EFFORT – Motivational Video
there’s not a person on my team in 16
years that is consistently beat me to
the ball every play I think I’m gonna do
a talent cuz it’s got everything to do
it effort and nothing else 15 straight
years 12 Pro Bowls later if you want
numbers I don’t saw all of it and the
only thing that’s kept me around it’s my
effort so when you put on this all I
ever knew cuz I won the number remember
crew I want a number one line back I
want even in the media guys all I ever
knew what’s effort will get me seen on
the tape effort will get me notice to
get to the lead effort of one day take
care my mom and my kids ever
which is between you and you nobody else
can give you effort effort is with
inside man
and I’m still grinding because the next
kid is talking about he getting to own
keep watching me if I am nobody ain’t
got to convince me of what I do I do
what I do because I do what I do because
I’m built from something and man then
created every one of you meaning you
have that opportunity man but I so self
the question personally how much time
you really waste for real I do you
really replicate this I represented
because it’s all I had thrown a double
hood I ever been formed to that’s why
when I see y’all perform on Saturdays
daddy is my piece that’s why I run to
the hotels I don’t need to talk to
nobody before my games I just need to
see when I once came from I said any
same chairs you got in Satyan man I sat
around the greatest athletes in the
world and then I found myself totally
different because everybody was asking a
question who is this kid
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I’m just shitting my story to tell y’all
every time you think somebody got a good
man ain’t always good
somebody just some people just make up
their mind and he’s just crying and say
the heck with it man cuz sometimes
that’s all you can do how much of our
brains are we really gonna use I use
mine to tell somebody today except 2 min
11 when I step on the field against the
fish versus if that’s what God willed is
there’s no other man out there willing
to give up what I’m willing to give up I
say that in 1993 but I said I wanted to
be the greatest hurricane and the only
thing that I got in the middle of all of
that distance it’s the only thing that
father’s work is results there’s no
other blueprint Hank I know the secrets
to tell y’all today I ain’t come here
for nothing else but to tell you if you
want to do something forget it you want
a better relationship with God look at
you want to understand why pulling your
pants up important why yes ma’am I know
ma’am it’s important why being in the
meed with complete silence with somebody
walks in because its presence and
essence that determines respect saw we
talking about the power of respect is
never to disrespect that’s why I was the
first one sitting out in to me I’m gonna
say y’all do y’all good I gotta listen
something like that I need to grab from
seven on the same football feel that you
know 1993 and I made a quote and then
some people call controversy I call the
confidence I said that I might be the
greatest player to ever walk about a
universal mind I did not say that
because I thought I was better than
everybody else
I said that’s simply because I was
willing to put in the work to now be
back here eighteen years later and tell
you the only Brotherhood I still have
you got to say yes to your life
you’ve got to say yes yes to my dreams
yes to me yes I can make it yes I can
doesn’t matter how many failures I’ve
made doesn’t matter how many mistakes
having dual doesn’t matter about my
defeats doesn’t matter about what I’ve
done sits on my chest in a certain point
but I have that real hurricane is found
in my heart it’s this way it all came
from same path y’all walk same cash
y’all going in same greens you y’all
walking up and down I had one pair of
jeans in college for at least two years
at least two years 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
y’all spoil some of y’all spoil just
bottom-line your parents have done
everything for you you never had to do
none for yourself you’re spoiled we’re
gonna keep it real tonight some of you
are small blacks every time you ever got
in trouble somebody your house got you
out of it every time you’ve done
something you not supposed to do people
say Eric your mother’s a tyrant you’re
right she kicked me out you’re right
she’s mean but she developed a man
because she put me out there and said
you gonna have to grow up and some of
you have never learned to grow up and so
every time something get hard you quit
you call mama I dare you to take a
little pain
I dare you I dare you not to go home
so my said I can go home I feel bad go
throw it you ain’t gonna die at the end
of pain and success you’re not gonna die
because you’re feeling a little pain we
have gotten to a point where it’s
midterms and we’re moving forward the
days of you getting money I’m not saying
we quittin but I’m saying a day it’s got
to go from external to internal you have
to give it everything you got
no more TV no more parties no more plan
if you have a 4.0 what you need to be
doing is studying stop being this high
school dropout stop giving up stop
sleeping on the streets stop walking up
and down freako Avenue like you ain’t
got none and get your GED stop being
afraid to take a test
I don’t care about the fact I’m in a
hole now doesn’t matter about where I am
the last chapter to my life has not been
written yet if you judge me now you’ll
judge me prematurely stop being afraid
to go to cos cos your daddy didn’t go
and your mama didn’t go
I haven’t exposed all my stuff yet
stop being afraid and be the best Aaron
Thomas you can be but listen to me it’s
gonna be hard it took me 12 years to get
a four-year degree but I got it and
guess what on a degree they don’t have
dates so if it took you four and it took
me 12 they don’t show up nowhere I’m
still in the process of transforming my
life I’m still in the process of
becoming yes
yes
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