Quotes About Motivation

There's a lot of reasons I didn't perform the way I could have in college. Going to college, I was a new parent, I lived in another state. I just wasn't mentally into it when I was in college.

The manager is always on at us about mental strength anyway. He just comes in and stresses how important it is to be strong mentally, to succeed you've got to go through pain both mentally and physically.

I just want to continue to build mentally to push forward even on the good days and bad days.

Sometimes in a huddle I don't say anything, the guys will run the huddle. But I try to be an encourager in huddles, especially when I see a guy down or the team is not at the level where they should be mentally.

I knew I wanted to fight. It's a great way to continue competing and not to mention actually make money. You can make a career out of it.

You have to play with the mentality that you are about to lose your job, and that they're going to talk about 'The Other Guy' first. You have to think, 'I want my name mentioned first.'

I am my own mentor. I like to listen to myself to improve.

I don't necessarily have one mentor or 'a' mentor. But I do pull inspiration from people, and that's always kind of served me well.

Coach Dyer was a great mentor for me and a great teacher.

After watching 'Pagal Nilavu' I decided Mani Ratnam should be my mentor and joined him.

You know, I mentor a few younger athletes.

I'm always excited when it comes to coaching football, mentoring guys and them becoming better people.

You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.

My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.

Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.

As soon as you go into merchandising, everyone nods sagely and says, 'Ah, now we know why you are doing it.'

I have pretty much always been about - if I write that song or whatever, it is all for Mercy Me. Anything I want to do is for Mercy Me.

I'm writing all the time, really. It's become a little bit of a problem when I go home. Sometimes I should really go out and hang out with my friends, but what happens is I get really inspired and then just go and mess around on the computer.

You need to stay hungry and not allow someone like John Ruiz to come over and mess you up in front of all your fans.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.

My message always is: No matter where you are from, no matter what past you have, it is all about your future and your goals.

I'm just sending a message to women that you can be anything you want to be.