Oliver Tambo Quotes

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

For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can.

I only really work when I want to.

I believe when things are going well, there's pressure, and when things are going bad, there's pressure. The pressure is more on the outside than inside.

I truly believe motivation is internal, but there are so many things that happen externally, and it's hard to not pick that up as motivation.

I think motivation is a thing that is inside of you.

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

I don't have any limits in my life.

I can't control what people say, but I can control what I do.

I've had a lot of bosses that I didn't agree with, but the worst boss was very much me myself. So, I can't let myself slack off, and if I do slacking off, I'm the one that's yelling at myself. I've worked with a lot of different employers, and none of them have been as aggressive as I have been.

Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing.

If you can't keep yourself in shape on your own without being told to, that's a shame.

I can only control what I do when I go compete.

I wake up in the morning thinking about victory, I go to sleep thinking about victory, so sometimes it might be hard. But I need to control myself more and, how can I say it politely? Just shut up instead of speaking on the radio.

I can only control what I can control. I can't control plays called for me.

I'm probably more persuasive than the next person if I want to be, but do I want to be? In my head, I just don't go there.

The important thing is that I control my reaction, my behavior, my attitude and my words. What I receive back is not in my control.

For me, motivation is like obligation.

Oh, I have very limited will power. I wish I could change that. I am working on it, though. I am too easygoing.

My whole football life is pressure. If I don't get pressure from outside I put pressure on myself.

I'm so focused that sometimes I feel like I don't need to eat.

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.

The hard part about following your purpose is the distraction everyone pulls you toward.

There's a significant difference between greed and hunger. When you're greedy, you just want things. That's your only need. But when you're hungry for things, it's a mixture of need and want, which is more logical to me.

If I'm running on my own, no one's holding me accountable, so I will stop and walk.