Quotes About Motivation

You know, I want to help my country. Definitely I can help them, simply by winning races. Sure, they can follow my path to a good career. But for me it is not enough. I want to be more than that. In everything I want to be a role model.

What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics.

These guys who keep on playing but aren't winning, you've got to sit them down and let them figure it out and perform a little gut-check on themselves.

You know, sometimes the little victories that I have throughout the season are not necessarily obvious on the track. Maybe they're another aspect of what I'm doing, winning little victories here and there to get everything in line to be able to perform from top to bottom on race day.

I get my drive and determination from just winning and playing tennis. I know if I don't work, I won't get rewarded. It was a life long dream to win a Grand Slam so when I was able to do that it felt so good and I wanted to do it again. It's not that hard to stay motivated.

If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

It feels like we all win when Joe wins. People know the struggle, everything I had to overcome. People feel like that's them winning. If Joe could do it, they could do it.

All great players want to be the reason the team wins.

I think you have to enjoy the wins. If you're not enjoying the process, there's a problem. You're not doing it for all the right reasons.

I did not expect to have, at the end of my first season, seven poles and two wins. This is crazy. I did not expect it.

You have to find what you're really passionate about, throw yourself into it, and focus on those small wins.

You need some quick wins in order to stay pumped enough to get out of debt completely.

I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants.

Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we could look at winning more races. Three race wins would be very satisfying.

If you start comparing my practice of law to what I could have been - selling bananas - you'll know why I gave money to the University of Texas.

LaMarcus Aldridge

That's kind of something we - my team and I - text each other a lot. Anytime something great happens, we're like, 'Hey, look, the song's #17. Boom!'

I get a text every day from my dad: 'Enjoy the challenge.'

My older brother bought textbooks and was able to teach himself enough to go to college. When I was 16, he returned and told me to do the same thing.

As a child, I envisioned a career in the hard sciences. In sixth grade, I was buying college chemistry textbooks.

I took my son to Thailand and really immersed myself in the stuff I wanted to learn and I wanted to improve on, and when I got a taste of that motivation and that inspiration as far as what I wanted to see my body do, I immediately was excited about it.