Welcome to the sports motivation podcast. It is your host, Nees Showbo. Today is an episode of bars.

It's where I break down a profound lyric excerpt from a book or in some cases a quote or clip from an interview or video that I've been watching.

So today is a clip from an interview from the goat of all goats, Michael Jordan.

All right. Now, this is a really important, he laid out his philosophy, and one of the things I love about Michael Jordan is, first of all, don't sleep on how profound this dude is. Don't sleep on how profound this dude is. We've had more articulate,

you know, um, athletes come around, you know, even the Kobe Bryant's of the world lay out their

philosophy in a much more stylistic type of way. But MJ is so self-aware, so authentic, so real.

And he has tons of books, actually, several books that he's written.

One of them called Driven From Within, which is incredible, incredible book where he lays out his philosophy.

So what MJ lays out today is his whole philosophy towards quote unquote burning out.

All right.

So we see with a lot of athletes right now, this whole concept of, you know, saving it, you know, load

preservation or I think they call it load management.

And I actually experienced this a lot with athletes when I was training.

And I used to train athletes and I would see these

athletes kind of like, you know, kind of choose when they wanted to really lay it on and go all

out and choose when they wouldn't. All right? And this seems to be a debate, you know,

overtraining amongst a lot of weightlifters, you know, what about overtraining? What about

lifting too much? And what about doing this? So Michael Jordan gets asked the question and response like MJ. Check it out.

You think sometimes that the way you play could shorten your career because you play so hard,

you're the nucleus of the success in Chicago and I don't mean to embarrass you

or put you on the spot so you have to diss your partners but um but you have to really play

hard does that hurt you physically no because when I play I play hard all the time you know

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