about 16 years old as someone become
president States how can I contribute
that most of society and I went to a
seminar my man named Jim really still
some are speakers I took a week’s pass
working forty dollars a week as a
janitor and it was thirty-five dollars
of the evening seven or so his big
decision I listened to him speak I came
in so inspired as most we said I already
believed Mao was an authority figure
saying you really could because well I
paid the price
why work this hard why go this far why
try to learn this much quite try to do
it all why try to see it why try to have
it all why do it why learn it why study
why put yourself out why try to take on
why develop yourself to the full white
try to become all that you can possibly
become why try to earn as much as you
can earn share as much as you can share
develop every skill you possibly can see
every human you possibly can go to every
class you possibly can touch everybody
you possibly can
why do that much why go that far why
share that much why give that much away
why try to see everything why try to do
everything why try to become everything
that’s a good question why and you’re
the only one personally that can answer
that question for yourself you’ve got to
have your own list of blog work on your
list of lies
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if the Y is powerful the how is easy if
you want to thank that enough to go out
and fight for them to work day and night
for it to give up your time your peace
and your sleep for all that your dream
and scheme is about life seems useless
and worthless without it and if you’re
going to be sweat for it and fret water
to plan for and lose all your terror of
the opposition for that if you simply go
after that thing that you want with all
of your capacity strengthens and gastly
Faith Hope and confidence and stern
pertinacity if neither cold poverty
famine God sickness a pain of body and
brain can keep you away from the thing
that you want and dogged and grim you
can see gender centered the hope of God
but if the Y isn’t strong if your goals
are
if the vision isn’t clear the old
prophet said without a vision we die
without a vision we perish without a
dream or nothing and because he spoke
how people in their lives as a result of
the story they believed about themselves
he interrupted the story that I believed
[Applause]
you almost feel like an outsider the
coaches are sympathetic but they still
have to coach and you’re not there it’s
probably the darkest that’s ever
you’re saddened down and out and you ask
it’s in this moment that you find out
who you really are and what you’re
most of us go through life without blank
song not given all that we have not
sharing all of ourselves most of us go
rather than release
[Music]
because of past experience past defeats
past pain
we look back well it didn’t work out
– probably won’t work out now
[Music]
but tonight we were exposed for what
who’s all right now it means that what I
did didn’t work tonight and I’ve got to
separate what I do from Who I am I feel
like we all have two battles or two
enemies going on one with the man across
from you the second is with the man
inside of you I think once you control
the one inside of you the one across
from you really doesn’t matter I think
that’s what we’re all trying to do you
aren’t handed anything you earn
everything every single day over and
you can use off the ground just your
hands and feet there you go little bit
left a good effort
there you go it’s a good start a little
good strength
the schemas down
that you
that’s it that’s it that’s it keep going
don’t quit on the hippo keep your knees
off the ground they keep knees off the
ground keep private
don’t quit till you got nothing left
that’s it that’s it that’s it keep
though I would ever do yeah
[Music]
Mary Beth hey keep they
don’t tell me I know I said I’m faster
than you negotiate with your buddies the
far more strength because you give up on
you deep dog heavy just keep going to do
is good you keep going
keep going north I know ever keep going
keep going
[Applause]
stop living like you have a thousand
my faith you have greatness within you
this no slogan this is what I know you
can do more than you are now doing most
people only 1% are willing to do the
if you want to think bad enough to God
fights to work day and night to give up
your time your peace and if you gladly
sweat for it and fret for didn’t plan
for the news are your terror of the
opposition for and if you simply go
after that thing that you want with all
of your capacity if neither cold poverty
famine or gold sickness of pain of body
and brain can keep you away for the
thing that you want
[Music]
see we can’t control the thoughts that
come in our minds but we can control the
thoughts that we dwell on this is my
time I own my life I had to start
thinking I have the ability to do this
and I had the mindset that I’m
unstoppable there is something in you
that can transcend your circumstances
that can transcend the nulls and
rejections that can transcend anything
that you’re going through and so what we
have to do is every day distract
ourselves from the negative thoughts in
our mind I’m going to control my own
destiny I’m going to German what I want
to do what I want out of life and I’m
willing to do what’s required to make it
become a reality we’ve got to be hungry
people that are hungry are willing to do
the things they others won’t do in order
to have the things tomorrow others won’t
have people that are hungry of
discipline
hungry focused people that are hungry
most people get trying to survive most
people when they die they leave
keep my eyes on the prize you want to be
a always pushing beyond what you’re
comfortable with don’t wait to be asked
because nobody’s going to ask you and
don’t wait for the perfect conditions
because they’ll never be perfect if
nobody get in there and put the gloves
on for you nobody go out there on that
road and run miles and miles for me
nobody took the broken ribs nobody took
the bloody nose I did it all I dedicated
myself to my class and I bust my ass
it’s never personal for me
and you just have to take the plunge
I never overlook normal I trained for
every fighter the same way push myself I
believe in my skills and I believe in
myself there’s always a way if you’re
committed just gotta keep changing your
you got fighters that maybe faster than
me
you got fighters you later
but you don’t have no party that can
you don’t have fires they could be all
my lovin mentally
this never personally
this always business
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the kids away you trying to get to I
stand focus stand on a parallel path
my thing is this I keep my eyes on the
prize
I never focus on things outside early my
I’ll always have a dream and my dream
was to be the best no matter what
when it comes down to boxing
I’m the best at this
right now do you believe you’re the best
why do you want to work out what is your
the most important thing is that you
have a vision did you have a goal
because without that vision and without
that core again you’re drifting around
people don’t become successful just by
accident you know I mean maybe the guy
that found gold in California and
started the gold rush but don’t count on
that
that’s a one-in-a-lifetime kind of a
situation so you can’t really have a
specific order to me to have that vision
that I want to be mr. universe they
don’t want to be the greatest
bodybuilder of all time that was a great
vision and that specifically to look
like reg Park and to be up down that
stage and to lift the trophy overhead
and to win the championship over and
over and over again so that was a great
core you have to have a corner it
doesn’t have to be that specific code
but it has they have some core this is
why I always recommend to people sit
down take your time instead of thinking
about why do you want to work out what
is your core and it can’t be as crazy as
this it could be you know I want impress
girls if that’s you called so be it but
it motivates you it could be that you’re
emulating a certain you know body
builder or a certain football player
certain parks or whatever it is half
those pictures put all over the wall
like I did when I was a kid I put
pictures of rich pocket of Sonny Liston
of the boxers and of Ali and of power
lifters and weight lifters all over my
bedroom you know a wall so that every
day when I go to sleep every day when I
wake up and look at those pictures and
they motivate me you need that
motivation and then therefore you have
this kind of imprint in front of you all
the time and you know exactly what
people always came up to mrs. why are
you smiling you’re working out five
hours a day you’re doing the same as the
other guys but the other guys have a
sour face they’re pissed off that they
have to do another rep or another set or
something I looked forward to I looked
forward to another thousand celery reps
of sit-ups I looked forward to another
500 pounds of a leg press o squad I
looked forward to a more and more curls
until my arms fall off
why because I knew that every rep that I
did and every set that I did and more
weights that I lifted I get one step
closer to turning that vision into
reality so I was turned on but that I
was excited I couldn’t wait to get to
I remember that when I weighed 245
pounds and Bob Rafelson the director of
stay hungry said to me that I’m
interested in having you come in for
reading and broken you’re acting in
orders because I’m interested in having
you in a movie to start with the Jeff
Bridges and Batali fields
I was delighted about that that was
excited that’s at the pumping up one
walk and then he said but I don’t wanted
to weigh more than 210 pounds he want me
to be in the movie but I’m going to 45
to 46 I say I just want the Olympia I
say in 1970 was 1974 and I was really at
my biggest and but he demanded that and
he says look it’s very simple and the
day we start surely he says I’m gonna
put you on the scale and if you don’t
make the 2/10 you out because I have
someone else in mind and I worked on it
I said that visualizing myself very
clearly as a lean athlete because that’s
the only way I could lose that weight
and all of a sudden get interested in
running more because up until the point
I ran like three miles after training or
before training or whatever but now I
said it was five miles six – seven miles
eight miles and they’re even ran many
marathons in order to lose the weight
and I did everything with high reps that
was watching my diet what I eat notice
kind of things and for the day the day
before I remember we went Birmingham
Alabama the day before was at the YMCA
with Bob Rafelson
he was swimming and I was working out
and it was running there was a tractor
that was running he says let’s step on a
scale and I stepped on the scale and the
way 209 so it just shows fear what is
possible if you visualize exactly what
you want to look like
and there was no room for any kind of
like about I can get my act together
anything is because there’s only a
certain amount of time but the key thing
again is have the clear vision have the
specific core of what you want to
accomplish because then you never cook
at the gym and you say the day I fell
down a little bit I don’t know what it
is all about I know my life I’m confused
no I tell you that I was a perfect
example of someone that was not
confident at all I mean when I was a kid
that was just like any other kid that
had hangups and problems and orders but
when I joined the weightlifting Club and
I won my first little trophy because
they did the best clean jerk and then we
went to another meet and they want
another little trophy I started feeling
but the bottom line is everyone can use
the same method because I used it in
politics are used it in making money I
used it in everything that I’ve done in
the movie business when you have one
little victory little victories add up
and that is what gives you then
ultimately confidence well for me the
most important thing always to have a
deadline so when I for instance had a
competition and let’s say the
competition was in the middle of
September and it was now beginning of
summer so there was no more time to
screw around so there was the time now
to get going on a diet to get going with
the training to not slack off at all
because it was a deadline there the day
of the competition I had to be in the
best shape possible and I knew that if I
come to the competition and then lose
because I did not schedule my training
the proper way or I didn’t have the
right frame of mind oh I didn’t give
everything delivery worked my butt off I
will be just so angry so I never wanted
to be in that situation so this is why
it was very important to pick that time
and to say this is when I have to be in
top shape then the work towards that but
it’s not just with the competition I
mean they’re always the same in the
movie business I mean to me it was
always a big advantage when they said ok
my movie starts on April 1 and I have
now three months so I have to get really
in great shape so he picked those times
he could also be that there is no movie
and he have no miss Dolan PR noticed
America no mr. universe coming up on any
of those things but you say to yourself
the summer starts in June
I’m gonna go to the beach in June and at
that time I want to be in great shape so
that creates an emergency that makes you
really start to training I’ve been
taking it seriously because if you don’t
have a specific plan then you wander
around them and you can have as I’ve
told you many times the best ship or the
best plane in the world but if you don’t
have a specific goal where you want to
go and when you want to get there you
just drift around and you never get
anywhere so this is why this is
important to create the urgency of a
specific time when you want to be in
shape well I mean look everyone has a
problem with time but the day is 24
hours and we sleep 6 I know there’s some
out there that say oh oh oh oh oh
I need 8 what I say to sleep a little
faster because the bottom line is we
have six hours of sleep 24 hours are
available so if 18 hours now available
do your work your family your hobbies
and also to learn something new or to do
something new which could easily be that
you want to learn a new language or that
you want to read and as you have a new
year’s resolution have to read a book
every week but where you say I’m gonna
go and reshape my body so you’re gonna
go and take this hour out of your
schedule and say I’m gonna train an hour
every day
so this is for most people if you a huge
challenge but it is totally doable I can
tell them because the kind of things
that I did when I came to this country I
mean I went to school I was working on
construction I was working out my five
hours a day I was taking acting classes
from 8 o’clock at night to 12 midnight I
was doing all of those things
I wanted to make sure that out of the 24
hours of the day that I don’t waste one
single hour those hours were too
precious and so they’ll just want to
tell people don’t give me this thing I
have a difficult time with the time and
I don’t have time for this neither of
that you have time you make the time
this is it
I know you’re nervous so am i my first
game too now it’s time to go out there
and put it on the scoreboard now it’s
time to see who has a heart now is the
time to prove to yourselves and prove to
everyone out there that even though
you’re locked up with somebody you are
worthy of something and you’re able to
do something special that no one else in
the world can do I need to go out there
and take what’s yours
what you work hard for but one thing
that a lot of people don’t know that I
want to share with you guys is when I
was 22 years old I came to this city for
the first time I was playing in the
Canadian Football League playing my
first pro football game I was playing
for the Calgary Stampeders we were
playing the BC Lions I was so excited
two days later I got cut dreams
shattered sent home with seven bucks in
my pocket I was like wait no I gotta
play in the NFL eventually those are my
big goals that’s my dream you realize
that that playing in the NFL was the
best thing that never happened because
it got me here so my point is look
you’re gonna get your ass kicked we’re
gonna get this kicked out of us you got
to get up you got to have faith that the
one thing you want it to happen
oftentimes is the best thing that never
happened so have faith and just keep
can’t play football forever
I played for 10 years you can’t be in
the ring forever you can’t be in the
octagon forever to give you the boxing
ring forever our football field but you
can always train and get better and push
yourself just bring it that’s it
just bring it I’d say that my everyday
life and in terms of my challenges and
okay in between sets as I’m working out
and as I often do in between sets I
slide into your comment section nice ins
I read your comments just so we could
stay connected and I always know what’s
on your mind then I can address it so
somebody just asked me a cool question
said DJ you’re on top where could you
possibly go from here and you always
talk about out working your competition
who’s your competition it’s a great
question thank you for the compliment by
the way I’m fortunate enough to be on
top but anytime you reach the top you
always want to make sure that you have
the desire to raise the bar and take the
brass ring to places it’s never been
that sticky with being on top just
because it’s never been done doesn’t
mean it can’t be done
and in terms of competition great
question everyone’s my competition but
the fundamental key that I’ve learned
over the years is I’ll share with you my
number one competition is me it’s always
you versus you you’ve got to be the one
to get up every morning be disciplined
put in the consistent daily hard work
because that gains success no coach no
trainer no mentor no boss can do it you
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no I wanted to be something and it was
important to me to be something that was
important to me that I didn’t fail but
by the way and if I did fail at least
that what was also important was a
lesson and I didn’t realize that until I
got older because you know when you’re
in it you’re in the grind you don’t
really recognize those things when
you’re younger but I could recognize
them now and the importance of them now
and in just in terms of the drive and
the determination a lot of it was
experience to get your ass kicked
get back up and you put the gloves back
all right Saturday afternoon empty gym
the way we like it
tripping over here it’s late day which
means it’s going to be sweaty painful
and say that nothing good happens in the
4 a.m. hour well I can guaran-damn-tee
you this it’s 4:45 a.m. it’s still dark
outside look at that the lights just
went out and I’m getting ready to kill
this am cardio train twice I’ll get my
cardio in and breakfast and I’ll go hit
the weights clanging and banging we call
you know the masters make the hardest
things in the world look easiest and in
the moments where you push yourself when
no one else is around those moments have
often times when I see kids and they
have been labeled all their punk kids
true but there’s good in him and we got
to see that potential and I enjoy that
today seeing the potential in kids just
like he did especially kids who are kind
of wayward and they’ve been going
through it I know what it’s like
you are most powerful most important is
when we just embrace who we are is just
believing in yourself and embracing who
you were born to be whether it’s three
o’clock in the morning by the way when
we’re talking in London I was hitting up
at 3:00 because I had to be on set by
4:00 so whatever time my call time is so
some directors and not producers
whatever time I call him so my call time
is at 7:00 then you back your clock up
for hours and then that’s when I get up
and train twice just wrap that for a.m.
cardio there’s no substitute for hard
work
I get up super early generally I have
this thing where I like beating the Sun
oh not just in terms of what Sun comes
up I have to get up and how do I do it
it’s just important to find balance and
I try and do things really that I really
enjoy doing and a lot of times you know
it’s like in life right life brings like
drama and you got
this personality relationship here all
work 12 hours a day 14 hours a day get
I don’t know if there’s a golden rule I
can tell you this that I believe
anything is possible
right I live in the world a possibility
and I also believe that anything we can
accomplish anything with our two hands
and just putting in the work with our
two hands and also you hear this often
but it’s really really true you got to
find something if you love what you do
and if I hadn’t be passionate about what
you do and find something that you could
be passionate like it really helps you
know it gives you that motivation when
you wake up in the morning consistently
being told that whatever it is that you
want to do
you’ve gotta get after you you’ve got a
good after there’s no substitute for
hard work hard work always pays you know
and those are your examples of you know
what it’s like to give be done what it’s
like to get just in terms of just in
terms of the struggle what it’s like to
be evicted out of your apartment what
it’s like to have your car repossessed
and watch your parents go through that
is is I think is defining as as a kid
you know I grew up there was a period of
time where I was making a lot of
mistakes David I was I was getting
arrested multiple times by the time I
was 16 I was arrested maybe seven or
eight times
fighting theft doing a lot of things
that I shouldn’t of been doing I was
really lucky that I had a couple of
people who along with my parents who saw
the potential in me even when I didn’t
see the potential in me and it was until
I got older had a little bit of luck a
little bit of success that I started to
understand the value and the power of
someone giving back but some people call
you the best pure athlete in wrestling
today let’s start off with a bit of your
history when you broke in you were
packaged as a part of a wrestling legacy
your father is rocky Johnson or sweet
ebony diamond as Canadian fans know him
Tony Atlas was a family friend all kinds
of family roots were you ever concerned
that you wouldn’t get your chance to
prove yourself on your own terms no no I
was never ever concerned about that
because nor was I ever concerned about
trying to fill their shoes because of my
dad’s they were just too big you know my
grandfather as well but at the same time
I always knew that one time what one day
whenever I got the opportunity I was
persistence and hard work I knew one day
it was gonna happen when I made up my
mind to get involved in the business
that I have a passion for that I grew up
in I knew and that there’s gonna be
there’s gonna be a time where the
success the success will come and that’s
through hard work and consistency it’s
you know the same old story things like
that so it’s it’s surprising to a degree
but I was
truth truth is if you work hard you can
achieve your goal truth it’s not a
question anymore man you know I mean a
moment like this proves it
when you have the question man I’m doing
this cardio in the morning is it worth
it
and I’m doing these deadlifts today I
feel tired is it gonna be worth it man
you know what I gotta go to the gym and
train today after how to entirely
difficult workday man I’ve got these
other challenges that are pulling on me
pulling on my concentration
you know what is this extra effort worth
it for you forget everything else forget
everything else forget that there was
any sunlight left what would you spend
today thinking about
yourself for the man that’s besides me
but the man until you get everything in
your heart for we get one opportunity
alive one chance in life to do it ever
you gonna do too late your foundation to
make whatever people may be whatever
legacy you believe leave the less and
it’s found together where the losses
coming down with us nobody
nobody else so that seemed to take a
because every day is a new day every
moment is a new one so now you have to
go on is so little I want a treat
Julian pistol
take ownership take extreme ownership
don’t make excuses don’t blame any other
person or any other thing get control of
your ego don’t hide your delicate pride
from the truth take ownership of
everything in your world the good and
the bad take ownership of your mistakes
take ownership of your shortfalls take
ownership of your problems and then take
ownership of the solutions that will get
those problems solved
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take ownership of your mission take
ownership of your job of your team of
your future and take ownership of your
League lead yourself and your team and
the beat is a game this is real this is
real life champ work hard there what you
gotta get you don’t work hard you get
not you’ll get nothing you gotta work
hard work call you work hard to get what
you gotta get
you don’t work hard you don’t get
nothing zero nuts treat work work on
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thummell bride I’m going to fight I’m
going to work I’m going to press forward
I’m going to learn I’m going to do
everything in my power every single day
I’m going to do everything in my power
to become a Victor and not a victim of
let’s go chat let’s go check pain let’s
get temporary it may last for a minute
or an hour or a day or even a year but
eventually it will subside and something
else will take its place if I quit
however it will last forever and so
every time something get hard you quit
you’ve called mama I dare you to take a
little pain I dare you not to go home so
my said I thought home go home I feel
bad go through it you’re gonna die at
the end of pain and success you’re not
gonna stop because you feeling a little
a big committed beyond circumstance and
be committed beyond compartmentalization
meaning my greatness of my excellence
can’t be compartmentalize to an
individual to an environment to a
circumstance meaning it is my essence I
show up and I want to impact because
this is who I am as an innovator is my
absence we know in the adversity and the
opposition head like the only thing I’ve
been training you wants to think
positive and the project that i
the only thing I need is breath in my
know you feel go to bed last night and
all these ideas about your going to get
up this morning it’s gonna be different
things are gonna be different today
you’re gonna start start taking steps
towards doing some of those projects and
you know we get you closer to living
that dream life you keep playing over
and over in your head different from the
practical life that you’ve got to get up
and mean every day to go to the cubicle
infested world we work a job just to pay
the bills but gas in the gas tank to
take you places where you don’t really
want to go to be around people you don’t
enjoy being around put groceries in a
refrigerator groceries that keep you fat
and lazy keep you away from being
healthy and fit in your life pay the
mortgage on a house that doesn’t inspire
you is just a nuisance and you make
coming home dude what the fuck are you
doing anyone makes it even worse as at
before you got from the bedroom to the
kitchen mr. ugly is there mr. resistance
right in your ass telling you what you
were going to do different than what you
want to do what the inner voice inside
of you tells you you need to do with
your life telling you that those things
that you believe matter and have a
purpose in your life really don’t that
watching some mind-numbingly TV making
that list you need to go to the store
next time making those phone calls to
those people and just chit-chatting and
gossiping about dumbass day mr.
resistance will be there every morning
morning noon and night and while you
were sleeping
riding your ass kicking your ass unless
you turn around you start throwing
punches
you don’t want my bottom line goal if
one more your nation is is to have
everybody out there realize that there
is something better for you to do with
your time right now I am mr. resistance
I’m distracting you from doing the work
you need to do get the fuck out of here
and do the work of your life how can a
person start something and be on fire
but the moment something doesn’t go the
way that they want it to go
they’re not the same individual I’ve
been on this quest to figure out how can
a person build fire and say man this is
what I’ve been put on this earth to do
but the moment a couple of things don’t
come back the way that they thought it
would come back they’re not the same
individual and the words that they once
broke it means nothing to them I’ve been
on this quest to figure out how can a
person get on a journey to dreams goals
and aspirations and the moment hit
opposition adversity or challenge it
I’ve invested more than twenty years of
my life in the belief and the idea of
being able to come to the Olivia and to
be an absolute best despite whatever the
opposition whatever said whatever the
beliefs are on stage off stage whatever
the opposition Airy forces have been my
resolve of things who responds a
champion and is aimed to represent
you don’t get this far you don’t get to
this point and just stop
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it’s always worth it to do your best and
to believe in something and to work
towards the attainment of the goal and
but you have to expand your vision then
you climb higher and you do that and you
it’s not possible to be training harder
or more consistently or more dedicated
than me because I couldn’t give us a
single ounce more to any aspects of this
thing that I’m doing so that makes me
truths of truth is if you work hard you
can achieve your goal truth it’s not a
question anymore then you know I mean a
moment like this proves it when you have
the question man I’m doing this cardio
in the morning is it worth it oh man I’m
doing these deadlifts today I feel tired
is it gonna be worth it man you know
what I got to go to the gym trainer they
have to have how to attire difficult
workday man I’ve got these other
challenges that are pulling on me put
one on my concentration
you know what is this extra effort worth
it fast forward stand here in this
gentleman what does it feel like it
feels like yes yeah oh yeah come back
you come back for dinner what is this
feeling
mr. Cain and nobody with you Thank You
queen it’s blank
Jane around the world is somehow they
bless best he’s here
don’t nobody but the people disgust me
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