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PROVE THEM ALL WRONG – The Most Inspiring Speeches from Successful People who Believed in Themselves


if I could get four of you to understand
it’s just not gonna matter when people I
mean I love when people I don’t even
wanna tell you I’m gonna say it very
clear I just let Stefan get very focused
here because I want to really deliver
this with all the drama that it deserves
and I like when people put me down I get
off on when people put me down
nothing is more interesting to me than
to prove all of you wrong
I love the people that think I’m a
huckster or I’ve got some hidden agenda
or I’m not that good or I won’t be that
great or I think too big of myself or my
dad had a liquor store and that’s the
only reason I’m successful or I got
lucky or that the debt the debt that
that the debt that show me like please
please please continue to judge me and
underestimate me because it’s the only
driver I have and that’s how I’m wired I
think one of my greatest inspirations or
things that our feed off of basically
was just obviously people not believing
in the cloud of doubt they kind of I
felt hung over my head and wanted to
just prove everybody wrong you know what
I mean
I wanted to make it and I was gonna make
it regardless of what anybody said I
mean there’s so many people right now
they’re not doing what they love because
they’re worried about what other people
think or what other people say
especially your inner family we’ve
talked about this at length I’m very
passionate about this I’m so grateful
that I don’t give a crap what anybody
thinks of me when you’re 15 now when
you’re 51 or when you’re 91 you’re gonna
be stunned how little you care how
little it mattered and this includes
your parents and your siblings and even
your children this is an intense thing
this is a very intense thing and at the
end of the day it’s not gonna matter and
you have to love yourself first and feel
good and complete with yourself first so
as a 15 year old I would do what I did
as a 15 year old would you start
building those skills and not listen to
your parents and not listen to your
teachers and not listen to your friends
respect it
but don’t let anybody anybody impose
their way on you it’s you you’re with
yourself and you’ve got to make yourself
happy first they said I couldn’t they
said I wouldn’t they said they didn’t
believe in me they said I couldn’t
because of my circumstances I couldn’t
because of my past because it hadn’t
been done before
I said so what you can complain and
remain the same or you can decide commit
and work towards becoming someone that
no one thought you could be you can make
all the excuses in the world we’ve heard
them all but those that get on in life
leave the excuses and look but the
possibilities
you might have had it tough you might
have had it real tough but it ain’t
getting any better if you live there you
have to drop the little story and work
towards your masterpiece you see it so
often stories of those with almost
identical painful life circumstances one
chooses to live in the pain forever
repeating the reasons why they can’t
succeed why they can’t move on the other
uses the pain as their reason why they
must change they use their pain as
strength they use the people don’t
believe in them as motivation to succeed
not a reason why they can’t when things
don’t go their way they don’t say why me
and say so what they see try me when
things don’t go their way they keep
moving forward
Tom Brady’s on the downside of his
career and and if you asked me if you’ll
ever get to another Super Ball have one
answer no way no how does he wow you
throwing the ball there was some other
guys I could shoot it and he had just an
okay arm at the combine when you watch
Tom you saw this tall gangly looking kid
look like having ever seen a weight room
Branagh five to something one of the
slowest quarterbacks in the combine this
is the draft report on you basically it
goes poor billed skinny lacks great
physical stature and strength lacks
mobility and ability to avoid the rush
lacks a really strong arm can’t drive
the ball downfield does not throw a
really tight spiral system type player
who can get exposed if forced to add
lifts and gets knocked down these
I kind of get to be fired up because I
bacon you know what the hell these
people know
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a lot of people don’t believe in you has
been is obvious by you know six other
quarterbacks taken in 198 other pics and
I always thought you know what once I
get my shot I’m gonna be ready I’m gonna
really take advantage of that comeback
guys gonna be a great comeback Michigan
is continuing to try to get Henson more
and more opportunities to go out there
and get experience because his up side
is so much higher than Tom Brady’s I
never played football toe my freshman
here and as a freshman I was the backup
quarterback on a team that was Oh Nate
he wasn’t deemed good enough to play one
offensive play as a quarterback there
were seven guys on the depth chart when
I got there the only reason why I played
my sophomore year was because the kid
who was the freshman quarterback stopped
playing I’m not playing football anymore
so I was like I guess I’m gonna play and
always had a decent heart but I just
really took to the game
it’s Penn State Michigan trailed by ten
in the final minutes
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and the legend of the comeback kid was
born
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he was skinny slow right too pretty to
be a football player but he was smarter
than everybody guys and he studied night
and day day and night nobody works
harder said Tom Brady were led to
believe that he’s made rafted possibly
suck around probably third round you see
you know so-and-so get picked and then
there’s nine more picks gone until one
team that you think was interested you
know that’s get pretty anxious it was
hard I remember taking a walk with my
dad and mom were on the block
it was just a tough day no I just
remember being there with my mom and dad
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sorry about that
in my estimation he’s the greatest of
all time I know who you are you’re a six
round draft choice
and I always remember he looked me like
a laser eyed aha and they said it’s
right and I’m the best decision
this organization is ever made he’s not
the biggest he was never the strongest
he was never the fastest he was
overlooked when in a six-pack so with
that being said and bring all of the
intangibles that a quarterback suppose
that they overlooked with him because it
was burning from the inside of him
he’s a winner
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he has a big heart and he doesn’t like
to lose ready look sluts
fires down the peanut clock 35 30
great job by Tom Brady escaping
like when is this due gonna give up can
never quit now so until the triple zero
said two o’clock you gonna get
everything Tom Brady has
back to basketball
I played against one of the greatness
I’m talking about
the greatest degree I think he’s one of
the best in the history of this league
to me what separates really good players
from great players executes well under
pressure the biggest gains the greatest
stage I think that’s what playing
quarterbacks all
Grady tonight playing in his seven Super
Bowl the most of any player in Super
Bowl history will be gunning for a
record-setting fifth win
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do not believe what I’m witnessing so it
is on to overtime
to beat this team and to get down 28:3
there’s just a lot of mental toughness
by our team and we’re all gonna remember
this for the rest of our life how many
times have you heard that you can’t do
this you can’t do that that has never
been done before just imagine if Bill
Gates had quit may people say they can’t
be done I hear this all the time
some ethic I love it when someone says
that never no one has ever done this
before because they mean I do it
that means that I’m the first one I
understand it
and I said to my family I want to be a
bodybuilding champion now you can
imagine how that went over in my home in
Austria our parents they couldn’t
believe it it would have been just happy
if I would have become a police officer
like my father or married someone like
Heidi who wear the bun should have had a
bunch of kids and ran around like the
fun drop family and sound of music
that’s what my family had in mind for me
but something else brought inside me
something burning inside me I wanted to
be different I was determined to be
unique I was driven to think big in the
dream big everyone else thought that I
was crazy my friend said if you want to
be a champion in a sport why did he go
and become a bicycle champion or skiing
champion or soccer champion those at the
Austrian sports but I didn’t care I
wanted to be a bodybuilding champion and
used that to come to America and use
that to go into the movies make millions
of dollars
so pay no attention to the people that
say you can’t be done
after all I remember that after was
finished with my bodybuilding career I
wanted to get into acting and want to be
a star in films you can imagine what the
agent said when I went to meet all those
agents everyone has the same line that
it can’t be done the rules are different
here just look at your body have this
huge monster his body and openly
developed that doesn’t fit into the
movies
you don’t understand this was 20 years
ago the Hercules movies now there is the
little guys that they in Dustin Hoffman
Woody Allen Jack Nicholson and the agent
also complained about Max and this is no
one ever became a star with an accent
like that especially with the German
accent and yes I can imagine with your
name Arnold Schwarzenegger or whatever
the name is on the Billboard yeah that’s
gonna draw a lot of tickets and sell a
lot of tickets here right so this is the
kind of negative attitude they have but
I didn’t listen listen to those rules
even though they were very nice and they
said look we can get you some good parts
we can make a get you to be a you know
being a wrestler or a bouncer
oh maybe with the German accent we can
get it to be a Nazi officer in Hogan’s
Heroes or something like that but you
know I didn’t listen to orders this by
their rules not my rules I was convinced
that could do it then if I worked as
hard as I didn’t body will in five hours
a day and I started getting the work as
thinking acting fastest Duke English
gases and speech classes dialog classes
accent removal classes I even took
and finally I broke through I broke
through and Acela getting the first
parts in TB streets of San Francisco
Lucille Ball hired me and made pumping
our stay hungry and then I got the big
break in Conan the Barbarian
and there the director said if we
wouldn’t have Schwarzenegger we would
have to build one now think about that
and then when I did Terminator I’ll be
back became most of one of the most
famous lines in a movie history all
because of my crazy accent now think
about it the things that the agent said
will be totally a detriment and will be
impossible for me to get a job all of a
sudden became an asset for me all of the
things my accent the body and everything
so it just shows you never listen that
you can’t do something and you have to
work your way up of course run for
something else first I mean it was the
same in in when I ran for governor the
same lines that if the work you have it
can’t be done and then of course I ran
for governor and the rest of course is
history they said you have to start with
a small job as mayor and then there’s a
simple man and then the US lieutenant
governor and then as governor and he
said that’s the way it works in a
political career I said I’m not
interested in the political career I
want to be a public servant I want to
fix California’s problems and bring
people together and bring the parties
together so like I said I decided to run
I didn’t pay attention to the rules and
I made it in the rest is history
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people ask me all the time they say to
me what is the secret to success so many
young people are getting so much advice
from their parents and from the teachers
from everyone
but what is most important is that you
have to dig deep down dig deep down and
ask yourselves who do you want to be but
what but who
and I’m talking about hardwood your
parents and teachers wanted to be but
you I’m talking about figuring out for
yourselves what makes you happy no
matter how crazy it may sound to the
people
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spend a lot of time for myself that
could figure out and listen to what is
inside my heart and inside my head
something brilliant said me I wanted to
be different I was determined to be
unique I was driven to think big in the
dream big I always wanted to be very
intense I always wanted to be number one
I do be very seriously my career and so
this intensity always paid off for me
this commitment always paid off for me I
didn’t want to just be a bodybuilding
champion I wanted to be the best body
build of all times I didn’t want to just
be a movie star one of the be a great
movie star as the highest-paid movie
star has above the title building I mean
how many times have you hear that you
can’t do this you can’t do that that has
never been done before I hear this all
the time
I was thought in my face you’re nothing
but the giant muscle you can’t act you
have no future you have an accent it is
laughable that just shows you again so
much for it can’t be done this is my try
to tell you anything and everything can
be done if you can visualize it if you
will
in yourself you’re going to find the
naysayers in every turn that you make
don’t listen
just visualize it or know exactly where
you want to go trust yourself
so pay no attention to the people who
say you can’t be done
trust yourself no matter how what anyone
else thinks
what is the point of being on this world
if all you want to do is be liked by
everyone in avoid trouble if you have so
many rules in life about everything the
only way that ever got any place was the
breaking some of the rules it is
impossible to be a maverick or true
original if you’re too well behaved
and not want to break the rules you have
to think outside the box now of course
this journey is not going to be without
any setbacks and failures or
disappointments that’s just the way life
is don’t be afraid to fail you can
always win but don’t be afraid of making
decisions you can’t be paralyzed by fear
failure or you will never push yourself
you keep pushing because you believe in
yourself and in your vision and you know
that it’s the right thing to do success
will come so don’t be afraid to fail
always believed leaving no stone
unturned that’s what makes you a
champion
when you out there partying horsing
around someone out there the same time
is working hard someone is getting
smarter and someone is winning you never
want to fail because it didn’t work hard
enough but if you want the win there’s
absolutely no way around hard hard work
no pain no gain
whatever path did you take in your lives
you must always find time to give
something back something back to your
community give something back to your
state or to your country tear down that
mirror tear down that mirror that makes
you always look at yourself and you will
be able to look beyond that mirror and
you will see the millions of people that
need your help reaching out and helping
people will bring you more satisfaction
than anything else you’ve ever done
trust yourself break some rules don’t be
afraid to feel nor the naysayers work
like hell and give something back I
remember my mother log eunice Kennedy
Shriver when she started Special
Olympics in 1968 people said that it
would not work the experts the doctors
that specialized in mental disabilities
and mental retardation said it can’t be
done you can’t bring people out of the
institution you can’t make them
participate in sports and jumping and
swimming and in running they will hurt
themselves they reward each other they
were drowned in the pool but let me tell
you something now 40 years later Special
Olympic is one of the greatest
organizations in 164 countries dedicated
to people with mental disabilities have
an intellectual challenge an
intellectual challenge but she did not
think no one answer and the same is when
you look at Barack Obama I mean imagine
if he would’ve listened if he would have
listened to the naysayers he would have
never run for president
people say that couldn’t be done that he
couldn’t get elected that he couldn’t
beat Hillary Clinton that he would never
win the general election but he followed
his own heart he didn’t listen to that
you can’t and he changed the course of
American history so a window where you
see that if I were a listen to the
naysayers I would still be in the
Austrian Alps yodeling
I would never have come to America I
would have never met my wonderful wife
maria shriver I would have never had the
wonderful for kids that would have never
done terminated and there would be
standing in front of you today as
governor of the greatest state of the
greatest country in the world so I never
listen that you can’t I always listened
to myself and said yes you can as an
apprentice plumber I did a year and that
and it just it just wasn’t for me an
hour it’s either it’s either All or
Nothing in this indeed the game of many
you have to if you’re not if you’re not
training twice a day if I’m not
dedicated you’re not gonna go anywhere
so after I fight when I lost and I’m
looking at all these people and they’re
all celebrating my demise and saying I’m
doing and listen it certainly lit a fire
under my belly I’m a professional MMA
fighter with a record of four and one
I’m an up-and-coming fighter and without
a doubt you will see me on the UFC and
air future nobody knows what they’re in
for
everybody’s writing me off everyone are
just little you know
but they’re gonna be a shark and make no
mistake about it trust me I’m gonna stop
flowing your other and he’s gonna have
you’re all gonna Awards the whole world
is gonna eat their words
every single person down with me every
single fighter there with me doubt me
now
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ladies and gentlemen
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I believe you’ll be unconscious in time
one round is out there which would be a
mega fight
what about fighting Floyd Mayweather one
day you and here in a ring together in a
boxing in a boxing match I’m open to
discussion come at me but I hold a kid I
hold the key it’s me who holds the key
to the fight game I am open-minded
discussion I love competition I love
fighting interested in order to see it
obviously they would it would be a
billion dollar fight surely I’m all
about their numbers Gareth so I would
certainly do that no problem
you’re chasing your dream and when
you’re when you’re walking hard chasing
something you love and completely
dedicated it just it just happens you
don’t you don’t you can’t really no
notice it you know even still to this
day an amazing position in my life but
I’m still I’m still walking like I’m not
I’m still walking like I’m not this
position absolutely I’m still walking
like none of this is even yeah it’s just
it’s just something I love to do and I
just keep pushing to keep behind I can
pinpoint an exact moment for you but yep
if anything I always felt like it was
happening way back then
and now what is happening but now I
almost feel like it’s not happening push
to something else I’m always striving to
push forward
yeah I don’t just knock them out I
picked around John yeah I said this I’m
sure he’s a prepper y’all thinking in
your head this guy is talking absolute
drivel he’s not gonna do what he says
he’s gonna do he’s are probably all
sitting there thinking that I know where
we are again and I don’t want to said I
was gonna do I feed off this I feed off
this I love this stuff this is what
gives me energy
saying I’m gonna do something say it
putting it out there for the world to
see
I mean don’t doing it there’s no better
feeling in the world than that and it’s
as easy as that say what you’re gonna do
and go and do it I’ve been listening to
them live my whole career
never laughing what and I respond when a
when a cage for his world title hell no
you serious man and Irish might win a
fight in the UFC hello laughs laughs all
around and ours okay you gotta win every
one to win a world title yeah now he’s
all talk he’s all right B’s a joke
people after all around at the Joker man
the Joker goes and wins the world’s oil
there he wants to win a second boat I’ll
listen
the sound the laughter
the delt
motivates me
I’m enjoying that I see that I don’t
feel no doubt
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these were us Evo’s
they need to rise up right now
a situation where people are truly
telling me like they dared me
very beginning and that’s motivated me
that’s what’s gonna drive me to DG when
I need to go to the tea
to put in that world to get that way and
so that’s where whatever I know
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so you don’t think you kid
you don’t think you can do it think
again no you can if you haven’t done it
keeps driving keep working don’t let up
things don’t come easy you gotta find it
whatever it is within yourself don’t
quit don’t quit don’t quit
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so just because you fail doesn’t mean
you a failure alright so I just need you
to do me a huge huge favor and I just
need you to keep going try to make that
one different decision that you not
maybe forward to my last one is don’t
let the distractions distract you I know
real simple but don’t let the
distractions distract you
failure is not an option when you go
into it I want you to go into everything
you do listen to me as if failure is not
an option
all right is not a button it’s not a
label it does not exist you can do it
don’t let nobody steal your dream I used
to ask myself can I do this and
something said within me you’re the one
you’re the one
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if you want to be great not good not
also bring in not second not third if
you want to be great the very best at
what you do
obsession is a necessity
once you had that magnificent obsessions
once you’ve questioned impossible to
tooth teeth then when somebody like that
tells you you can’t do something you
have chosen the wrong one to tell
something like that to I will show you I
will show you what I can do I will show
you I will turn your I can’t I will
never I want it’s impossible I will turn
it around and I will show you that I can
do anything
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