A motivational talk on self-belief and persistence. The speaker cites Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, Floyd Mayweather, Muhammad Ali, and Usain Bolt as athletes who succeeded through unwavering faith in themselves. His core message: belief unlocks your talent, setbacks are tests of character, and the answer to life's unfairness is to never stop and never give up on yourself.
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Do not allow for yourself to ever become so fearful of success that you stop short of your dream. And then number 2, you got to be able to believe in yourself. You have to believe in you. How do I give it all I got once I overcome fear? I have to believe in me. There is nothing that you cannot do If you just set your heart and your mind to accomplishing it. You have to believe in you. You have to believe in you like Michael Jordan believed in him, that he could be the best basketball player the world has ever seen. You have to believe in you like Tiger Woods believed in him, that he could be the best golfer the world has ever seen. What? You have to believe in you like Floyd Mayweather believed in himself, that he could be the best boxer in the world. Muhammad Ali believed in him that he could be the best boxer You have to believe in you like Usain Bolt believed in himself that he could be the fastest man alive. You have to believe in you. Listen, there is nothing that Michael Jordan has that you don't have. There is nothing that anyone else has that you don't have. You were born with talent, you were born with skills, and you just need to believe in yourself because when you believe in you, nothing can hold you back. That's right. When you believe in you, nothing can slow you down. When you believe in you, nobody can derail you. When you believe in you, if you knock on a door trying to gain access to your, to your dream and that door doesn't open, you don't stop there. You go on to the next door. And if you knock on that door, you go on to the next door. And if you knock on that door and the door doesn't open, you don't stop. You keep going. And if you have some setbacks in life, you don't stop. You keep going. And if you run into some disappointments in life, you don't stop. You keep going. And if you have people around you that does not believe in you, you don't stop. You keep going. Say this with me: I will never stop. I will never stop. I will never give up on me. I'll never give up on me. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going because I believe in me. Because I believe in me. Do you mean that? Yes, sir. Because life is going to test you. Life is going to come and test you. There is this law called Murphy's Law, which means whatever can go wrong will go wrong. And sometimes things will go wrong. Sometimes things will fall apart on you. Sometimes situations will catch you from the blind side. Life is not a fair fight. Life will come and it will prove what you're made of, and it's going to be in your best interest to determine that I believe in me and I'm willing to fight and give life all I have to give. And so in my