BECOME UNSTOPPABLE - Powerful Mike Tyson Motivational Speech

Mike Tyson (0:00)

I'm the best ever, there's no one that can match me. I'm the most brutal and vicious and most ruthless champion that's ever been. They're gonna fear me.

You have to be the champion before you become the champion, so that means lifestyle. You have to be him before you become him. You gotta be him before you become him.

That's how it starts, you look at somebody, you wanna be like him. You don't say, hey, I'm a bad mother f***er, I wanna fight anybody out here, nobody's gonna kick my a**. You see somebody and say, hey, I might wanna do that. Well, greatness is when you make your delusions your reality. Nothing's impossible for somebody who's gonna try. If you're gonna try, it's capable of getting done.

SPEAKER_2 (0:51)

But you'd fight Tyson Fury.

Mike Tyson (0:53)

Hey, I fight a lion if the price is right. My whole objective is your total surrender, your total domination. I'm gonna destroy you.

SPEAKER_2 (1:05)

That's why Rogan said, when you watched you, you were intimidating. Your rage is a very unique rage.

Mike Tyson (1:10)

Well, that's their fault to be intimidating. How you gonna listen might scare you for something you worked for. I respect a person who's willing to die for what he truly wants. Ali had to will to win like nobody that ever lived in boxing. Then he believes he projected to his opponent. Really, look at how does Ali beat George Foreman? How does Ali beat Sonny Liston? How did he beat these guys? How did he even beat Joe Frazier? Fighting the way he fights. He beats them because he refused to lose. But we have to believe that we're divine and that we learn from our experience because confidence breeds success and success breeds confidence. They go hand to hand.

You have to know who you are first. You know who you are. I know who I am. People say you're the greatest all the time. You're this, you're that. Whatever they say, I know who I am.

Without self-love, you're nothing. The self-love is discipline. And discipline is doing what you hate to do, but doing like you love it.

I never wanted to be obscure. I was born in obscurity and I never wanted to deal with that again.

I'm invincible. I'm a savage. I'm ferocious. I'm the smartest savage. I knew I wasn't going to die before I became champ. When this is over, everybody's going to know my name.

SPEAKER_2 (2:40)

Did you ever fight somebody that you were like, that they got you? Was there ever a kid that got you or no?

Mike Tyson (2:44)

Absolutely. In order to be good, you have to lose it and understand loss, because loss is life.

Adversity make the strong stronger and the weak weaker.

SPEAKER_2 (3:04)

11, 12, 13, what happens next?

Mike Tyson (3:05)

They get arrested and I see Muhammad Ali come to visit the institution that I'm in.

SPEAKER_2 (3:13)

You said you were in jail and Ali shows up?

Mike Tyson (3:15)

I'm 12 years old and Ali comes there and they showed the movie The Greatest First, so this is 77 And after the movie, the lights come on and Ali comes in. And I see him, I want to be just like him. I don't know how it happened, the spirit hit me. Boom, I want to be like him.

And then I get transferred to this other facility, you know, for real bad kids. I met a gentleman there that was a boxer, and he used to teach me how to box. So he took me to a great training, custom model, and that's why I'm here.

I respected Ali, and I worship Ali. Yeah, this is the moment I knew I wanted to be a fighter.

SPEAKER_2 (4:01)

Unfrickin believable story. So your inspiration happened at 12 years old. Then you meet Cuss. How is Cuss treating you? What was his way of leading you?

Mike Tyson (4:10)

The degree of his peeling all that dirt and stuff, that insecurity and development into character. And that's why I had a wonderful time with him, because everything about his life was about me. This world is one big school, and we're the students of this world. The mind is always hungry. The mind wants to do good, but we get so many negative thoughts, and our mind is almost overwhelming to be positive.

Listen, I've been down and up, down and up, broken up, and why am I still here? Because life is going to give everybody a bad hand. No one's going to leave here without being tried in life.

SPEAKER_2 (5:14)

So, inspiration, so is that what got you to be willing to be disciplined, to get what you want, like to become a champion? At 14 years old, I'm willing to do everything it takes to be a champion?