person God every created. I was just a scared kid. I got called nigger every day
of my life growing up. Lived in a small town.
One of the high-ups
in the KKK son sat behind me in two classes. So he called me
nigger all the time. Got my first car,
they spray painted "Nigger I'm gonna kill you"
on it. So, I was just a insecure,
scared kid.
And I wasn't going anywhere. And I was exactly what everybody
said I was gonna be, which was nothing. But the best thing
that happened to me: No one helped me. No one felt sorry for me.
So the things that
we run from, we're running from the truth. We're running from
the truth, man. As painful, as brutal as it is, we have the ability to go
in such a space. If you're willing to suffer,
and I mean suffer.
Your brain and your body,
once connected together can do anything. The only way you're ever going
to get to the other side of this journey, is you have got to
suffer to grow. To grow, you must suffer. I wanted to change to be the
hardest man ever created.
And my goal, when I was sitting
there, not going to school, being bullied,
having no self esteem, my goal was, the only person
that can turn this person around is me. How?
That's the question. How are you gonna do that? I had to build callouses
in my brain, the same way I built callouses
on my hands. But, if you can get through
to do doing things that you hate to do, on the other side, is greatness.
Motivation comes and goes. When you're driven,
whatever's in front of you will get destroyed. I signed up for this race, it was called the
San Diego One Day. Where you run around a one-
mile track for 24 hours to see how many miles
you can get.
My goal was 100 miles. I got to mile 70 but
I was done. My feet were broken. I was, stress fractures,
shin splints.
Muscles were tearing,
I was in bad shape. I was out of it. I was in the worst pain
in my entire life. I was, to me...
On the brink of death. In times of suffering, what we
do is forget how hard we really are. 'Cause that what suffering is. Suffering's a test,
that's all it is.
Suffering is a true
test of life. I said to myself, "Who on this fucking earth "would still be going right now? "You are." I got to mile 81. And the second she said that
I'm not gonna make the time, I ran the last 19 miles,
nonstop. By me running,
I am callousing my mind, I'm not training for a race.
I'm training for life. I'm training for a time when
I get that two o'clock in the morning call that
my mom is dead or something happens
tragic in life, I don't fall apart. I'm training my mind and
my body, my spirit, so it's all one, so I can handle
what life is gonna throw at me because the life I've lived, it throws a whole bunch at you. And if you're not physically
and mentally prepared for that, you're just gonna crumble.
We are all great. No matter if you think
you're dumb, no matter if you think
you're fat, no matter if you are fat, no matter if been bullied or no matter if you just got
back from Iraq or Afghanistan and you have no legs or
your arms are whatever, man. We all have greatness. - You don't belong at the bottom and it's time for you to get
your butt from down there! It's time for you to stop being
comfortable at the bottom.
Get your butt up and get to
where you're supposed to be. Get your butt up! Get where you belong! Do what you supposed to do,
live like you supposed to live. - Right now, for you to find
greatness in yourself, you're not gonna find it
by looking in a book or by even hearing me. I may give you the spark but
you've got to go inside yourself to find it and that means
you've gotta be quiet.
Shut the fuck up,
go in a room, stop talking. Search your soul,
search your mind, search your abilities
and you'll find it. But if you're not looking for
it, you won't find it. So you gotta go
start your journey..
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