Quotes About Motivation

If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?

Watching Nyree Lewis get her medal in the 100 backstroke inspired me to want to go to a Paralympics and it just went on from there.

It was those medals I won at Kottayam that gave me the confidence to dream it big in athletics.

I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.

You don't set off in life to be mediocre. At least, I don't.

I don't think anybody's goal is to be mediocre. I think everybody should want to be the best. I've always felt that way. I want to be at the best at everything I do.

The biggest fear in my life is being mediocre.

I don't think anybody wants to be mediocre.

I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.

I had three scenes in 'Super 30', but I got a good response.

A responsive audience is the best encouragement an actor can have.

I love what I do and I don't allow language to become a restriction.

Once you start losing weight and seeing results, you're like, 'I want to see more!'

What I do like is action, achievements, and results. Getting things done.

I love my job. What would I retire to?

Why would I retire from something I enjoy doing? I can hardly wait to get here.

I'll never retire. I like what I'm doing.

I will not feel like I've made it until the day I retire from basketball because there's something that I can always get better at, and there's always somebody better, and that's what drives me.

People say 'Are you going to retire?' To me, that sort of equates with lying down and dying. When you're doing something you love to do, why would you stop?

What am I doing, just playing basketball? It was eating at me. Because basketball, you play, you retire, you're done. I wanted to do something more.

I never retired.

I am retired, I don't fight anymore, I lost the desire.

Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I can't do it.

I don't know how I'd be retired. I wake up every day with another idea.