here’s maybe the greatest thing a teen
or anyone can learn from the champ these
are words to remember when anyone tries
to tell you to give up tell you to give
in because whatever you’re trying to do
is impossible champ said this
[Music]
impossible is just a word thrown around
by small men who find it easier to live
in the world they’ve been given than to
explore the power they have to change it
impossible is not a fact
it’s an opinion
impossible is potential impossible is
temporary impossible is nothing
[Music]
[Applause]
so as a relatively new dad and a former
team I’m here to say you will make
mistakes along the way you will fall
down I have many times even I’ll leave
did
[Music]
but what we do after that fall is how we
make history
because impossible is nothing everything
you know and your kid I think you try so
hard to fit in and when you get old and
you realize that fitting in isn’t really
the thing that’s more interesting
being your own person and being an
individual I would not be here if I
would have listened to the kids who told
me I was a terrible singer
I was a sissy or you know other things
that they would say to me no it’d be
different
[Music]
the thing about life that that if I can
tell a young person is everything that
you get picked on or you feel makes you
weird
is essentially what’s gonna make you
sexy as an adult
I was 14 when when I was in NSYNC and we
got a record deal and we were going to
travel all over the world and I just
remember my mom always instilling those
thoughts in me that you know at the
beginning of the day we all put our
pants on the same way
just like she said don’t let what you do
define who you are
[Music]
ten years ago a great innovator named
Steve Jobs gave one of the most
inspiring speeches ever at a college
commencement at the end Steve Jobs
quoted some powerful words he’d seen as
a young man that he wanted to pass on
those words were stay hungry stay
foolish now if any of you like before
saw some of the SNL stuff that I’ve done
you know I have no issue being foolish
and anyone who’s ever had to deal with
me in person knows that I’m always
hungry literally and figuratively
anyway so out when I was a teenager I
read some words that I found extremely
powerful that I’ve been carrying with me
ever since and those words were from our
26 president of the United States
Theodore Roosevelt so just indulge me
for a second
[Music]
it is not the critic who counts not the
man who points out how the strong man
stumbles or where the doer of Deeds
could have done them better the credit
belongs to the man who is actually in
the arena whose face is marred by dust
and sweat and blood
who strives valiantly who airs who comes
short again and again because there is
no effort without error and shortcoming
but who does all always actually strive
to do the deeds who knows great
enthusiasms the great devotions who
spends himself in a worthy cause Who at
the best knows in the end the triumph of
high achievement and who at the worst if
he fails at least fails while daring
greatly
so that his place shall never be with
those cold and timid souls
[Music]
who neither know victory nor defeat if
you are a young person like I used to be
and you’re at home watching and you’re
being called weird you’re being called
different or whatever the hell you’re
being called I’m here tonight to tell
you your critics do not count their
words will fade you won’t stay foolish
stay hungry dream work hard and who
knows maybe someday you’ll find yourself
standing on a stage and maybe someday
somebody will be giving you an award
calling you an innovator
[Music]
you
[Music]
people like Paul McCartney who have you
seen him race enough well I saw him at
like 70 yeah I thought about the Grammys
when they did okay the guys like 70 any
plays for like three hours stadiums and
he and it’s like you feel like you’re in
his living room and he the only pause
between songs is like so he can put a
different guitar on or you know get down
on the piano and he talks to me he has
people laughing in the crowd and that’s
what I grew up yeah idolizing so that’s
something that I’ve always wanted to
incorporate so when you go you know when
it’s about you know song like senorita
it’s like I only want to play the end of
the song cuz the song everybody can sing
to each other and you can feel like you
know it feels like a black party all of
a sudden and
[Music]
is to make people go like damn yeah and
then to make people go like you know
what I’m having fun yeah you know like
those two things
[Music]
service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth
[Music]
so be generous be kind be fair it’s not
just the right thing to do it’s the good
thing to do and I think we I think we
all can agree that with all the tension
in the world today that can divide us we
should be part of the solution and not
part of the problem
[Music]
and you don’t you don’t have to make a
difference on a global stage you can
volunteer in your neighborhood or in
another neighborhood nearby where people
might look a little different from you
and they might teach you a thing or two
and have met a ton of people along the
way and my time in the music industry
which started when I was very young
about you know you’re not you can’t
consider yourself an expert in anything
until you’ve had sort of 10,000 hours at
it and and I agree with practice
um there’s many people that spend that
much time and and somehow you meet so
many different talented people along the
way that that for some reason or other
don’t get hurt so I I’ve been in the
right place and met the wrong people
I’ve been in the wrong place and met the
right people and usually the second one
ends up being you know the thing that
can can can catapult I guess someone’s
career but I would I would argue that I
think there’s a lot of analysis now
there’s a lot of like analytics on what
might be success in what might be
failure and I think for for those of us
who kind of spawn something out of an
idea whether it be you know focusing or
getting beaten up in an alley or an idea
for a song or
our painting or what have you I don’t
know that I would measure the success or
failure of it by how it’s perceived
because once it’s done it’s just sort of
out there and you have to let it live in
the ether I think the ones that that
I’ve come to know that have had lasting
success in any field
that understand that and can actually
let it go and just continue to be
inspired the same way
that you were when you came up with the
idea for the movie or the song or the
so I think that would probably be
what might be perceived a certain
[Music]
you
or anyone can learn from the champ these
are words to remember when anyone tries
to tell you to give up tell you to give
in because whatever you’re trying to do
is impossible champ said this
[Music]
impossible is just a word thrown around
by small men who find it easier to live
in the world they’ve been given than to
explore the power they have to change it
impossible is not a fact
it’s an opinion
impossible is potential impossible is
temporary impossible is nothing
[Music]
[Applause]
so as a relatively new dad and a former
team I’m here to say you will make
mistakes along the way you will fall
down I have many times even I’ll leave
did
[Music]
but what we do after that fall is how we
make history
because impossible is nothing everything
you know and your kid I think you try so
hard to fit in and when you get old and
you realize that fitting in isn’t really
the thing that’s more interesting
being your own person and being an
individual I would not be here if I
would have listened to the kids who told
me I was a terrible singer
I was a sissy or you know other things
that they would say to me no it’d be
different
[Music]
the thing about life that that if I can
tell a young person is everything that
you get picked on or you feel makes you
weird
is essentially what’s gonna make you
sexy as an adult
I was 14 when when I was in NSYNC and we
got a record deal and we were going to
travel all over the world and I just
remember my mom always instilling those
thoughts in me that you know at the
beginning of the day we all put our
pants on the same way
just like she said don’t let what you do
define who you are
[Music]
ten years ago a great innovator named
Steve Jobs gave one of the most
inspiring speeches ever at a college
commencement at the end Steve Jobs
quoted some powerful words he’d seen as
a young man that he wanted to pass on
those words were stay hungry stay
foolish now if any of you like before
saw some of the SNL stuff that I’ve done
you know I have no issue being foolish
and anyone who’s ever had to deal with
me in person knows that I’m always
hungry literally and figuratively
anyway so out when I was a teenager I
read some words that I found extremely
powerful that I’ve been carrying with me
ever since and those words were from our
26 president of the United States
Theodore Roosevelt so just indulge me
for a second
[Music]
it is not the critic who counts not the
man who points out how the strong man
stumbles or where the doer of Deeds
could have done them better the credit
belongs to the man who is actually in
the arena whose face is marred by dust
and sweat and blood
who strives valiantly who airs who comes
short again and again because there is
no effort without error and shortcoming
but who does all always actually strive
to do the deeds who knows great
enthusiasms the great devotions who
spends himself in a worthy cause Who at
the best knows in the end the triumph of
high achievement and who at the worst if
he fails at least fails while daring
greatly
so that his place shall never be with
those cold and timid souls
[Music]
who neither know victory nor defeat if
you are a young person like I used to be
and you’re at home watching and you’re
being called weird you’re being called
different or whatever the hell you’re
being called I’m here tonight to tell
you your critics do not count their
words will fade you won’t stay foolish
stay hungry dream work hard and who
knows maybe someday you’ll find yourself
standing on a stage and maybe someday
somebody will be giving you an award
calling you an innovator
[Music]
you
[Music]
people like Paul McCartney who have you
seen him race enough well I saw him at
like 70 yeah I thought about the Grammys
when they did okay the guys like 70 any
plays for like three hours stadiums and
he and it’s like you feel like you’re in
his living room and he the only pause
between songs is like so he can put a
different guitar on or you know get down
on the piano and he talks to me he has
people laughing in the crowd and that’s
what I grew up yeah idolizing so that’s
something that I’ve always wanted to
incorporate so when you go you know when
it’s about you know song like senorita
it’s like I only want to play the end of
the song cuz the song everybody can sing
to each other and you can feel like you
know it feels like a black party all of
a sudden and
[Music]
is to make people go like damn yeah and
then to make people go like you know
what I’m having fun yeah you know like
those two things
[Music]
service to others is the rent you pay
for your room here on earth
[Music]
so be generous be kind be fair it’s not
just the right thing to do it’s the good
thing to do and I think we I think we
all can agree that with all the tension
in the world today that can divide us we
should be part of the solution and not
part of the problem
[Music]
and you don’t you don’t have to make a
difference on a global stage you can
volunteer in your neighborhood or in
another neighborhood nearby where people
might look a little different from you
and they might teach you a thing or two
and have met a ton of people along the
way and my time in the music industry
which started when I was very young
about you know you’re not you can’t
consider yourself an expert in anything
until you’ve had sort of 10,000 hours at
it and and I agree with practice
um there’s many people that spend that
much time and and somehow you meet so
many different talented people along the
way that that for some reason or other
don’t get hurt so I I’ve been in the
right place and met the wrong people
I’ve been in the wrong place and met the
right people and usually the second one
ends up being you know the thing that
can can can catapult I guess someone’s
career but I would I would argue that I
think there’s a lot of analysis now
there’s a lot of like analytics on what
might be success in what might be
failure and I think for for those of us
who kind of spawn something out of an
idea whether it be you know focusing or
getting beaten up in an alley or an idea
for a song or
our painting or what have you I don’t
know that I would measure the success or
failure of it by how it’s perceived
because once it’s done it’s just sort of
out there and you have to let it live in
the ether I think the ones that that
I’ve come to know that have had lasting
success in any field
that understand that and can actually
let it go and just continue to be
inspired the same way
that you were when you came up with the
idea for the movie or the song or the
so I think that would probably be
what might be perceived a certain
[Music]
you
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