Bill Rodgers Quotes

I am very self-critical and always will be. I think this makes me want to improve, always. But just because I'm self-critical and say what I thought of my performance in a game, it doesn't mean I will bring myself down, ever.

On those days when you don't want to get up, I think, I'm going to get through my entire practice without saying how tired I am or I try not to complain just because I was in a bad mood when I woke up. Even if it's not perfect and I slip up, I can catch myself and make myself of aware of where my mental space is at and move on.

Enthusiasm Rules his inner world. Determination Rules his outer world. Therefore Happiness has become His real name.

The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.

The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier.

Accept what you cannot control.

At the end of the day, you can be physically strong, you can have all the tools out there, but if your mental state isn't good enough, you can't bring yourself to bigger and better things.

Love yourself for who you are and just keep going.

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.

Always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody says distract you from your goals.

Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.

All it takes is a simple choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more pain for myself. I will create no more problems.

Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Without such inspiration, we would rapidly deteriorate and finally perish.

I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.

If, in fact, it is what's inside us that makes all the difference, then the difference is made when we choose what goes inside.

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

Practice can be stated very simply. It is moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others. That seems so simple-except when we substitute for real practice some idea that we should be different or better than we are, or that our lives should be different from the way they are. When we substitute our ideas about what should be (such notions as "I should not be angry or confused or unwilling") for our life as it truly is, then we're off base and our practice is barren.

I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair.

Motivation is like taking a bath; If you stop doing it, you begin to stink!

I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.

My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.

It's ok not to be ok. Just be true to who you are.