CHAMPION MINDSET motivational advice from Kobe Bryant

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um My Philosophy was a very simple one I

um and this is where I think film plays

a big part of my life I

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Rudy was one of my favorite films

growing up

but

after watching that film I come to

understand if I could work that hard

every day

with the being blessed with the physical

tools that I have what would my career

be

and I made a promise to myself from that

day that I was going to work that hard

every single day so that when I do

retire I have no regrets and that was

the most important thing for me is to

leave no stone unturned get better every

single day and if I live that way then

over time

you know I'd have something that was

beautiful but that was my philosophy it

seems like a pretty simple one but you

know if you live your life to just get

better every single day

do that for 20 years I mean what do you

have

yeah well Phil introduced meditation to

us when he came probably to our team in

99 2000 and

um

it was something that I instantly

gravitated to because I could see the

effects

right you

I used to watch you know studying the

games the Bulls teams

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and watching their demeanor watching

their composure

playing in a tough place in like Utah

doing the finals and being down 17. but

everybody was like this

I couldn't tell if they were down 17 or

up 20 or tie game

never changed and I was wondering why

the hell that is

and that's why I started doing more

research and when Phil came I

immediately gravitated to it and found

myself accepted the challenge of finding

what that space is and for the 81 point

game and to be honest I was I wasn't

even thinking about the game my knee was

hurting so much

I didn't know then but you know I had a

flap of joint of cartilage stuck in my

joint line

and so my mind was really trying to go

to a place where I don't feel that pain

and

the game started and because of that I

was just in a different space

I wasn't worried about what was to come

I was worried about what just happened I

was just here and when you're just there

in the moment playing plays right in

front of you your focus is heightened

because nothing else matters

well I mean here's what practice was

important not for me just a standpoint

that I enjoyed playing like I enjoyed

being there

I enjoy getting better

but as a leader of a team it's also your

responsibility to elevate the rest of

the guns and

tend to get stuck on a lot saying okay

the way to make players better

is the passing the ball when they're

open it's a very trivial way to look at

things what you have to do is you have

to get them emotionally to want to be

better you want you have to get them to

an emotional space where they wake up

every morning driven to be the best

version of themselves right how do you

do that

in practice for me was a chance to drive

them to challenge them right if they're

and this is where you have to know your

teammates because if it's late you just

had a back to back and we had practice

the next day and you show up and guys

don't feel like going through the

motions don't feel like practicing it's

important to know each and every one of

them individually personally because

then you know with nerve to touch

some guys it's like okay come on let's

you know we can do this that'll get them

going other guys know you got to figure

out what button to push you know pow was

always Spain

if I tell them how they lost and gold

medal to us and how they're going to

lose again

how I'm going to beat your ass in

practice just like I beat you in a gold

medal game oh that oh you'd hate that

he'd hate that but that's what practice

was you have to drive them you

absolutely have to and if practice is

more intense and harder then a game

seven will be and the game seven will be

easy but if it's not then that's when

teams start folding and capitulating

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no I you know I always dreamed as a kid

that you know was possible to score 80

or 90 or 100. I always just like you

know had a dream you know like sometimes

you lay down in bed and you visualize

things you just kind of you know just

that's all that's at least how I would

go to sleep but lay down I'd imagine

playing for the Lakers and I would

imagine with the uniforms look like I'd

imagine we would be playing and you know

the smell of the arena and all sort of

stuff and I would see myself you know

getting hot you know scored 10 straight

points and then but in the dream like

why would you ever interrupt that like

you're not going to have a dream and be

like okay then he misses his next six

like it's not gonna happen so you just

keep dreaming and dreaming and dreaming

and before I go to sleep I'm like at 120

points you know and so and so when you

grow up downloading that into your brain

over and over and over and then you know

that summer I made a thousand shots a

day

thousand right that's on top of weight

training and my conditioning I made a

thousand shots and it weren't just shots

it were shots that you saw in that game

there were specific shots I mean it was

coming out of the corner going to the

pinch post footwork in the post coming

off the screen it was very specific so

when you download that into your system

and you go out into court and you're

just executing things that you've done

thousands of times before and you have

that dream then that becomes possible

that would be the way you would express

it sure well no I mean it's it's you

know that's the trick isn't it it's

finding what you love to do when we talk

about hard work all the time it's like

man if you got to get up every single

morning and remind yourself how hard you

need to work probably choose a different

profession you know because that

shouldn't be there because I wake up in

the morning excited to get to

if I'm not training I'm missing it I'm

not watching the game of basketball I

miss it you know there's no place I'd

rather be and if you have that feeling

then you're truly doing what God has put

you on this Earth to do

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