Quotes About Motivation

The reason I'm in good form is not just down to myself: it's down to the manager and coaching staff improving my game.

I think you have to constantly challenge your staff. I have to challenge myself; you get more interesting answers that way.

The coach and support staff's role is to get the players in the most brilliant frame of mind to execute things and if done effectively, it brings enjoyment to the player's game.

I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.

Sure, I'm hyperactive. I make my staff a bit hyper, too, but motivating someone else is what gives me a buzz.

I think Coach Kerr and his staff have done a great job with what they bring to the table.

Allowing our staff to mix their life with work only makes them more productive and in love with the work that they're doing.

I'm very critical of myself and I know the levels I want to achieve so I'm very hard on myself. So the staff and players are very hard on me as well, which is what I want as I want to get to as high a level as possible.

Luis Enrique and his coaching staff can do great things.

I never wanted to write on a staff. I wanted to perform my work.

I am always scared before going on stage; this is the fear which makes me do well.

I have lots of personal feelings of my own, but at this stage in my life and career, I'm very much driven by assignment.

An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.

As a child, I used to watch award functions, and would dream of going up to the stage and getting an award.

Top players now will get bonuses for winning competitions or reaching various stages of them, scoring goals, or keeping clean sheets, but most don't play football for the money, because it's not been in the game that long. They do it for the love of playing.

There are stages in life in which you have to bring things to a close because of motivation.

For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying.

I feel at times I get stagnant, and I don't want to.

You can never come into the spring feeling like you've got a guaranteed spot. Once you do that, you kind of get stagnant, and someone's going to pass you up.

A few push-ups during breaks at work, walking to the grocery store, and opting to use the stairs instead of the elevator are all great ways to exercise.

For 'Narrow Stairs', the majority of the songs I brought in were guitar songs - songs we could sit in a room and just play. I can honestly say I had more fun and felt more inspired on this record than anything that we had done in a long time.

Ray Evernham and Jeff Gordon and people in the garage area always put so much stake into me.

Sledging makes things interesting. There are no robots playing. They are humans who want to perform well for the country. So when stakes are so high, emotions will take over. Sometimes sledging gets the best out of you.

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.