Everybody wants to prize but nobody loves the process.
Everybody wants to be a champion but nobody's willing to put in the work
that it takes to be a champion. Everybody wants to hold up the
trophy and say, man, I did it but nobody's willing to put in the
work that it takes to do it. I love the process.
I love the thought of working for what I want. And I firmly believe
you're never supposed to wish for it more than you're willing to work for it.
But a lot of people they wish and they're not willing to work.
A real man in the dark when nobody's watching
he putting in work. 'Cause he loves the process.
'Cause real lions like to hunt.
They love the process just as much as they love the prize.
And some of y'all just want a score you don't like to process.
Championships aren't won in the theater or the arena.
They're won in the thousands of hours in the training room
and the labs and the 5 am runs
when it's raining, when everyone else is sleeping that's when it's won.
I'm here today I'm an ordinary person
but I focused on my craft. I had a burning desire to be excellent.
I love what I do. It's my oxygen
it's my DNA. 4 In the morning, I get up,
and I'm working on my craft 'cause I love it.
It's the hidden work. I look at it as like a rock
and a rock is you. And every day you fight
not wanting to get up and you do anyway
you chip another piece off that f*cking rock. And every day you go to train
you train hard and harder and harder and harder and you get up earlier
and all these things you do to start forming yourself
you're chipping another piece of that rock off and before you know it
that rock it becomes the masterpiece
in which you f*cking created. The heart of a champion
is a light switch that's always on
it doesn't go on and off when someone's watching it's constant.
It's how you look at something if your name's attached to it
and you do it right the best of your ability, every single time.
Do the job right, or don't do it at all. That's the same person who has his hand raised
on the podium one day. Same motherf*ckers.
It's what I did in the dark that blew me up. It is in practicing
it is in lifting weights it is in resting
it is in eating right it is in making good decisions
that you look a certain way. It is how you practice
it is what you do that makes you look like you look.
It is the process of the grind that shapes you
and forms you. The real grind is in the dark
when nobody sees you. When nobody knows what you're doing.
When you're putting in those extra reps. When you're watching those videos
and you're getting inspired when you change your music
it's the process that makes you sweet. I'm talking about the commitment that says
I am going to stay true to what I said I would do
long after the mood that I've said it in has left.
You gotta begin with the end in mind so whatever your dream or your goal is
you gotta wake up every day to it. You gotta go to bed with it.
You gotta read stuff. The music you listen to
everything you do gotta pour into that dream.
I understand it is in the process that you get better.
I am not phenomenally skilled but I'm phenomenally willed.
My iq may never change. But my will changes every year
I get stronger and stronger
and more determined. Why?
'Cause it's in my DNA. When you dedicate your life
you don't care anything about the odds. When the dream is big enough
the odds don't matter. Giving your all
it can be confusing to mediocre people.
When they talk sh*t you keep grinding.
Work hard in silence and let your success speak for you.
You keep talking smack and I'll keep working.
You keep focusing on everything and
everyone else and I'll keep working.
Instead of killing them with kindness torcher them with f*cking success.
Build the kind of life that says I told you so
without having to say a f*cking word. While most people stop when they're tired
I stopped when I'm done. The only thing limiting your
horizons is you.