What time is it? ... I saaaiiid: What time is it? ...

GAME TIME speeches. The greatest motivational tool that the gods gave to man on Mt. Olympus on the eve of the first Olympics. Us mortals took it, kept it, and perfected it. There's even a modern day profession solely based on the game time speech: professional coaching.

In their own little way, everyone is a coach and everyone has used a game time speech at least once in their lives.

There is no scenario where a game time speech cannot be used or should not be used (if there's no real opponent you can even use the 'me vs. the world' view on things like I did to pump myself up for a 1999 trumpet recital ... that's right, I won that first chair and I was ruthless). If you need a little pick me up, then pop in a copy of Any Given Sunday for that famous game time speech or go to your favorite search engine and search: "any given sunday speech". Go ahead copy and paste the text into the search bar. Keep the quotes. Actually, you know what? I'll do the work for you. Here, I found it: No no no I'll wait ... don't browse through your gmail just watch the video all the way through ...

So? How do you feel? I know right! It just makes you want to change the world. You want to hit a home run in the bottom of the 9th to win the World Series, rampage through the streets with your best friends for a night of insane fun, kill a man for the woman you secretly love, or fight through complete exhaustion and write that last paper. It's like a 5 hour energy drink except instead of B12 you're injected with EPIC.

I've used game time speeches before broom ball games, basketball games, even once in the middle of a kindergarten vs. pre-K soccer game. Why? Because they work.

You can't stop game time speeches. You can only motivate yourself enough to control them.