I don't mind we're gonna go back and
forth you know and it's a privilege for
me because if somebody just told me real
quick you know I'm old so when I was
born in the 70s like my grandma would
have a picture dr. Martin Luther King
anybody y'all familiar with dr. Myles
decay I just know you know I'm telling
no you know this generation really ain't
like some of y'all in the black history
like that when we was young my grandma
would have a picture of Jesus Christ and
Martin Luther King right there all right
and so when we was coming up Martin
Malcolm Marcus Garvey you know see
journey truth Harriet Tubman like that's
what they put in this right so real
quick
the reason why I like to do this kind of
stuff is because you guys got an
opportunity of a lifetime and sometimes
you know your youth is the best thing
you got going for you but sometimes it
could be you know
it could be the opposite right so let me
just ask you this question where what
state are we in right now good North
Carolina all right so you talented a lot
of y'all talented but let's just say 150
years ago 20 years ago right here on
this this actual land if it was a whole
bunch of black men in this room like
this you would be what you feel me I
just wanna make sure you are giddy
so I know you sweet you like you're a
baller I'm going to the pro I get it boy
I'm trying to explain to you is 200
years ago in the same land on the same
spot it could have been dudes that
looked just like you buffers you tall as
you is talented at you but they didn't
have an opportunity to do what they
ain't go and couldn't go to the league
they can only go where to the fields and
they had to work some sunup to sundown
so hear what I'm saying opportunity you
have an opportunity of a lifetime and
and and what what I'm trying to get you
understanding is when you understand you
have an opportunity you play a little
different for real like when you realize
it so I'm a high school dropout so when
I got my first opportunity to speak just
like a lot of you I don't know tell me
the age when you first picked up that
rock and was like yeah this is me how
old were you when you was like yeah I
can do this 10 years old 10 11 years
that's big how were you 12 years old how
were you 13 you talk to me real quick
they'll give me that so what was it
though you picked up
what happened like how did you know all
right football ain't necessarily that I
that that may not be like I could do it
but this what I want to do what did that
feel like good and what so what were you
doing would you dribbling shooting good
shoot right and when you were shooting
you was like yep I want to go to the
lead right so there's a league for you
but I told you 200 years ago if you
picked up a rock there wasn't what it
wasn't a league for you so you got a
lead now so when I dropped out of high
school and I started going to his church
and let me speak I picked up the mic I
was 16 years old I picked up the mic I'm
not gonna say what the best feature ever
did but when I picked up that mic and
got off that stage I was like yeah I can
do it and so you looked up to who when
you play ball like who are the people
you looked up to Kobe Kobe LeBron CP d
way Kobe I was the same thing with me
with dr. Munda King when I saw dr. music
to keep talked about the king up there
like in Washington like all those people
I got a dream when I saw Malcolm like
boom and I saw hundreds of black men
boom like let's go I'm like oh I could
do that like I could do that
and then when I found out I could make
money doing it and I could take care of
my family I was like Showtime but you
only got one shot II so here's what I
want to tell you you have an opportunity
but to keep it 100 how many jobs are in
the NBA for real let's just I want
because I know you sweetie I'm not
taking nothing away from that but you
gotta understand that pride comes before
a fall
you gotta understand that pride comes
before a fall so I want you to be sweet
but don't be so prideful that you don't
look at the facts it's throw honey jobs
it's fun other jobs in the league but
how many how many let's just say for a
ninth via prejudice how many just black
me in United States of America do you
think trying to go to the NBA you think
it's more than 400 how many I think it's
about a thousand dudes Chicago Detroit
Gary Indiana Houston New Orleans how
many I think there's more than a
thousand cats across the country LA
Oklahoma who trying to go to legal
see a Jersey I'm sorry no doubt
don't forget Jersey I love it don't
forget Jersey Jersey trying to go how
many I think it's ten thousand he said
more how many think so so you say
Millions so I said by 50 top maybe who
could really play you have 50,000 people
who always trying to fight for 400 jobs
France Italy so now you ain't even you
right you probably he said millions you
brought right now because I was just
thinking about United States of America
I'm not thinking about the rest of the
world and so you said 400 but are those
400 jobs available every year so those
400 not even available so I don't know
the numbers cuz I don't play ball
somebody give me the numbers of what's
available in the league every year how
many real jobs are in the league every
year 45 jobs and you just told me you
got a million ever loaded so I just want
to tell you a couple of things right
because when we were enslaved there were
some people like Frank Douglas he had
that dog go study him he was like y'all
y'all ain't gonna lock me down I'm good
I'm gonna get my own freedom I'm not
you're not locking me down right there
was people Booker T Washington French
adult like go back car to G Woodson
that's dudes back in the day they won't
so here's what I want to tell you that a
lot of the people that's gonna get those
45 they're gonna have to have that dog
right so I won settings to you it's a
lottery for real for real you just feel
like like flat out it's just automatic
that's how you feel it first of all you
got to realize this injury anything can
happen to you so let's not even doing
with injury let's just do it for real
for real
45 jobs and everybody fighting form
number one I'm gonna be real with you
number one if you're gonna get it you
will have to have that dog you gonna
have to have that dog you're gonna have
to be that dude that say I'm not just
going with skills so here's where a lot
of kids that I meet I don't care what it
is I work in NFL NBA Major League
Baseball
I work with soccer I'm in Australia
working I'm all over the world sports
period there's a there's a one type of
dude who feel like because he's gifted
that it's just automatic role for him
let me tell you out something you are
gifted but you've got a humble
you you you listen to when I tell you
how many people here you six six or
taller let me see your hand real quick
six six to talk all right let me say
this to you you ain't had nothing to do
with that you're not absolutely nothing
to do it that was the Creator you had
nothing to do with that I'm just waiting
for you do six hey he got Haley like he
I'm the man that's like you came out
your parents
however the DNA happen you just came out
with those skills that's you were burned
with that right you were born with that
you didn't do nothing to earn that you
were born with height you were born with
a structure you came with a DNA you was
born with that that's not what get you
in the lead not with what you were born
you got skill and you got will you got
skill and you got will to total
different things you were born with
certain things but to get to the next
level and not just get to the next level
to study at the next level you gotta
have will when you get to that next
level so when you play you have to
compete right now let's be real y'all
got it like you owe nobody in his room I
want y'all to be honest with me how many
y'all can honestly say when it comes to
the game practice that every time you
practice you got that same dog you're
giving 120% every time you practice you
don't care what the circumstances what
the situation is every single time you
giving 120% don't lie let me see your
hands don't lie don't lie all right how
many y'all like Yan be real probably
about 90% of the time I'm giving 120%
I'm just yeah 90% of the time good hands
down 80% of the time let me see
all right so pull out your phones real
quick you got your phones put your
phones out three things i'ma let y'all
get out first of all I understand I'm
just saying make sure you understand it
then you have an opportunity of a
lifetime so when people ask me why are
you so passionate because brah I got an
opportunity to be a multi-millionaire
from Bern from talking and you gonna
have opportunity we started with
speaking we're doing real estate
I own a solar company right here in
North Carolina called Harvard solar I
meet with my guys tomorrow
well I'm a high school dropout
my daddy wasn't in my life but I found
out I had a gift then I found out your
gift shall make room for you and I'm
like oh oh you mean to tell me about
perfect
I can eat and my kids can eat and my
kids kids can eat so number one
opportunity and everyday I want you to
wake up and not just go I'm sweet like
that I want you to go whoa so let me
tell you what I mean by that I
personally feel my luther king would run
circles around me that's how i feel i
feel like a mother the king was alive
today and he preached any other world
he'd have a swish on that boy or at
least a jump man boy beyond his rope
I guarantee you if mother luther king
was speaking a major brand would sponsor
my man every time he had a drink yeah I
bet you hit Gatorade why but the differ
between mothers to kick me my man was 26
years old with a PhD 26 he was 26 27
leading multitudes of people but what's
different between me and mother to gain
I think he's sweeter than me but he
wasn't no multi-millionaire what's it
did between me and mother to gain talk
to me what's the difference said again
opportunity what was the Opera but what
what do you mean by our fertility you
said he couldn't do what why couldn't
you make money in 1960 son why couldn't
you make why couldn't you make millions
what was happening to him instead of him
making millions what was happening to
him segregate dogs they sick and dog he
in jail they've taken word on my man
they got police like we taught beat my
man down I don't have to go through that
I got an opportunity you got an
opportunity so here's the deal when you
have an opportunity why would you give
80% when you have opportunity so my
answer that for me y'all y'all talk why
would you give 80% 70% why wouldn't you
always give 120% it's sports it's
basketball ain't no segregation why
wouldn't you give 120% talk to me what
wouldn't what would make you not give
120%
you got to answer it go injury alright
so how many of y'all don't give 100%
because you injury that's the only time
you don't give 120% let me see em okay
good give me something real good it
don't mean enough to me I won't try to
answer come on cuz it's gonna be
you answer why don't you give 120
percent good who said that good what do
you mean you take it for granted
good you take it for granted good what
else you think you got it
let me ask you this question I know you
sweep for real I know people talk about
you I know what you want through the
story look I worked at Michigan State
for four years I've been a d1 all all
over but I know but I used to tease my
ballers and do you want it's like there
he got close where they walk around is
they just walk around with like whatever
it's college you go to
it's like that's that's your gear you
ain't got no clothes like you can come
to class when you want you could read
well I already know you demand we know
that like I already get that when you
walk around you young people want your
autograph every time you go somewhere
people whispering is that - I get that
but he said some important you may get
it but right now I want for it you might
get it but right now what oh I can't
hear y'all you may get it but right now
what you don't have it and you acting
like you want so when you act like you
make it what happened good give me some
more stuff real that like I'm not giving
120 talk to me what else said again you
said it's difficult
I can't hear okay cool and what you mean
it might get difficult I don't play ball
so how can ball get difficult
good stop making shots so you lose your
confidence all right what else what else
to stop y'all can give you 120 we can't
fix wait like here's the deal when y'all
go play tonight tomorrow my goal is for
you to go 120 so you're gonna have the
right people in here helping y'all but
if you do giving me 70 80 90 you ain't
giving me 120 you're not gonna get out
of this experience what you're supposed
to get out that's my job
from today on you play whatever your
best game is you play that level every
single time it doesn't mean you're gonna
score every time but the effort has it
you can't always give 120% efforts you
can't dictate if the ball can always go
in you can't dictate what kind of game
you're gonna have you can't dictate how
your body is going to respond to moving
around but you can dictate your what you
can dictate your good you can dictate
your you can always get 120 on your
effort so tell me again give me two more
why don't you always give 120 percent
effort
sit sit here lazy what does that mean
why
at your age would you be lazy good good
you're not disciplined yeah you're not
that you rely in on skill and not on
what on will you rely on skill right and
when you get to the league everybody's
what everybody's skillful when you get
to the least everybody got skill you
ain't in high school no more you ain't
in college right for real I tell the
football players all the time I work
with Oliver and Clemson whatever like
guys nine out of ten teams you playing
they whack you only played about three
good teams but when you go to the pros
everybody you plan is a pro good what
else why wouldn't you give 120 percent
effort yeah yeah
and I'm not mad at you I'm just saying
45 you got 45 jobs you competing against
a million people for 45 jobs so if you
don't want to talk that's up to you but
I'm telling you it's 45 job and somebody
in this room is gonna be disappointing a
couple years from now and you know
what's crazy I do this all over the
world not just for athletes a lot of the
kids I see in school I see them in
prison and when I go to the president
speak and then in prison then that ready
to do what they like easy let me get
that book but I thought you told me you
wrote a book can I get that book I'm
like brother I try to give you the book
when you go outside so there's only
forty five jobs talk to me good
hard-working sexy good what else said
again you're getting baby by your
parents yeah what else yeah what do you
mean by that y'all tell me what do you
mean by lifestyle this party and chasing
girl this right here for a lot of y'all
y'all got no discipline is killing you
it's killing you and you don't even
realize it's killing you it's killing
you this ain't taking you to the lead
that female ain't taking Julie re so he
was gonna do number two all right cuz
four if you're not giving 120 I'm not
mad at you
my job is not to dog you out my job is
that help those of you who want to be
140 with you which one of you guys in
the room you like y'all freely I want to
be 145 let me see your hand I want to be
145 good hands down so so not what I'm
gonna do is help you with your effort so
in your phone write this down to your
phone the people you love give me three
people you love the most
give me three people you love the most
put them down three people and when
somebody now this should be hard for
them to respond to I'm about to give you
something easy I'm gay cakewalk
all right three people don't say mama
don't say daddy I don't want common
nouns I want proper nouns say my name
one person two people give me the names
of the people you put down in there give
me the names yes sir good what did I say
what'd I just say
okay no no no I'm just said period no
common Isles
give it to me give me the names
good say their name what's their names
good what do you love about them good
younger or older all older good anybody
else were you doing this for
yup talk to me good who are those people
I mean I know God but whose other people
okay good who else
good talk to me about to help somebody
right now somebody else help me out give
me give me the names good good so some
of you like me I have my dad Ryan from
Chicago Southside I have my father in my
life my father a high school dropout to
this day he's seven years old never
forgot I don't know who my grandfather
is my mom got pregnant me at 17 years
old south side of Chicago she went to
Dunbar high I had I didn't have the
people in my life that was supposed to
be in my life so I made some stupid
decisions dropped out of high school
homeless living in abandoned buildings
he now the trash can I promise you if a
speaker came I was like some of y'all
one saying nothing but guess what
happened guess what happened yeah one
day I got a why I got married I had a
son and everything changed for me that's
why I'm asking you who do you love so
when people ask me et why'd you get up
at 3 o'clock in the morning
why you putting videos up every day at 3
o'clock demonio Instagram number one
because I want to be the best that ever
done it like I honor my class
I won't dr. monk bikini look at me and
go that's it kid I won't Malcolm X to
look at me and go that's it kid just
like you got the Hall of Fame in
basketball I want to be the Hall of Fame
and speaking I want all the greats to
look at me and go that's it right there
number one I'm competing against
everybody else in the world I'm not mad
at them I'm not against them but when
you number one you don't have to
negotiate what you check when you number
I really what I was like number 25 or
something they would be like okay you
got to fly here you gotta fly now I tell
people how I fly I tell people where I
stay where I don't stay so number one in
the world what happened one day I woke
up was like I got to do this for my wife
like I don't know what happened but she
called me like y'all II I'm lost I'm
like what you mean we lost we live in
Lansing you can't be lost
she's like I'm lost I got a brain fog
took her to the hospital find out she
had MS the doctor was like look just the
one thing we could tell you stress cause
MS I told my girl you
we'll never work again I'm talking about
you talk about speaking good look at me
15 years ago I was alright when my girl
got diagnosed with MS I'm like it's show
time
you will never work again my son I
didn't go to college when you finish
high school and go to Michigan State I'm
cashing you out my daughter I'm cashing
you out listen to me very closely I
don't come from no sports background my
old doing in my life my grandfather one
of my life my son my son in college with
a 7:45 Li I wasn't playing he worked
with Michigan State basketball he stayed
with the athletes day I wasn't playing I
found out I had a gift I started
thinking about what my mom need what my
sisters need what about a lot of y'all
yourself is flat out how many units room
somebody uh you won't make it to the
league you tight word that ain't no
y'all how many y'all your mama really
need me you to go to the league let me
see your hand
hands down i'ma say it again how many
y'all need to move your mama out that
neighborhood and y'all need to put your
mama in another neighborhood and the
league is how you gonna get there let me
see your hand
so what I'm trying to tell you is why
you playin it might be some cats in the
league who really aren't going oh who do
come from privilege and you like
thinking you did I promise you I stupid
I ain't Tony Robbins I don't come from
where he come from I don't come from
with Kiyosaki coming from I don't come
from where Z came from my mama
barely finished Dunbar I'm from the
south side of Chicago my mom married do
we move to the west side of Detroit hi I
had no safety net I had jack and some of
y'all practicing play like you got a dog
on safety net you acting like if you
don't make it to the NBA you got like
some second opportunity that's gonna pay
you a hundred mil you act like this
don't work god I'm cool I'm just gonna
go over here and do this boy right here
I'm gonna make 50 min laughter how many
y'all in the room right now
your mama got a safety net sure other
than you making it to the lead you got
another way where you bout to make a
honey meal let me see em real quick cuz
that's what you're acting like not it's
not your parents got that hey you're
good but some of you your mama ain't got
that so when you hope from now on I
don't want you to see that
give all I want you to see your mama
getting out the hood so every time you
get your handle straight your mama is
that closer to doing what every time you
get your character straight you heard
what the man said he said if they gotta
kill us between the two of y'all
they not choosing the snotty-nosed dude
who think he everything who don't speak
to people you know when they all with
man they always picked me I was asked
why y'all pick me and knocks out the
speaker they say cuz you easiest to work
with because when you come you don't
talk down on the body
you clean up behind yourself you just
said I'm a grown man and say you clean
up behind yourself you you don't cause
problems me so I need you do me a favor
two more things I'm let you go number
one this is not about basketball it's
about who yourself and their who your
family who's in the league anybody I
know you said couple people in the lead
well let's talk about real cars you want
try to see this what's it like they call
that the drive I'm sorry I didn't make
it to the drive you made it the trap
what is it like guys to get picked up on
the team and then you call your mom or
your dad you let your mom and dad know
you own a team what does that feel like
so that so that right there that's the
feeling like so so I'm coming up cut so
so the days you don't feel like working
out it's easy how do you get motivated
how you get pumped up you think about
mama in that filling on draft day in
which more which one is more important
you get some rest
or mama coming to the draft I'm just
being real which one is more important
so somebody locking you down you trying
to spoil it locking you down like in
your mind you gotta go oh this ain't
just about me getting locked down this
is my mama not having what this mama not
having one food so so what are you so at
halftime when coach go back over the
stuff will you come out what you got to
do you got to kill
I just told y'all just how my man eats
we got a solar company nah that's how my
grandkids gonna eat he doing his own
personal thing this is how we eat this
ain't no motivational presentation
that's how my momma eat right now this
time my wife never have to go to work
again this is how we live on the west
coast and on the
and I know Varla and I ain't making
millions of died but my gift is making
room for me every time I get on three
o'clock in the morning I'm killing them
I'm killing them Tony Robinson can't
keep up
he's a phenomenal speaker but hearing
from the side he can't keep my motor
I've got a different motor
I got a different guy and I ain't doing
just one video today how many videos I'm
doing where you add Nicky how many
videos we doing look Tony if you better
than me you can't keep up with me
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