Quotes About Motivation

We're dealing with men here. What we're trying to do is help them become the best players they can be, and we're all collectively trying to win games. So what I always tell people is that the way you earn these players' respect is, do you make them a better football player?

How can I be a great football player when you're not happy with yourself?

I've always wanted to create. I didn't ever want to just be a football player, so I'm just bringing all these childhood dreams together to try to accomplish the things I want to do before I die.

I was a competitor as a football player and I'm a competitor as a coach.

If you don't have ambitions then you're not a football player.

As a coach, when it comes to football players, we're trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we're trying to change their behavior and make them better.

When you have a lousy football team, you learn to be funny.

And I think they loved me because I loved being part of their team, you know, and I quite often say to kids, that I was the worst player in the world's best football team - and that was good enough for me.

If you're not an ambitious footballer, you're in the wrong game, really.

As a footballer, you want to play every game.

As a footballer, if you work hard, then everything else falls into place.

I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day? I couldn't think of anything worse.

As a footballer, you always want to get better personally. And if you get better personally, you make the team better.

My father was a footballer, and he has inspired me.

Playing with the boys made me a better footballer. It made me more competitive and made me want to win even more. You were playing against the boys and wanted to prove how good you were.

It's never nice to sit on the bench. Everybody knows it is not what you want as a professional footballer but it's about responding and coming back.

I have always believed in myself. As a footballer, it is essential to have that belief.

CR7 is a model to all footballers.

For me, happy footballers play the best football.

My brother was the one who really gave me the desire to follow in his footsteps. Also, it was really Ronaldinho and Ronaldo, the two Brazilian players, who also inspired me to a future in football.

My mother used to box, and I followed her footsteps into training. She loves fighting.

I followed in my brother's footsteps. I used to wake up at 5 a.m, and wait for him to complete his cricket practice just so I could play the 10-15 balls pitched to me at the end.

I have to continue until there's another Filipino following in my footsteps.

Following in the footsteps of Berry Gordy, I always admire what he did.