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How Bad Do You Want It? (Success) (by Eric Thomas) lyrics -

There was a young man, you know,
who wanted to make a lot of money
and so he went to this guru, right.
And he told the guru you know
I wanna be on the same level
you are and the guru said
if you wanna be on the same level I’m on,
I’ll met you tomorrow at the beach.

So the young man got there 4 A.M. he already to rock n’ roll.
Got on a suit should of wore shorts.
The old man grabs his hand and said:
How bad do you wanna be successful?
He said: “Real bad”.
He said: Walk on out in the water.
So he walks out into the water. Watch this.
When he walks out to the water
he goes waist deep and goes like this guy crazy.

Hey I wanna make money and he got me out here swimming.
I didn’t ask to be a lifeguard.
I wanna make money he got me in
so he said come on a little further
walked out a little further
then he had it right around this area
the shoulder area
so this old man crazy
he making money but he crazy.
So he said come on out a little further
came out a little further, it was right at his mouth
my man, I’m not about to go back in this guy is out of his mind. And the old man said:
“I thought you said you wanted to be successful?”
He said: “I do.”
He said: “Then walk a little further.”
He came, dropped his head in, held him down,
hold him down, my man (kept scratching) hold him down,
he had him held down,
just before my man was about to pass out,
he raised him up.
He said: “I got a question for you.”
He told the guy, he said:
“When you want to succeed as bad as
you wanna breathe than you will be successful.”

I don’t know how many of you all got asthma here today?
If you ever had a asthma attack before your short of breath S. O.B shortness of breath,
you wheezing (breath sound) the only thing
you trying to do is get some air.
You don’t care about no basketball game,
you don’t care about what’s on T.V.,
you don’t care about nobody calling you,
you don’t care about a party.
The only thing you care about
when you trying to breathe is to get some fresh air.
That’s it!
And when you get to the point
where all you wanna do is
be is successful as bad as
you wanna breathe then you will be successful.
And I’m here to tell you that number one,
most of you say you wanna be successful
but you don’t want it bad, you just kind of want it.
You don’t want it bad than you wanna 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.
And I’m here to tell you today,
if your going to be successful
you gotta be willing to give up sleep.
You gotta be willing to work with 3 hours of sleep
2 hours of sleep, if you really wanna be successful.
Some day your gonna have to stay up 3 days in a row.
Because if you go to sleep you might miss
the opportunity to be successful.
That’s how bad you gotta (inaudible).

You gotta go days without
LISTEN TO ME!
You gotta want to be successful so bad that you forget to eat.
My ( ) said say,
once she was on the set doing her thang,
three days had gone by and she forgot that she didn’t eat. Cause she was engaged.
I never forget,
I went, 50 Cent was doing his movie,
I did a little research on 50
and 50 said: that when he wasn’t do the movie he was doing the soundtrack.
And they said: “When do you sleep?” 50,
and 50 said: “Sleep, sleep is for those people who are broke.
I don’t sleep.” See I got an opportunity to make my dream become a reality.
Don’t cry to quits.
You already in pain, you already hurt.
Get a reward from it. Don’t go to sleep until you succeed.
Listen to me,
I’m here to tell you today you can come here and
and you can jump up – you can do flips and you can be excited when we give away money but listen to me,
you will never be successful,
I don’t have to give you a dime if you ( )
You won’t be successful until you say I don’t need that money cause I got it in here.

Only The Strong Survive.

Motivation Lessons from "How Bad Do You Want It?" Videos

Contents

• 1 Success “How Bad Do You Want It”?
• 2 How bad do you want it – Part 1?
• 3 Part 1 Speech – Video Transcript:
• 4 Lessons from How Bad Do You Want It – Part 1
• 5 How Bad Do You Want It – Part 2?
• 6 Part 2 Speech – Video Transcript:
• 7 Lessons from How Bad Do You Want It – Part 2
• 8 Who is Eric Thomas – Motivational Speaker
• 9 Click here to see his motivational collection at the ET Inspires Store

Do you ever get the feeling you are losing focus on your main goals and desperately need a solid kick in the ASS to get you back on track.

Don’t feel bad since this happens to the best of us and from time to time we need a little “motivational firecracker” to kick us back into gear.

Well we have the medicine for your procrastination. It comes in the form of a couple of viral YouTube videos featuring Eric Thomas and Giavanni Ruffin.

We look at these videos entitled “How bad do you want it?” Part 1 & 2 which includes some incredibly powerful spoken dialogue by Eric Thomas a.k.a. Eric “The Hip Hop Preacher” and the video visuals look at a young man named Giavanni Ruffin who is a NFL Free Agent and now motivational speaker in his own right.

Below you can see the Video and Transcript from “How Bad Do You Want It – Part 1?”. It is an incredibly inspiring spoken word which you should revert to everything you feel a little disillusioned or lost with what you are doing in life and inspire you to overcome these feelings of self-doubt or lack of motivation.

There was a young man, you know,
who wanted to make a lot of money
and so he went to this guru, right.
And he told the guru you know
I wanna be on the same level
you are and the guru said
if you wanna be on the same level I’m on,
I’ll met you tomorrow at the beach.

So the young man got there 4 A.M. he already to rock n’ roll.
Got on a suit should of wore shorts.
The old man grabs his hand and said:
How bad do you wanna be successful?
He said: “Real bad”.
He said: Walk on out in the water.
So he walks out into the water. Watch this.
When he walks out to the water
he goes waist deep and goes like this guy crazy.

Hey I wanna make money and he got me out here swimming.
I didn’t ask to be a lifeguard.
I wanna make money he got me in
so he said come on a little further
walked out a little further
then he had it right around this area
the shoulder area
so this old man crazy
he making money but he crazy.
So he said come on out a little further
came out a little further, it was right at his mouth
my man, I’m not about to go back in this guy is out of his mind. And the old man said:
“I thought you said you wanted to be successful?”
He said: “I do.”
He said: “Then walk a little further.”
He came, dropped his head in, held him down,
hold him down, my man (kept scratching) hold him down,
he had him held down,
just before my man was about to pass out,
he raised him up.
He said: “I got a question for you.”
He told the guy, he said:
“When you want to succeed as bad as
you wanna breathe than you will be successful.”

I don’t know how many of you all got asthma here today?
If you ever had a asthma attack before your short of breath S.O.B shortness of breath,
you wheezing (breath sound) the only thing
you trying to do is get some air.
You don’t care about no basketball game,
you don’t care about what’s on T.V.,
you don’t care about nobody calling you,
you don’t care about a party.
The only thing you care about
when you trying to breathe is to get some fresh air.
That’s it!
And when you get to the point
where all you wanna do is
be is successful as bad as
you wanna breathe then you will be successful.
And I’m here to tell you that number one,
most of you say you wanna be successful
but you don’t want it bad, you just kind of want it.
You don’t want it bad than you wanna 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.
And I’m here to tell you today,
if your going to be successful
you gotta be willing to give up sleep.
You gotta be willing to work with 3 hours of sleep
2 hours of sleep, if you really wanna be successful.
Some day your gonna have to stay up 3 days in a row.
Because if you go to sleep you might miss
the opportunity to be successful.
That’s how bad you gotta want it.

You gotta go days without
LISTEN TO ME!
You gotta want to be successful so bad that you forget to eat.
Beyonce once said she was on the set doing her thang,
three days had gone by and she forgot that she didn’t eat. Cause she was engaged.
I never forget,
I went, 50 Cent was doing his movie,
I did a little research on 50
and 50 said: that when he wasn’t do the movie he was doing the soundtrack.
And they said: “When do you sleep?” 50,
and 50 said: “Sleep, sleep is for those people who are broke.
I don’t sleep.” See I got an opportunity to make my dream become a reality.
Don’t cry to quits.
You already in pain, you already hurt.
Get a reward from it. Don’t go to sleep until you succeed.
Listen to me,
I’m here to tell you today you can come here and
and you can jump up – you can do flips and you can be excited when we give away money but listen to me,
you will never be successful,
I don’t have to give you a dime if you …
You won’t be successful until you say I don’t need that money cause I got it in here.

Only The Strong Survive!

We see in this first video a very energetic, committed and determined Giavanni Ruffin going through his football training paces and really going the extra yard in relation to his training so that he can achieve his goals and be the best that he can be.

The Part 1 video goes for almost 6 minutes in entirety and throughout the video we hear a extraordinary powerful and motivational spoken work from Eric “The Hip Hop Preacher” who tells the story of a young man who is seeking to make money and be successful. The young man in this story meets is intent on making a lot of money and being successful. So he turns to a Guru to seek advice on doing whatever he can to make a lot of money. What happens next is quite unexpected since the Guru tells the young man that if he is serious about learning how to make a lot of money and become successful then he will meet him the next day down at the beach at 4am. The young man turns up in a suit the next day and the Guru teaches him one of the best yet most unexpected lessons of his life on how to become successful.

The Guru tells the young man to walk out into the surf and eventually takes him so far out that he can no longer stand. The Guru holds his head under water and watches as the young man gasps for air in absolute desperation.

One might think that this is some sort of sick joke that the Guru was playing on this young man who just wanted some advice on how to become super successful.

But the BIG lesson that the Guru was teaching the young man was that in order to be successful you need to want it bad. Hence, the title of these videos “How Bad Do You Want It?”.

When you want to succeed as much as you want to breath – that is when you will be prepared to forgo any distractions in life that get in the way of you being able to achieve goals and succeed.

Eric Thomas then gives a couple of great examples of forgoing things in life in order to stay focused on achieving your success. He uses quotes from 50 Cent (the Rapper) and Beyoncé (the Singer) who say that they have found themselves forgetting to sleep and eat due to the fact that they have been so focused on achieving what they have set out to do that nothing else is important to them but what they are doing. They have an opportunity of a life time to do something special and they are NOT going to waste it by worrying about insignificant distractions that could put them off course.

Below you can see the Video and Transcript from the video “How Bad Do You Want It – Part 2?”. This follows on from the Part 1 Video by going deep into pushing you further than what you believe was simply required of you to achieve success from the first video. Part 2 pushes you to the next level and solidifies your commitment to being a better you.

So you thought it was the end of the story.  
So you thought just because the student was willing to be obedient to the guru and not only wake up but meet him at the beach early in the morning.
You thought that was enough. 
Ah I got it. So you thought he was willing to walk out to the deep of the ocean that that was enough you because the guru placed his head under the water, pulled it out and taught him that the secret to success is wanting it as bad as you wanna breathe.
So you thought that was the end of the story. You thought that one single event that one single moment was enough for him to stand amongst the greats to make his dream become reality.
Well you thought wrong. In fact, it’s far from over. That was the easy part. 

Now…Now it’s time to redefine the grind. You thought it was over?
Well it’s just getting started.
See, this is the part. This is the part where life demands you make a life long commitment, this is the part where life demands that you make a vow come hail or high water, that you’re willing to pay the price the full fare where you earn your spot with effort, with sweat, with blood, with tears. And so you say, you want it as bad as you wanna breathe.
Then it’s show time! It’s examination time. It’s time to get tested, to test your will, your endurance, it’s time to test your art, to test your limits. This is the art where you re-invent yourself. 

Sleep. I don’t sleep.
You thought that was it.
It goes deeper than going without sleep because you might miss the opportunity to succeed.
No, no, no it’s about no days off – no weekends, no holidays, no birthdays. Listen to me! No days off! No half days! No holidays! No snow day! It’s about gaining the competitive edge. It’s about separation.
It’s about separating yourself from the pack, the competition.
It’s about being a little faster, a little stronger. 

Listen to me.
A little faster than you were last year, last month, last week.
In fact, you gotta be a little faster today than you were yesterday.
And you can’t afford on the road to success, you can’t afford to make excuses.
No excuses when you feel pain. And trust me, you will feel it.
You gotta go deep deep down, beyond, beyond exhaustion, beyond (a workout) and when it’s harder than you imagined it would be, when it takes longer than you thought it would take and when the load is heavy than you thought you could bare and all you wanna do is give up and all you wanna do is give in, when you feel like you’ve given all you got, you gotta take one more step, you gotta run one more lap. 

You gotta throw one more punch and disregard how much more does it take.
You gotta fight back. You gotta fight a little harder. 
You gotta defeat disappointment, annihilate weakness and punish the competition.
It’s about pushing yourself beyond the limits.
It’s about perfecting the you, not just doing more, not just being better but finding your best.
Listen to me…
It’s more than you want it so bad than you wanna breathe that’s not enough, you gotta be willing to face every fear, climb every mountain, defy every odd, on-slot every obstacle, one step at a time, one day at a time, until you – only you are left standing – there’s no one else and there’s nothing in your way. 

Until you reach the top.

In the sequel to the original “How Bad Do You Want It?” video we see the return of Giavanni Ruffin training the house down with further words of inspiration from Eric “The Hip Hop Preacher” Thomas.

This Part 2 video continues on perfectly from the Part 1 video since it starts off by saying that just because you have taken step 1 from the first video in that ‘you want to succeed as bad as you want to breath’ – well that is great but it’s only the first step.

You thought learning the secret to success was it? Well it ain’t!

Part 2 makes strong reference to Part 1 by basically saying congratulations if you have taken step 1 in learning how to be successful. But the REALITY is that learning the lessons from Part 1 doesn’t mean shit unless you take ACTION.

So it quickly becomes clear that “How Bad Do You Want It – Part 2” inspires you to take the lesson learnt about how to be successful and actually get out there and work for it.

As Eric Thomas says just because you have learnt how to be successful does not put you up there with the GREATS, it’s going to take a lot of hard work, a lot of pain, the ability to go an inch further than the day before and it’s all about “NO DAYS OFF”.

It’s about perfecting you – one step at a time and one day at a time until you reach the top. “IT IS TIME TO REDEFINE THE GRIND!”

The no bullshit, in your face and telling you how it is motivational speaker, educator, activist and best selling author, Eric Thomas aka The Hip Hop Preacher.

This is a man who has started from the bottom and climbed his way to the top to become one of the most inspirational people you will come across. Think of a ghetto style Tony Robbins and you got Eric Thomas. As soon as he opens his mouth and begins talking people immediately give their undivided attention to him.

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I have personally obtained some of his books and audio sessions which have really motivated me to take action especially at times when I have felt my lowest and emotionally flat.

My personal favourite is his Secrets to Success DVD.

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- 6 years ago

“I thought the whole audience was against me because I am Russian. And they just wanted chicken.

Evgenia Belyakova is the champion of Russia, Europe and the women's NBA. If you think that you have won everything in basketball and nothing will surprise you, come to Honest Basketball. The author of the most frank heading on Russian sports television, Nikita Zagday, understands nothing about women's basketball and does not hide it. But he always has something to ask.

- Right now you are the coolest Russian basketball player. Truth?

- Of course. One of 12 (the standard composition of a basketball team is 12 people - "Match TV").

- The coolest or one of the?

- One of the coolest.

- The basketball court is no place for modesty.

- Why not? Sometimes you need to know your limits.

- What else can you win to make your career ideally successful?

- A lot. You can always make a "double", "triple". We haven't had Olympic medals for a long time. World Championship medals. There is still a hoo-hoo path ahead that you can try to master.

- In no case do I want to belittle you, but here is the pattern. The more time you spend on the court, the more points you score, the lower the results of the team. You are the best sniper in the Russian national team - the team does not perform very well. At UMMC, you are not the main sniper, not the first option - victory. The less you play, the higher the chances of success?

- That is, I come to the coach and say: "Coach, no, today you have to win, so I won't play"? Why am I needed in the team then? If I am in the team, then I need a coach for a certain role. If something happens to the leader, I am the player who will help the team win. Despite the statistical fact you are talking about.

Open video

– Zhenya, I would like to take this opportunity to say: you are very beautiful.

- Thank you very much.

- Can you cook?

- Yes.

- What?

- Everything you need. When inspiration comes, you can cook anything. And fantasy.

- Women who cook by inspiration are dangerous. Because you want to eat several times a day, and not when inspiration comes.

- Several times a day is possible. If there is no inspiration, then there will be something very simple.

- Oh, someone will be lucky. But we are not talking about basketball. And which team will be lucky, with which you will go out in the starting five and will it win? What is needed for this?

Nothing. Stay next year at the UMMC and continue to play for the Russian national team.

- By the way, how does UMMC stand for?

- Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company. Yes, sir!

- UMMC is called the world team. The best players on the planet.

- Definitely.

– What are the Russian players doing there? We didn’t get to the Olympics, at the European Championship we somehow leave the group.

- Nevertheless, we are in the world team, whatever one may say.

- For what merit?

- So we are good enough to be on this team.

- Jokes aside, but the contribution of Russian players to UMMC's victories is insignificant.

- Regarding one game, one final - maybe. But I do not like such conversations and do not agree with them.

- Regarding one season.

- Well, we had a very long...

- Relative to the last 10 years!

– Wow wow! We had a very long season, in which the Russian players did a great job of helping the UMMC team win important matches that brought the team to the right position in the tournament. And which was then brought to the final series.

- Not very convincing.

- We can watch all the games. Are we talking about the Euroleague now?

- The Russian Championship is also a victory.

- Definitely.

- There is one tournament in which the UMMC takes part without foreigners - the Cup of Russia. How did you play?

- This year? Unfortunately, bad. And they won that season.

- This year we failed to qualify for the Final Four of the Russian Cup.

- A year ago they won the Cup, although everyone predicted that another team would do it. Let's go back to last year, when we didn't even have a point guard! And there weren't even replacements.

- I asked about this season.

- But it was a good season too. New players have arrived.

- New players have joined the world team. New stars have appeared.

- Oh, team of the world! Are we specifically talking about the Russian Cup?

- In which you did not reach the Final Four.

- Yes.

Is this a tragedy for the world team?

- Of course. We want to win all the tournaments we participate in.

- The most titled Russian basketball player does not play in the club. Why?

- This is relative. Maybe you have now focused on the final games. And throughout the season, I am satisfied with my playing time. And I will definitely take it to my asset.

- It may seem that I am trying to offend or belittle you. No, it's my pain that the best Russian basketball player ...

- Come on, so that you don't get hurt, I'll explain to you that nothing sick happens. It’s obvious to me that you didn’t watch the UMMC games at all and didn’t even look at the statistics of the entire season. It was a great season, no need to root and worry about it.

– May I ask about politics?

- Well, try it.

- You are the captain of the Russian national team.

- Yes.

- We have naturalized players every year.

- Yes.

- What is your attitude to this?

- Honestly?

- Honest basketball.

- Honest basketball - why not? If we are really suffering at the moment. This does not mean that we closed our eyes, gave us a passport and with a calm soul are like: "That's it, we did everything great tomorrow. "

Are you serious?

- But I think that we have a colossal problem [with point guards].

- Good. 12 years ago, we issued a passport and said: "We have a local problem, now we will survive like this." This was the exception. Then the second player appears, the third, the fourth. And now again! We did not solve this problem in any way, we just learned how to issue a passport!

- You didn't listen to me, you asked for my opinion. My opinion is to decide locally. Once again, we decided. But this does not mean that I agree with the operation of this system. The system is clearly not working. The players are new, talented, while there are very, very few of them. That is, it is possible to solve the problem for the Russian team - at the moment it is.

- 12 years ago they said the same thing. Nothing changed. "We solve problems locally."

- Well, what do you want? You asked for my opinion. I told you. You can decide locally. But we need to create schools, we need to nurture talents. Where are the players? From the fact that we do not give an American woman a passport, I am not sure that five new point guards will appear from somewhere.

- Do you have a plan for ending your career?

- It seems to me that the only way I can help is to make schools. Now this is a social project that I'm doing. I collect the children, we come to some camp, we train, I talk to them, explain that it is impossible to just want to become an athlete.

- You are beautiful, successful, you will make a great example for children. It's great that you're using it. When was the last time you played against boys?

- In the 10th grade. Long enough.

- When was the last time you beat the boys?

- Up to grade 10. At the end of the 9th.

- Why are you silent about the fact that Timofey Mozgov beat you and after that you did not play with the boys?

- There was such a story, we beat the guys, then by the 10th grade they grew up. And the same Mozgov - and Anton Ponkrashov - won a lot of points from us. And after that we never played with them. It's not like we call them up: "Let's play." It was the decision of our coaches - to work out some pressure, some features. Therefore, boys against girls, girls against boys.

- Timofey Mozgov beat you at school.

- Beat once! Wait. Before that, how many times have I beat him.

- And in Los Angeles, the legendary Magic Johnson tuned in for the final series of the women's NBA.

- Yes.

- The most smiling basketball player on the planet.

- And a very good person. People smile when they have a good heart. Very light and very pleasant. And the way he spent this time with us, that final series, was with us all the time, went to dinner, flew to games with us...

- Magic Johnson - general manager of the women's team too.

- Yes. And when we played the final, he was one of our mascots.

- We all know about the men's NBA. There are no runs whistling, there LeBron goes to the eighth final in a row. What is the Women's NBA?

- Slightly smaller than men's. Much less.

- What was your biggest disappointment in the WNBA?

- Everything was great, really. Los Angeles is a team worth playing for and dreaming of playing for. The dream Team.

- On the ocean, of course.

- Yes, and in general, how the whole management is built. What was happening here in Los Angeles is top-level.

– Are habits different in different countries? Appearance.

- Of course they are different. Appearance? We had a dress code in America, like in the men's NBA. We also came to the games beautiful, smart.

- In heels!

- Absolutely!

- Seriously?

- Yes.

– Wow! I want to go to America!

- Some people don't like it very much, I personally was pleased. Again, Los Angeles, so it's warm at home games, which means light clothes. Hence, of course, it's different.

- Go on, tell me.

- Be sure to have food in the locker room so we don't have to look. There was such a problem: the games ended late ...

- A hungry woman is a terrible woman.

- I'm coming to America, the first official game in Washington. I'm like, "Great." The hall is sitting - maybe two thousand. Someone scored - they clap. Ordinary such, sluggishly flowing spectators. I get fouled very hard, I take free kicks - for the first time in the NBA. I exhale, start throwing free throws - and the whole hall just starts yelling and buzzing. I have a cold sweat: “Are they doing this because I am Russian? Ah, what to do? I need to tell the manager to write my first name on my T-shirt instead of my last name. It's one hundred percent because of it." I successfully miss two free throws, I go after the game, Candace [Parker], who played in Russia for seven years, approaches me. “Well, tell me, how did it feel when you threw free throws, and the whole hall was yelling against you?” I'm like, "Candice, well, damn, how can you even ask? You know, I'm actually in shock! You see, she came, but you don’t like us, you came up with your own sanctions” Candace to me: “I knew what you would say about this! I don’t want to say that, but you won’t sleep all night, worry. Before you went to shoot free throws, the host announced that if you miss both, then the whole hall will receive free chicken nuggets. The whole room just wanted chicken." They didn't care about me personally, about the country...

- Seriously?

- Yes, they were handed out there by some company that makes them.

- And the whole hall was rooting not against you, but for the chicken.

- Then, when they came to play with Washington, the situation was the same with everyone.

Photo: Christian Petersen / Staff / Getty Images Sport / Gettyimages. ru

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I will hit carefully, but hard. Andrey Kirilenko showed beginner basketball players from Ugra how to put balls into the hoop correctly | Sport

11/18/2017 19:14

#Sport

#Khanty-Mansiysk

Author: Pavel Zheltov, Liana Kiyamova, Alexander Shuldikov, Lev Ryzhkov, Igor Batishchev

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The visit of a distinguished guest, in the literal sense of the word. This week, one of the most famous basketball players in the world, Andrey Kirilenko, visited Ugra. The famous AK-47, Olympic bronze medalist, NBA star, today holds the post of president of the Russian Basketball Federation. Kirilenko personally spoke about the development of this sport with the governor Natalya Komarova, but in fact he showed his love for basketball to novice players.

The world basketball star, and now the president of the Russian Basketball Federation, made his mark on the Ugra parquet - he gave a master class to novice athletes. His visit became a landmark event for the teams and their coaches. Listened to Andrey Kirilenko with an open mouth.

Ivan Dubrovin, a student at South State University: "Everyone knows that Andrey Kirilenko is a great player, a star in the world of basketball in general, and I really want to learn something new, some experience, so that he can pass it on to us."

In principle, this is what real agitation looks like - for sports. When a world star, by his example, infects the audience with a love for basketball, swimming or Nordic walking. Behind the tricky word "popularization" are simple actions. They are for every athlete.

Andrei Kirilenko, President of the Basketball Federation of Russia: “So that children do not stay on the street, but come to the hall, play and go in for sports. It doesn’t matter if they continue to be professional players, the main thing is that they will grow up as healthy people.”

Coaches advise you to start learning to throw into the ring as early as possible. Better as a child. There is only one basketball section in Khanty-Mansiysk. Anyone who loves basketball and is ready to work for success can come here. Children by no means a child's growth are already winning prizes at district championships.

Dmitry Krasnoperov, basketball coach, Khanty-Mansiysk: “Basketball gives everything. There is a load on all muscle groups. The child develops comprehensively, and not only physically, but also intellectually.

Denis Dubynin: "I want to tell the guys who want to play basketball: don't be afraid of anything, come, try yourself, and you will succeed."

In a crowd of peers, young athletes stand out for their height and self-confidence. They are known as one of the strongest teams in the country. At my age, of course. Pupils of the sports school of the Olympic reserve "Ugoria" came to basketball in the first grade. And for 8 years they have been striving only upwards - literally and figuratively. The average height of the team members is 175 centimeters. And in the piggy bank - the championship in zonal competitions and all-Russian finals.

Venera Roznatovskaya, basketball coach, Surgut: “We and the coach do not have holidays. Everyone has a vacation, but we don't have a vacation. Everyone has holidays - we don't have holidays. We train even more. In the summer, we work two workouts a day.”

Polina Shorshina, pupil of the Yugoria Sports School named after A.A. Piloyan: “When you take first place, it is an unforgettable feeling of victory. I think it's worth it."

Today Ugra is in the top three in terms of the number of people involved in basketball.

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