Quotes About Motivation

My major regret in life is not going to university, though not for the qualification I would have gained. People I know who went there have a working method where they sit down and get something done; they know how to start and get on with things. I will do anything to avoid getting on with stuff.

God has blessed me with an ability to go out there and play the game that I love to play. And I don't want to regret that. So, I feel I need to go out every day and play like it's my last.

I didn't want to grow old and find that I didn't do what I could have done, that I didn't put my best foot forward. I didn't want to have any regrets.

If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.

I get to know my regular fans, and they inspire me.

I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine.

On a regular basis if you're trying to produce something, I think you should work every day and set achievable goals.

I feel like I'd be able to gain so much by playing big games on a regular basis, including the Champions League.

I'm just a regular guy who had talent and the wherewithal to be able to hone that into something I can make money doing.

Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction.

I find myself working out at hotel gyms quite regularly - just so that I can keep up with my training.

You know, exercise should always be fun otherwise you don't feel motivated enough to hit the gym regularly.

All I ever wanted was to play regularly and now that I'm doing that, there's no doubt my confidence is higher and that helps any player.

The accident for sure was one of the most important experiences of my life. During the course of my rehabilitation I had people who were exactly what I needed to be inspired.

I've never done this level of physical preparation for something. Particularly for 'Rogue One' where I was training every day and doing kung fu rehearsals on a daily basis. But that's part of the reason I wanted to do it, because it was very different from what I've done before.

You really just have to come in and build the spirit up of your team by working them everyday, showing them examples of what they've done and reinforce their work.

Reinforcement is being right.

In games, we know who has won... You get the reinforcement for having played well.

I bought myself a DVD set of 'Lost' and only allowed myself to watch it while I was strength training. Sometimes I'd exercise longer than I intended to because I didn't want to turn it off. Talk about positive reinforcement!

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

If you don't think of yourself as being someone who needs to go back to school, needs to reinvent yourself, then you're not able to do the thing you're passionate about. That's to create and invent and innovate.

My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.

Money is not the driving force behind my decisions to accept or reject a project.

It was funny, a lot of people who rejected me as a player, later said, 'Oh, we did it to help you.' I met a coach years later who said, 'I didn't take you at that time for your own good!'