All right.
Hey, so real quick before we get started.
I think you know, this is important for those of you having
to write some down.
So for those of you who have notes, what I want you to do
is just take a piece of paper and we're going to split it
in full right just a line down the middle line to the side.
So before we get started, I think this is man this is so
important right so I didn't have my biological father my
life me and my man start kicking when I was about 30, you
know found out, you know, 3233.
I got a brother over here now.
Brother over here, you know just some crazy stuff and the
crazy part about my experiences.
I was raised by my father's people.
So I knew my grandma I knew my uncle's my aunts.
I just thought he was a friend of the family.
So I found out probably when I was about 14 15 who he really
was and then I just like, you know, I'm through with my man
like you weren't in my life.
I don't want to deal with you.
Unfortunately though.
I had my first child at 25 me and my wife and is weird even
though I want food with my man.
I had to because of my son you feel what I'm saying?
Like I didn't have my father.
I have my grandfather.
I don't want to do my son like that.
Right?
And so for a lot of you sitting in this room, I truly need
you to understand and I don't mean to be no.
I don't need to be disrespectful but for some of you if you
were the ethnic background that you are 200 years ago, you
wouldn't be in this building playing football, right?
And so I always respect the fact that dr.
Martin Luther King was probably way more spiritual than I
was He was probably way more smarter than I was he was probably
a way better Orchard in I was but I'm just going to ask somebody
a question real quick because I want to make it practical
how much money you think.
Dr.
Martin Luther King made a year justjust guess I don't know.
I mean just tell me what you think.
He made 500,000 all like $500.
Did ya do his thing?
Yeah who agree with that like 500 some so he probably made
50 some $60,000 a year raise your hand.
You think he made less than $100,000.
Let me see your hands.
Right less than a hundred thousand dollars a year, right?
And I told you I think my man way sweeter than me, but I'm
a fifty sixty thousand dollars an hour to do a presentation
for corporate a hundred and some thousand to do International.
One of the king waste.
We didn't me way sweeter than me.
I'm a high school dropout.
It took me 12 years to get a four-year degree.
I was homeless eating out of trash cans living in abandoned
buildings in the D.
So somebody tell me real quick then why was Mom Luther King
Sweden and me, but he wouldn't make it fifty sixty thousand
dollars speaking.
time period therefore top it with my man was born like yo,
I want to go to the bathroom.
Like I want to go to the bathroom I go whatever bathroom
I won't you and his time Frank could he just go to any bathroom?
He wanted to could he drink from any water fountain?
So what I'm trying to explain to all y'all in the room, I
don't care what ethnic background you come from.
What I'm trying to explain to you is that in 2019.
There's some opportunities that you have that other people
don't have this is what I need you to do when you go back
to your room.
I need you to write.
All of them down and I need you to look at them on a regular
basis because when you understand you have something that
the generations before you didn't have it's a different appreciation
for it.
Does that make sense it so talk to me real quick before we
get started give me some of the opportunities y'all have
that other kids your age don't have say it again college
is paid for it's a lot.
I had a girl at Michigan State University 4.0 4.0.
They sent their home at the end of her freshman year.
Why do you send her home?
It's going to pay for it.
Yep, three.
I'm talking about three solid meals a day like with snacks
and stuff.
You know I'm saying I'm like, whoa, and let me tell you something
the way y'all eat.
Its people eating three meals a day.
It ain't those three.
It's not those three.
You understand what I'm telling you.
It ain't like you got protein like it's what some kids peanut
butter and jelly sandwiches.
The first one right know I worked at a school.
Somebody tell me in a hood school.
I worked in a hood school for breakfast what them kids bringing
for breakfast.
Hot Cheetos, you know I'm talking about they got hot Cheetos
and pop your breakfast is you got you stacked good what else?
Good your platform.
You have won a lot of folks don't even have a platform.
I didn't get a platform to that.
First video came out.
That was 2006 when I was speaking 1998 you speaking that's
it. Whatever room you talking to the ain't nobody here you
outside the room when Facebook came out you two came out
game changer platform good.
You got a platform.
What else?
Technology good what else full-time training staff somebody
waiting on y'all?
I love it.
I got to pay if somebody do something to my body.
I gotta pay $100,000 right good.
What else y'all missing the most important one to me?
Good, no questions asked some of us being able to call our
parents at the end of the day.
Yeah, that's why I value being a father to my son, but he
don't value like I value it because he came out with me but
I valued because I didn't have it good something else guys.
Talk to me free living.
Yep.
What else being on the team's a lot of dudes bro?
Who the same height?
You are same height.
You are same physical build as you might be just as fast.
As if not faster, they just didn't get to break you God somebody
just grew up on the wrong side of town had the wrong dog
on parent Lottery had the wrong father had the wrong brother
had the wrong mother God in some stuff.
They shouldn't got it.
They didn't even do it.
I got a little cousin who just became a cop.
My man couldn't become a cop who's trying to figure out what
happened. He got a twin brother twin brother to use my Ming
social security card table somebody you stole something.
Like I never thought a day in my life.
You have got his name found out his brother.
They stole his identity mama got stuff in his name.
Some people just wrong parent Lottery good what else what
other opportunities do y'all have?
We still missing?
Some Say It Again Sports Supports is I love it close doggone
it you're walking around with like free gear.
You got shoes like they just casting you out.
Right Adidas.
I'm still married with just the three stripes boy right there,
right y'all got shoes.
I mean y'all got flip-flops.
You got all kind of different kind of Adidas, right?
These are opportunities.
These and what happens when you have an opportunity and you
don't know that it's an opportunity you waste it so dudes.
We trying to tease me all the time August 23rd.
I'll be married 29 years.
I would have been with my girl for 30 33 years, right?
So dudes be like a you went.
I'm like you just figure that out.
Bro you late?
Well, you ain't no you like he's got the ball and chain.
I bet had the ball and chain you just now seeing I got the
ball and chain, right?
Like what are you?
What are you like trying to embarrass me?
What you think you want to make me look stupid problem with
this girl since I was 16 years old when I was homeless in
a high school dropout.
She would sneak me in the crib and give me something to eat
in the winter of Detroit.
She would cash me out take her allowance and give me you
dog on Skippy.
I'm I'm whipped.
Only I was a high school dropout.
She made me get my GED she made me go to college with her.
She helped me to get my 4 year degree.
Then I got my Master's Degree and I passed her up and got
a PhD your dog.
Oh Skippy.
I'm whipped.
I'm Wareham because it is girl I should have been locked
up like my boys.
I should be dead like my boys.
I'm the number one motivational speaker in the world because
her I'm getting cashed out because of her she gave me an
opportunity. And so the reason why I ain't trying to talk
to no other chick the reason why I'm trying to commit adultery
is because why would I why would I mess up?
Why would I screw up the very thing that got me to where
I am and some of you you so cocky you so arrogant people
been wiping your butt for the longest you think?
People know what you are and you're about to lose this dog
will opportunity and let me tell you something.
I don't care how deep you think you are get hurt and find
out you are replaceable.
You are you you are replaceable.
And if you don't think you are you make some phone calls
and find out so ey you telling me I'm replaceable.
So every down you get every play you get you can act like
you replaceable and play like you replaceable.
So you can operate at the highest level now, we got different
cats in his room.
I ain't let's keep it 100 how many y'all in this room?
You ain't got your mama ain't got no safety nets.
Yes, some of y'all got you.
I feel you you like Eve this workout or don't work out my
parents got paper that and everybody in his Some of y'all
ain't cheap.
Why are you so passionate?
I'm so passionate because I have a safety net.
That's why I get up at three o'clock and put our videos.
If I got to get up at three o'clock to be number one in the
world and to be able to take care of my family.
I'm getting up at 3 o'clock.
I will take advantage of this opportunity show of hands.
You're doggone.
Mama need you to make this one work.
Let me see your hands.
Yeah.
Let me see your hands.
Is that everybody?
I ain't mad at you.
I'm not mad at you, but for some of you you just saying just
about football.
There's another opportunity after this opportunity.
It's called a four-year degree.
It's called an alumni and then there's a whole another one
after that.
It's called the NFL.
So what I need you to understand is that you do not have
five of these if this one don't work out, you ain't got four
more. I'm sorry.
I might be speaking too fast.
You do have two or three more.
Let me see your hands.
You do have ply eat.
You got it twisted.
I got four more opportunities like this.
Let me see your hand please real quick because I just want
to know who I'm talking to like either say brother say no.
If I mess this up, I'm good E.
I got two other things I could do if I mess this up, let
me see your hands.
You got the two other things that you got that you.
Say it again.
That's why I and I asked so let's do it this way, since you
want to raise your head how many you don't have a safety
net and you don't have a whole bunch of other opportunity.
This is your opportunity right now.
Let me see your hand.
So this is what I need you to do for me.
I need you to act like it.
I need you to watch film like it is I need you to practice
we talkin about games.
I everybody going to show up for the game.
Embrace the grind write it down embrace the grind.
So that's the first thing we got to do.
We got we got to understand that.
This is an opportunity of a lifetime now, we only get how
many games do we have?
I like that 12 guarantee.
So how many opportunities do we have?
We got 12 opportunities, right?
So in these 12 because I don't play football.
So just forgive my ignorance in these 12 if you how many
of these 12 you get repeat how many repeats in this 12?
Come on, y'all like real you lose to and they just scratch
those off of the first two tests.
Don't go we were just practicing how many of these 12 did
you get to do over?
So I need you to act like that and play like that.
You only get 12.
What was your record last year?
Nye and for good, I love it.
I got a personal question to ask now we're moving now.
So if a hundred percent is coaches standard a hundred and
twenty percent is I know coach is standard but I got my own
standard. All right.
I just want to make sure we clear on that are we clear so
a hundred percent is who standard a hundred and twenty is
who standard that's when yours above coaches.
Now anybody know how blew up real quick anybody know how
I blew up what format that I used to be.
What was that?
Where would you find me at YouTube?
I Love It YouTube.
So you notice you didn't say Instagram Facebook.
It was YouTube.
Watch.
This guy's nobody told me to do that.
Nobody paid me Adidas didn't sponsor me.
Nike didn't sponsor me.
There was a recession and I got up doing a recession and
start putting out motivation every money.
Nobody paid me but some of that stuff you were here.
It sounds like I got paid some of those videos I did then
I sent my Boy, who was the videographer?
I use my influence on Michigan State's campus and I got that
boy to get a two-year degree in film so we can take it to
a whole new level and then we blew up became number one.
I took an opportunity.
That was free.
Nobody paid me.
No, no gear.
I don't get to eat.
Nobody paid for me to live.
I took that opportunity and I realized he give it 120 and
I gave it everything I got and when you embrace the grind
the grind will reward you and what the grind saw me doing
was getting up at 3 o'clock in the morning.