Quotes About Motivation

For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

First you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.

Coffee doesn't do it for me; it's running that gets me going.

I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls.

The single common denominator of men and women who achieve great things is a sense of destiny.

Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

Women power is a formidable force.

Young women say I helped them come out of their shells.

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships.

The sense of pride I take away from doing something I know will be inspire women to feel confident about their bodies.

Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.

Find that person that inspires you.

When God wants to accomplish something, He calls dedicated men and women to challenge His people and lead the way

I take every race like my ride is on the line, like it's my last. I don't get sponsors when I finish second. My sponsors aren't happy when I finish second. They're happy when I win.

Before my accident I had to fund my racing through finding sponsors myself so I am use to it. Obviously at that point I was 15 or 16, knocking on business's doors going 'I am a racing driver, a British champion and I want to be in Formula 1, will you give me an amount so I represent your brand'.

In climbing, sponsors typically support an athlete but provide very little direction, giving the climber free rein to follow his or her passion toward whatever is inspiring. It's a wonderful freedom, in many ways similar to that of an artist who simply lives his life and creates whatever moves him.

Sometimes I play for the media, sometimes for the fans, sometimes for my sponsors, and sometimes it's for my family. Really, I play for everyone.

It's all very well to talk about how it would be great to have a woman driver, a woman with sponsors and marketing, that's all great but to get into that drive you have to perform. That's what I realized early on when I got into Formula One.

I want to do well for myself and my sponsors... but I feel no pressure, because I don't play for the money.

I am out there to put on the best performance I can for my sponsors and my team and my fans.

As a player, you can be more spontaneous and instinctive, but now as a coach I have to find a psychological balance within the team.

My father and mother are exceptional pedagogues who can motivate and tell it from all different angles. Later, chess for me became a sport, an art, a science, everything together. I was very focused on chess, and happy with that world.