There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning. — Pat Riley
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning. — Pat Riley
What it comes down to is intense desire. To get this winning edge, you need to build an indomitable will. This means you must be relentless; you must never give up. — Anson Dorrance
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. — Eddie Robinson
winning is not everything it is the only thing — Vince Lombardi
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win. — Denis Waitley
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. — Vince Lombardi
The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste. — Valentino Rossi
Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is. — Vince Lombardi
The will to prepare, the guts to risk, and the desire to be the best. These are trademarks of champions. — Dan Marino
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital. — Joe Paterno
Passion is a huge prerequisite to winning. It makes you willing to jump through hoops, go through all the ups and downs and everything in between to reach your goal. — Kerri Walsh
Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember one rule of thumb: the more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it. — Steven Pressfield
The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players. — Don Coryell
The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
Money is human kind's greatest invention. Money doesn't discriminate. Money doesn't care whether a person is poor, whether a person comes from a good family, or what his skin color is. Anybody can make money. — Takafumi Horie
Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow. — Robert Kiyosaki
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good. — Stephen Covey
Being challenged in life is inevitable. Being defeated is optional.
A guy who gives you less than what he has to give is, one, telling you what he thinks of you, and two, telling you what he thinks of himself. — Pete Carril
There are so many negatives in our society. To be on the cover of a magazine these days, you have to have been through drug rehab three times. What message is this giving to young people? But there are positives in our society. And I try to surround myself with good-natured, positive people. — Mary Lou Retton
What do we need all that for?”If a picture is psychologically motivated, if there is truth in the relationship in it, then I think that picture will do good. I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture. — James Dean
Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is. — Henry Giroux
How To Get Motivated Quotes
Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself. — Usain Bolt
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it. — Michael Jordan
No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out. — B. F. Skinner
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow. — Kurt Vonnegut
If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run. — John Bingham
That’s how you get others to come up to your level: show them where it is, and set the example that allows them to get there. — Tim Grover
My failure gave me strength, my pain was my motivation.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up. — Norman Vincent Peale
Be a warrior. It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down in life as long as you always get back up to fight for your dreams. — Chatri Sityodtong
When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like. — Sofia Coppola
{Losing can be a great motivator] but not if it drains your confidence. One of the reasons I got into this game was because I wanted to learn how to get myself comfortable in uncomfortable situations. — Conor McGregor
Desire To Win Quotes
I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger. — Serena Williams
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success. — Napoleon Hill
The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of trades is the least important performance statistic and may even be inversely related to performance. — William Eckhardt
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important. — John Dewey
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi
You just need enough 'winning' to experience satisfaction and just enough 'wanting' to experience desire. — James Clear
Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.
What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well. — John McEnroe
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. — Napoleon Hill
I have so much love for football, that I think is the reason why I seek refuge in training – I’m always guided by that desire to conquer, to win. — Kylian Mbappe
What’s the secret to success? It’s no secret. You need a winning attitude, honesty and integrity, and a burning desire to succeed. — Dave Thomas
Winning Motivational Quotes
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying. — Tony Robbins
In life, it's not the genetic guy who wins or the guy with the most potential who wins; it's the person with the greatest perseverance who wins. Always be willing to get up and go at it again and again. That's the guy who has his hands raised later in life. That's the guy you guys need to be. — Greg Plitt
I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight. — George S. Patton
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. — Serena Williams
Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won. — Bill Bowerman
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. — Wilma Rudolph
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success. — Jim Harbaugh
Winners don't do different things.They do things differently — Shiv Khera
It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone, But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone — Abdul Kalam
You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win. You will have to lose hundreds of games before becoming a good player. — Jose Raul Capablanca
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous. — Ben Feldman
I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game. — Tom Landry
Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously. — Mark Twain
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell
When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose. — Ross Perot
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parseghian
Will To Win Quotes
There's a lie that all drivers tell themselves. Death is something that happens to other people, and that's how you find the courage to get in the car in the first place. The closer you are to death the more alive you feel. But more powerful than fear itself, is the will to win. — James Hunt
Get the mind right, the body will follow, you lose some battles in life, but if you always put your heart and passion forward first as your main objective, you will win the war, that’s what gives you the strength to get off the ground… and do it again. — Greg Plitt
Win or lose you will never regret working hard, making sacrifices, being disciplined or focusing too much. Success is measured by what we have done to prepare for competition. — John Smith
No one ever won a game by resigning.
You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed. — Patrick Pearse
I have just accepted certain things and it makes it easier. I accept I will get injured. I accept I cannot win every race. I work hard to decrease the chances of those things happening but I accept they will happen. A lot of people don't accept it. They get injured, they go crazy. — Usain Bolt
I want to rob a bank with a BB gun. "Give me all your money or I will give you a dimple! I will be rich, you will be cute. We both win." — Mitch Hedberg
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. — Sun Tzu
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. — Chinese Proverbs
My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals — Brad Stevens
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. — Bear Bryant
Motivation And Drive Quotes
There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart. — Melanie Griffith
If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big! — Donald Trump
Having the chance to play sports growing up teaches you all kinds of life lessons. It gives young people confidence and instills in them motivation and drive to be the best one can be. It's absolutely invaluable. — April Ross
Determination is the wake-up call to the human will. — Tony Robbins
Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. — Paul J. Meyer
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. — Calvin Coolidge
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand — Vince Lombardi
I’m a Lamborghini, you’re a Volvo. You’re slow as hell, and I’m so damn fast. — KSI
I run because it's so symbolic of life. You have to drive yourself to overcome the obstacles. You might feel that you can't. But then you find your inner strength, and realize you're capable of so much more than you thought. — Arthur Blank
You have to really believe in what you’re doing and be passionate about it. Passion is what drives you, especially in the face of adversity. — Glen Bell
The mindset of a champion is that I put myself in a certain situation to win, I don't play to lose, I dont prepare to lose, I hate second place and I definitely don't like silver. — Phil Heath
Success is won by those who believe in winning & then prepare for that moment. Many want to win, but how many prepare? That is the big difference. A sound value system held water then, holds water today, and will hold water in the future. — Herb Brooks
When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method. — Garry Kasparov
This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?" And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins. — John Steinbeck
Criticism is part of being at a club like Arsenal. You always have to win and when you’re not winning you have to be prepared for that. It’s part of your job. — Mikel Arteta
He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. — Sun Tzu
You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again. — Pat Riley
The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare. — Juma Ikangaa
I never did. I only prepared to win the next day. — Karch Kiraly
Play To Win Quotes
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. — Voltaire
This is the greatest thing about sports - you play to win the game. Hello? You don't play to just play it. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire, get out, because it matters. — Herman Edwards
No one can compare to Ronaldinho. I remember his plays, his dribbles. I remember him winning every title at the Camp Nou. He made history at Barca, he made history with Brazil and he's still making history. — Neymar
Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous. — Alexander Pushkin
Goals have never defined me as a player. What has defined me is my impact on the team. If that means passing or playing defense to win, I'll do it. — Mia Hamm
A good player works hard to win the game everyone else is playing. A great player creates a new game that favors their strengths and avoids their weaknesses. — James Clear
The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality. — Bobby Fischer
This is a business and everything happens for a reason. I'm going to just to play hard, try to play hard and do whatever it takes to win. — James Harden
The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game. — James Clear
Don't play a game where they can change the rules when you are just about to win. Just leave and let them play with themselves. — Changpeng Zhao
When I was a young fellow I was knocked down plenty. I wanted to stay down, but I couldn't. I had to collect the two dollars for winning or go hungry. I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters. You could have hit me on the chin with a sledgehammer for five dollars. When you haven't eaten for two days you'll understand. — Jack Dempsey
If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out. — Chuck Noll
To win takes a complete commitment of mind and body. When you can't make that commitment, they don't call you a champion anymore. — Rocky Marciano
Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color. — Rumi
Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning. — Robert Kiyosaki
Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew. — Margaret Thatcher
No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference. — Tommy Lasorda
They said you have to use your five best players but I found you win with the five who fit together the best. — Red Auerbach
I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me! — Jimmy Connors
I promise that we are going to win the league again. — John W. Henry
When you think about winning, you go to the extreme. — Giannis Antetokounmpo
What I’ve learned mostly is that you have to be ruthless and you have to be consistent and you have to fit every day the culture of the club to create a winning mentality. — Mikel Arteta
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost. — George P. Shultz
I’m just living in the moment, trying to win every game. That’s all I’m focused on. — Kawhi Leonard
A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change. — Lester Thurow
I got to move on. I got to keep making winning plays. I got to keep competing. I got to keep finding ways to help my team be great. — Giannis Antetokounmpo
I play cricket. I’m a professional cricketer and I guess my job is to hopefully help Australia win games of cricket. — Ellyse Perry
You benefit from deep inner belief of having wins behind you, so you get to the table, and you know you’re not going to miss. — Stephen Hendry
After an international break you do not know if they are in the frame of mind to come back and do the things necessary to win this league. — Mikel Arteta
I only think about the pitch. I want to do great. I want to be one of the best. I want to win titles. I want to achieve things. — Paul Pogba
It's not about winning or losing a competition, it's about beating the doubt from within yourself and knowing at the end of each day you are one step closer to your goals. — Jonathan Horton
I want to work, to be a great, to win everything. — Paul Pogba
You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, ackowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins. — Jim Stovall
I just want to be a fighter. I just like to win fights. — Holly Holm
Track your small wins to motivate big accomplishments. — Teresa Amabile
I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant. — Alberto Tomba
Top brands and startups need to create content consistently across 8 to 10 social media networks to win in the long term. — Vladimer Botsvadze
I want to win this World Cup and to do that you have to make sacrifices. Defending isn’t my strong point, I’m not Kante, but I’ll happily do it. I have grown up and matured. — Paul Pogba
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