Unleash Your Potential | Stop Accepting Limits

Which one of you motherfuckers is coming in second? Never accept the limitations of someone else. You have to start with the belief that you can fucking do something. Get your punk ass up off the couch and get down to that goddamn gym. I mean, out of pain we are born. If you can't commit to this shit, fuck you. CT Fletcher is here. So the competition, for all intents and purposes, for you, is over. Never ever become satisfied. If you give me everything you got, all of it, every bit of it, you cannot fail. She shoot 'em away and she drug her fucking self across that finish line. He's a powerlifter from Long Beach, California.

He's a 6-time world champion powerlifter.

He co-owns Metroflex Gym Long Beach where he trains.

He's CT Fletcher and here are his top 10 rules for success.

Which one of you motherfuckers is coming to say it? You didn't think I was gonna do it, did you? You thought, oh, he's on CNN, I know he ain't gonna say motherfucker. I fooled you. I fooled you. To thine own self be true. So to myself, I had to be true. I'm not going to litter it because litter my conversation with motherfuckers and fuckers as I usually do if you know anything about me. I'm going to limit them. I'm going to limit them to maybe 12, 13 motherfuckers and fuckers through the whole thing because I would like possibly to get a few seconds on CNN. But if I don't make it, fuck it. Listen up, motherfucker. Question. Question for yourself. What is impossible? Never accept the limitations of someone else. Somebody told you that it's impossible. Don't even try. Give up before you even fucking try it for yourself. Never accept the goddamn limitations that someone else has put placed upon you. Decide for yourself what is your limitation. Try it, you son of a bitch. Try it for yourself. Then that is the only way, the only fucking way to know if you can or can't do something. I gave it a fucking try. That's how I know. Get your punk ass in there and give it a try. The most important thing is, is this right here. You must have You have to start with the belief that you can fucking do something. I mean, when the motherfuckers set out to go to the fucking moon, some egghead motherfucker had to believe that we can build this goddamn rocket ship that can take us to the moon. Some son of a bitch had to come up with this fucking idea and actually believe he could fucking do it. The first motherfucker who invented the goddamn wheel, you know what, I think there's a better way of doing this shit. If I make this round shit and put two sticks between it, I think we can roll around a little fucking faster. The rest of the cavemen was looking at that son of a bitch like he was an idiot. Are you fucking crazy? That'll never work. But if it wasn't for that fucking lunatic idiot, we'd all be still walking around. Some motherfucker has to be the motherfucker that says, I believe we can do this shit. Be the motherfucker that has the new idea. Be the motherfucker who believes that he can do shit when all these other idiots say you can't do it. I want to be that motherfucker. I want to be him. I identify with him. That was the first one to do the innovative. So when I was invited here today and they said clever, I said to myself, hmm, I don't think my approach in the industry that I am in, the fitness industry, would be considered clever. Because in this day and age, in this time, it's a push or a trend toward easier is better. The easier way, the easier approach. 5-minute abs, 4-minute abs, 2-minute abs, 1-minute abs. Now you're gonna think I'm making this up. But I seen an ad the other day for a belt. You just put it around your waistline, and you can sit on your computer and watch Netflix, chat with your boyfriend or girlfriend, donkey, or whatever it is you talk to, and it will work your abs for you. Wow. That's cool. I just sit there and this machine will work my ass for me. I don't have to do one sit-up, one crunch. Cover the ears, cover the ears. Not one, not one. And here I come along, old crusty old man, 55 years old, and I look you in the eyeballs, point my finger in your face, And I say, fuck that. Get your punk ass up off the couch and get down to that goddamn gym and work for what you want. So I don't know if that would be considered clever or not. What do you think? Pain is necessary. It's inescapable. There's no way. I mean, out of pain we are born. Pain is a must. Pain, it is a necessity of growth. Be comfortable with being uncomfortable. Pain is a necessary evil. Get used to it, motherfucker. Make friends with it and then kick fucking pain's ass. And that way, when it comes to take you down, you can brush that fucking shit off. I'm used to you, motherfucker. Bring it on. Come on, pain. Sit your ass down and let's have a fucking laugh. Lunch together. Me and you, pain. Let's do it. Best fucking friends. Fuck your excuses. Be committed. If you can't commit to this shit, fuck you. If you don't know what total commitment is, if you don't know, if you don't want it that bad yet, if you haven't made up in your mind yet enough until you're totally committed to let me kick your fucking ass, then stay at home. Do us both a fucking favor. Just stay your fucking ass at home. Sitting on the couch, eating bonbon with your little fuzzy little house shoes on. This ain't my job. This is what I like to do. This is what I do. I motivate who want to be motivated. You don't want to be motivated? Leave me the fuck alone. I'd rather fucking die doing what I love to do than sitting at home talking about what I should be doing. Oh, damn. One of these days I'm going to get up and do this. Oh, I should go do that. You know, I'm gonna get her one of these days. I'm gonna go to the gym. I'm gonna work out. Fuck that. I would rather fucking die on the bench press or curling or squatting doing what I love to do than fucking talking about what I might do or what I should do. That's the difference between me and you. I'm a doer. You're a fucking talker. I used to walk into a competition and I would say, I am the one. Which one of you guys is coming in second? 'Cause all of you know C.T. Fletcher is here. So the competition, for all intents and purposes, for you is over. 'Cause first place, that's mine. That's a guarantee. That's a lock. So you can discuss amongst yourselves. Come to a decision, which one of y'all coming in second and third. That's okay with me. But this top podium, that belongs to me. Why? Because not one of you can out-will me. You may have been born with more genetic prowess than I have, but you cannot out-determine me. You can't out-will me. You can't out-want me. You can't outwork me. You can't out-desire me. I'm the king of that shit. And that's why this top spot, this number one, that's mine. You guys go ahead and fight over second and third. But I know Coming from that type of attitude, I really felt like I was the strongest man on the earth. What you see here before you today is leftovers. I'm 55. Every bone in my body aches, but I'm still CT motherfucker. I'm big enough. I'm satisfied. Never ever become Satisfied. Satisfaction is the death blow. It's the end of the line. You cannot progress farther than satisfaction. Satisfaction is the end of your growth. It is the end of your journey. It's over for you, motherfucker. I am satisfied. I no longer need to struggle. I no longer need to push myself. I'm done. I have reached my goal. Fuck satisfaction. Am I satisfied? Not by a long fucking shot. Is my journey over? Fuck no. And I fucking will not go quietly into the night. I will go kicking and fucking screaming. Fuck satisfaction. Average. If there's one thing I fucking can't stand, and that's an average motherfucker. Fuck average. Are you gonna be a beast or a bitch? You make the call, motherfucker. It ain't up to me. It's up to you. You gonna be a soft butterbean looking motherfucker your whole entire life? You cotton candy eating motherfucker? The Fuck up and do some work. Grab your goddamn bootstraps, tighten your fucking belt up, get your bitch ass in the gym and do something. You gonna be a hip-having motherfucker your whole entire life? Ain't you been a motherfucker pacifier sucking bitch long enough? Don't you think it's time to do something about that? Step through the looking glass. I'm not giving you no motherfucker, oh, I'll extend your— hell no, right now. When you bring that shit, ball your fucking fist up and knock something the fuck out. Don't let that fucking iron rule you. It's a piece of fucking iron. It's an inanimate object. You command that shit. That's why I'm number one, because I'm willing to do what you ain't willing to do. All you want to do is talk shit about what I'm doing. But you know what, motherfucker? I'm doing something. I got my fucking ass in there and I'm doing my fucking best. That's all I ask of any one of you empty-headed fuckers is to give me everything that you got. If you give me everything you got, all of it, every bit of it, you cannot fail. Fuck. It's impossible for you to fail. Fuck. Average. Untamed. Your mind. Untame your mind from the imprisonment of fear. Untame your mind. It's been encaged with doubt. Untame your mind. Loose yourself. Let yourself free from the binds of average. From the binds of normal. Loose yourself from intimidation. Let yourself free. Let your mind go. Shift your focus. Your focus, your intensity, your drive, your everything should be put into the amount, the amount of effort effort that you are going to put into that attempt. You cannot fail. You cannot fail if you give 100% of your effort. You cannot fail. It is impossible. There was a lady, I don't remember the lady's name, but I remember her act. She came in absolutely last in the marathon. Everybody had crossed the finish line. She was the last person in the stadium. The lights was getting dark and she fell down 25 yards before the finish line. But that lady fucking crawled. She crawled. People tried to rush out and help her. The medics came out and tried to help her. She shooed them away. She said, toed them away, and she drug her fucking self across that finish line. That is the kind of attitude that I want you to have. That's what you focus on. You focus on giving that motherfucker everything you've got within you. Every drop of energy, every drop of strength, every drop of intensity, every drop testicular fortitude that I can muster. I'm gonna give it everything I got. Fuck what-ifs. You always have power over the amount of effort that you put into whatever the fuck you're doing. Because you know the only mission that I have, the only goal that I have The only determination that I will make is that I'm going to give this motherfucker every goddamn thing within me. Break the goddamn chains. Break your chains. Let yourself be free. Go out there and motherfucking lay waste. Destroy some shit. Unchain your mind.

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I'm coming from a position of being the best at what I chose to do. My chosen field, I was the best at that. And the way I approached being the best at that, my message travels throughout whatever industry, whatever whatever chosen field that you choose, whatever endeavor you choose to take upon yourself, if you want to be the best at that, if you want to reach the pinnacle of that, you must be— there's no way around it— you have to be obsessed with obtaining it. Meaning that greatness in any field, greatness cannot be achieved without obsession. Yeah, I said that shit. I said it. I said it, and I mean that. I stand on that. If you want to be the best, you must be obsessed with it. He had a slide up a moment ago, Orville and Wilbur Wright. You think they weren't obsessed with flying? You're fooling yourself. They were obsessed with that. J.P. Morgan, CEOs, even talk show hosts, even anchormen. If you want to be the best anchorman, You must be. You have no choice. There's no other way around it. There's no easy way to do it. You have to be obsessed with that shit. Can't get away from it. Obsession. My recovery was hard. I prayed to God. I told him, if this shit gonna be like this much longer, then just take me out. I don't want to live like this. I can't live like this. Just let me die because this shit is rough. But you know what? I didn't die. I kept living. A doctor came in to me in the hospital. He said, I heard, CT, that you were a 3-time world champion. I said, yes, doctor, I am. And he said, well, he shook his head. Young doctor, he shook his head. And he said, man, what happened to you? I tell you what, I want to thank that fucking doctor for asking me what happened to me. He asked me what happened to me with disdain in his voice. His eyes. He couldn't believe that I had fell that fucking far because I looked like a fucking human skeleton. He just couldn't believe it. CT, what happened to you? You don't look like you ever lifted weight in your whole fucking life. But that doctor is what made me determined to get back out there and to climb back up to the top of the fucking mountain and be king of the fucking beast once more. He— I thank you, doctor. You made me do me this shit. Ask me what happened? Fuck you, motherfucker. I'ma show your ass what happened. My mom used to tell me all the time, she said, sometimes if you just a little bit too high, get a little too full of yourself, you must be brought down. You will be taught a fucking lesson. And I'm sitting there, I don't— not me, shit. She's like, I don't care how bad you are, son, there's somebody else out there just a little bit better. I said, no, No, hell no, Mama. Somebody got to be the baddest. Somebody got to be the baddest. Mama, I love you, but that's me.