Matt McGorry Quotes

As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.

I think it's quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you've got another reason for keeping fit.

I don't have muscle tone. I'm just flab. I'm not a daredevil. I don't like pain, I don't like cold, I don't want to feel exhausted. But the sense of accomplishment is something I've never felt before, in a physical sense.

To me, getting muscular was the first thing I ever achieved by working at it, and it was a game changer for me, because it was the first time I ever had confidence.

I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.

It is normal that when results are better, self-esteem grows, and improving things becomes more easier.

Competition can only make you as an individual better and let you perform better, it can only be a positive thing.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about.

You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform.

I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

I don't think I'm successful.

I'm motivated by very small successes.

Whoever I can go out every week and motivate to do better and to try to go after their dreams, I'm up for that.

I never thought I would become that person who loves working out. It sucks while you're doing it, but the second you finish, it's like, 'Wow, I feel great! I'm stronger and much more confident.'

I was a good 30 pounds overweight throughout high school, and it wasn't until I was going away to college that I really wanted to make sure I was doing everything possible to feel as confident as I could.

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.

When I was 20, my husband at the time looked at me said, 'You're fat; go run.' There weren't a lot of tools at the end of the '70s to lose weight. It took me a while to realize what kind of exercise would make me happy and I would look forward to doing. And running became it.

There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.

Our children can achieve great things when we set high expectations for them.

I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.

Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.

If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.

Like it or not, life is a series of competitions. You may be competing for a grade, a spot on a team, a job, or the largest account in town. The higher your self-esteem is, the better you get along with yourself, with others, and the more you'll accomplish.

My parents made me believe I could do anything I wanted to do. They were really into empowering me.