Quotes About Motivation

You've got to try to find some type of mental edge on your opponent.

The cut made me hate the process of getting ready for a fight. I was focused on how to make weight instead of how to beat my opponent.

What's important to us is developing the habit of playing harder than our opponent every night.

Your greatest opponent always brings the best out of you.

I want these ranked opponents.

All the time, I said to my players, 'I don't care about the name on the badge or the name of the opponents.'

I came to 170 and I got motivated and finally they started giving me ranked opponents.

I'm serious, I don't stay in the gym each day like my opponents.

The higher we are, the more the focus will be on us and that means our opponents are going to try even harder against us.

I don't feel the need to do anything other than what I've been doing, beating my opponents, getting some knockouts, keeping the fans coming. I don't need to do anything other than that.

When you're a scholar at the academy of a professional club everything is quite nice and easy. Then suddenly you're up against opponents who are playing to put food on the table and you realise it means that much more.

Because of Valentina's career in MMA and the way she beats her opponents, beating her will be even more important than when I won the strawweight belt.

Before the fight I don't like to talk a lot of crap about my opponents, it's nothing personal, when it comes to interviews or anything like that. But once I get in there, I make it personal. This is my livelihood, my life is either going to go up or go down depending on what happens right here, so it's really personal. I make that guy my enemy.

I try to make the best of the opportunities that have been given to me.

I just love being able to create and make things that inspire and that make people laugh, and my motivation to keep going is to make more opportunities to do that.

My motivation for helping is that I come from a culture that isn't given a lot of opportunity.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.

It felt very fresh to me, and it feels very contemporary - this idea that conflict's not being about good and evil and not necessarily being black and white. If you dig deep enough, you'll often find that people do things because they feel that they have to as opposed to because they are evil.

Having a performance goal is really fun because it gives you something to work for in every single session. As opposed to just thinking, 'Okay, I want to have abs,' you can build your way up through having performance goals to get abs and to get stronger all over!

I've heard people say I'm a Curry and that helped me get where I am. Sometimes I think it's the opposite.

I don't know why my success has been greater in XFINITY cars than it has been in Cup cars. It's the exact opposite for Jimmie Johnson.

I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.

I had a lot of coaches growing up that were very hard on the kids in the name of building character, but it could have the opposite effect on kids.