Quotes About Motivation

For me, it's about the tennis and the trophies. I'm not motivated by money.

I was always watching Dad lift trophies. That made me want to do what he does.

It's very difficult to have the same motivation in the season after you've won two trophies.

When you've got the experienced players around you who've won countless trophies and titles between them, you want to rise to them.

When I was 19 and 20, and 20 or 25 in the world , I was enjoying it. But now it's a rollercoaster and I just can't seem to find the commitment to work hard, to enjoy and to lift trophies. Maybe I have to look at a few things and maybe play less tournaments.

I realized in the five years off, what I missed was being around the young people, the organization, the practice, the fourth quarter of the game where you're behind, trying to get back to win the game late. It's not about the rings and trophies and money, that's not what you got into it for.

I never looked at my mantel and envisioned an MVP trophy sitting there. This is pretty crazy.

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

Perhaps I should just motivate myself by buying trophy cabinets - so I have to fill them.

For sure, I don't do the right work but I feel holding a trophy or doing well doesn't satisfy me any more.

You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition in the first place, and everybody is getting a trophy.

To be appointed as captain of the team of the ICC Champions Trophy 2017, which includes some of the finest and most attractive cricketers of this generation, is the perfect icing on the cake.

I have no interest in feeling like a trophy. Money itself has never been attractive to me; instead, I prefer ambition and integrity.

If the award comes with a check, then I want that award. But if it doesn't come with a check, then I'm not that interested. I'd much rather join NASCAR and get a trophy and a check.

What is the point of competing for a trophy if everyone gets a trophy?

You have to get your motivation from within, and it doesn't matter if you lose in the quarters, the semis, or the final. You must want to have another chance of winning the trophy.

It's always going to be hard when you see the other team lifting a trophy. When you have to walk up those stairs and collect the runners-up medal, it's hard.

That's why I signed for Tottenham - to say to my two little boys, 'Look, on that day, Daddy won the trophy.'

Whatever games came my way, I tried to give my best, do whatever I could to win matches for the team, be it at the Ranji Trophy level, India A, IPL: this was always on my mind.

We haven't achieved really big things yet with the U.S., so I think everybody wants to be the first one, and that's why everybody is so motivated to develop yourself and to win the first big trophy for the country.

When I won my first trophy, it was just a feeling of 'we want more.'

My father's failures inspired me the most and still drive me. He worked for 10 years, but wasn't invited to award functions, forget being nominated. So winning even one trophy is a high for our family.

I'm one of those guys who has to have a constant something going inside and in front of my face. If not, I get in trouble.

If I see a fan talking down on my resume or another fighter, it just motivates me to go out there and prove them wrong and fight the fighters that they say will beat me or that will give me trouble in the ring. They ain't going to never really give you no credit, no matter what you do.