"If you have a coach helping you, developing your skills alongside you, that's when you're on your way to becoming not just a participant but achieving."

-- Lynn Davies

#Athlete Quotes #Skills Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.”
“I want to be with someone who wants to work as much as I do and who respects me like I respect him.”

Source : "Hellcats' star Ashley Tisdale and Aly Michalka talk boys and cheerleading in Seventeen" by Terri Schwartz, www.mtv.com. September 8, 2010.
“I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.”
“When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it any power of mine? Of course not. St. Paul says, 'What have you that you have not received and you who have received, why do you glory as if you had not?' But the secret of my power is that I have never in fifty-five years missed spending an hour in the presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. That's where the power comes from. That's where sermons are born. That's where every good thought is conceived.”
“We rise to a challenge and set a course. We take a decision. You put your mind to something. Just deciding to do it gets you halfway there. Daring to try.”

Source : Tim Winton (2009). “Breath”, p.133, Pan Macmillan
“My whole goal is just to keep myself motivated. If I'm motivated, if I'm on fire, it's going to catch with somebody else.”
“Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.”

Source : "Jimmy Dean: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2010.
“Self-reflection entails asking yourself questions about your values, assessing your strengths and failures, thinking about your perceptions and interactions with others, and imagining where you want to take your life in the future.”

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