#Drive Quotes

“Motivation is the spark that lights the fire of knowledge and fuels the engine of accomplishment, it maximizes and maintains momentum”

“Desire is the mother of motivation because that is where your motivation is born.”

“When you have passion for something you find a way to make it happen - this is the panacea to success.”

“Motivation is the fuel, necessary to keep the human engine running.”

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

“There is a difference between motivation and inspiration. Motivation is when you get hold of an idea and don't let go of it until you make it a reality. Inspiration is the reverse-when an idea gets hold of you and you feel compelled to let that impulse or energy carry you along. You get to a point where you realize that you're no longer in charge, that there's a driving force inside you that can't be stopped.”

“Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.”

“There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.”

“I happen to be kind of an inquisitive guy and when I see things I don't like, I start thinking, why do they have to be like this and how can I improve them?”

“Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.”

“I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going.”

“I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.”

“I'm doing this because I want to do it better.”

“Brains without competitive hearts are rudderless.”

“To play this game (football) you must have fire in you, and there is nothing that strokes fire like hate.”

“If you're not first, you're last.”

“I always have to be writing.”

“The lion is most handsome when looking for food.”

“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”

“The world belongs to the energetic.”

“The single minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers”

“History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.”

“I am exhausted if I don't work.”

“First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you.”

“Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.”

“What keeps me going is goals.”

“But my drive to win is so great ... I just step over that line. ... It's very embarrassing, ... one of the things you totally regret. So you look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'I was stupid.'”

“I'll quit competing when my heart quits beating”

“I just feel that my competitive drive is far greater than anyone else that I've met, and I think that I thrive on that.”

“Even though, physically, I can't do it, the mind says, 'Yeah, I can still do it,' and I still think I can do it better than most in the NBA, … Driven From Within.”

“I was aware of my success, but I never stopped trying to get better.”

“All I knew is that I NEVER wanted to be AVERAGE.”

“I didn't come here to be average.”

“I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.”

“When I play against someone that's new in the league, I make him respect me. They may have heard about me, but now you get to see me actually in front of you. That drives me.”

“I play to win, whether during practice or a real game.”

“I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.”

“Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.”

“I'm on the pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum.”

“What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection... and if I don't get it, I'm going to get this close.”

“The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.”

“I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you. I don't want to understand you.”

“People just don't understand how obsessed I am with winning.”

“I wanna be the best, simple and plain”

“Each moment of my life I was dreaming of how great I could be, and continued working hard. Each time I closed my eyes I could see me shining bright like a sun.”

“I'm chasing perfection.”

“The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.”

“I think my vice would be outdoing myself.”

“People ask me a lot about my drive. I think it comes from, like, having a sexual addiction at a really young age. Look at the drive that people have to get sex - to dress like this and get a haircut and be in the club in the freezing cold at 3 A.M., the places they go to pick up a girl. If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic”

“I ain't crazy, I'm just not satisfied.”