*EMOTIONAL* Kobe Bryant Motivational Video (MUST WATCH!)

um my name is Kobe Bryant 17 years old I wasn't invited to parties or you know friendly friendly Gatherings on the weekend so on Fridays and Saturdays I would go to my rec room work my basketball and basically dribble myself to sleep and I think that that was the best thing that could have ever happened to me cuz during those lonely hours in the rec room I discovered the hunger the motivation and the desire to be the best possible basketball player I could be if I just played a great basketball game had 40 points or

whatever I'm getting all this positive feedback from people who are at the game My Head swelling up and everything my parents would be the first people to tell me hey look you played a great game but there's no need for your head to get all big no need for you to get cocky and think that the world owes you something but and at the same time when things are bad things are going bad they would come up to me and say Hey you know there's another day The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow it's time for

you to move on and uh go for bigger and bigger sights set set some bigger goals we are playing against a Lakers time and we're out here in La you know look I always try to outwork people right that's just how I made my mark so the game was at 7:00 I like you know what I'm going to come to the stable Center cuz we're playing this when Lakers had Kobe and sha okay this is this is like the championship Lakers you know I'm going to get there at 3:00 and I want to make sure

I make 400 maid shots before I go back into the room and then I sit in this on and I get ready for the game so you know get in the car get to the gym get there and as I'm walking onto the court who do I see I see Kobe Bryant already working out so once I set my foot across that line I started working out and so I worked out for a good hour hour and a half and when I came off after I was done I sat down and of course I still

he the ball bouncing I look down I'm like this guy's this guy's still working out he he was working out like it looks like he was in a dead sweat when I got here and he's still going and it's not like his moves are nonchalant or lazy he's doing like game moves you know um I sit there and I unlace my shoes I'm like I want to see how long this goes I sit out there and watch another 25 minutes and he got done I said okay I think I've seen enough go play you know

come back get in sauna get ready for the game that game he drops 40 on us okay and after the game is over I'm like I I have to ask this guy I I have to understand like why why he he works like that so after the game was I'm like hey Co like why why were you in the gym for so long he's like cuz I saw you come in and I and I wanted you to know that it doesn't matter how hard you work that I'm willing to work harder than you we were

in Vegas for the start a training camp and we were getting ready for the Olympics in Beijing we're going to head to Beijing and I wanted to establish myself as a young leader on the team by waking up bright and early day one so the goal was to be the first one at breakfast so I set my alarm I make sure I'm up by Sunrise I get out of bed I put on my gear and I head downstairs but when I get there Kobe's already there with ice packs on his knees drenched in sweat now

it took me a minute to figure it out but this guy wasn't only awake before me he had already worked out he had just played in the finals days earlier meanwhile I'd been off for months and I was still exhausted what he had done that morning was incomprehensible to me that dedication he had only days after falling short of an NBA championship that taught me some I've never forgotten Legends aren't defined by their successes they're defined by how they bounc back from their failures so when you think about the greatest players of all time 90

80% of them have God gift of natural Talent ability body right so Jordan 48 in vertical right you got the big hands right you got LeBron right you have Shaquille O'Neal right then magic 69 point guard with vision Kobe standard if I give you 66 and then took every 66 guard in the NBA and NBA history you would never find him right you would never find Kobe cuz he didn't have big hands right he wasn't quick he wasn't fast 38 in vertical that's standard like if you don't have a 30in vertical you you you you're

not even a shooting guard in today's game right and what he did with that body it's like you took you took a a a S500 and he was pushing it like a Bugatti mhm that's what we look at we look at the normal person fighting Gods yes you're playing against the Golden State Warriors score is 107 109 you guys are close to getting into the playoffs you're about to take your shot and then all of a sudden boom falls down again he's struggling he's at the line to shoot free throws so he can't be taken

out of the game right now right after you injured you went on Facebook and you posted a lengthy blog this is such BS all the training and sacrifice just flew out the window with one step that I've done millions of times the frustration is unbearable the anger is Rage why the hell did this happen makes no damn sense now I'm supposed to come back from this and be the same player or better at 35 how in the world am I supposed to do that I have no clue maybe I should should break out the rocking

chair and reminisce on the career that was maybe this is how my book ends yeah maybe father time has defeated me then again maybe not there are far greater issues and challenges in the world than a torn Achilles stop feeling sorry for yourself find the silver lining and get to work with the same belief same drive and same conviction as ever one day the beginning of a new career Journey will commence today is not that day if you see me in a fight with a bear pray for the bear this this is another obstacle this

obstacle cannot Define me it's not going to me it's not going to be responsible for me stepping away for the game that I love I'm going to step away on my own terms my brain cannot it cannot process failure it will not process failure um because if I have to if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself you're you're you're a failure I think that's that's a worse that's almost worse than death if your job is to try to be the best basketball player you can be right to do that you

have to practice you have to train right you want to train as much as you can as often as you can so if you get up at 10:00 in the morning train at 11: right 12 say 12 train at 12: train for 2 hours 12 to 2 um you have to let your body recover so you eat recover whatever you get back out you train start training again at 6:00 train from 6:00 to 8:00 right and now you go home you shower you eat dinner you go to bed you wake up you do it again

right those are two sessions right now imagine you wake up at 3:00 you train at 4:00 go 4:00 to 6 come home breakfast relax slow slow now you're back at it again 9 to 11: right relax and now all of a sudden you're back at it again two to four and now you're back at it again you know 7 to n look how much more training I have done by simply starting at 4 right so now you do that and as the years go on the separation that you have with your competitors and your peers

just grows larger and larger and larger and larger and larger and by year five or six doesn't matter what kind of work they do in a summer they're never going to catch up cuz they're 5 years behind right so it makes sense to get up and start your day early because you can get more work in if I start earlier I can train more hours and I know the other guys aren't doing it because I know what their training schedule is right so I know if I do this consistently over time it's the gap's just

going to widen and widen and widen and widen and widen and they won't be able to get that back so to me it was just common sense and like thinking how can I get an advantage oh start earlier and this is right after that playoff game we flew back to LA that night and I got home it's probably like 3:00 in the morning and I went down to the high school which is down the street from our house and the janitor let me in the gym and I shot all day all day I mean all

day and um I didn't leave the gym I just kept shooting and shooting and shooting and shooting and shooting and shooting and practicing and practicing and uh I got a chance to let out the steam of disappointing my teammates and millions of fans I got a chance to let all that out instead of bottling it up and envision that moment over and over and over and over and over that that was a huge summer for me because I I um I felt like everybody had written me off after those air balls you know basketball for

me was the most important thing 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 you have to do the hard stuff and watch that game and study that game to not make those mistakes over and over again just because you weren't brave enough to face it you

got to deal with it got to deal with it face it learn from it and all those little things and it sucks but but you don't want to have that feeling again do you right so you got to really study it face it and uh not to say you'll win the next time you face but at least you you'll give yourself a better a better chance a lot of the kids that I was playing against were inner city kids and so you're looking at me as if okay this kid is soft right he's from the

suburbs of Philadelphia his father played in NBA played professionally got it easy got it easy born on second you know all this other stuff right and so they felt like they could try to be physical try to intimidate me and do all other stuff which they couldn't right but now I'm saying okay well you're trying to attack me how am I going to attack you how can I mentally figure out ways to break break you down how can I show you that no I have the edge right and so that's when it first started for

me is figuring out how to get the upper hand on an opponent that way and what would you do to mentally break people down then we used to have an All-American Camp I used to go to and you know at the time when I first showed I was a sophomore and um one of the things I would do is everybody would be at the cafeteria you know eating and doing all sort of stuff I just go back to the gym I just go back to the gym just they'd be resting and and they'd see me

leave right but now you're in a tough position cuz you're like okay I want to be like I'm following the kid to go work out but I know he's working he's up early and he's doing all the stuff so that was my way of show of showing them yeah I may be on the suburbs but you're not going to outwork me wow and I'm mentally going to did someone teach you that was that just a thing that you decided like I'm going to get people's minds um I think it's just it's just figuring out ways

to to to be better there's a quote from one of my English teachers at La Maran named uh Mr Fisk he had a great quote that said rest at the end not in the middle and that's something I always live by I'm not going to rest I'm going to keep on pushing now there a lot of answers that I don't have even questions that I don't have but I'm just going to keep going I'm just going to keep going and I'll figure these things out as we go right and you just continue to build that

way so that I try to live by that all the time you got a lot of people playing their hard ear money to come watch you perform it's your job to be in shape it's your job to be strong enough to perform at that level every single night and as a competitor I'm not I'm not ducking like it's not oh my God my back hurts I'm sore we got to play Vince Carter and Toronto Raptors tonight we actually had this happen we had a game against Toronto in 2000 and Vince was tearing the leago um

her back was jacked jacked but like the perception of that like what Kobe's missing the game against Toronto and Vince Carter because man 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 going he going to have to see me today yeah my man

yeah what does losing feel like to you uh it's exciting why is it exciting um because it means you have different um ways to get better there's certain things that you can figure out that you can take advantage of right certain weaknesses that were exposed um that you need to shore up right so it was exciting I mean it's sucks to lose right but at the same time there answers there you just look at them um cuz you get the information from losing more than from winning probably yeah yeah I mean the answers are there

when you win too you just have to look at them yeah right so it's a constant process it's exciting when you win it's exciting when you lose because the process should be exactly the same whether you win or you lose is you go back and you look and you find things that you could have done better you find things that you've done well that worked figure out how did they work why did they work how how can you make him work again yeah and uh but the hardest thing is to face that stuff 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 at at what age did that goal become crystal clear that I made that deal with myself at 13 years old at 13 years old 13 years old that's the deal I made clear about it crystal clear and where did inspiration come from um the Love of the Game the Love of the Game the challenge like I I would watch Magic play I'd watch Michael play and I would see them do these

unbelievable things and I'd say you know can I get to that level I don't know but let's find out let's find out and so that Curiosity to see where I could push this thing led me down that path I say I think the greatest fear that we face is ourselves actually you know I think it's um it's not anything that's external or anything that's superficial I think the greatest fear you face is yourself because you know we all have dreams and it's very scary sometimes to accept the dream that you have and it's scarier still

to say Okay I want that it's scary because you're afraid that if you put your heart and soul into it and you fail then how are you going to feel about yourself right so being Fearless means putting yourself out there and going for it no matter what go for it not for anybody else but for yourself at 13 years old you I play the longer game cuz my game wasn't about being better than you at 13 it was to be better than you when you know the chips are really on on the line so when

you played at 13 I would size you up and see what your strengths and weaknesses are how do you approach the game are you silly about it are you goofy about it are you good at it just because you're bigger and stronger than everybody else right or is there actually thought and skill that you put into it right and when I'd play I'd play to my weaknesses I wouldn't play to my strengths i' play to my weaknesses because when you're playing summer basketball there's so many games so there's not a lot of skill work being

done so when are you going to get better right when you're playing in competition situations you're only playing to your strengths why because you want to win right so what I would do I was work on the things during those games that I was weak at left hand pull up jump shot uh post game right so I have a strategy and so then fast forward to when I'm 17 and my game is completely well-rounded and that player at 13 that I saw at 13 still doing the same at 17 now you got a problem the

mama mentality simply means trying to be the best version of yourself that's what the mentality means it means every day you know you're trying to become better and it's a constant Quest it's an infinite Quest so starting at the age of two when I first started playing the game and on and on and on I always ask questions I always try to get better every single day like my kids at 2 could do a lot of things M right at 2 I could dribbble a basketball I could shoot a basketball on a Nerf hoop at

the house and I would go to practice with my father I would observe my father I'd sit and watch games with him so was he your first coach um yeah man I guess you could say that you know a lot of things I learned by being just being around the game right so by the age of six I was already strategizing versus other six-year-olds I think the best way to prove your your value is to work is to learn is to absorb um to be a sponge you always want to outwork your potential you know

as hard as you believe you can work you can work harder than that and that's what I tried to do when I first came in the league but you know basketball is such a direct competition sport that me coming in at 17 I hated when like my teammates would say you know I get hit with an elbow right Shaq would hit me with an elbow in practice and like you know Nick vanex will come up and say are you okay what am I are you okay hell's wrong with you you know so like I always

had that extra chip on my shoulder so like every day in practice for me was really trying to annihilate everybody that was that I was playing against cuz I wanted to prove you don't need to babysit me like I I'm fine you know breaking news in this Sunday afternoon five-time NBA champion former League MVP Kobe Bryant died earlier this afternoon in Los Angeles in a helicopter crash the world was heartbroken Yesterday by a helicopter accident in Los Angeles that claimed the lives of nine people including that of Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter joh life

is short and it's fragile and we don't know how many birthdays we have so just we don't have to have a birthday to celebrate just Celebrate life and if you haven't told someone you love them do it now do it tell people you love them call your friends text your friends hug them kiss them those times when you get up early and you work hard those times when you stay up late and you work hard those times when you don't feel like working you're too tired you don't want to push yourself but you do it

anyway um that is actually the dream that's the dream it's not the destination it's the journey and if you guys if you guys can understand that then what you'll see happen is that you won't accomplish your dreams your dreams won't come true um something greater will and what brings you the most Joy right now being with my family really that is man that is the most fun hanging out with them all summer uh being able to to like do things that I ordinarily couldn't do yeah uh cuz of training cuz of season and stuff like

that so being around them and watching Bianca grow up cuz there a lot of things that I miss with Natalia and Giana because I was playing so being there every day with them is so much fun man so brings me the most Joy no one knows how much time we have that's why we must live in the moment we must enjoy the moment we must reach and see and spend as much time as we can with our families and friends and the people that we absolutely love I've always said that I wanted to be remembered

as a player that didn't waste a moment didn't waste a day and uh I felt Extremely Blessed by the god-given talent but at the same time I didn't take take it for granted at all and so if I could be remembered as a person that was born with a lot of talent but did everything he could to try to overachieve you that lived every day as if he was the 12th guy on the bench you know I think that's a very powerful message to have and something that hopefully the players that are now and players

that will come later um choose to embody as well