- I'd be in there dying
looking at those pictures in the gym
of Schwarzenegger or of Coleman,
and I would just tell myself one more set, one more rep,
just give it everything you got
so you could put yourself in the best position to win.
When I got into this journey, you know,
I was a little bit bitter because I didn't make it
playing division one basketball
and I was trying to find another outlet
and bodybuilding taught me how to be strong
mentally, physically, and emotionally.
It taught me how to train hard when no one's in the room,
when you're having a bad day,
through death, through hardship,
through anything that can go wrong.
Winning is habitual.
If you care about your success
more than anyone else in the room,
I promise you this,
you will be successful at some point in time.
It's a marathon not a sprint.
And a measurement of a man
is when he gets knocked down
not when he's winning.
So I lost a few times
and he always reminded me just to keep on going
and be the hardest worker in the room,
just like what you say.
And when people tell you, you can't,
You don't look at them,
you don't need to look at them,
you look in the mirror and you ask yourself,
do you give it your all?
You look at the mirror and you ask yourself,
do you have another rep?
You ask yourself, can I go to work when I'm pissed off
because I'm about to get fired
or something bad happened,
or lost my girlfriend or whatever it is.
You ask yourself,
do you have the guts to go after it
when no one is watching,
no one is patting you on the back
and no one is liking your stuff of freaking social media.
If you got the guts to go after it,
you could put yourself in best position to win
and that's what I did through this entire prep.
It was not easy.
A lot of people say, "Oh Phil, he's got genetics,"
and this and that.
I put that god given talent to work
each and every damn day in the gym.
(cheering)
Sometimes life is gonna serve you up some curve balls
but I challenge each and every one of you
to step in that batters box and take a damn swing.
Just take a swing.
(triumphant music)