Quotes About Motivation

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?'

I can remember having meetings with my coaches when things were going bad. I told them, 'Hey, we've got to be positive. This is the time we need to step up. You've got to make sure they know everything is going to be okay. Keep teaching. Once they see you are down, you lose them and that can't happen.'

My mom - when I complained about my weight, she asked me if I wanted to keep complaining or do something about it. Then she took me to Weight Watchers when I was 10 years old, meetings and all!

For me, I just love running in the big moments. That's always been the way. That is what you work so hard for. You don't work hard to run fast in practice or to run fast at small meets.

I don't come to meets to count medals. It's not what I do. It's just really for me.

I'll always give it my all, and to be with a quality manufacturer like BMW is mega.

When I was 16 I had a table at home in Melbourne and I hardly ever practised.

One athlete I absolutely love is Melissa Stockwell.

I'll only pick up my guitar if something is knocking on the door. Once the melodies have sort of been bothering me for a time, then I pick up my guitar and try to find them. But only if they want to be found.

The fact is that a woman who aspires to be chairman of the board - or a member of the House - does so for exactly the same reasons as any man. Basically, these are that she thinks she can do the job, and she wants to try.

Blackpink members and my fans are my driving forces.

Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.

Get a gym membership! If you have a membership, you're bound to go. If you say, like, 'Oh, I'll get it one day,' you're never going to do it.

People in Wynne told me I'd never win a game at Memphis and I'd never play in a bowl game. But I knew we'd turn it around.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

Give energy, and mental exertion will always have attraction enough.

I like feeling strong. It keeps my mental floor higher.

I like to push my body to just extremity to get past the mental toughness barriers. So fighting at 145, that would be great. If Kenny Florian can do it, I can do it.

I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.

I come from a hustler mentality.

You have to have a mentality, you can't fail. You have to do it. That's what's helped me a lot.

You have to have that dog-eat-dog kind of mentality. I think me playing football all my life and having that chip on my shoulder, not really getting the opportunities that I wanted, really carried over to track and field. It allowed me to use all that energy and put it in the direction of being the best track athlete that I could be.

My leadership mentality is to outwork everybody else around me, and hopefully the guys respond well to that and work harder for themselves.

A player's mentality is very important. The five or 10 per cent where they're not focused because of wanting to go somewhere is enough for them to haul off their quality. It impacts on everything. So, as a board and manager, you have to make a decision.