I hear your folks are waiting down in the cafeteria.
I don't want my folks.
I want to know what's going on.
I'm gonna tell you, but your parents will probably...
I don't need anyone to hold my hand right now.
My leg is in a cast. When does it come off?
Your leg didn't just break, Dan.
It shattered.
You fractured your femur in 17 different pieces.
We had to take bone from your hip and pin it to your leg with a steel rod.
How long for it to come out?
It doesn't come out.
Now, in a few months, you'll be able to start the rehab process.
You can talk to your physical therapist,
and, with some hard work,
I'm sure you'll eventually be able to walk again.
Now, I know it might not sound like it right now but,
given what happened,
that makes you a very lucky young man.
Hey, Bob, come on!
Hey, stranger.
Hey.
I heard you got out of the hospital. How you doing?
Okay.
I thought about you.
Yeah?
Can I try something?
Warm hands.
Wow.
Really warm.
You ever hear of the healing power of touch?
No.
But, at this point, I could be talked into anything.
I'm not coming on to you, Dan.
Shouldn't you be healing my leg instead of my chest?
Maybe I don't think your
leg is the only thing that got broken.
I know this is a scary moment for you.
Are you paying attention to it?
How is the old man?
Why don't you ask him?
He ever ask about me?
That was bad.
That was, like, me sounding like...
That was bad. That was you sounding like you miss him.
You know, he came to visit you in the hospital.
I'll see you around.
Hey, Coach.
Millman?
Good to see you, man.
Looks like you're bulked up in the shoulders a little.
That's pretty much all I can do right now, presses and curls.
Yeah.
Hospital doesn't think so, but I'm gonna be off this cane soon.
Then, I'm back.
You gotta listen to them.
I have this crazy thought.
I'm already gonna miss the third round.
I can't fix that.
But that final qualifier? Dan.
That's not till next fall.
That gives me eight months.
What are you gonna do in eight months?
I already petitioned the Olympic Committee.
Dan, you have to be realistic.
What if I get back? Huh?
What if I get back to where I was? You wouldn't want me on the team?
Of course I would, Dan, but look at yourself.
For Christ's sake, you've got a piece of metal holding your leg together!
You can't give up on me. I'm not giving up on you, Dan.
Then, please, just hear me out. Dan!
The doctors have told me there's just no question.
You will never compete again.
Christ, Millman, what the hell is going on in there?
Come on, Danny, open the door, man! Answer me!
Millman...
What do you want?
No one's stopping me, so just stay away.
I didn't come here to stop you.
You think I won't do it?
'Cause I'm not afraid of anything.
Not even this.
Or how about this?
Or this?
Look at you.
Hanging on for dear life.
Afraid to fall.
Well, I say
fall.
It's not like you're giving up anything.
Nothing you haven't already lost.
What are you holding onto, anyway?
It's you, isn't it?
You're the one I have to let go of.
You know what you're doing?
No.
Do you know
who you are
without me?
No.
Then what
are
you doing?
Go.
Again.
I don't know what to do now.
First realization of a warrior.
What is?
Not knowing.
What's happening to me?
I don't cry.
Apparently, you do.
It's embarrassing.
Emotions are natural,
like the passing weather.
What do you do
if you can't do what you were born to?
Everything has a purpose, Dan,
even this.
And it's up to you to find it.
Go.
Your training can now move to a new arena,
an arena where you find your answers from within.
That old Plymouth.
Sit on it till you have something of value to tell me.
That's it?
I don't hear from you until you have an insight worth sharing.
That's all?
How we doing tonight?
Okay.
Anger, hatred, violence, they're really all just fear.
Fear, then, not money, is the root of all evil.
Chaos Theory is correct except that chaos is actually not chaotic at all
but perfectly controlled.
If you lend somebody $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
When making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich,
you must first apply the peanut butter, not the jelly,
to the bottom half of the bread.
The people that are the hardest to love are usually the ones who need it the most.
Hmm?
There you are. Thank you very much.
There's never nothing going on.
There are no ordinary moments.
Yeah.
Welcome back.
You gotta be kidding me.
This isn't another vision, is it?
'Cause I don't see how this could be happening.
What the hell are you doing?
Something wrong?
We don't do this anymore, remember? We know better.
We're better than everyone who doesn't know what we know
or live the way we do?
Is that what you mean?
Not better, maybe.
Smarter.
There is no "better. "
You will never be better.
Same way you'll never be less than anybody else.
The habit is the problem.
All you need to do is be conscious about your choices
and responsible for your actions.
Is that why, out of all the people you could have taught, you chose me?
You done flattering yourself?
You chose me.
Why should I believe you?
You taught me yourself to only listen to my own intuition.
How do you know that I'm not your own intuition
speaking to you right now?
You mean maybe I made you up?
Don't mess with me like that.
Every what has its what? Every action has its price and its pleasure.
Recognizing both sides, a warrior becomes...
...realistic and responsible for his actions.
Boy sounds bad over there, man.
You gotta be kidding me.
Money, boys.
Picked the wrong guy to pull this shit on, boys.
Little leverage, at the right time, at the right place?
Yours.
We can ramp this up a little, tough guy.
Thank you and good night.
Didn't you forget our watches?
This is where you give it to them, right?
Now, maybe I should have said Dan's watch. I don't wear one.
Give it.
Thanks, old man.
What are you, a medium jacket?
Is he a what?
I'm not taking your jacket.
It's a good jacket. Nice warm lining.
I'll take it.
It's a good jacket.
You. You're about Dan's size.
What size shoe do you wear, Dan? Are you kidding?
Christ, Soc, how far are we gonna take this?
They could have killed us!
You could have kicked every single one of those guys' asses.
Instead, we're probably gonna get picked up for indecent exposure.
You think that's funny? Do you? You think that's funny?
You could have laid out every single one of those guys.
Tell me. Tell me what the hell you were thinking.
That the ones that are hardest to love are the ones that need it the most.
That knowledge is not the same as wisdom.
Wisdom is doing. They could have killed us.
It's a transformation.
Death? Yes.
It's a little bit more radical than puberty but nothing to get particularly upset about.
What the hell are you talking about?
Death isn't sad.
The sad thing is
most people don't live at all.
Is that a double double?
No, that was a full twisting double layout.
I need to make it a double double.
Look at you.
First day without the training wheels.
No cane, no crutches.
Listen, I just came here to say,
I haven't always been a very good friend.
In fact, I can't remember the last time I was somebody's good friend.
Hey, it gets crazy, you know?
I mean, what are you gonna do when we're always competing against each other?
Anyway, what I really came here to say was...
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
Trev, is Middleman apologizing?
I think he is.
Oh, God. Oh, God. He's going down. Oh, my God.
He's going down! He's going down!
Medic! Get the paddles! Clear!
Clear!
Oh, God, take me instead!
Oh, no!
Took for granted what I could do.
I was sloppy with my life.
I'm scared, but
I feel like I got rid of all the old stuff, and...
I think it was the right thing to do.
When you feel fear,
use the sword.
Take it up here and cut the mind to ribbons.
Slash through all those regrets and fears
and anything else that lives in the past or the future.
I want to be able to do that.
I think I'm ready.
Ready for what?
Devoting my life to a higher purpose.
Really?
Service to others, right?
That's gonna be me, now. I'll do whatever you think I should.
All right. All right.
I think you should continue your training as a gymnast.
A warrior does not give up what he loves, Dan.
He finds the love in what he does.
Look at me!
Look at me.
I have a metal rod in my leg.
A warrior is not about perfection
or victory
or invulnerability.
He's about absolute vulnerability.
That's the only true courage.
What kind of training you think I could do? Huh? I just had an accident.
The accident is your training. Life is choice.
You can choose to be a victim or anything else you'd like to be.
Just ignore what happened to me? A warrior acts. Only a fool reacts.
What if I can't do it? That's the future. Throw it out.
Well, how would we start? There is no starting or stopping,
only doing.
I want to show you something.
When did you do all this?
When you were lying in that hospital.
While I was what?
Now we can really go to work.
I don't believe you for a minute. Seriously, man!
You talking about that redhead? Not the redhead, man, your redheaded girl.
How is she my redheaded girl?
You were on her all night, bro. I handed her off to you.
Which redhead are we talking about?
Make this a threesome?
You're really not my type, Middleman.
What would you guys say if I told you I was ready to get up on those rings again?
I'd say you hit your head and not your leg.
Hey, Coach.
That yours?
Wait here.
You boys give us the room for a minute.
What? Why? What's going on?
It's okay. Hey.
I've had this in my office for a few days now.
I just didn't think I'd ever need to give it to you.
The Olympic Committee voted
on your request for a special dispensation to compete in the qualifiers.
I'm sorry.
You petitioned the Olympic Committee?
They talked to your doctors,
who feel there's no evidence to indicate that you're strong enough to compete.
Is that what it says, Dan-o?
No.
It says that you could turn that decision around
if you saw any evidence to the contrary.
And I said I'm sorry.
You watch me and you tell me you don't see any evidence.
I don't want to see a man who was in a cast 10 months ago
trying to do triple flips.
Watch me. Then you tell me that.
The doctor said that you could spend the rest of your life in a wheelchair.
You think I care about that?
No, Dan, 'cause I've seen your ego
nearly kill you up on those rings about 100 times
and I am not ready to see that happen for real.
I've already said that to the committee,
and they have closed the case.
You gave up on me.
Danny, come on.
You gave up on me.
Dan.
Nearly all of humanity shares your predicament, Dan.
If you don't get what you want, you suffer.
And even when you get exactly what you want,
you still suffer
because you can't hold onto it forever.
He thought I couldn't do it.
Doesn't matter.
He doesn't know that I'll be there 100%.
You don't need him or any letter to get up on those rings and do what you love.
Yes, I do. All right?
I'm talking about getting up there and winning the gold right now,
so, yes, I do.
The gold is a craving.
"If only I had it, I'd be happy. " Can't you hear it in there?
It's a dream, Soc. All right? I can't think that dreams are bad.
You don't surrender your dreams, Dan.
You surrender the one thing you never have and you never will,
control.
Accept that you don't control what will happen to you.
That you may or you may not compete in the Olympics.
That you may or you may not, Dan.
And that you are something exceptional either way.
I was ready to give this all up,
but you stood here
and you told me that you wanted me to train again!
I told you a warrior does what he loves.
And this is what I love!
Chasing gold?
Living in fear that you might fail?
That's what you love about it?
No! Dreaming of standing up there and winning this thing!
Of doing what has always felt like the thing that I was put here to do.
I've been on a trampoline since before I could ride a bike because I loved it.
'Cause it was the first thing
that I was sure that I loved.
I'm sorry.
Okay? I'm sorry.
I thought I was strong but I'm not.
'Cause I really tried to give this whole thing up
but I can't.
Tomorrow morning, bring your hiking shoes.
I've got a place I've wanted to take you since the first night you walked in here.
It's a long hike but I think...
I think you're finally ready to see it.
Three? Three.
Life has just three rules?
And you already know them.
Paradox,
humor and change.
Paradox.
Life is a mystery. Don't waste time trying to figure it out.
Humor.
Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself.
It is a strength beyond all measure.
Change.
Know that nothing stays the same.
Hey, please tell me we're getting a little closer.
Come on, Soc, it's been three hours, man.
Now, we're here.
We're where? At what I came to show you.
What, the view?
There, next to your foot.
The flower? No.
Better not be. The rock.
There's something...
There's something special about this rock?
Something wrong?
Come on, Soc! This is what I was finally ready to see?
Well, the whole trip up here, you were excited, you were happy.
Yeah, because I thought I was gonna see something!
You were like a kid on Christmas morning. You said so yourself.
The whole trip up here, it made you feel good.
Because for the past three hours I've been waiting to see this wonderful thing.
Well, what changed? That there's nothing here but this rock!
I probably should have told you that before we left, huh?
But I guess
I wasn't sure what we'd find, either.
Never am.
Sorry you're not happy anymore.
The journey.
The journey's what brings us happiness
not the destination.
Millman.
Millman, what are you doing?
Millman, get your hands out of the chalk.
Hey.
Ready for the big day?
Yeah. I leave tonight.
Where you headed?
Just out running.
With a book?
Actually, I think I want to kiss you.
Anything to say?
Good luck tomorrow.
You know, I see us together, you and me.
I dream stuff all the time!
Sometimes it comes true!
Hey, I'm just telling you!
I really think it might happen!
Then maybe it will!
This your place, Millman?
Who are you?
Where's the other guy who works here?
I just started today.
You want gas, you gotta pump it yourself.
Hey.
Hey, man.
Hello!
Where's your secret weapon? I don't know.
What do you mean? He stood you up? We moving on, here, Millman?
He ever tell you how he got up on that roof?
It doesn't matter.
A very strong 9.3 for young David Bloodgood,
ranking him in the top seven athletes we've seen competing here today.
The competition is fierce this year.
I can't remember a time when the bar has been raised so high.
And for good reason, Bart.
For those of you just joining our broadcast,
these trials today will decide the six young men from all over the country
who will be representing the United States at this year's Olympics.
All right, Millman. Just the routine you showed me. Right?
No triple flips, no showboating.
Just get up there and be you.
Coming up next, the top qualifiers from UC Berkeley.
Hey.
How you doing? You together?
You did something that none of us can completely wrap our heads around.
You know that, right?
I mean, it's like a miracle or something, Dan-o.
Whatever you learned, man,
whatever that guy taught you...
You think...
You think maybe you can rub a little of that magic onto me?
It's not magic, Tommy.
Just getting rid of all that bullshit you have up in your head,
tells you you might not be enough.
So when you get up there,
you make every move about the move.
All right? Not about the gold.
Not about what your dad thinks about you.
Not about anything
but that one moment in time.
But this is for the gold.
Everything we do, Dan-o.
I mean, at least for me,
my whole life is about getting those 20 seconds in front of those judges
so they can give me that gold.
You wanna know what my dad would think of me if that happened?
You want to know how my whole life would change?
How everything that's a problem right now wouldn't matter anymore?
I'd get everything I want.
I'd get to be happy.
I'd get to be happy, Dan-o.
Next up, ladies and gentlemen,
from UC Berkeley, Dan Millman.
Now, Dan is quite the wild card, Bart, because less than 10 short months ago,
this young man actually shattered his leg in a motorcycle accident.
Where are you, Dan?
Here.
What time is it?
Now.
What are you?
This moment.