so if you want to make six figures you
can't just be talking about you want to
make six figures you hear what I'm
saying you tonight if you do the three
things I tell you to do tonight I
guarantee whatever it is you want to do
in life you'll be able to do you won't
be able to accomplish whatever you want
to academically financially relationally
whatever so three things all right I'm
gonna take this story I got to get out
of here and the stories about you guys
are probably heard about this before it
was a it was a young man who you know he
wanted to make a lot of money and so he
went to this guru right he told the Guru
you know I want to be on the same level
you are and so the Guru said if you want
to be on the same level I'm all I'll
meet you tomorrow at the beach at 4:00
a.m. he liked the beach I said I want to
make money I don't want to swim guru
said if you want to make money I'll meet
you tomorrow 4:00 a.m. so the young man
got there 4:00 a.m. he all ready to rock
and roll got on the soup
shit he wore shorts old man grabs his
hand said I'm bad you wanna be
successful
he said we're back he said walk going
out in the water so he walks out into
the water watch this when he walks out
to the world it goes way steep so you
like this guy prays up a dream like I
make money he got a guy in swimming and
it has to be a lifeguard I want to make
money
he got me thin so he said come on a
little further one that looked fun then
he had it right around in this area
you stole the area so this old man crazy
making money but he crazy
say come on I look fuzzy came on look
further was writing his mouth my man
like I'm bout to go back in here this
God is mine but old man's I thought you
said you wanted to be successful he said
I do he said walk a little further
he came dropping his head in held him
down hold him down
my man getting Scratchy hold him down I
got you I know you brushed it out but I
got you
he's out he held down I need you for
illustration he had him held down just
before my man was about to pass out he
raised him up he said I got a question
for you somebody answered the question
for me he said when you were under water
and what do you want to do Lee I'm
looking for a different work thought it
was there were said I wanted to breathe
he told the guy he said when you want to
succeed as bad as you want to breathe
then you'll be successful I know how
many other asked me here today but if
you ever had an asthma attack before you
sure to breath sob shortness of breath
you wheezing the only thing you try to
do is get some air
you're getting on the basketball game
you're getting what's on TV you'll kill
everybody calling you you don't care
about a party the only thing you care
about when you're trying to breathe is
to get some fresh air that's it and when
you get to the point where all you want
to do is be successful as bad as you
want to breathe then you'll be
successful and I'm here to tell you
number one that most of you say you want
to be successful but you don't want it
bad you just kind of want it you don't
want it badder than you want a party you
don't want it as much as you want to be
cool you most of you know one success as
much as you want to sleep
somebody must sleep more success and I'm
here to tell you today if you're going
to be successful you gotta be willing to
give up sleep
to be successful something you have to
stay uh predating the world
go to sleep you might miss the
opportunity can be successful that's how
bad you gotta work you gotta go days not
listen to me you gotta want to be
successful so bad that you forget to eat
yes I said what she was on the set the
other thing
three days ago about you / - eaten eat
as he was engaged I'll never forget I'm
with 50 Cent was doing this movie I
little of research on 50 and 50 said
that when he wasn't doing the movie
he was doing the sound soundtrack and they said
When do you sleep 50
sleep he said sleep those people who are broke
I don't sleep
said I got opportunity to make a dream
become a reality
football players how many football
players not anybody like football in
here raise your hand by like football
Emmitt Smith I used to be a cowboy fan
before they did my boy Tom Landry wrong
I used to be a cowboy fan and why said
he was a commercial Emmitt Smith had won
his first Super Bowl
he had this commercial he was lifting
weights I love you saw the commercial he
was lifting and he said he said he said
you know what I I won the Super Bowl
so I can rest not here doing this bench
press play said I wanna see bones
rocking rest night so he throws about
325 boom and he wraps for about two
seconds
boom boom just see that he'd already won
the soup all he said I think I'm gonna
take a rest and he rests by how long one
second most of you won't be successful
because when you're studying and you get
tired you quit I'm here to tell you
today if you got it somebody care my
home the other day crying I said look
don't cry to give up cry to keep going
don't cry to quit you already in pain
you already hurt get a reward from it
don't go to sleep until you succeed
listen to me I'm here to tell you the
day that you can come here you can jump
up you can do flips you can be excited
when we give away money but listen to me
you'll never be successful and I'll have
to give you a dime and do what you do
you won't be successful until you say I
need that money cuz I gotta get here but
listen to me
Emmitt Smith said this at the end of the
commercial if it's Mitch saying all men
are created equal some work harder in
pre-season I'm I said again because you
might've missed me all men are created
equal
some work harder and preseason so that
means that there are some people who are
going to see the professor going to see
the TA and even when the professor says
I don't meet with you my ta meet with
you you say I want to talk to your TA I
don't pay the TA I pay you to teach me
so you have to find some time to meet me
if I gotta meet you at the mall if I
gotta meet you at your house you are
going to see me listen to me all men are
created equal some work harder preseason
right with the college guys were way
smarter than me 4.0 3.0 they went to the
IU League high schools came to Oakland
from these great high school most of
them are not doing what I'm doing why
cuz it's not about where you come from
it's about heart you come to a place
where either being smart enough you
gotta have heart that's number one
what's number two number two test number
two I wrote it down I want to make sure
you got it it says to these watch their
clusters we're talking about sacrifice
now the important thing is this right
while setting I only have about three
more minutes listen to me the most
important thing is there
to sacrifice what you are for what you
will become
that's the number two thing you gotta
catch that one to be able to listen to
me at any moment some of you you can
make sacrifices when Monday night but
Bob's not on you can make a sacrifice
but when the game come on for some
reason you just attached to it for some
of you when your favorite show them off
you can win if I don't answer the phone
I'm gonna die
you will be successful but your cell
phone is more important to you than your
success I'm gonna say it again I'm gonna
hurt somebody I'm gonna hurt somebody
some of you need to give up your cell
phone because the time you spend on your
cell phone could be used for your
success the time you could be using to
be successful you're using on the cell
and the cell phone is not bringing you
nothing but a bill and somebody has told
you you couldn't live without it
I'm not going deep not giving up stuff
watch what it says to be able at any
moment to sacrifice what we are for
where we can be I don't do well man man
you're right you a river studies
I'm not good in writing cuz you have
never written before but I dare you to
failing writing for a whole year to see
anything into the e I dare you to fail
I dare you take that same class over
though yes I gave you stop dropping
classes like insult always wanna give up
I'm dropping why you drop it I'm so
grateful that the sweating didn't drop
and quit say I just don't stop I'm a
slave I'm just gonna be a slave
imma quit listen to me the slave said we
will live because one day we will become
always be slaves so today on the relays
we gonna act like we free one day our
children will be free it displays what
it just said we quit we give up we would
have died in the Middle Passage
but some slave said I don't care what we
go through we gonna survive this 400
years of slavery we're gonna get through
this and you can't get through 1825 you
can't get through a writing class and
you got tuna after tuna resource after
resource the problem is you ain't never
felt no pain you for your salt it's a
salt generation you quit on everything
our people did not quit Harriet Tubman
not only made it she went back and got
some more
she said you know what I made it but I'm
gonna walk off listen to me not ride the
bus I'm gonna walk all the way back down
to the south to get some more you
quitting on 1825 now watch this you'll
quit after you listen to me you get a
sleeping bag and you wait for meeeeee
you wait for the first WIA instructor to
come in and come out just back I need
help
you quit out you do that
you quit after you had listened to me us
a WRA party
I'm in the bar everybody come over I got
food ethic and let him get over there
let it be all the best riders I feel job
I won't have a riding Park
I'm serious you quit then you ain't even
tried yet last one I'm sorry last one
listen to me pain is temporary it may
last for a minute
or an hour or a day or even a year
but eventually it will subside and
something else will take its place in my
quit however
last laugh
I'm telling you as I leave I was
harmless but you never tell go pay for
your school y'all spoil some of y'all
sports bottle I your pants have done
everything for you you never have to
connect with yourself just spoil Oh keep
it really nice some of your spoiled
brats
every time you ever got in trouble
somebody your house got you out of it
every time you got some you not
promoting new people saying your
mother's a tyrant you right she kicked
me out you're right she meeting but she
developed a man because she let me out
and said you're going out the door and
something you have never learned and go
on and so every time some here are two
quick you call mama I daddy the checker
will pay
yeah you I get you not to go home so I
said I thought oh home I feel bad golden
roads you're gonna die at the end of
pain and success you're not gonna die
because you kill the look hey I'm not
eating like I eat at home
that's why you about to go to the next
level because you can't eat like you ate
at home you'll keep being a boy or a
girl it's time to become a woman so
don't don't worry about a little pain my
greatest asset is I was homeless so I
can't feel a whole lot of pain I've
already been alone without a whole lot
it's like not a whole lot of hurt I can
feel a little paper on a little chest so
I leave you I leave you listen to me we
have gotten to a point where it's
midterms and we move it forward the days
of you get money I'm not saying we
quitting but I'm saying a day it's got
to go from external to internal you have
to give it everything you've got
no more TV no more parties no more plan
you have a 4.0 what you need to be going
to study get off the phone I'm sorry I'm
not available into the end of this year
not for real you reached the right
number but you called me at the wrong
time call me back January 1st
I'm a monkey get busy night huh
I want you to have a countdown of your
own and say when the countdown is over
where the real watching me is when I was
homeless I knew it was wrong I knew that
wasn't the best thing and one day I said
will the real here Thomas please stand
up with a real Harry Thomas please stand
up stop eating this ice cream shop out
stop giving up stop sleeping on the
streets not walking up and down
Vico Avenue why do you ain't got nuts
and get your GED stop being afraid to
take a test stop being afraid to go the
cops get your daddy then go and your
mama didn't go stop being afraid and be
the best Terry Thomas you can be but
listen to miss Cole be hard it's a new
12 years with a four year degree if I've
got it guess what on a degree they don't
have dates so if it took you 14 to meet
well they don't show up nowhere
I got ages and until you get there we'll
never be successful
once you get there I guarantee you the
world is yours so work hard and you can
have whatever it is you want thank you
guys for your time