Quotes About Motivation

You see it all the time, in all divisions, that teams raise themselves and apply themselves that little bit more when they play a 'bigger team.'

That quiet intensity really brings a lot of confidence to your team and I think intimidates a lot of other teams.

You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.

What the other teams do is something that I can never control, so I just keep focussed on my direction.

I've done a number of things in the spirit of employee motivation. I tend to be a storyteller and a student of history. I often tell stories of great battles, like the battle of Thermopylae, to inspire teams who face what appear to be insurmountable odds.

People like being on winning teams.

I got interested in coaching while I played at St. Joseph's. Because we played a national schedule, we played teams coached by Nat Holman, Joe Lapchick, Hank Iba, and others. I could see the impact the coach had on their teams, and I thought, 'That's a pretty good thing to do.'

There are guys on different teams across the league who are bench guys, and guys who that - that's their role, to be on the bench encouraging guys to play hard and get good minutes.

If you can get your team to that point of being able to be in that playoff race mindset every week, that's something that most teams can't do.

As a retired football coach, I know a good bit about teamwork and winning.

A lot of my pieces have involved teamwork, but hopefully they've inspired people to make things - that inspiration would be a great legacy.

A lot of guys came in after me and they quit before me. I've seen that a lot. That's motivation. That's teamwork, I don't do that myself.

It's much more powerful and compelling to create a positive vision than it is to tear somebody down.

Having adaptive events televised in the X Games is huge. There are people out there who might want to do this but don't think they can. They can see us out here tearing it up. That's going to help people realize that if you want something bad enough, you can get there.

Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.

Back when I was a student, I had Steve Jobs over to my house for a fireside chat with the GSB High Tech Club.

When I was at Tech, no public school was ahead of us in graduation rates. We got our guys to compete in the classroom, and if they're competing in class and in football, that's an attitude they take into life.

I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It's not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity.

I think the scientific goals and the technical challenges were the two things that equally motivated me.

Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.

When I was 19, I went door to door selling long-distance phone service to put myself through school. I was studying to become a computer graphic technician. I always got strangers saying, 'You should model; you should act.' A co-worker finally said, 'Go see this acting coach.'

When the technique doesn't arrive at the best level, arrive with your heart, with head, with enthusiasm, with passion, with work.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

When you have good runners, you always run fast. That's the motivation for me. But I have room to improve in my technique and in the start.