From Good To Great

What is merciless? Relentless is more than just a mindset. It's about you. It's about taking yourself to a level that only a few people can achieve. It's about capturing other people's hearts and not letting them go.

All they want to do is win, and they want to win over and over again. It's not just a one-time thing. Success is repeated many, many times. It's something that's in everybody. It can be taught. It can be learned, but you have to take the necessary steps.

You can be great at something if you are good at it. If you're great at something, you can be unstoppable at it. There's always a next level, so don't let anybody tell you that it cannot be learned or taught. It can be relentless and teach you how everyone talks about it. I've got passion.

I got the inner drive. You don't want passion?

It's absolutely nothing unless there's an action, a relentless action that follows it. If you have that relentless action that follows your passion, that follows that inner drive you have, then you get that end result. Other than that, you just have a bunch of emotions that mean nothing.

Do you think being a champion means you run faster or that you have more skills? No, the champions have more value. Kobe just had more values. Kobe just wanted it more than everybody else wanted it.

He was relentless. He didn't just know the word "relentless," he was relentless. It was in his DNA. Some of you say the word, but it's not a value. If you really want to be a national champion, you have to make a decision.

I want to know what I'm made of. I want to know what I can overcome, and I know from experience that the harder the task to overcome, the harder the obstacle to overcome, and the more strength I'm going to gain from it.

You know, there's a whole other level of energy you get when you do it for mom. The adrenaline that we get when we do something for a loved one is different than the energy we get when we're doing something just for a score. when you're doing something just to get some approval. When you start doing stuff for the people you love, it's a whole other level.

In the story of humanity, there are only two recurring characters: struggle and progress. If you want to throw out the struggle, we'll never have any progress, and we have to be okay with the fact that it's hard.