Never Give Up Hope
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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.