Losing Motivation Quotes

The day I go out there and don't want to win is the day I will give up.

I play ten, twelve weeks out of the year, five times a week, and I really still love to do it. But that's not what I'm interested in doing now. Even though I love it.

New England has two factors to get them ready to play. They've consistently been, if not the best, the second best team all year and they're playing confidently. And a lot of those guys were on field when they lost to LA. They'll take motivation in that.

You forget why you're fighting - you can lose sight of why you're doing it all.

Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock.

I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.

I felt very low. I had been unmasked only that morning by Jay Cee herself, and I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I had about myself were coming true. After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of race.

I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.

I was doing good in school, but I didn't want to do school anymore.

The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

I'm over this thing of being champion, having the title.

The last sort of really low-key race I ran, I realized with about a hundred metres to go, that my heart just wasn't in it. I wasn't trying my hardest, I didn't care to compete against the girls I was up against. That spoke a lot about where my heart was taking me-which was off the track.