Quotes About Motivation

I'm talking to my teammates and talking to the opponent. That's the type of player I am.

It killed me being on the bench and watching my teammates play. I wanted to be out there helping them win. But that gave me more motivation.

I've always been a point guard, so being a coach on the floor, I've had to connect with every one of my teammates and find ways to motivate them, find ways to build them up.

It took for me to get to the Lakers and for my teammates to help me get through that mental block that I had. Anytime I was open, anytime it even looked like I might be open, they always told me, 'Shoot the ball. We don't care if it goes in or if you don't make it. Just shoot it.'

My teammates have given me a lot of confidence, my coaches have also. When there's people behind you like that, you have no choice but to get better.

Just coming here to Pittsburgh, I just wanted to prove to the coaching staff and my teammates how much I love football.

Humility is what makes teams great. I've preached it for a long period of time.

Maybe it was this brush with death that was driving us to furiously prove we were alive.

Oh, Rose." He didn't laugh, but I could tell he was smiling again. "I don't think you'd ever be happy someplace quiet. You always need something to do." "Are you saying I have a short attention span?" "Not at all. I'm saying there's a fire in you that drives everything you do, that makes you need to better the world and those you love. To stand up for those you can't. It's one of the wonderful things about you.

Thats why your doing this? Because Lissa told you to?

Mount up and continue," Patton told his armor crews. "Don't stop except for gas." Omar

Montgomery professed to spend one-third of his day "making sure I'm not sacked" and another third inspiriting the troops, which "leaves one-third of my time to defeat the enemy.

Write every day. Don't ever stop. If you are unpublished, enjoy the act of writing—and if you are published, keep enjoying the act of writing. Don't become self-satisfied, don't stop moving ahead, growing, making it new. The stakes are high. Why else would we write?

Sam believes in taking life in his two hands and squeezing and pounding it until it gives you something, even if it's just a little bit. But the important thing is to keep squeezing, keep pounding, keep working.

Show them how their behavior is self-defeating. To create self-motivation for change, you have to show them how something important to them is lost because of their behavior.

Other studies have similarly revealed that to some degree, people rise or fall to the level of others' expectations.

We are all, to some extent, actors. We act in order to get what we want and need from the world.

If you talked about writing books, you'd never do it.

Dreamers are not content with being mediocre.

Success Is A Choice

Whatever is happening in life, focus is the key to performance. Without it, you flounder.

Baby, your rhymes get me going.

If you know someone who is discouraged because his fight isn't won yet, speak to that person truthfully and forthrightly, the way a commanding officer would speak to his troops.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.