Kareem Abdul-Jabbar shares the greatest lesson that Coach Wooden taught him about winning, losing, and effort.
"There are disappointments for any competitive athlete because you can't win all the time."
"Coach Wooden taught us that you can only come out and give your best effort. That's all you can do."
Focus on what you can control.
"The outcome is not determined by anything that you have control over. Only thing you have control over is your effort and then the effort of your group, your team."
You can't control the outcome, but you can control your input and how you show up.
"When you put together a good effort consistently, you have a chance to win."
"As long as you put your best effort out there, you should be satisfied with that and not be down on yourself."
Excellence is the habit and the mindset, not the destination.
The goal is excellence in everything you do: Compete, commit, and always look to get better.
(🎥 Academy of Achievement)
Steve Nash shares the truth about the journey to greatness.
"You don't have to be the chosen one."
"The secret is to build the resolve and spirit to enjoy the plateaus - the times when it doesn't feel like you're improving and you question why you're doing this."
Most people quit during the plateau. Learn to embrace it.
"If you're patient, the plateaus will become springboards."
Progress isn't linear. The flat moments aren't wasted - they're building.
"Never stop striving, reaching for your goals until you get there."
"But the truth is, even when you get there - even when you get here, standing on this stage - it's the striving, fighting, pushing yourself to the limit every day that you'll miss and you'll long for."
"You'll never be more alive than when you give something everything you have."
The destination isn't the reward - the journey is.
Enjoy the process and fall in love with the climb because that's where life happens.
RAP: Most street and drug tales at the most truthful end in disaster. Fascination at the ‘life’ starts at impressionable ages while the antidote is hidden. The antidote is knowledge of self and where you are at like @OfficialRakim rhymed to us. The young man was a teen saying it
Everything ends here. Experience GODZILLA MINUS ZERO, the first-ever Japanese production #FilmedForIMAX, in theatres November 6.
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The Wire got cancelled twice. HBO wanted to end it after Season 3. David Simon had to fight to keep it alive. Now it’s considered the greatest TV drama ever made. Imagine if he’d given up. The thing that defines prestige television almost didn’t exist.
“Stakes Is High” ❌️ De La Soul (1996) 🔥
This wasn’t just a song… De La Soul was talking to the CULTURE. 🎤💯
And J Dilla absolutely cooked on this beat. 🐐🎹
Rakim spent 40 years in hip hop without a single Grammy nomination.
Not one. Zero. The man Eminem called "probably the greatest rapper of all time" was never even considered.
On May 8, 2026, that finally changed. Paid In Full was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles. Thirty eight years after the album that permanently changed how every rapper writes, delivers and thinks about lyricism.
Before Rakim, rappers rhymed at the end of lines. He changed that. Internal rhyme schemes, multi-syllable patterns, a cold and untouchable delivery nobody had heard before.
The Grammy Hall of Fame is not a Grammy. But after 40 years, it is recognition.
The God MC finally got his flowers.
Shot Out to William Michael Griffin AKA Rakim Allah 😎😎😁😁