Be around people who can keep your energy and inspiration high. While you can make progress alone, it's so much easier when you have support.
The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
Today, financial capital is no longer the key asset. It is human capital. Success is no longer about economic competence as the main leverage. It is about emotional intelligence. It is no longer about controls. It is about collaboration. It is no longer about hierarchies. It is about leading through networks. It is no longer about aligning people through structures and spreadsheets. It is about aligning them through meaning and purpose. It is no longer about developing followers. It is about developing leaders.
Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself. You always have to have fun. You have to have an open mind. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. Life's too short.
When you pull on that jersey, you represent yourself and your teammates, and the name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back. Get that through your head!
You cannot soar with the eagles as long as you hang out with the turkeys.
My only obligation is to my characters. And they came from where I have been.
Society may predict, but only I can determine my destiny.
Don't let anything stop you. There will be times when you'll be disappointed, but you can't stop. Make yourself the best that you can make out of what you are. The very best.
You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.
Your friends may influence your decisions even more than your parents will.
Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
The life of your dreams, everything you would love to be, do or have, has always been closer to you than you knew, because the power to everything you want is inside you.
You're gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you've ever dreamed. But when it's over, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. DO IT!
Saying that you don’t have time to improve your thoughts and your life is like saying you don’t have time to stop for gas because you’re too busy driving. Eventually it will catch up with you.