goalballjonny

Motivation är den främsta nyckeln till framgång, men ibland kan det vara svårt att finna motivation till det man håller på med, både i grupp och individuellt.
Individuellt känner man ibland mer än något annat att man helst av allt bara vill ligga hemma under en filt och inte alls ta sig iväg till gymmet och köra det där jobbiga intervallpasset.
Efteråt känns det oftast bättre, men motivationen för att ta sig iväg, det är den som saknas.
Eller den där sista lilla pusselbiten som krävs för att ett lag ska jobba tillsammans, dra åt samma håll, göra allt för varandra, för man är just ett lag, inga individer där ute på planen.
Då kan ett tal likt nedanstående inspirera och motivera mer än nog.

Ett av de mest inspirerande tal jag någonsin har hört, är talet nedan, framfört av karaktären Tony D'Amato i filmen Any given sunday från 1999.
Saknar du motivation så gör du det garanterat inte efter det här brandtalet!

I don't know what to say really.
Three minutes to the biggest battle of our professional lives.
All comes down to today.
Either we heal as a team,
or we are going to crumble.
Inch by inch,
play by play,
till we're finished.
We are in hell right now, gentlemen, believe me,
and,
we can stay here and get the shit kicked out of us,
or,
we can fight our way back into the light.
We can climb out of hell.
One inch, at a time.

Now I can't do it for you.
I'm too old.
I look around and I see these young faces and I think, I mean,
I made every wrong choice a middle age man could make.
I uh....
I pissed away all my money, believe it or not,
I chased off anyone who has ever loved me,
And lately, I can't even stand the face I see in the mirror.

You know when you get old in life, things get taken from you.
That's, that's part of life.
But,
you only learn that when you start losing stuff,
you find out that life is just a game of inches.
So is football.
Because in either game, life or football, the margin for error is so small.
I mean,
one half step too late or to early,
you don't quite make it,
one half second too slow or too fast,
and you don't quite catch it.
The inches we need are everywhere around us.
They are in ever break of the game,
every minute, every second.

On this team, we fight for that inch,
On this team, we tear ourselves, and everyone around us, to pieces for that inch.
We CLAW with our finger nails for that inch.
Cause we know,
when we add up all those inches, that's going to make the fucking difference between WINNING and LOSING, between LIVING and DYING!

I'll tell you this, in any fight, it is the guy who is willing to die who is going to win that inch,
and I know, if I am going to have any life anymore,
it is because, I am still willing to fight, and die for that inch, because that is what LIVING is,
the six inches in front of your face.

Now I can't make you do it.
You gotta look at the guy next to you.
Look into his eyes.
Now I think you are going to see a guy who will go that inch with you.
You are going to see a guy, who will sacrifice himself for this team, because he knows when it comes down to it, you are gonna do the same thing for him.

That's a team, gentlemen,
and either we heal now, as a team,
or we will die as individuals.
That's football guys.
That's all it is.
Now, whattaya gonna do?

Texten är nog så inspirerande, men lyssnar man på det ökar känslan ytterligare,
så här nedan kan ni lyssna på det.
Lyssna och låt er inspireras!