CAN'T STOP ME - Motivational Speech ft Dwayne Wade
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Find a shoe for every you at your DSW store or DSW.com. You will not stop me. I will keep going. With the fifth pick in the 2003 NBA draft, the Miami Heat select Dwayne Wade from Marquette University. I think he's right at that next level. There's really not a lot he can't do. Do you want to be great? If you want to be great, this is what you do.

You're gonna be great. And if you are great, even if you're good, you gotta work hard at it. All my brothers and I did was eat, sleep, talk, think, and dream basketball. It was my obsession.

Michael Jordan didn't understand the impact he made on me just by being himself or just by, you know, speaking out on certain things or facing the media at the bad game or whatever it was. I looked at it all, but I just wanted to be like that guy. Nothing is accomplished without hard work. The saying is stay ready. So you have to get ready. Yeah. I need to show up every day.

I'm on this stage because my beliefs have always been stronger than anyone's doubt. They questioned his shooting. There was a real question mark whether he handled the ball well enough. It's never about your setbacks. It's how you respond. The blows you take are fewer. The limitations people put on you are actually inspiration. I'm curious, what is your most proud moment? Getting drafted. Because that was the moment that showed me I can do anything. Dwayne Wade from... I worked hard.

Just to get drafted. Because once I got drafted, then it really started. It's a place where I feel I belong. That moment for me will forever go down in history as I can do anything. I'm like, "Ah, okay, I did all I can now. Just wait and see what happens." The goal is, every day, is to put one foot in front of the other. No matter how hard yesterday was, it's every day, get out of bed. If it's something that you believe in and you want, then go at it every day.

And to me, that's consistency. It's putting enough consistent days together. You mess around and you have a good life. I guess the moments for me, which is probably the most special moment, is the Olympic moments. I remember getting into one of the cities and very late. We couldn't really sleep. You know, I'm kind of out of time zone or whatever.

So, you know, my crew, you know, with Brian and with Mello and CP and, you know, the crew. We all together. And so we decide, we're like, yo, tomorrow, man, first person up, wake me up. We're going to go to breakfast. We're going to go eat, like, you know, whatever. Like, the food should open up at this hour. We were hungry. We're like, yo, let's go to sleep and then let's get up so we can eat. As we get down there, Kobe's sitting at the table. Already, he's sitting at the table. So we walk up. What's up, Kobe? In Kobe Bryant fashion. He look at us and he's like, yo, what's good? He's like, I just got...

He's got one second workout in. He already finished. He just finished his workout. I think he did a basketball workout on the court, and I think he did a weight room workout. Before you guys got to breakfast early morning. We were only asleep for about three hours. Oh, my goodness. So I'm like, in my mind, I'm like, okay. I had always heard about the work ethics of Kobe Bryant.

But I never seen him. I'm like, I'll work hard too. Yeah. He set himself apart in so many different ways. The mental, you know, edge that he had on people, he understood that I'm playing on a team with all these great young players who are trying to come and take the spot. I'm not only going to do what they do, just as good or better, I'm going to do more than them, a lot more than them, just to separate myself. It was a different level. And that level made us go to a different level.

In that moment of the Olympics, when I know we're tired, these flights are long. We're playing, we're traveling, we're practicing that. He's older than us. And to see that, that's another level. Did you ever doubt yourself? Did you ever have insecurities? And if so, how did you learn to manage or overcome self-doubts so it didn't cripple you? Oh, my God.

Self-doubt creeps in all the time. I don't know because I don't get to talk to every great human being in the world, but I'm sure all of them have. Has have and do have self-doubt at times. How often was it for you? Self-doubt can be in moments. You can come into a game with all the confidence and then you miss seven shots in a row. Now you got self-doubt. You know, sometimes you look around the arena, you see a kid in your jersey, you know, you're like, all right, he's bigger than me.

You can be down on yourself and have self-doubt very easily. Not thinking you're great enough. Lacking confidence in your shot, you know. Whatever it was, I definitely had a lot of self-doubt. But I was always able to pull from things or pull from people and allow them to bring me back. You never do it by yourself. Who was the most influential adult figure in your life growing up? Michael Jordan. Really?

I watched how he did interviews. Yeah. Watched how he walked. You watch it all because you, I didn't see anybody that was in my life that I was like, oh, I want to be like that person. So I had to go find someone. Once again, I had to think I was, I had to go into this vision. I had to, I had to think outside of the box in a sense. And outside of the box is outside of my community and my family. And I found Michael Jordan. I grew up in Chicago. I was able to tune in and watch the game. I got, we got the interviews. I was like after the game and my brothers are sitting watching TV waiting for Jordan to interview him.

He just became that much of a figure in our lives. Yeah, it's crazy. What was it like when you first met him? Surreal. And what was the best piece of advice that he told you? It was something so simple. He just told me, "Go get it." And it's crazy, right? It's like, "Go get it." But for me, that's always in my mind while I was playing the game. "Go get it." And I went and got it. He said, "Hey, man, I don't want to see these shoes on the floor. I want to see these shoes in the air."

In my mind, all these things, I was like, yo, you got to see these shoes in the air. And so I'm coming down the court, and I see Andy, and he's backing up. And I'm like, I'm going for it. And if you see the highlight, I dunked, right? Boom. And I'm about to go to the bench where my team, they go that way and talk to me. But I was like, nope, Jordan's over here. Stepped over Andy and went that way. And I'm like, that's how you do it. But I'm really over there like, I wanted Jordan to see me, right? I wanted him to be proud of me. Sensational.

Just the power of an influence, it goes a long way. And that's why I tell those stories because Michael didn't know that all these moments, he didn't know the influence that he was having on a little kid, you know, growing up in the inner city of Robbins, Illinois, in Chicago. I wanted different. I didn't want what I seen. I just knew what I would see, I'm like, I don't want this. To be great, you got to be consistent. But just stay consistent, stay true to you, stay consistent to the work. Yeah, go do something special. Don't just be here. That's the thing I strive for.

what it takes to actually win. It's built on discipline. It's built on respect. It's built on toughness, not giving up, not quitting. I could have given up, but we're in the Hall of Fame, dog. Take space to step into your destiny. This is my time.

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