Chris Smalling Quotes

I've learned that positive thinking and encouragement are essential for leadership and progress.

The first thing that's important is to really have people believe in you. If you have that, you can do anything.

You can do anything if you set your mind to it. Look out for kids, help them dream and be inspired. We teach calculus in schools, but I believe the most important formula is courage plus dreams equals success.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about the great potential that we all human beings have, we are able to discover our leadership.

Confidence is a crucial building block in a successful career, and embracing it fully will take you places you never thought possible. With proper guidance and hard work, anyone can become more confident. Once you pass a certain point, you'll feel it from the inside.

Because I would just tell everyone it was going to be great and just put that belief in them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

When you hang around people who believe in you, it kind of uplifts your spirit a little bit. And you can see great things happen.

Making people believe they can do great things, that's an instant motivator.

I listen to a lot of TED talks and motivational speakers.

People are really capable if you're able to give them the confidence to get something done and paint the picture of where we need to go.

Football gave me a sense of purpose. It gave me a sense of me.

When I first got to Oklahoma, it was really a blessing that coach Sutton was at Oklahoma State. He made me a better coach.

I was very fortunate to have several mentors in my life that believed in my ability on the football field. It was their support that made me believe that I could do it, too.

I'm trying to be the messenger for the people that pay attention to me. And those people I want to help inspire because a lot of people maybe think it's - they're too cool for school. That's all I can ever do.

My entire life, my grandmother told me I could do whatever I set my mind to.

I believe that football can inspire youngsters to find the path of success in life.

They can because they think they can.

I think that Mama June has the greatest self-esteem on the planet. I always say to people, 'If I had her self-worth, I would probably be ruling the world.'

I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me as an actor. I never received that support before, and it inspired to me to such a degree that I never looked back. He taught me that it's okay to be crappy; it's okay to fight; it's okay to go to any length.

He knows that you have ability and what he does is he manipulates it and sort of empowers you.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

I learned how to believe in myself. Learned how to set goals, you know, self help books man. I just read every single one I can get a hold of, and I still do.

I like to motivate and inspire people.