Richard Rohr Quotes

I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.

I don't need to be motivated by anybody. Never have.

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 know, when I'm 30 or 31 years old, I know I'll be productive because I don't depend solely on my athletic ability to get open and get yards. It's more my mind.

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think.

You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.

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

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

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.

I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.

I am not driven.

It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs.

The only one who can beat me is me.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

I only really work when I want to.

You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.

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

I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.

No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

I'm a very competitive person, but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be, and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else, then so be it. But I don't go around comparing and contrasting myself with other actors if I can help it. It's also, I think, the key to my success.

I'm not a guy who needs to read motivation books.

I never let myself get desperate.