Matthew McConaughey just gave the Texas Longhorns an amazing motivational speech.
The Texas Longhorns faced the No. 10 ranked Notre Dame in Austin, Texas on Sunday night. This is one of the biggest game of the season for the Longhorns, and most notably for their head coach Charlie Strong. In fact, last season the team finished with a disappointing 5-7 overall record putting the future of the Longhorns team on the hot seat.
So the Texas coaching staff enlisted Academy Award-winning actor, Texas native, and University of Texas alum Matthew McConaughey to give a motivational speech to the team before their game on Sunday.
Matthew McConaughey gave the Longhorns a pregame speech, they can’t lose:#NDvsTexpic.twitter.com/u7MCAgxu51
— Cody Rohlfing (@Cody_Rohlfing) September 5, 2016
McConaughey discussed how to use your work ethic to overcome your fears and not playing to their potential, and that is okay to be nervous.
“Work ethic will eliminate fear…”
“So don’t try and say you’re not nervous if you are. Use those nerves. You ought to have some butterflies.”
“So don’t come out of Sunday night saying ‘I wish I woulda-coulda,’ ‘If I was only a little quicker, man. I was [sic] kinda, kinda scared. Uh-uh.”
“The worst thing you can do is to have one hesitation and not be ready mentally for Sunday night that you will regret for the rest of your life.”
These type of memorable pre-game speeches will make any fan grit their teeth with excitement to run out of the team’s tunnel to kick butt on the football field and surprisingly it may have worked as the Longhorns beat Notre Dame 50 to 47.
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