Quotes About Motivation

Some are in it for the money, which is fine. Some of them are in it to be a movie star; that's another reason. Some actors - and this I never understand - will only play likeable characters. And if they're not likeable, they change them to be heroic.

Wherever I go, I have a basketball with me. I used to dribble a basketball down the street to the movie theater, to the mall.

One day, I was sitting in a movie theater, and I said, 'What the hell? I can do better than that.'

Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

Dreams are the ones that really keep me moving all the time. That's what drives me.

You want to be busy and try and get the scoreboard moving, and showing that intent when you go out there is important.

I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the inevitable loneliness and boring drought in the actor's world, it can eat you alive.

I don't dwell, I'm not a dweller. I just like to keep moving forward, because life is short.

Look at what you want to change, gather a few people who believe in it like you do, and start moving forward. It's important to remember that you don't always need a destination. Sometimes, you just have to make forward motion. And you absolutely can.

You can't dwell on the past and be down on yourself because you lost. You have to take the positive away from it and see how you can improve yourself moving forward.

Three hundred words in a day is not a lot. So much of it is thinking before writing. And then there's the cutting. But you do what you do and keep moving forward.

I thought about giving up the sport, but I have a lot of good people around me: my wife, Nina, my family. Everybody keeps helping me to be positive and moving forward.

I'm moving forward to do the best.

A great director is someone who makes you feel like you're moving forward.

I struggle with my training sometimes. The thing I look at is if you keep getting up and moving forward, you'll be successful. That's the way I've lived my life. I'm not going to stop doing something because somebody says it's time. I'm going to stop it when my body says it's over or the fans say, 'we're done watching you.'

When you are at Real, it's a challenge every day. I'm like that, I need these high goals to keep moving forward.

Athletics is not so much about the legs. It's about the heart and mind.

People with momentum can get so much done. Momentum is easy to lose and almost impossible to fake.

I honestly didn't expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right.

Some aspects of gymnastics don't really get that much attention, and when you have people send you letters, it makes you feel important and gives you a sense of purpose so you can go out and train hard because you want to perform well.

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.

A lot of the stuff I do in terms of PR, I learned it from Muhammad Ali.

From a kid who didn't come from much success growing up but watched Muhammad Ali and Hulk Hogan, to where I am today... I tell kids, 'You can achieve anything you want as long as you stick with it.'

Shaq and Muhammad Ali's my favorite two athletes of all time.