Inspiration: How Bad Do You Want It (Hockey)

How Bad Do You Want It hockey tribute
Speech by Eric Thomas
Song- Home by Explosions In the Sky

[@bghockey0822]

This makes me miss those 6 am bag skates big time and looking back, makes me appreciate those coaches i hated during powerskating drills

[@Sti-me9zj]

I love this motivation I listen to it after every hockey game and practice I will give up anything for hockey to achieve my dream

[@BiteSized422]

Same

[@vex6678]

did you make it bro?

[@HellaDizzzy]

@@vex6678I didn’t back in 2017 I lost the right side of my body I couldn’t talk or speak for 8 hours I ended up in the hospital they did every test on my Heart test, MRI, Cat-scan, blood test and a lot more test the next day I woke up with dizziness i got deep feeling that went threw my whole body feeling like I was gonna die and had really bad panic attacks it was hard for me to walk I couldn’t go to school I went to 3 different hospitals when I went to Stan Ford they diagnosed me with PPPD now I’m on medication for it but I played High School Hockey after high school I got on a junior A Team but couldn’t keep playing cause it got to expensive I was paying for everything on my own.

[@Jasonschaubel]

I watch this video every morning to go and get my training in. Absolutely love this.

[@aidan1ify]

A month and 3 months ago I broke my foot. It made me feel like my career was over... But I didn't stop trying. At hockey practice I did my best and played my heart out. And my first game back I had a goal and an assist. It proves to never stop trying. This video is amazing and inspires so many people! So to everyone who isnt inspired, dont stop trying, keep going even if it is hard!

[@aidan1ify]

Weeks**

[@wenditash]

same here exept i never took my mind off what i could do if it was posibil to not live hockey or my famly or all my friends (my crush)

[@lukaiidotcom]

I would watch this before every game but no phones in the locker room lol

[@jonasoesterle2639]

LukaiiPlayz I bring mine in anyway

[@willrobinson3714]

ItsLukaii i watch it before every game

[@mathewhoggins7955]

Me too 🏒

[@brandonhoman4279]

started hockey in grade 1 still playing now and im 14 having a blast our team is first! this speech makes me play my heart out!

[@trevorjohnson5616]

6 years later what happened in your career

[@timeforunboxing333]

ive been playing since i was two and i still am playing its my passion and i love it

[@GusAstro]

i got goosebumps, hockey

[@markushoffman9734]

Me watching this 9 years after it was posted and motivated me to start working out and working on myself and my career

[@modpker4life]

when i think of giving up on my jr team on the off season when we had a bad season. i watch this video and remember why i stick with them. well all have a goal and my goal is to just play college hockey. the college level is a hard goal but its rewarding to me

[@TheKywar]

I'm a 13 year old boy who has been always a hockey fan. I played hockey most of my life. I started ice hockey when i was 11. I made the worst team, team(7) and got 4 points, second year i was now 12 and got 15 points. i practiced rarely in the summer going into the next year. Now I'm 13 and i got 37 points in 30 games with the most goals on my team. I'm very small and short. I've been taking practicing seriously lately and playing my team(1) friends and beating them. My dream is to make the NHL.

[@MrHaddify]

I almost cried that was incredible!

[@jakob9524]

This helped me through my parents death

[@jyy3717]

Jakob Gottfriedson ;(

[@jyy3717]

Martin Sandberg lit

[@maesuhn]

Martin Sandberg

[@tylercarlson1035]

Hey man everything is gonna be alright

[@MrHockeylegend4]

great video and very inspirational and I almost cried because of how much I love hockey

[@eddybigelow7009]

Thank you for uploading this. Changed my life.

[@egyptsports]

It give extra motivation at school,gym and on the ice

[@TheQcRoberge]

I'm a hockey player for about 14 years, i know that i never give all i got for this sports. Sometinmes i just wish to start all over again and train I was suppose to train 5 years ago

[@danielb.26]

so inspiring

[@TGraham9]

Used to watch this every day in post grad. All time video

[@ry4nx]

me too man ! glad to hear u care alot bout the game

[@Mr2awesomecraft]

this is awesome im going to lisin to this before kick boxing and video games!!!!

[@oddfuturebloodhoof4603]

If you can sit here and write down the workouts the players are doing so you can do them yourself, then you have a good chance at being successful. If you sit here and say you "can't" be successful, you aren't trying hard enough.

[@depize.514]

My hockey coach won't let us off until we're throwing up.

[@TCLynch]

Sounds like my guy, after all the normal drills: "Now you skate till you puke, and then we're done."

[@triplemhalloween]

Good coach

[@JKRevan22]

This is one if the best videos I've seen.

[@ryanmcgregor7996]

Awesome man it really inspired me! You should make more about hockey

[@CUB3Jsg22]

Then I've continued after my dream in June I started my first skating lessons. In July I got my hockey equipment. And about 3 weeks ago I started my first hockey lessons. I can't wait for my first game. I'm living proof the dream can start at 15 - CUB3Jsg22 8/13/12

[@TheScotttP]

Just set this as my homepage... currently converting the part about sleep to my iPhone for one hell of an alarm clock.

[@WolfgangRiebeInspiringTheWorld]

always excellent to be motivated

[@BnMPro]

wish i played aaa back when i was young.... after high school hockey im done. thats depressing :/

[@subraxas]

NHL must have much more than just 50 million fans around the world when in Canada alone live about 34 million. I definitely support the NHL, but, talking about my case as well as many of friends', they simply cannot know about our support since we aren't registered anywhere. I watch the games on a regular basis, I buy magazines, I own several jerseys, books and other pieces of merchandising, but they don't know about me nor about my friends. I

[@kaireid7582]

Next season I'm going to try for tier one n this has brought me to the gym everyday n out side training

[@erzu17]

It's not about exercise. It's about success. You don't need to be fit to be successful. If your goal is to be a lawyer, you gotta just focus on being one.

[@aKidNamedDean]

I was suppose to Start Hockey in Grade 1. I am from Canada, my Dad was a Former Skier (Almost made the Olympic Team) But I guess I was Falling too much and got Mad so I dropped out. I got back into Hockey at 16 Years Old, now I am 19, I wished I didn't Drop out that Young. . .

[@DJWAYNETHEBEAST]

That’s it! And when you get to the point where all you want to do is be successful as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful. Most of you say you want to be successful but you don’t want it bad, you just kind of want it. You don’t want it badder than you want to party. You don’t want it as much as you want to be cool. Most of you don’t want success as much as you want sleep. Some of you lost sleep more than you lost success. If you're going to be successful you have to be willin

[@USBOWEN]

This is very motivating... I'm a hockey goalie but I'm also 32..

[@44mrclean]

best video ever HOCKEY=LIFE

[@CUB3Jsg22]

And after years of being told im too short as of yesterday November 25, 2012 i scored my first high school career goal. First goal in a actual Hockey game.

[@CORNERsniper]

Best video i have ever seen. Period.

[@AlexanderSiassi]

I don't feel like sleeping anymore, I feel like skating, I feel like stickhandling, I feel like playing hockey.

[@BraydonJakob]

best sport ever made .

[@UnionRags17]

Well said and thank you.

[@mattohler4570]

I’m a goalie and have been pushed down by coaches favourites and kids but I’m gonna push and prove to them they were wrong for not taking me. I had a coach pull me because of one goal.

[@Xasuser]

dropped out of my hockey team when i was 12 because of the lack of motivation.. biggest mistake of my life now i'm almost 18 and it's way too late..

[@CUB3Jsg22]

Trust me its never too late. Never played once, started at 15 the summer of 2012 before high school. Now I'm playing Varsity high school hockey in my sophomore year. I never thought I would make it that far myself but i never stopped. There were moments where I wanted to quit so much but my friends helped me through that. One of my friends that helped me through may have committed suicide last week but I'm never going to quit and go as hard as I can for her. Its never too late man take it from me. If the most unpopular guy in middle school can turn it around in one summer I am positive you can too!

[@2ndpark296]

never its too late bro

[@Xasuser]

Thanks guys. Figured I would give a report on how it's going. I start playing again. Just training atm with the local hockey team who is in the lowest division in sweden with both young guys and 30-40 aged guys. It's heaps of fun and i'm doing better than I expected and i'm loving it. Thanks guys you made it easier to take this step. :)

[@CUB3Jsg22]

Philip Johansson Awesome! keep it up!

[@zhqngs]

Sooo, how are you doing now? 2 years later lol

[@UltraEpicLoser]

I have those doubts every step of the way. I'm too old, too slow. I just focus on that next step, not even the next day, but getting my sneakers on and taking that first step of the day.

[@TheRichardpante]

that is what separates from fans of any other sport

[@nextbest4685]

To those who think football is harder than hockey, you are wrong. I went from football season to hockey season and it is 10 times harder! Takes way more skill more practice more dedication more strength more cardio and more heart. Watch the NHL they make football look like cheer leading.

[@IAMTHEAV12]

It's tough cuz... I want to watch this video more than I want to be successful!

[@Skatehockey26]

My hockey career is over but this shit makes me want to get back.

[@RatedMD29]

Thank you for this truly thank you :)

[@Vanessa_Roscoe]

This is Powerful (:

[@kevinbeatzeus]

Dude, I have been. Cheers! Go Kings!

[@marktylermcjoe]

speechless

[@bnnks94]

@rickmurrda it's a hockey treadmill that you can buy to train on but they're really expensive

[@TheEmilnilsson]

hi. What a fantastic video. I wonder if I could add this video to my page on youtube

[@HumbleFootballKing18]

keep on going man!!

[@SJSharksFSU15]

Hockey is the best sport there is its one of the most enduring nd hardest to! u take any other pro athelete from anyother sport nd put them on skates nd tell the to shot a puck 80% of the time they would just fall on there ass! u take a hockey player nd put him in football pads or hand him a baseball bat nd i GUARANTEE the could hit the fastball or score touchdown most people talk shit about hockey because truley they just wish they were athletic enough to even skate thats the truth!

[@MrRefrath]

@BraydonJakob Amen buddy...Proud to be a part of this sport!

[@lorenagarcia1466]

Great Vid

[@theysay1337]

Mind sending it to me aswell? My trainer has already given me one but its always fun to compare different programs :)

[@BLOCK19PRODUCTIONS]

I kno, living here in Chicago is amazing, when the Hawks are playing, the entire city is in a buzz. I've been a fan since i was 5 and never looked back. I play hockey too, there is no sport like it. the emotion you get when you're watching the games. especially in the playoffs! but youre a Spoilers fan? lol first pick again eh?

[@ConradGonbad]

i want it so bad, i shoot so many puckks at my garage every summer that my dad makes me paint the grage every fall.

[@joeyvetrano4046]

I will be in the NHL soon

[@danbezila9919]

Gary Roberts is a beast

[@CUB3Jsg22]

im 15 and just started.. theyve said the same thing. as of last month theyve been wrong.

[@bnnks94]

that 1 kid who disliked this video probably plays soccer

[@elricpoulin504]

SUBBANNNNNN !!! hockey is life

[@MrKanyefish]

i'm 5'6" too keep up the fucking good work man

[@elainehowell1683]

I'm 12 years old and trying to make a bantam aa team next year.

[@BillyWunebuger]

me too

[@danip8177]

James Howell same

[@CUB3Jsg22]

Also if you all hate Hockey than why do you search it up? For some of us hockey uses this saying. "This is what we live for."

[@MaximusMills]

This is a football guy saying this speech for football hands down football is the greatest game ever hockey is nothing compared to football

[@manitsmatt]

omg I THE NHL LOCKOUT NEEDS TO END

[@MariskaHargitay-19]

You sir earned my like on your comment :)

[@emmanuel94e]

work hard, an it will happen

[@Hhhdjjernbr]

Success earned not given

[@TheDianaLDN]

You will make it :D!

[@koskela15]

does anyone know what the moves is called when the guys who looks like they are from the 80:s is called?

[@andrewkapell4818]

i think he meant play golf as in they dont make it into the post-season. i could be wrong though...

[@beeswift13]

Is there anywhere I can download this as a music file?

[@07foxmulder]

the guy who gets hit in the face at 5:21 is from my hometown lol used to party with him in high school.

[@browneyist]

that shot ended lappys career god i miss watching him

[@agreene6]

This is what inspires Chuck Norris.

[@nolancastle]

where can i download this

[@MrThiswaY123]

if you want I can send an exercise program that is really good!

[@Revon16]

If broken bones are a part of your everyday rugby experience then your not playing it right sure u get bruises and scrapes but broken bones aren't that common

[@vincerousseau1]

i loved this video(L) go habs go ;)

[@nyrfan200]

I am not saying that, I am saying there is a difference between scoring and being credited with a goal... If he didn't have the puck, how did he get a goal? He didn't. Carolina put it in their own net.

[@emrexmuc]

Name of the Song??

[@derbrown6]

Shoes at 1:50?? Anyone know what those are??

[@haywoodjablowme571]

anyone know the name of this song?

[@i8urmom10]

what is this speech called?

[@TheBBallEnthusiast]

I'm not a Hockey fan and I don't mean to offend anyone but I honestly feel that the fighting in Hockey takes the sport away. If I was a hockey player, I'd want people to come to my games to watch us play not to watch us fight. I don't know if that's how anyone else feels but that's just my personal opinion.

[@69danglesnipecelly69]

well to me it seemed like you guys were talking about the professional aspect of golf. I can see the original comment the guy made so idk if he was talking about like PGA or just casual. If hes talking about casual golf then you are right. If hes talking like professional then i would be.

[@thepredsrule]

let's go preds!!!!!

[@kurrethegs]

exept avery

[@CoyKev]

thats cute

[@DharavSolanki]

Try and read "Talent Is Overrated" by Geoff Colvinn. And as corny as it sounds, it is always wise, more productive - and yes - seriously - more satisfying to get better everyday. I don't aim for the stars straightaway. I know I want to be there. But before that, I know my limits. And tomorrow, I push them a bit more. That's how it works. And it keeps you grounded in reality, lets you see yourself develop yourself. Hope this helps.

[@Logjambam]

I'm 14 and Im playing NHL 16 and I'm down 3-1 in a playoff series.

[@BillyWunebuger]

oh no

[@Logjambam]

+Logjambam i won

[@followalphavisuals_onig7893]

Logjambam congratulations

[@jibreelshah1476]

logjam this was the right thing for that lol

[@Dity4prez]

I played the sport for a long, long time, had to quit because of an injury but I don't regret a minute of playing. I still revisit this video every once in a while because it's that good. I learned a thing or two after all those years so if you'll humor me, I got a couple words of advice for those aspiring to be better at the sport: 1. The team is the most important part of the game. Your teammates should be your ride or dies. No matter what, never fight with them, help them out whenever you can, and always have their back on the ice. The thing I look back on the most fondly was the team aspect of the game. 2. If you want to make it, start putting in the work when no one else is. Be the first one on and the last one off at practice. Put in the hours at home if you gotta practice your stickhandling or shooting. Do the cardio and the weightlifting. Don't just try hard when your ego is on the line or when you're trying to impress somebody. The only one you should be trying to impress is yourself. 3. Win and lose with dignity. You may get your ass kicked somedays but throwing a temper tantrum isn't helping anyone. If you beat someone that had it coming to them, don't rub it in, shake hands and leave. 4. Never trash talk the ref to his face. It doesn't matter if he made a bad call. Don't let your stupidity hurt the team. 5. If you ever get to a point when you're no longer having fun, it's time to reevaluate. Yes hockey is competitive, but the pressure shouldn't be so much that you aren't enjoying the game anymore. Remember why you started playing in the first place. If you're not playing with passion, you might as well not play at all. 6. Pass the puck to an open teammate. I don't care if you think you can deke your way through the entire defense, a goal is a goal. Plus, I always thought assists were just as important. 7. Despite what some might say, your goalie is your most important player. Treat him like it. 8. Learn how to check and how to take a check as soon as you can.

[@N_kotz32]

needed to read this. I’m an aspiring pro hockey player about to make that climb, and feel your words are reassurance I am on the right path. Good 🍀 in whatever you are currently pursuing 🙏🏽

[@madisonice1708]

I'm a girl who's a starting defender I want to make it to the NHL I'm the only girl on my team..

[@nopej5803]

Madison Ice girl in the NHL 😂

[@xTheNameisEthan]

Madison Ice do it, i guarantee if you’re good enough to be in the show no one would give a shit what gender you are, if you can skate with the men, shoot with the men, and hit with the men it won’t matter

[@cameronbruns8996]

Im close with Kendall coyne her brother was my coach a few years ago she used to skate with us. she just played in the nil Allstar competition she would tell you to go for it and do it show the people who doubt you you can do it.

[@rileychappell8550]

Me too !

[@rileychappell8550]

Nope J shut up

[@dontsub8315]

i played house league hockey up until i was 13, said i was done with shit i’m never going to succeed. i told my self id tryout for a AA team and if i didn’t make it i was done with hockey. i made it i played 3rd line the whole season had 11 goals and 13 assist to end the season. Played for the same team next season as assistant captain 1st line highest scorer on the team with 42 goals and 19 assists in 40 games. i now play AAA and have a college prospect camp tomorrow.

[@willrobinson3714]

Don't sub good luck bro

[@ethanvoelker1445]

Dang

[@naterite5854]

Don't sub fucking amazing this gives me hope to do the same thanks for sharing I’m grinding every week to do the same on and off the ice

[@wenditash]

wow nice job

[@longohimself]

That’s amazing I am grinding this motivatioed me I play house leage and now I’m in travel