Quotes About Motivation

When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was looking at the flowers!

If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.

I play with a fear of letting my team down. That's what motivates me.

Every day, someone realizes a dream. I believe dreams help light our darkness and give us the push we need to move across the rink of life.

I believe you can do 99 percent of the things right but not possess a positive winning attitude, and you will fail.

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

Play with passion and heart. If you don't carry passion into sport - or into any job for that matter - you won't succeed.

a lot of football success is in the mind. you must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.

There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.

Play every game as if your job depended on it. It just might.

I've always taken the philosophy that you have to dream a little in this sport. If you stay in your comfort zone, you're not going to do anything special.

The only person who can stop you from reaching your goals is you.

Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.

Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.

If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it.

It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.

To me, a leader is a visionary that energizes others. This definition of leadership has two key dimensions: a) creating the vision of the future, and b) inspiring others to make the vision a reality.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

If you can't win, make the one ahead of you break the record.