Never Give Up Hope

Never Give Up Hope

Transcript

00:00When you lose control of your own mind, you're in a bad place.

00:03So many people in so many different ways and it's a silent killer.

00:08It's almost like carbon monoxide poisoning.

00:10You can't smell it, you can't taste it, you can't feel it, but you don't.

00:14So many people take their lives on a daily basis through mental health problems

00:17and others look at them and say he was a weak person or she was a weak person.

00:21We're not weak, you just need help.

00:24Why did that hit you? You're the champion of the world, you're the baddest man.

00:31It wasn't after the fight. I've been suffering with it my whole life.

00:36Have you ever felt like you've never been left behind somewhere when everyone else is going

00:40somewhere and you're left? That's how I feel on a regular basis and I didn't know what it was.

00:45When you fell into that depression, how dark was it?

00:47It was terrible. I was thinking about suicide every day.

00:50I put on 147 pounds, I was taking drugs on a daily basis, I was drinking on a daily basis,

00:55I was gone. I was making everybody's life a misery. Everybody who was close to me was

00:59pushing away. You've got a man who's got three kids at that time who wants to die on a daily

01:05basis. It's not a good place to be in. Two and a half years later I decided to make a comeback.

01:14It was mission impossible to be honest with you at first. Everybody thought

01:17it was finished. If mental health could bring somebody as big as me and as strong as me and

01:21you know the stereotype that the weight champion of the world to my knees, then it could bring

01:25anybody to the knees. And I thought to myself if I can show the world that you can come back from it

01:31and get back in shape and get back to the top, then anybody can do it.

01:39A fight is not a fight until there's resistance, until there's something to overcome.

01:44Something to overcome. I think life is that.

01:51If you don't know if a lawyer is a lawyer until there's something to overcome in the courtroom,

01:55something goes wrong. A doctor is not a doctor until he opens up this kid, a kid, just like he's

02:01got at home, and arteries are bleeding all over the place. It's not in the textbook. It's not in

02:06the freaking textbook. And he got to do it. He got to figure it out. And then he's a doctor,

02:11then he's a surgeon at that level. You're not in a fight until there's pressure,

02:18resistance, overcoming something. He was maybe thinking about whether or not it was worth getting

02:35up. This is my way of connecting the dots to you. When you've gone through things in your life where

02:42you've thought about not getting up, there's still time to get up. You are not in a solitary universe

02:50where only you have felt that way. Prizefighters have felt that way. And if you cannot understand

02:55that it doesn't make you weaker than other people, doesn't make you less than other people,

02:59that you are in the same place as other people, even prizefighters, even prizefighters who you

03:06look up to, who do that for a living, who you thought you could never behave like or deal

03:10with the things they deal with, then you can. That that's the truth in life. You're not the

03:16only one who feels that way. Even these gladiators feel that way. They listen. All that matters is

03:22what they do. All that matters is what they do. I think it's over. Is he going to get up?

03:27Can he get up? Can he get up? He does! Oh my goodness! Somehow Fiore has managed to get up!

03:34Thinking about not getting up is not the end of it. That is not the end. That's not the truth in

03:40science. Getting up or not getting up is.