Akrem Aouina

"L'avversario non lo temo mai: Dio ci ha fatti uguali, due mani ha lui e due mani ho io. Vi assicuro che non esiste un pugile al mondo che possa darmele come me le dava mia madre da bambino: e lei me le dava a fin di bene, eh..."

(Akrem Aouina)

Muhammad Ali

Ali è stato quello che rappresentava: ha dovuto praticamente rinunciare al suo titolo ed è finito in prigione per quello in cui credeva. Si è opposto a tante cose, ha fatto sentire la sua voce in un periodo in cui per un afro-americano era difficile anche solo camminare per strada. Senza di lui io non sarei qui come atleta, non potrei entrare in un ristorante o andare dove i neri non erano ammessi. Un uomo che ha sacrificato così tanto della propria vita sapendo che avrebbe reso migliore quella delle generazioni successive.

(LeBron James)

If you don’t know what your ‘Why’ is

You can write everything down if you want to, be brave enough to write every one of your goals down but I’m going to tell you something…life is going to hit you in your mouth and you gotta do me a huge favor: your ‘Why’ has to be greater than that knock down, then I’d love it.

Buster Douglas got knocked out. Nobody ever got knocked out by Mike Tyson and ever got back up. It was almost a ten count, he was stumbling: four, three, two…one…and ding, ding, ding, saved by the bell.

He goes to his corner, the whole world is like "yup, that’s it”. Once he comes back out – that’s it. Mike is just gonna hammering and exactly that, Mike Tyson came out like "I got him". I got this kid up against the rope, listen to me, many of you right now, life’s got you up against the rope – you can’t give up, you can’t give in.

Listen to me, if it was easy everybody would do it. And if life’s got you backed up, I need you to do what Buster Douglas did: Buster Douglas starts fighting back. And the world was shocked!

Goliath has been knocked down – what happened?

And they went to Buster Douglas and they asked Buster Douglas simply like: “what happened?”. And Buster Douglas said: “listen to me, it’s real simple. Before my mother died, she told the whole world that I was going to beat Mike Tyson, and two days before the fight my mother died”.

Buster Douglas, he had a decision to make, when his mother died he can die with his mother, or he made a decision, I can wake up and I can live for mom. And he knocked Mike Tyson out.

Simply because his 'Why' was greater than that punch.

His ‘Why’ was greater than defeat.

His ‘Why’ was greater than his trial and his tribulation.

And I’m telling you, if you don’t know what your ‘Why’ is, and your ‘Why’ isn’t strong, you’re gonna get knocked out every single day.

Why didn't you beat him up? He is hungry.

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