THE GRIND DOESN’T STOP – Best Motivation | Former NBA Athlete Walter Bond Motivational Speech
I’m starting baseball team a smartie
football team president of the
journalism Club and my classmates voted
me most likely to succeed and I heard
through the grapevine all the girls
thought I was cute most you guys are
leaders at your high school and you’re
all that and a bag of chips at your high
school across the line of confidence and
I became arrogant I made one mistake
I believe in confidence with arrogance
is the dangerous thing I was all that
and a bag of chips at my high school but
I want you to know when you leave high
school it’s a big world out there and
you start boarding the college campuses
there’s other people on that campus that
was all that and a bag of chips at their
high school I made a vicious mistake and
I became arrogant I want you to be
confident but don’t you dare cross that
line in the arrogance I was all that and
a bag of chips in my high school some of
you girls think you’re cute but there’s
girls out of here cuter some of you guys
think your hands some of there’s guys
out here better look into you some of
you guys aren’t really smart with that
fear out here smarter than you when I
played high school basketball the
gymnasium was jam-packed and when I
walked in the stadium my classmates
would share my name Walter Walter well
uh oh I make myself sick thinking about
how arrogant I became I cross the line
of confidence and I became arrogant I
got recruited from schools all across
the country to play college basketball
they would ring the doorbell I was
sprawling on the couch who was it today
mom who was today mom UCLA Arizona State
Michigan Minnesota Wisconsin who is a
today mom who is it today
I’m the board to the University of
Minnesota I got recruited by a guy named
Clemens
he walked to my house three-piece suit
fresh haircut he looked like success he
looked like money he looked like success
he looked like money he walked into my
house with confidence he looked like
success he looked like money in the
business world remember this the moment
someone sets their eyes on you they face
a value on you the second time the
evaluating use when you open up your
mouth so if you want to be successful in
business always look like success always
look like money if you’re not that smart
look good and be quiet
my coach walked to the house three-piece
suit fresh haircut look like success
look like money came into my living room
start talking to my mom they found out
my mother is a native of Kentucky Tim
Hoskins is a native of Kentucky he stood
in the kitchen and all he talked about
was Kentucky not even acknowledge my
presence he talks about bluegrass and
red dirt mint juleps in the Kentucky
Derby he found out my mother’s best
friend in college was his wife’s first
cousin Compass’s came in and built a
relationship with my mom and connected
my daddy was a sharecropper in Tennessee
lived on a farm
he turned to my daddy he said Mr Bond I
don’t know about you but I’m a country
boy from down south
he knew my daddy was a country boy from
down south he said if you’re someplace
to meet Mr Bond
he must earn his Flint I don’t know
about you Mr Bond but I’m a country boy
from downs here’s my philosophy wherever
I show up I am the key whatever team I
belong to is going to win if I’m a
student government student government’s
gonna win if I’m on your basketball team
my basketball team’s going to win why
because when I show up we’re going to
win right before he left the house he
said Walter by an on state from Chicago
you were the key to my recruiting class
son if I get you to my campus you are
the key at your high school you are the
key in your family you are the key
that’s the kind of confidence I want you
to have no matter where you go in life
any organization you belong to make up
your mind that wherever I go we’re going
to win does that make sense
I got your University of Minnesota I’m
shut up on campus I met my first
teammate it was something like this
what’s up dawg my name is wall bond
Allstate from Chicago in other words the
Messiah has arrived my teammate stood up
and he said this what’s your name again
won’t burn off stay from Chicago okay
that’s not bad but my name is Willie
Burton all-american
please don’t cross that line of
confidence into arrogance all-american
is that like a small town or something
oh the next day with the first practice
I’m gonna find the toughest guy on the
team I’m gonna dunk the ball in his face
now but he’s felt like I was in high
school when I was in high school I was
in and a bag of chips baby at my high
school I was too bad so I kind of locked
when I found at toughest gallivant
English name is Ritchie coffee Misha
coffee used to be in the military he was
a part of the 82nd airborne he had been
in the military for four years before he
stepped foot on a college campus when
she called it was six six 235 pounds
I’ll be honest with you the first time I
saw his body up close was the first time
I questioned God
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when you walk on the college campus I
want you to know you are all that in the
bag of chips but there’s other people on
that conference on a college campus that
was all that in the bag of chips in
their high school too and for the first
time in my life my confidence began to
wane I got a hold of myself and I said
wait a minute
I’m Walt von Allstate from Chicago my
coach told me I’m the key to turn this
program around I’m gonna take this ball
and Duncan enriched it off his face as
soon as Frankie started I grabbed a
little spot with everything everything I
had bring it over see coffee well let’s
go baby bring it on I’m Sam let’s go
and right before I got to the room I saw
a UFO it was flying in the sky headed
straight toward me and we met midair
bounce that ball down uncle Richard
coffee stood over me I said this 82nd
airborne we do it all first to fight
last to fall get up you little freshmen
and before I know it my bottom lip
started to itch oh no I’m about to cry
my only goals make it back to my dorm
room without crying in front of my
teammates I made it back to my dorm room
and brought out my boombox I’ve been
alone with you inside my mind and in my
dreams I kiss your lips thousand times
Robin said it hit me my coach recruited
me based on my potential and not who I
was at the turn
see when you get accepted by your
respective college and trade school or
wherever you go to the next level you’re
gonna get an opportunity based on your
potential and not who you were at the
time she counts is look at a CT and GPAs
because they want to figure out what
kind of potential does a student have my
comes recruited me based on my potential
and not who I was at the time oh that’s
a little pity party for three days in
FFA I came up with the plan one day I’m
a plan in the end one day I’m gonna play
in the NBA arena one day I’m gonna play
in front of real NBA cheerleaders I love
to speak to high school kids because you
were loaded with potential I want you to
understand that all the successes you
have in high school is awesome
it sets a platform for the next level
but when you get to that next level baby
when you leave high school you are
starting over
you have to re-establish yourself and
that’s next level I want you to be
confident because you’re going to be
successful but you gotta understand that
when you get to that next level it’s
going to be more competitive is
everybody with me and I thank God for
Richie coffee him knocking me down like
that convinced me that I need to get
into the weight room and I need to
develop myself I found out that Richard
coffee can bench press 300 pounds
Richard coffee can knock me down
whenever he felt like it the next
morning I woke up and I went to my
coach’s office I said comes where’s the
weight room
he says Walter you okay coach I’m fine
where is the weight room I got in the
weight room the only thing I can lift
was the bar but I made up my mind before
I leave the University of Minnesota
I will benchpress 300 pounds and I got
that white robe ooh ooh cray cray
Clinton and before I left the University
of Minnesota I convinced press three
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