As a leader, are you tired? Do you feel defeated? Beaten down? Do you feel under the weight of the leadership challenge? Are you facing discouragement or depression. Does it feel like you are out of options?
If so, I have a gift for you. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets team chaplain Derrick Moore gives as inspirational a pre-game speech as you will ever hear. If you are feeling down, few things will inspire you more. By the way, after the speech the Yellow Jackets beat the Miami Hurricanes 28-17 before 52,221 fans at Bobby Dodd Stadium last Saturday night.
Here is a transcript of his incredible speech:
“There’s nothing like family. At the end of the day when the sun sets that’s all you have. Ultimately that’s all you need.
(It’s) about your brothers, bleed and sweat together. Fought through summer. All the lifting and running for moments like these because you don’t ever get them back.
Thank you guys for your heart and soul because that’s what you’re going to put into it tonight. And you’re going to do it for the guy on your left and the guy to your right cause that’s all that matters.
Guy to your left. Guy to your right. You know what time it is. It’s time to turn the Yellow Jackets loose. We didn’t come hear to play around. We came to take care of business.
We start with the abilities the coaches have passed down to you. Let every man take his assignment seriously. Let him go out with confidence. Let him handle every moment.
Let him stand in the face of the challenger and don’t retreat. Empower these men to do what they came here to do. And we’ll sing in the end, ‘We’re gonna fight till we can’t fight no more.”
Are you FIRED UP after watching the video?
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