Kevin Hart is Learning to Box | Joe Rogan

That my mother do this way Nancy Hart. Did she speak to you like this about positivity and about my mom reinforced Knowledge My mom reinforced you don't start things and not finish them. You don't quit There's nothing that comes out of quitting Besides knowing that you didn't finish we finish everything you started finish it if you're gonna do it Do it to try and be the best Not be better than other people be the best for you If you're in school and you're going to class. I'm not asking you to get straight A's I'm asking you to get the best grade that you can possibly get Give me a hundred percent all the time and I'm a happy mother when you half-ass me. I'm on your ass Mom I want to do this. I want to I want to play baseball Well, then you're gonna play mom. I don't like that no more. Then why'd you start the season? Because I thought I wanted to do it then you gonna finish the season. You don't quit There's other people that invested time and energy into you. You don't just quit on people, but I don't want to do it finish the season Mom, I want to swim then you gonna finish swimming. It didn't matter what I did. I was never allowed to quit So now in anything I do When I pick it up and say I'm gonna start it. I gotta finish it. It all don't work It all ain't the best Mmm, it all ain't knocked out the park, but I walk away saying I finished it. I did it I Did it right now? I've been boxing. I saw I saw you working out with Rico Verhoeven I'm fucking first of all very strong kicker He's a giant man. He's a huge man. He's a fucking beast. He's a good guy too man. Good guy But I started in jeans. I started it and I said why am I doing this? I'm not gonna be a professional fighter. I'm not trying to be an amateur fighter I'm doing it to get in shape. All right, then I started getting shaped. I said So much that I don't know about the sport I at least want to make sure that I'm paying homage to the people that do this for a living By really understanding and learning it. You know what? I'm gonna get a real trainer I'm gonna get some real people to show me everything So when it's all said and done and I look back after my training I can go I gave it a hundred percent And look at how good I got look at what I'm a product of a spar I go get in the room really yeah, just to feel it so I can say I did it You know well spars Brian Callan is this serious? No, that's me. Yeah, that's me. Come on. That's me Dude, that's me. It's getting there too. Look at this Who is teaching you his name is Biggs. He's in Atlanta. That's me learn. I had a turtle shell with in punch house But you know he's a former Golden Glove guy really good Do you earn a cup and everything what I was after sparring session when I'm like real tired damn Yeah, I got touched. I got my ass whipped in every couple times I go a guy worried about that at all getting out cuz I'm not I don't go crazy We had gear and I'm not in here for you, but I'm not in there with guys that are trying to hurt Yes, I'm not in there with touching guys that have no Concept of reality yeah or control like they're they're just helping me understand right here's why you have to keep your hand up That is a problem with Celebrities trying to spar like if you try to like you know that's why Mickey Rourke started getting all that facial surgery I'm serious. He's sparred James Tony I When I should just not a smart movie right here, that's just James Tony's a mean man Yeah, that's just you can't like I don't I don't go in that space Have you ever seen James Tony talk shit while he spars now some of the most entertaining thing you'll ever find on YouTube He's just he just won't shut the fuck up while he's beating your ass. He's talking shit. That's bitch. That's what you got bitch Oh, this ain't shit. That's just that's hurt And he's one of the best defensive fighters ever so he's really difficult to hit he's got that shell going I stand right in front of you. You can't hit almost fresher thing in the world Yeah, I had a guy that's got a Mikey. I'm sparring with Mikey Mikey hit me with three punches I saw it I thought Mikey Literally had like six arms. This is true story. This is I said I don't know what just happened But I thought I had my hands up and no matter where I put him he just tapped me He lets me feel it but not to where I might get knocked out, but I understand now movement. I understand pivots I understand shoulder protection and that's my goal my goal is just understand cuz I can't do anything halfway Okay, you try to fight somebody. Nope, right Nope I just want to say that I did it and I learned and I can move and I looked apart Because I put time into it well as you learn it too and as you watch it and you start to get trained then you start to look at a guy like A Terrence Crawford or a Loma Chinko and you go. Oh now I appreciate what you're doing because before you'd see like Oh, yeah, he beat that guy up. Oh, yeah, he knocked that guy out But then you see like how he ducks under the left and fires back with the right. You know, oh Jesus. This is precision It's insane. Yeah, the the respect that I have for people that do that on a day-to-day Is through the roof Yeah, you're in people that fight are in the most amazing shape in the universe Yeah, you're in the most amazing shape ever to move get hit For three to five minutes around Come back Do it come back do it and these fights go on and on and on I take my out of tea Yeah, you get three rounds out of me. I'm breathing out my butt. I don't know where the air is coming from I'm searching for it. It's a crazy way to make a living too. Yes Body in your brain like that. I think I don't I didn't have to go down that route and you know to those that do Just make sure you just put your your body first. Like you said, it's it's hurtful when you see the damage that it can cause Yeah we were talking about that earlier like seeing guys as they start to deteriorate and It's hard because nobody wants to tell them that either Yeah wants to tell them they got one more good fight in them and let's maybe at the end of the year Then we'll decide but right now we're gonna train hard and stuff It's hard too because there's no options They don't once you've established yourself as a professional fighter and you don't have an exit strategy You don't know what to do, you know now at least thankfully because of the internet guys are getting Podcasts and they're starting doing commentary shows. They're talking about fighting and the positive Just found the positive. That's the positive within the internet. There is positive For just don't you just don't hear it celebrated as much. Well, then it's very positive for me I mean, this is the show we do on the internet. I mean all Not just podcasts but YouTube videos and also information. I know more because of the internet than I ever would have Yeah, there's not a not a doubt in my mind that a more educated more Aware person I want you to the internet. Yeah, you get the things that you're able to find in search And I mean, like you said, you're you're able to self educate. Yeah at a very high level. These are the goods Yeah, we're talking about the good. So when you talk about positive Kevin, how have you been? Yeah, are you always like that? It's this it's the things that I look at that are so easy. You're not