
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you going to be are you gonna be that
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person that wallows in their self-pity
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we're gonna be the person that says you
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know okay I did this wrong I did that
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wrong but how can I be better and I
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think that's what I talk about that
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relentless mentality to want to be
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better at just life in general
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now you have to find balance in life
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right so they're gonna be times where
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your your journeys gonna be down here
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and it's gonna be tough and the same
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when things get high you know you sign
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in a deal or you you know you have to be
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able to keep things in perspective and I
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think sometimes when I stop I force
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myself to assess okay whatever that were
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the benefits you know where the
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negatives how can i how can I turn this
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negative into a positive
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all right let me make sure that I don't
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get too high and I continue to keep my
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head down and work harder because I I
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want to achieve more if it's not for me
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for the people that work for me or for
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my girlfriend or my mom deserves better
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so I try to find that one thing because
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I'm very goal-oriented that I need to
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work towards and once I achieve that
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it's another goal and I don't want it to
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ever stop because that's what life
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should be be selfish and take control of
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your life take control of your abilities
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take control of your potential don't
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waste any more time take courage to
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provide for yourself to provide your
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potential grasp it no longer will you be
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afraid to make it to change it no one
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else is living your life take control
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practice patience progress take yourself
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through the barrier
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I came back mentally right like that's a
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story like that's it that's a story that
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should be cherished for younger kids out
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there for older people out there doesn't
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matter you don't have to come back and
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do what you did before and do it
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exponentially better you have to come
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back better as a person and and and
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really value that process that's a
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comeback it's amazing when you have to
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be vulnerable to talk about issues that
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a lot of people aren't willing to talk
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about and I think choose is a really
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imperative word because a lot of people
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choose not choose not to you know follow
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up on things that happened in their past
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or sometimes reflect I am where I am and
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only I can change it
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you are the only person that could
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change it at the end of day people can
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want to help you as much as they want to
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help you and I don't think complainings
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answer either
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I think vulnerability and and talking to
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people out what's actually going on in
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your life gets them invested in you and
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the more you listen to them get some
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invested you know you invested back in
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them and that's when a bond is formed
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but that person can only take you so far
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you have to want to take yourself to a
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different place and if you don't have
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that then you're gonna stay stuck and a
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lot of people choose to stay stuck and
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we see it every single day
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you have to be vulnerable enough with
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yourself to accept the fact that did
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happen bad stuff happens to everybody
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you have to drive your own car and if
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you don't drive it someone's gonna drive
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it for you and that that other person is
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driving it may not be a person it may be
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a darkness that entity that we talked
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about that is easy to get lost and
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consumed it do have the power the power
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to become someone that even the deepest
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part of you trusts someone you trust to
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succeed become the person that you know
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you can be stand up for your future for
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your power and for you to be something
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full of the worth that is in you you
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know we spent so much time talking to
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other people and giving other people
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advice on what they need to do in their
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life and sometimes you need sit down
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give yourself advice on what's what's
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best for you it's fulfilling to
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recognize that nobody is the perfect end
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product and everybody has stuff to work
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on but once you're able to say wow that
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that is something I need to work on and
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you feel yourself taking the steps
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necessary to be better at it
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[Music]
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don't do something you do something
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because you have to do it do something
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to take a step out of the line move away
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from the ordinary don't stop because of
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failures don't quit because it is
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getting hard success comes at a price
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and you must be willing to pay it this
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storm will pass and when it does if you
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are still standing you will be stronger
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for it don't quit you are already
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hurting why stop now
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you have already come this far why give
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in when it gets hard
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why don't say why me say try me it's not
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always going to be easy there going to
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be challenges there still going to be
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the curve balls thrown at me but I can't
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become introverted I have to continue to
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get outside myself because when you're
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uncomfortable that's the only way you're
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going to grow you're so busy in the
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minutia and the the clutter that you're
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running through your life with your head
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down and it was the first man to sit and
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evaluate and that process within itself
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is rewarding peaceful to my soul of my
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spirit but still still drives me because
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I still know I have such a long way to
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go and I have to continue the process
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and never stop you want the hard times
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you want the pain you want resistance
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because if there is resistance you are
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growing you are developing stop wishing
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it was easier which you were better as
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I'm walking onto the court who do I see
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I see Kobe Bryant already working out
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okay it's kind of cool it's Kobe stop
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Kobe you know and uh you know so I put
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my sneakers on and you ever get lost in
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what you do where you end up it's been
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an hour and a half I'm just I'm here I'm
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in it so once I set my foot across that
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line I started working out and so I
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worked out for a good hour I don't a
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half and when I came off after I was
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done I sat down and of course I still
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heard the ball bounce I look down like
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this guy's right now he was working out
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like it looks like he was in the dead
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sweat when I got here and he's still
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going and it's not like his moves are
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nonchalant lazy he's doing like game
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moves you know I sit there and I unleash
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my shoes in my corner see how long this
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goes there watch another 25 minutes and
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he got done okay I think I've seen
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enough
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go play you know come back get in the
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sauna and get ready for the game that
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game he drops 40 on us okay and after
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the game is over I'm like I have to ask
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this guy guy I have to understand like
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why why he works like that right so
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after games I'm like hey Kobe like why
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were you in the gym for so long he's
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like cuz I saw you come in and I don't
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want you to know that it doesn't matter
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how hard you work that I'm willing to
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work harder than you Wow and he's like
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this and don't hold there's there's
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nothing wrong with that like I'm not
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saying I dislike you as a person you
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just you inspire me to be better and it
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was the first time I started to see this
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level of competitiveness I said I need
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to start doing more Wow
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if you think you are the only guy doing
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an extra hour after practice you are
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wrong when you are doing an extra hour
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there is a guy doing an extra two hours
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think beyond your team it is easy to be
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a big fish in a small pond it is time to
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think outside of your circle and compete
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with the best of the best
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compete with the guys who are getting
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more work than you you can convince
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yourself you work hard when you compare
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yourself to someone in class or someone
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on the team or
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brother or your sister but how does your
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work ethic look when you compare
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yourself to a Kobe Bryant or a Michael
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Shore