Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s Eye Opening Speech to the Lakers Players

“One of the key is, remember where you came from, keep that in the front of your mind and when it goes bad, it goes sideways, getting boot out the building or coming through this injury or people are writing you off. You’re gonna make it. You know any of that, you gotta keep it in here. And it should drive you.” – Dwayne Johnson

“I would remember the hard times and it allows me then to be present in the moment and understand that the stuff I have around me right now, this is what I dreamed of when I was a kid. I am here.” – Dwayne Johnson

“I’m happy guy but when it comes to business and when it comes to executing, it’s up against this wall. And I gotta go that way. I don’t care who is in front of me. They’re not going to stop me.” – Dwayne Johnson

“The key with me is just always finding what the anchor is and the anchor is, getting up at 4:00 o’clock in the morning every day before anybody else, and grounding my thought process is as in that no one will outwork me. No one. I’ll start with this two hands putting it to work.” – Dwayne Johnson

“At some point, you get tired of not being number one. You have to be and you gotta play angry. And I play angry.” – Dwayne Johnson

“I realized if I had to be great at something, if I wanted to be great in this world of Hollywood and movie-making, producing, and entertainment, I had to commit. Obviously you commit to something, commit to the goal. ‘so, I quietly retired.” – Dwayne Johnson

“I sat down at that time with the agency I was with and said, What do you want to accomplish? I said, I want to accomplish the world. I want the world. And I want I want Will Smith’s career. I wanna do it bigger and better. And they looked at me like I had three heads. But I still stayed focus and I still had put in the hard work with my two hands. And that’s it.” – Dwayne Johnson