Coach Quotes

“Job dissatisfaction is the number one factor in whether you survive your first heart attack.”

“Anything can be achieved with a strong enough why!”

“Marry a man / woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.”

“If I’m committed, there is always a way.”

“To help other people, you've got to be able to help yourself. You go to a psychiatrist, and they're on this Prozac, Effexor, and antidepressants, you may have picked the wrong person. If you go to somebody who's broke who's selling you financial services, that might not be a good thing. You go to somebody who's fat to help you lose weight... And a lot of people ironically do these types of things.”

“I remember reading about the astounding number of people in this country who die within three years of retiring, which proves to me that if you lose the sense that you are producing or contributing in some way, you literally lose the will to live, and that if you do have a reason to hang on, you will.”

“My view is my entire life has been shaped by giving when I didn't have it. Some idiot who's wealthy and doesn't give, they'll rot in their own selfishness. I'm not worried about them. What I'm really interested in is the day-to-day person, human beings who want to go to another level of their life.”

“Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.”

“Your imagination is ten times more potent than your willpower. Unleashed, it provides a sense of certainty and tenacious vision that goes far beyond any limitation of the past.”

“I can't give other people what I've not experienced to some extent myself. It sharpens your game and also, like any athlete, you're more fit because you have to be. You're getting ready because you have a reason to.”

“The most powerful force in the human psyche is people's need for their words and actions to stay consistent with their IDENTITY - how we define ourselves.”

“Knowledge is NOT power. Knowledge is only POTENTIAL power. Action is power.”

“Who you spend time with is who you become! Change your life by consciously choosing to surround yourself with people with higher standards!”

“Whatever people do, they do for a reason and they think that it meets their needs....by their perception.”

“Common sense is not too common.”

“You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.”

“What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences.”

“People say it takes 10 years to change your life. It's bullshit. It takes a moment, a second. But it may take you 10 years to get to the point of finally saying, "Enough."”

“Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.”

“When you hit a plateau you have to be willing to get a little bit worse before you get massively better.”

“All decision-making is a values-clarifying exercise.”

“How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.”

“In order to be happy, human beings must feel they are continuing to grow. Clearly, we must adopt the concept of continuous improvement as a daily principle.”

“There is always a place in the world for those who are willing to give of their time, energy, capital, creativity, and commitment.”

“Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of great people taught me, as I said, that even eminent people fail but keep getting up.”