Quotes About Motivation

I don't conduct my career for when I'm dead and people say nice things about me. I conduct my career for the here and now, and what excites me, and what interests me.

We don't have entitlements as part of our family heritage. If you want nice things in life, if you want to get ahead, you have to earn it.

I was introduced to money as a teenager, my friends had nice things. It came naturally to me to try and make money.

If you treat people nicely, and you allow them to fulfill a role that is satisfying for them, they'll accomplish a lot, and they'll enjoy their work.

My mom was not able to buy us the expensive Air Jordans, so if I wanted something that was a little bit nicer, my brother and I, we had to go earn money for it.

I have the bug again. I'm expecting the response to seeing the show again on Nick to be very good, and this will set the groundwork for what I want to do.

I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.

Dressing up for the gym is just as important as dressing up for a night out! It makes you feel motivated; if you feel you look good, then you feel good.

I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.

56 Nights' one of the best mixtapes ever.

When I did '3 Nights,' it was just one of those days where we'd gotten enough sleep, enough food, and we were excited.

Anytime you can start the season off with a new organization and see all the work they put in - guys in the shop that I don't even know are working late nights.

We need the fans to win games. We need the energy from them to win a lot of games and we need that every night, not just certain nights.

Some nights you're going to have a lot of energy, some nights you're not. The great ones find energy from nothing.

Obviously, there are nights in any job when you don't want to be there, but that's when the pride factor comes in.

Beyonce was just always full-out. She's like a beast. So you learn that no matter how you feel, just do it. Just like Nike: 'Just Do It.'

I'm like Nike, just do it.

I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.

My mom never went to college, so she just assumed the writer identity, and that was always really inspiring to me. It's not something you need nine levels of education for. It's really an identity that you claim for yourself, and then you have to make yourself one.

I always had that get-up-and-go to work for myself - I never wanted a nine-to-five job.

Nineteen ninety-five, when I was still with Jordan, was the lowest moment. It was my third season and the travel was getting to me and I was missing my family. I felt under a lot of pressure and even thought of going to America - to race there.

Ninja is super-ambitious - more than I am.

My parents both made it to ninth grade and then dropped out, so I just want to have that higher education so when I have kids one day I'll be able to tell them and I'll be a better role model for them.

I would say that Cynthia Nixon is somebody I admire, and Toni Collette as well. Those women - their work inspires me, whatever they do.