Quotes About Motivation

I started playing sax when I was fourteen because I'm like a real competitive person when it comes to winning girls attention. And there was this girl that I really wanted the attention of and I found out she really liked jazz.

The thing is, all the time I press my radio button, it is broadcast, and sometimes it sounds a bit arrogant - especially the 'I'm not here to finish fourth' - and that is just what comes up in my mind.

When you taste first place, if you then go and finish fourth, you will be disappointed.

Of course I want to be on the floor in the fourth.

Training hasn't been consistent for the last week or so which was a bit annoying, but going into the competition I just had to get myself into the right mind frame.

When you are in a good frame of mind then the performance is going to be better.

We must condition the players. They need to get into the right frame of mind in the hours leading up the game.

I don't put the pressure on everybody else. I put the pressure on myself because I am that franchise guy. I am the guy that has to be the leader of the team, that has to get everybody better, make everybody better on my team.

I do not think any thinking individual buys a sports franchise, or an English football club, to make money.

I'm an ambitious fellow; I'll be frank about that.

And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve.

When I entered free agency, I said whatever team I end up on, I'm going to work.

The reason why I'm playing good is because I don't think one second about my free agency.

Whether you empower one person or the free world, that is leadership.

We went to a conference to learn how to get out of debt and we did it and it is really freeing.

I didn't just freestyle it. At the end, it's about bread.

You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.

It's important that I'm always playing fresh and that I'm ready to go rather than just playing because I feel like I have to.

'Fresh Air' I listen to, like, every day.

When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writing was all I wanted to do. It became my calling.

My whole freshman year at Duke, it was drilled into me that nothing was given to you, and you have to earn it, and this is a dog-eat-dog world, and blah blah blah, and blah blah blah. And you buy into it, 100 percent. You end up loving it. That's the way it should be, right?

Keeping mental freshness is sometimes difficult... but it is easier when you win.

I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.

I want to give 100 per cent every day whether it's training, a cup final or a friendly.