Intro

Hard times create hard men

Hard men create soft times

Soft times create soft men

Soft men create hard times

If you don't fail, you're not even trying

My wife told me this great expression

To get something you never had

You have to do something you never did

Failure has been achieved, thank God

Now, the only place to go from failure is to win

You have to achieve failure

You have to take it that far

Nobody wants to go that far, it's too scary

But you know something, I got news for you

That's where winning is

It always has been

Nothing's changed since the 70s, nothing

Except people train not as hard

The hardest thing in life is figuring out who you are

And what you want to do for the rest of your life

And once you figure that out

you wake up every day and you work toward it

It's impossible for you to fail

If you know who you are, what you want to do

And you wake up every day and work toward it

I love this game

I live this game

And there's a thousand other guys waiting in the wings

Who are obsessed with this game

Obsession's gonna be talent every time

You got all the talent in the world, but are you Obsessed

When you walk on that court

You have to think, I am the best ever

I'm the most brutal and vicious

and most ruthless champion there's ever been

There's no one can stop me

Links is a conqueror

No, I'm Alexander

He's no Alexander

I'm the best ever

There's never been anybody as ruthless

I'm Sonny Liston

I'm Jack Dempsey

There's no one like me

I'm from their court

There's no one that can match me

My style is impetuous

My defense is impregnable

And I'm just ferocious

I want your heart

I want to eat his children

Les Brown's a motivational speaker

He made an analogy about this

He says, imagine you're on your deathbed

And standing around your deathbed

Are the ghosts representing your unfulfilled Potential

The ghost of the ideas you never acted on

The ghost of the talents you didn't use

And they're standing around your bed

Angry, disappointed, and upset

They say, we came to you

Because you could have brought us to life, they say

And now we have to go to the grave together

So I ask you today

How many ghosts are going to be around your bed

When your time comes