Dwayne The Rock Johnson Leaves the Audience SPEECHLESS One of the Greatest Speeches Ever
instead of telling you what i think you
should be doing
or what how you could be better or
i thought well
let me just speak from the heart speak
for my gut
and really not have anything prepared
but just tell you what’s worked for me
and maybe some of the stuff that’s
worked for me might work for you now
currently presently as you guys have
your goals and ambitions but then
further on down the line
as you guys continue to live your life
this idea and this notion that you could
be anything you want you can accomplish
anything you want right we hear that
you’ve heard that from the time you were
little boys
you hear that now you’re already
incredibly accomplished you guys know
that
the thing
that has worked for me is to remember
the hard times
so
and i’m sure you guys all have your
processes and again i’m going to tell
you what worked for me
so before
a big movie comes out before back in the
days when i was wrestling with wwe
a wrestlemania match
anything big that would happen i would
always take a moment and i just remind
myself all right
i was evicted when i was 14.
we were kicked off the island we
couldn’t live in hawaii had no place to
live
uh
a lot of [ __ ] happened then when i moved
to nashville i was arrested multiple
times by the time i was 16 years old
i would remember that and it allows me
then to be present in the moment and
understand holy the stuff i have around
me right now this is the sh that i
dreamed of when i was a kid i am here i
played for university of miami
played great teams
warren sapp ray lewis they were my
teammates they were ballin
warren sapp was playing tight end
that time
i was starting defense with tackle
yeah they moved him over to d-line
and he looked at me as like yo do
i’m gonna take your spot and i said you
ain’t taking much mine he said i’m gonna
take your spot
we battled and he took my spot
thank you imagine how that with me
because there goes my opportunity he
went in switzerland defensive attack and
lit the world on fire well what that did
it crushed me to crush my dreams i had a
piss-poor senior year
zero production
no nfl no combine invite nothing finally
went to the cfl calgary stampeders
making 250 a week canadian
canadian now i had to send that home
to my
uh to my wife at that time
i had no money
so i remember that
i got cut from canada
uh my dad in his pickup truck came down
four o’clock in the morning picked me up
at in miami from tampa we lived in a
little apartment in tampa he drove down
in his little pickup truck
to to miami to get me when i was cut
from the cfl and i thought well
the i i leave home like you guys left
home i’m ready to tackle the world get
after it achieve my dreams and goals
crushed by 22 23 years old i’m now going
to move back in with my mom and dad i
played on great teams though wait a
second this is not supposed to be my
future i’m supposed to be in the nfl
right now i’m supposed to be making a
lot of coin and buying my parents
buying me taking care of my wife but it
never happened so i pulled out my wallet
i thought well let me see how much money
i have i opened it up i had a five a one
and change well at least i rounded up to
seven bucks
but i thought god ain’t this a [ __ ] i
got seven bucks in my pocket where the
do i go now what do i do i can’t go back
to cfl the point comes where you hear
that voice big run’s over
like you’re done
right so i heard that voice
so as coach was saying man i hold on to
that i’m telling you i keep my back is
up against his mother we laugh we joke
we have a good time but my back is still
up against this [ __ ] i do not
forget it
what this also helps me do
and again it works for me
is
at some point you got to be tired of not
being number one
you have to be and you gotta play angry
and i play angry now i’m cool and calm
with my approach and when i step out on
my field which is a set
or
you know like
there’s some and you’re always going to
have haters and haters like well
i see man how many movies you’re going
to make or how much are you going to do
like you do a lot of [ __ ] i say yes
it’s my ambition
of course why not
i could do it
yeah i love what i do
and not only that but in what world do
we not work every day
my back is up against this thing you
know and i and i and i started to play
angry by the way and i still i still
play angry my last match brock lesnar
transitioned and i realized if i had to
be great at something i wanted to be
great in this world of hollywood and
movie making and producing and
entertainment i had to commit and like
you guys have to commit obviously you
commit to something commit to the goal
so i quietly retired two years later i
thought what did i do with my career
because my movies were not doing well
i was written off i was like
it was around 2006 2007 i was like i
left i pulled a jim brown i left when i
was on top
like number one in the wrestling
business and i left it was a ballsy
gutsy some call it stupid move but i had
to commit and i had to follow it was in
my gut
what helps me is to keep the hard times
in the front of my mind because it
allows me to go into these big moments
that i’ve worked my ass off and you guys
have worked your eyes off it allows me
to go into these big moments with a
different perspective
what it also does for me and again this
just this is what works for me
like
my back is up against this mother
every day
it’s against
the wall
but it’s up against this [ __ ]
because it’s what i believe in and when
my back is against his mother
then there’s nowhere to go
but that way
that’s it
doesn’t mean you don’t smile doesn’t
mean you don’t laugh and joke quote
right you’re happy i’m happy i’m a happy
guy
but when it comes to business and when
it comes to executing
it’s up against this
and i got to go that way
and i don’t give a [ __ ] who is in front
of me they’re not going to stop me
the key
for me
was
where does it start
what’s the anchor
what’s the anchor
so
i could have all these ambitions and you
guys have all these ambitions which is
great
it’s important i’ll play this role
you’ll play that role i’ll execute this
thing and it’ll come out this summer you
guys will execute this thing during the
summer right when it’s time to really
put in a lot more work
but the key with me is just always
finding what the anchor is and the
anchor
is
getting up at four o’clock in the
morning every day before anybody else
and grounding my thought process is in
the no one will outwork me
no one
i love and i respect you guys
your mother will not work me
all starts with this
two hands
putting it to work
as you guys know there’s nothing you
can’t accomplish you’re gonna go on
you’re gonna become world champions
the key
for me well i think one of the keys is
remember where you came from keep that
in the front of your mind and when it
goes bad and it goes sideways a lot of
does you’re getting booed out of the
building
or you’re coming through this injury or
people are you writing you off oh you
guys
make it you know any of that
you gotta you gotta keep it in here
and it really has to
it should drive you it should it works
for me it should drive you
you get all the talent in the world it’s
all here
really the two things i want to say are
you got to be the hardest workers in the
room
and don’t the opportunity out
[Music]
you