Angel+C's+Final+AmEx+2015+Speech


 * Title of Speech: WHY **
 * Text of Speech **

I been told it's a good idea to start a speech with a joke but don't get your hopes up I’m not here to tell jokes I’m here to pick a fight. Against second place I have as much patience for second place as I do for flies in my soup but maybe you like flies in your soup maybe you like second place maybe you like the you gave it your best time next malarkey that they spoon feed runner ups let me put it another way if you think that second place isn't a big a deal why don't you ask napoleon how he felt about coming in second at Waterloo. Not so good not so good. YOU can spare me it's not if you win or lose but how you play the game bullshit because I guarantee you that who ever said that lost the game moral of the story come in first. Still want to hear a joke okay here you go knock, knock who's there the guy who finished second the guy who finish second who exactly. Maybe that's my way of how I look at success but there are other ways. Let me tell you a story This man goes to this guru right and told the guru I want to be on the same level your our on and so the guru said if you want to be on the same level that I’m on I will meet you tomorrow at the beach at 4 a.m.. He's like the beach I said I want to make money I don’t want to swim. Guru said if you want to make money I will meet you tomorrow at 4 a.m.. So.So the man got there at 4 am ready to work in his suit should have worn shorts. Old man grandpa said how bad do you want to successful. He said real bad. He said walk on out into the water.so he walk out into the water and watch this he walk out to waste deep. He’s like this guy crazy I want to make money and he got me out here swimming I didn’t ask to be a life guard I want to make money. The guru said to walk out further the man walks out a little further he had it around this are the shoulder area .At that point the man said this old man is crazy his making money but his crazy. The guru said come out a little father he came out a little further. The water is now around his mouth. My man is like I’m about to go back out of here. The old man said I though you wanted to be successful. He said I do he walked in a little further and dropped his head in held him down holding him down my man clawing scratching the guru is holding him down. Just as the man was about to pass out he raises him out. The guru said I have a question for you when I held you under water what did you want to do. He said I wanted to breathe. The guru told the guy if you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe then you will become successful. I don’t how many of you have ever had an asthma attack here but if you ever had one you’d have a shortness of breath, S.O.B, shortness of breath wheezing (do wheezing noises) the only thing you are trying to do is to get some air, you don’t care about no football game, you do care what’s on TV, you don’t care who’s calling you, you don’t care about no party the only thing you care about is get some fresh air. So when you get the point where enough is enough and all you want to is breath then you will be successful. Most of you don’t want to be successful because when it starts to hurt you quit. You say I don't do well in math it’s because you never studied, I can't write well its true because you have never written before. I dare you to fail I dare you to fail in class for one year. Stop dropping class like your soft. It’s great that the slaves didn't drop and quit they didn't stop saying I’m a slave I will always be a slave I’m going to quit. They didn't say that because they said we will live because one day well will become. We won’t always be slaves.so today when we are slaves we will act like we are free because one day our children will be free. If the slaves would have said we done, we quit they would have died in the middle passage.400 years of slavery and they got thought this, and you can’t get through the AMEX course. With the resources you have tutor after tutor the problem is that you’re soft. You never felt pain this is a soft generation. You quit on everything. Those people didn’t quit. Harriet Tubman not only made it but went back for some more she walked all the way back to the south. And you want to quit AMEX. When I came to foothill there were kids with 3.0s and 4.0s most of them aren't doing what I’m doing why because it's not about where you come from it's about heart. You come from a place where being smart isn't enough you got to have heart.  I am a living witness that if you are brave enough to dream, it can happen. You got to be determined no matter what it takes you’re not going to stop and you're not going to quit, you’re not going to give up. Till your dreams become a reality .When I leave this place I want you to feel closer to that dream becoming a reality. You have that goal of I want to become a millionaire, I want to change the world, I want to do this and this for a person, I’m going to buy this for my mom, I’m going to put my children through school. You got all these great dreams and when you wake up in the morning life punches you in the face, Angel Cruz just like you gets punched in the face. You don't always hear about it I don’t always talk about it because I don’t want to discourage you, but I had multiple odds against me. At least 2 or 3 friends dies in the past 4 or 5 years. We all get knocked out. Life hasn’t been a crystal stairwell fairing down, I had may failures had people try to sabotage me. I’m like that lion I’m not the Gazelle I don’t something external to motivate me I find something within. You got to do me a favor you can give up or give in (might sound cheesy) but if it was easy then everybody would do it. And if life has you backed up I need you to do what Buster Douglas did. Buster Douglas started fighting back. He said I know you knocked out 30 other people but I wouldn’t be the 31.and finally they got to that round where buster Douglas knocks Mike Tyson out. The world was shocked. (Do gasp)Goliath has been knocked down what happen? They asked Buster Douglas what happened. He simply replied “Honestly he was the challenge. It a real simple before his mother died she told the whole world that I was going to bet Mike Tyson”2 days before the fight his mother died. Buster Douglas had a decision HE could die with his mother or wake up and live for his mom. Simply because his why was greater than his want. Everyone has a goal or dream but when you have that why with it, you can't quit you can't die you can't stop. If there's no money you make some you print it if you have too. If there is no opportunity you create it, but what I can do is I can't let my siblings down I can’t let my parents down, I can't let friends down I can't let my city down. For you your problem is that you are focused on your dreams and goals but not why, WHY, WHY do you want this why do you get up in the morning. When people say Angel why do you wake up at 5am I say, “why not” I all I had to do is wake up at 5am in the morning and I’ll be able to help my family and be able to better myself (pause) are you out of your mind!!.I’ll wake up at 5 every day because my why is greater than my sleep. What makes a person average is their focus, An average person is only focus on pay, a great person focuses on making their boss happy, They say what need do I have to meet. Their focus is different. Your focus has to be different with what you're reading what you watch the conversations you have.
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 * Eric Thomas (some of his works put together want to help it spread) **