Quotes About Motivation

For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum

I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.

If you're thinking something good about your players, say it; don't save it for later.

It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

Let's win one for the Gipper.

I just love the feeling from the fans and when I'm walking on deck I can hear people screaming and wishing you the best. That puts you into the game more than anything.

All goal setting must be immediately followed by both the development of a plan, and massive and consistent action toward its fulfillment.

It doesnt matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesnt give me more or less motivation.

I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.

Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.

I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there.

Nobody motivates today's workers. If it doesn't come from within, it doesn't come. Fun helps remove the barriers that allow people to motivate themselves.

I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.

The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.

When you set a goal, write it down and then it's like making a promise to yourself.

If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.

As Upton Sinclair sardonically noted, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

There are far more cases in which politicians knew what they wanted to do, and then just leaned on economics—sometimes very bad economics—for support.

Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.