GO FOR IT – Best Motivational Speech Video (Featuring Walter Bond)
I see student can justify anything and
the worst part about it they can believe
this excuse don’t look at me like that
some of you guys have been defeated
already in life you said to yourself you
know what I got a GED nobody wants me I
used to be an alcoholic nobody wants me
my own father’s would tell me I was no
good that nobody wants me I’ll just work
this little dead-end job and we’ll
figure out what’s next cuz I don’t have
anywhere to go
some of you guys can relate to what I’m
saying somehow someway you disqualified
yourself I work with so many people not
gonna relate to them nobody can beat you
with you nobody can stop you with you
but the worst thing you can do
will disqualify yourself now fifty years
old I got a wife I got kids I got
mortgages I got bills school is over
that’s all about the real deal right now
you guys want to is there any excuse for
an adult not to give it a not alike so
when you go to work is there any excuse
for you not to be an a man is there in
excuse me your store not to be in a
store
is there an excuse for you to go home
and not to be a husband
is there any excuse for you not to be an
a wife or mom or dad it’s an excuse
because we’re not a middle school
anymore we’re not in high school so a
report card day I came home and I was
sit down with my mom and dad and I would
make excuses about my seat well mine you
know I don’t like to teach him on the
teaching that like me that’s why she
gave me a seat you know my mom would say
that teacher then give you nothing you
earn nobody can stop you with you
you know I had a goal of playing in
India
and I got there you guys know I had a
goal of doubling my NBA income
and I got there if you set a goal and
you make the intention that you want to
get there do you know that you writing
it down and looking at it every single
day you’re seven times more likely to
achieve that goal
this is America latest chill
it can happen to you it can happen for
you but you got to write these both
aeroplane upon tablets so they can be
seen by man and that man and that woman
is you
my father said right to go down son and
I wrote him down I said dad I’m a plane
in ba and I’m a that’s your problem son
your value system screwed up you’re
smart
this family’s about being a
student-athlete we write your goals
tomorrow and give or take
he didn’t yell at me he didn’t bow beat
you didn’t criticize me he said son
that’s your problem your value system is
screwed up redoing you give them to me
tomorrow you know if some of you guys
can have more in life but your value
system school you’re more excited about
Facebook and Instagram
some of you guys is gone you’re not
gonna work I did that cause my father
taught me some very vital but you know
what you will do well and what you dwell
on you will dwell in but you dwell on if
you dwell on marijuana you will dwell in
marijuana and you’ll get them we smokers
reward I thought about it the other day
I’m from Chicago
I’ve never been to a third retirement
party have you
I’ve never been to a thumpin private
party I guess I have to call fuels what
you dwell in you dwell on so can I give
you a little bit of advice
make sure your value system is good make
sure your value system makes sense
people say all the time well what’s most
important to you God family work and I
know what you’re gonna write down it’s
gonna be really your heart does that
make sense what was in my heart with
sports and that’s no lie
my father said we do you value sisters
you know I read it the next day and said
dad you ready okay babe I’m a graduated
college in four years I’m gonna play in
the NBA he made me laugh duck
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but there is nice back here except we
playing in the air that’s what I say I’m
gonna make more money in business and I
didn’t know my father saying I like it I
like it I want you to take those girls
out and look at them before I knew it
that 2.1
turn into a two-point line
before I knew it I got selected to be
president of the Durham doesn’t love
Kappa the homecoming committee before I
knew that begin people begin to
recognize me not as an athlete but as a
leader in school I was sitting on one of
the 3.0 I’m gonna get a treat I know I’m
gonna get a 3.0 and able I Walters
mathematically impossible you know what
I’m talking about
so I got as hot as I hear 2.9
I realize what
I would have taken advantage even a
little bit more Mutulu my aunt like
something you got me to hear what I’m
saying to you right now some of you guys
used to be a Mattu on your past night
can I get a witness now you meant a
little school anymore you’re not in high
school childhood is over would you agree
and grow them in and grown women think a
certain way operate a certain way and
have a certain mindset mentality I want
you to understand you are a part of a
legacy you’ve heard about your mom’s
story you heard about your dad story now
it’s time for you to build your story my
father was a sharecropper in Tennessee I
heard all the stories my dad would tell
me being a young black boy in Tennessee
he said son I got called the n-word so
many times I began to think it was my
first name
but I busted my butt for you Sam I’m
busting love well I went back to college
for you son I got educated for you son
everything I do is for you son
see right now I want you gonna still you
are a part of the legacy give you guys
your mom made sacrifices for you your
dad made sacrifices for you
now it was time for you to grab the bull
by the horns and impact your legacies
everybody with me your mom and dad have
this store your grandfather your
grandmother has here’s a first story now
you are building your story I was at a
track meet one day now watching the four
by one relay and I love a four by one
real and that first printer takes off
with the baton in their hand and
everyone as hard as I can as fast as I
can and when they get to the next
athlete maybe I’ll spit and that next
athlete takes off running but they reach
back
it is roots back a little
the neighborhood as hot as it came as
fast as I can 400 meters in a year Fitch
it is so important to make the
successful end off because if you don’t
make a successful handoff you are
disqualified and the next athletes turn
is run as hard as you can as fast you
can
and then they yell state may hand
tonight that angers Carl Lewis that
anguish brow gel that happens you say
and that last 30 meter Wow
they come around the curve and all you
need elbows perform and they come down
the process finish words out so that the
tracking and that saw the man was baton
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stick stick stick stick your father
might be from Russia
your grandfather might be from Cuba
Colombia I don’t know where they from
but let me tell you something at some
point they’re gonna yell stick never
ties in your hand so we don’t have time
to be silly anymore would you agree we
don’t have time to play games anymore
would you agree you got to get that
pattern in your head you got to run as
hard as you can as fast as you can and
every day in that kind of morning my dad
would just talk to them like son of
Tennessee sir education is very valuable
you cannot did value educational your
education is important son that’s the
way out education working hard education
hitting train smart families are
training and development organizations
masquerading as a family
mom dad you were head trains of a family
you know my dad would say go get it son
go go go get it go get it go get it be
sweet be sweet baby go get it go get it
be sweet be sweet baby every time I left
the house my mom would say be sweet baby
please sweet my dad would say go get it
son go get it go get it go get it this
week go get it sweet go get it be sweet
so get it to please my family to go get
it
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be sweetly icicle in the class and said
never get to see I’m good to pull off of
be so yeah
everyone went for the a you know but the
average person thinks the same is that
way they can do more they could be more
if they believe more
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