A year ago, we lost a legend, one of the greatest basketball players of all time,

and one of the most dominant competitors this world has ever seen.

Kobe Bryant.

While it's nice to idealize and immortalize his legacy,

what's even better is to identify the mindset that made him great,

to make it practical and work with intensity and precision to apply the same standards to our careers as athletes.

Let's be like Kobe.

Welcome back to the Sports Motivation podcast.

We're focused on how to be like Kobe, to honor Kobe,

and to adopt the mentality of a true champion. All right? So just yesterday, we broke down this

really important and necessary. I would call it a prerequisite. It's like if you're going to be

great at something, you got to put in time, right? So this mentality of making sure that you have a schedule that

reflects that of someone who is great is very important. You say you want to dominate your sport,

you had better be putting in the time to dominate your sport. However, we cannot stop there because what we see is a lot of people

who don't approach their time, their time training in the way that Kobe does. So let's hear

Kobe break that down. Talk about what led up to the big monster 81 point game. Well, it was a thousand makes a day in the summertime, you know, and going through things,

just as I would during the game.

So, you know, I knew exactly where my positions were within the triangle and where the shots would be coming from.

So everything that I did throughout the course of my training was literally simulating that.

So it was all game shots. So when it came in the game, things were just automatic.

Because I'd put my body through it before.

You know, sometimes you get in the gym and you work out

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