Motivation Techniques Quotes

Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator.

It never really worked for me to have long arguments about motivation.

Guardiola improved me a lot as a footballer. He taught me a lot of things, and that's why, in every interview I'm asked, I always say the same thing: He is the best manager that I have worked with.

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

You need new ways to keep motivating yourself, and creative ways are part of the formula.

This was how Johan Cruyff worked. He was demanding a lot, but when you got there, and you were in his team, he was an incredible protector. He would push and push you, and then he would protect you. He was a master at handling players. He knew when you needed to be pushed or protected.

There's no better example of how to lead a difficult employee than to have a child. You have another kind of knowledge from your children that's actually applicable outside of childbearing.

Passion produces the best discipline.

The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.

From our perspective, the most important thing is what you do with the players, how you handle them, your ability to communicate with them.

I've walked on hot coals with Tony Robbins.

You cannot force commitment, what you can do…You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model. Your primary influence is the environment you create.

So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is coaching.

The competent leader of men cares little for the niceties of other peoples' characters: he cares much--everything--for the exterior uses to which they may be put.... These are men to be moved. How should he move them? He supplies the power; others simply the materials on which that power operates.

Coaching is not how much you know. It's how much you can get players to do.

You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.

I always try to find something to motivate me to be a better player.

I get bored of training easily. I constantly need something to invigorate me, which will get me to hit the gym.

I think if you can be a goal-setting person, it makes it easier to stay motivated.

You can rule by fear but it's not a great motivation for people.

I have worked under several coaches and wish to appreciate each one of them. Jurgen Klopp, though, has helped me improve. He knows how to push you into performing; he knows exactly what should happen.

I think the biggest thing, even from Day 1 after the draft, was coach DeFillipo being very detailed with everything.

I am big on writing to-do lists and having new goals to reach all the time, as it keeps me motivated and inspired.

The managers I've known all had their own specific way of working.

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. Their relevance to a future usefulness need not be obvious. It is a difficult assignment. The conditions the teacher arranges must be powerful enough to compete with those under which the student tends to behave in distracting ways.