That's one thing I never had in my life, because I always got picked on
and I never had jealousy, enviousness about anything,
and Cuss possessed that. And he was telling me,
“why should he have all that money and you don’t?”
“Why, why do you believe that he is better than you?”
“Why do you think he should have a lot of money and you don't?”
And he was really serious about it, and that was the competition s**t.
That's it right there.
“Why should he have it and he's not better than you?”
How do you view competition, like when you think about the word competition,
what does that mean to you? I think that competition is people
reaching their highest potential, they have the potential to reach
their highest potential when competition comes.
Competition is always good because it helps you not to give in under
the slightest struggle in life. Because life is going to basically
give everybody a bad hand, no one is going to leave here
without being tried in life. And you have to be, you know,
you're going to have to take it. What they say,
adversity makes the strong, stronger and the weak weaker.
Why do you think so many people today don't like competition,
they're almost like either sensitive to it or they say it's not a good thing,
like why do you think that's happening? I don't know, entitlement, that's
the word I was looking for. A lot of people are entitled,
my kids too they are entitled. They think their bank account should be
full because you're still doing it. That's just what they think.
You know, I did this only for them, but they have to,
they have to match me, you know, if you're making 200 bucks,
you get 200 bucks a month, whatever you have, I'll match that
but I'm not going to give you something that you never worked for,
you don't know exactly the course of the struggle for it.
So without him knowing the struggle for it, he'd give it up very easily.
It's cool that people are seekers,
I think that's very interesting that we're seekers,
but we have to believe that we are divine, that we learn from our experiences,
because confidence breeds success and success breeds confidence.
They go hand in hand. You can't accomplish anything unless you say,
“Oh, I'm a prick, I could never do that, I'm not born to do that”.
“Only certain people can, only some people can do that, and I can't do that”.
There isn’t anything I can’t do. The mind wants to do good,
but we get so many negative thought in our minds, almost overwhelming to be positive.
There's so much power in humbleness. And you know, when I am promoting
a fight I say arranged things, but I know the power of humbleness now.
How did you learn that? I had to lose everything.
Got it, well, now you've got to get a lot of it back, by the way,
you got some people who know you got money. Money means nothing.
Listen, if you think a lot of money is going to make you happy,
you never had a lot of money before.
At what point did you know that you could be the heavyweight champion?
Like, you've got a fight, you got two fights, you've got three fights?
Fourteen. 14 years old?
You have to be the champion before you become the champion,
so that means livestyle. You have to be one before you become one.
You got to be him before you become him. Unpack pack.
You have to live his the lifestyle. The lifestyle of a champion
Of the champion, you look at the champion. That's how it starts, you look at somebody,
I want to be like him. Nine years old, 10, 11, 9, 10 11,
so now go 11, 12 13, what happens next? So I get arrested and I see
Muhammad Ali come to visit in the institution that I'm in.
And and I saw him I got turned on, I don't know how it happened, the spirit made me,
“boom I wanna be like him”. You said you were in jail and Ali shows up.
I'm 12 years old and Ali comes in, and they showed the movie, “The Greatest”,
first, so this is 77. And after the movie,
the lights come up and Ali comes in and I see him, “I want to be just like him”.
You see somebody and say, “hey, I might want to do that”.
So inspiration, the source of inspiration. So, is that what got you to be
willing to be disciplined, to get what you want, like to
become a champion at 14 years to say I am willing to do
everything it takes to be a champion? Absolutely, then I had Cuss over there tell me,
“why should he have it?” That's one thing I never had in my life,
because I always got picked on and I never had jealousy,
enviousness about anything, and Cuss possessed that.
And he was telling me, “why should he have all
that money and you don’t?” “Why, why do you believe
that he is better than you?” “Why do you think he should
have a lot of money and you don't?” And he was really serious about it,
and that was the competition s**t. That's it right there.
“Why should he have it and he's not better than you?”
If I want to be the best in my sport, say this business,
what tips would you give me? I want to be best in our business,
this business, this is insurance, they're building their businesses,
but just a mindset of wanting to be the best, what is the mindset you can transfer to
somebody for being the best? Find the first guy who really,
really succeeded on this, probably 1900’s or something like that,
even if he was a crook, let's go from there.
And go all the way there, and study everything untill it gets to you.
So one, study history. Yeah, study until it gets to you.
Fantastic, I got to go study history,
everybody that came before me, what else do I do?
Then you watch, you read everything they did, now you practice it.
You know, I don't care how great you are, how much you succeed,
without self love you’re nothing. Because self-love is discipline,
and discipline is doing what you hate to do, but do it like you love it.