Motivation Strategies Quotes

Pep is not the best coach in the world. I prefer Mourinho. He is the No.1, because Mourinho is more transparent and more direct than Guardiola.

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

Coaching people, people act differently, respond differently, hear things differently from different people.

Every manager is different in one way or another, but what stays the same is coaching Barcelona players - players who want the ball, who want to be protagonists on the field - so each manager who's been here has been able to take advantage of that, and, luckily, I feel we've become more complete because of it.

I try not to make comparisons between who I've coached. And I haven't always coached the best in the world.

As a coach, when it comes to football players, we're trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we're trying to change their behavior and make them better.

The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people.

Normally I keep criticism of my players inside but sometimes people need to know what the manager is thinking.

When a coach loses a team... that's when a coach is kind of done.

Step by step, you make your way forward. That’s why practices such as daily writing exercises or keeping a daily blog can be so helpful. You see yourself do the work, which shows you that you can do the work. Progress is reassuring and inspiring; panic and then despair set in when you find yourself getting nothing done day after day. One of the painful ironies of work life is that the anxiety of procrastination often makes people even less likely to buckle down in the future.

My name is an acronym for EA - EA All Day. It's a persona that I developed over the years in sports as a caricature of myself. On the field, in practice, in the weight room, I was just a character and a personality.

There's so many great things I learned at Mizzou. I took a sports psychology class. It was kind of eye-opening on certain different ways to look at things.

Successful state schools work because charismatic heads or teachers are terrific bluffers, giving the impression that they are to be feared while knowing in their hearts that they have no real power.

I realize that there are many variables outside my control in my quest, but focusing on the big goal down the road really motivates me. To help me stay focused, I set micro-goals such as races or training achievements that bring me one step closer to being at my best for major goals

I had come across a few sports psychologists, and I had no time for nearly all of them. I just don't think they work in a team environment.

At the beginning of my career, I wasn't coaching players like Messi.

Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.

I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating.

Customers are using BetterWorks in a number of creative ways to reward and incentivize employees.

Two primary ways to keep volunteers motivated - Food and T-shirts.

When I started running, the pain barrier was very familiar to me, and I had no problem pushing beyond the pain. When for your whole life, every single workout, you are programmed to push beyond belief, it's really hard to just turn that off and kind of just be a social competitor.

It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

Something that is unique to coaching young people is there is such a range of talent, skill development and personality. And it's important to coach age-appropriately. You want to instill the fundamentals, always. But the right fundamentals.

For working with non-professional actors, you have to have this particular desire to work with people who are reluctant to play in a movie. I like this relationship. I'm like a recruiter, an employment agency giving someone employment.