Jay Hernandez Quotes

When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?

You can't command people to do their best; they can only command that of themselves.

I don't need others to push me. I push myself.

I've had to work by myself at combines before and forced myself to work out alone all the way back to high school. You have to be self-motivated.

By the time I was 14, I had become self-motivated. Whatever raced inside me was more demanding than any pressure applied by parents or teachers.

I just kind of do my own thing, which has made me feel like a better player, a better pro because I'm in control of it. I don't have anybody who is pushing me to do something - I'm pushing myself.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

I've always been my own hitting coach.

I am not driven.

I am my own cheerleader. I am the one who puts my goals, who pushes myself to get to the next goal. I don't have someone next to me saying, 'Here you go, now do this, it's your next step, go for it.'

I only really work when I want to.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.

The only pressure I feel is the pressure I put on myself to win.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

I train as smart as I can. I'm not concerned what others think. I do what works for me.

I want to be great, and that's holding myself to my standards, not anybody else's.

I'm a very motivated person. I don't need extra motivation.

I was always self-motivated.

The only pressure you put on yourself is the one you want to. No one else can pressurise you.

I like pressure. I put in on myself, and I think I get the best out of myself by doing that.

Children can become self-reliant and self-disciplined by being free to do what they want to do.

I'm already self-motivated, so I don't really pay attention what people are saying.