Bob Nelson Quotes

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.

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

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

I am my own cheerleader. I am the one who puts my goals, who pushes myself to get to the next goal. I don't have someone next to me saying, 'Here you go, now do this, it's your next step, go for it.'

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

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

I just kind of do my own thing, which has made me feel like a better player, a better pro because I'm in control of it. I don't have anybody who is pushing me to do something - I'm pushing myself.

I'm self-motivated. I'm motivated for myself to be the best I can be - for me to do that, I have to have my own motivation, my own positive energy.

I don't need others to push me. I push myself.

You need to feel good about yourself, the motivation has to come from within. You have nobody to fall back on except yourself.

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.

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

I've always been my own hitting coach.

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.

I want to do it because I want to do it.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

I always want to be the best at what I do. That doesn't mean compared to other people, but just in what you do.

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 want to do the best I can and let everyone else worry about legacies.

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

I have always run as hard as I can. You are not going to run any harder with or without men. You are running on your own two feet.

Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it's stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that's when people do their best work. You can't fake confidence or empowerment.

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'm highly critical of myself. There's not something someone else might say that makes me feel I need to be motivated in a different way. I'm a self-motivated guy.

I have very high expectations out of myself.