Patrick Pichette Quotes

I learned that I was just getting too consumed by racing. That's all I used to do was think about it. You have to be able to turn it off. You have to make yourself stop, or you'll get burned out.

I try to live my life as honestly as I can, and the last thing I want is to pretend to be something I'm not. To pretend to myself I am a sex symbol would somehow be dishonest. I'd feel, in my heart, that I were behaving artificially and that's the last thing I want to do.

I guess I kind of realized that my whole life isn't one giant press junket. I don't have to be smiling all the time and always have the perfect answer.

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.

Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

The writing is the first thing that goes when I get a little down. Just like... in terms of how I feel, it's like the writing is in the top five percent, and then that's the first part that gets shaved off, and I start down a little bit.

You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

Your body is a vehicle of your emotions and a vehicle of feelings and a vehicle of whatever you need to get done in life. And you've got to take care of that vehicle.

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.

I need some time to recover. I'm not a machine.

I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.

I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

I might not be in a relationship anymore, but I don't believe that people should have to lie to themselves just to make somebody else feel good.

Deal faithfully and truly with your own soul.

If there were a being in the world whose eyes could look into other people's hearts, very few men or women would be able to face up to it.

The most important thing about my life is this integrity, and you can't lie to yourself.

It's really important to be honest to yourself.

I was losing sight of myself and started to get anxiety and stress. You work at such a pace and you don't have time to sit with yourself and think.

This is a very stressful profession. Not just coaching, but head coaching at this level with all of the variables that you have on your mind 24/7, it does take a toll on your health and you have to be very cognizant about what's going on with your body and listen to your body and make sure that you take care of your body.

I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.

I'm not a big depressive, but I have my moments.