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“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”

“I hated motivators - never been a motivator. Motivation is like a warm bath, and you should take a bath probably, but you need more than that; you need strategy. I was a strategist, but nobody responded to that, so I was, like, "OK, what am I? I'm a coach. I'm not a guru." As an athlete, I had great coaches, and I was a better athlete than many of them, but they still were better than I was as a coach because they could see when I couldn't see. I thought, that's great, because I'm not better than anybody, but I do have the skills that I can help people.”

“In 1997, when I started as a professional athlete, my sport was not like it is now. I needed to develop myself to beat the next generation, but things also changed in the sport. Bikes have changed, the sport has gotten faster, and it's becoming more professional. But my goal always was to try to be one step in front of all the others. That was my motivation. That helped me to work every day during the year, and very hard. And it never stopped.”

“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.”

“If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?”

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”

“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.”

“Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.”

“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”

“It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.”

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

“I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.”

“Success isn't winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can't control all of them. Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren't necessarily the most wonderful athletes. I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.”

“Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That's the challenge: To be afraid and know people are staring at you and know you might not do all that well, but you do it anyway. What singles out the successful athlete from the ones who never make it past a plateau, it that successful athletes risk failure, even though they are terrified.”

“You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.”