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I motivate players through communication, being honest with them, having them respect and appreciate your ability and your help.

Tommy Lasorda

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

Mike Ditka

No one's really better than the others. We just try to work together and motivate each other.

Mike Burns

Even with our best efforts to motivate our folks, it was difficult to get people out to vote.

Christian Anderson

The best way to try to motivate somebody is by being direct with them. To be honest with them. Lies are never the right way to get your message across.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

We want (to win) on our own. The coaches want it and we want it - they don't have to motivate us as much.

Christina Kirkaldy

No one can motivate you to do anything. You motivate yourself, based on information you receive and how directly you can relate it to your own potential achievement.

Mark Barnes

To motivate man is to move a mountain!

Gillis Triplett

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

Lee Iacocca

I thought the offense could do something because they are so talented, that (the defense) would motivate them with our stops, but then I'm not down on them. If (the offense) messes up, I'll fight for them. They're my brothers, and I'll fight for my brothers.

Terrence Royal

It's really a hard thing to get going. It's hard to motivate a district that has a limited amount of funding. Doing a life-cycle cost analysis may add 40, 50 or 60 thousand dollars to the cost. Carrying out the recommendation from the analysis could add an even more considerable sum.

Don Carney

While we must remain determined to defeat terrorism, it isn't only terrorism we are fighting. It's the beliefs that motivate terrorists. A new ideology of hatred and intolerance has arisen to challenge America and liberal democracy.

Senator John Kerry

It definitely had an impact on the team and brought us closer together. He is taking the role he has to, doing what he can to help motivate us.

Brett Moyer

You never have to worry about motivation with coach Meyer. He always has that part covered. He's going to motivate you, he's going to get you going. If he can't, then nobody can.

Tate Casey

Our mission is to tell their history, to keep the memory of the Tuskegee Airmen alive. We also want to motivate children to go into careers in aviation.

Joyce Mason

I really don't think Tracy meant harm with it. If anything, what he was trying to do was help motivate his players more than anything else.

Mark Karen

The opening-up (of the financial sector) will bring mounting pressure on the domestic banks, which will motivate them to improve their management.

Lazaro Campos

We have a great group of coaches in track. They motivate us and allow us to have fun while also pushing us to be the best we can.

Art Linares

Now we know what it feels like to be here. We know what we want to do next year. Now we see how it is losing. So it will kind of motivate us to win it.

Abyee Maracigan

I think it's more for the high school or college kids and I'm way past that. I never really paid attention to it, and I don't know what would motivate a man to apply or keep away.

Michael Silverstein

I use that to motivate them. Especially at our home gym. If our kids want to challenge for league, they have to win at home. I try to use every angle to motivate the kids.

Tony Lopez

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

John C. Maxwell

It's difficult to motivate players with nothing at stake.

Ronnie Mcfall

We know that he is a good receiver, probably the best in the business this year. We're going to use that as a challenge and motivate ourselves.

Corey Webster

We want to stimulate, motivate and encourage the associations by inviting them to join the Charter, and then getting as much out of it as they can. UEFA will help them achieve their grassroots objectives.

Andy Roxburgh

Flavio understands business and he understands how to motivate people.

Mike Gascoyne

I'm over it now. I'll let it motivate me for states.

Matt Moley

We gave it a great run. We had a great ride for the seniors. This is going to motivate us so much to get back here next year.

Cassie Schrock

Even before Merrill Lynch made its announcement, there was competition to add more bells and whistles to your Web site. Merrill's decision will definitely motivate fund companies even more.

Catherine Hickey

I just love football and the fans, coach Vermeil and my son motivate me.

Dante Hall

We do things to motivate [the students]. It's a lot of pressure, and we try to make it easier for them.

Deb Wallace

It was asking a lot of these kids. The pressures were very demanding and we needed something to motivate them to participate.

Pat Phillips

It is a challenge to keep them motivated, but they motivate themselves. We just approach it that everybody that swims brings out the best in each other.

Matthew Williams

The intensity numbers, if properly measured, are really important. Preference numbers don't amount to much because without intensity, the preference doesn't motivate anybody to act.

Morton Blackwell

If you're in the merchandising business, you have to have people expert in merchandising. You need to motivate people to get the job done. Not everybody can do that.

Allen Questrom

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

Robert H. Schuller

Coach Tharp tells us that we're young adults doing something we love. It's really not that hard to motivate yourself.

Kyle Macgillis

It's definitely added motivation. Everybody looks at me as the guy that has to work hard and motivate the young players.

Derek Kinder

A big crowd really helped us at sectionals. It helps motivate our kids and perhaps intimidates others. It is great to have a big fan following.

Kent Kersten

Definitely, it's very inspiring. He was within grasp of a medal. It should motivate us for tomorrow.

Lanny Barnes

Our team was maybe a little satisfied coming into the game. Right now we're just trying to find something to motivate them (again).

Tony Vis

That was done to motivate him.

Brent Stroh

Although, it's under tragic circumstances I'm here, I just hope this will be able to motivate Tykala to keep working hard in achieving her goals.

Allison Feaster

There's a lot more focus at practice. It's a little easier to motivate them now.

Jon Haas

Maybe this is a wakeup call for us, too, to say `Hey, we're shaking things up,' and, hopefully, it can help motivate us.

Jason Bay

I kind of just motivate myself. I do it because I want to be a role model - to show no matter where you come from (you can help).

Roni Dixon

It's an incredibly emotive issue. This is something that really upset Afghans. But it is also being used to agitate and motivate the crowds by those against the government and foreign forces being here.

Joanna Nathan

This is an inspiration to me. It will motivate me to continue the work I've been doing for so long. I'm working to make my community better. All of my work is volunteer work.

Mary Smith

It's going to motivate us all to stay clean, ... because of the embarrassment and shame that comes to the sport with doing drugs.

Sanya Richards

Joe Schmidt, he couldn't motivate a frog.

Howard Cosell

This is how these companies are trying to take advantage of the upheaval in the industry. They are trying to motivate a company to leave their existing software.

Sheryl Kingstone

I'm really sick of the feeling of going to state and losing; it's a really bad feeling. We haven't lost much here, but all the seniors have losses. We know the feeling of losing, and that will really help at state. It will really motivate us a lot.

Ashley Bell

We showed that to our kids. We use whatever we can to motivate them.

Fred Ross

It's good, because now everyone knows it's possible. As coaches, you can always motivate that way. Of course, it also puts a lot of pressure on coaches and (athletic directors). They can say, 'We have all the resources they have, why can't we do that?' But it's great for college basketball.

Scott Cherry

It's with me when I work out, all the time. It helps motivate me a lot.

Carla Kelly

He is able to motivate a team as well as anyone I've seen. Any coach you hire should be competitive and intense, but his intensity is at a higher level. He just hates to lose, and he knows how to get the most out of his kids.

Dick Woods

We motivate one another. If someone's not here, we make sure they get their homework.

Phyllis Hayes

We work hard to motivate them. Through the year they gain interest and their confidence level is high.

Amy Jones

Gilchrist has the most emotional issue. A lot of people hate illegal immigration. And on that issue alone he is going to be able to motivate (voters). There's a lot of frustration and nobody is coming up with any answers.

Allan Hoffenblum

I have no idea what would motivate anybody to hurt a guy like this.

Paul Vance

We all have a civic duty, but money seems to motivate some people.

Chris Palmer

It really seems to [motivate him].

Greg Paulus

Hopefully, this will motivate them to work harder. We gave up two errors in the first inning and gave up two runs, so that set the tone.

Rick Bonnell

Its been a wonderful challenge. Challenges motivate me. I've been absolutely pleased to come on.

Gavin Stevens

There have been no Vince Lombardi speeches, no gimmick stats. We haven't had to motivate them that way, they do it intrinsically, they want to dive on the floor.

Dan Judd

Each set of supporters will be trying to see who can motivate their team the most.

Brian Rose

We were hearing what some of their CD's, what they were saying on some of their CD's and frankly it got the ire up a little bit of some of the local police agencies. And that really helped to motivate everyone in terms of getting going on this investigation.

Michael Arcuri

These kids are children a lot of people disregard. They have a dream, too. They need someone to motivate them and help them in order to break the cycles.

Mike Irwin

I'm going to try to empower my guys to help teach, to help motivate, to help encourage them, to help these guys when they have a bad stretch to keep their confidence up.

Sam Mitchell

We've got 10 forwards and four defenders, so we'll be all right. The guys have to be smart. The goaltenders have to step up, and my job is to motivate the guys we have.

Jeff Pyle

Our goal is to motivate people to get up off their buts and take action.

Turk Pipkin

When they hear a group, a school, cheering for them down here, that might motivate them to go faster and faster. Yeah, it really means a lot to me, because I don't know if I'd be able to do that, if I was missing a leg or an arm or something.

Christian Vaughan

I just couldn't motivate myself to go to a job. I have bouts of emotional troubles.

Connie Guthrie

[The] coach is wearing Penn State gear to motivate her team to beat us.

Meredith Hoover

I know that it's in them. We saw today what we've been expecting. But it's, when is it going to come consistently? They're the ones that are going to have to answer that. You gain confidence through success and this has to be something to motivate them and encourage them. You've got to understand how you won games.

Sharon Fanning

With a lot of people doubting us, that's going to motivate us. We expect to contend. Just because we have a young team doesn't mean we don't have a shot.

Chris Resop

If you tell kids to exercise, they don't see it as fun. They see video games as fun. The idea is to use an activity kids find enjoyable to motivate them to exercise.

George Graham

We don't like to see any hits like that from either team. But whatever we use to motivate us won't come from the other team. It will come from us.

Melody Davidson

We're hoping and praying that this will motivate someone to come forward.

Brenda Van Dam

The coach told me that if I work hard, I'll probably be able to earn a starting spot. So, that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to work hard and try to motivate myself.

Kristin Burton

If they're got an eye on that basketball, it'll motivate them to reach their goals.

Amy Fessler

They say stats are for losers and I guess that's what it was. Because we were concerned about where we ranked on defense because if we didn't have something to motivate us, we would have been as lackluster as our offense.

Eugene Robinson

I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.

Ernie Banks

The sophomore class, they lead the pack, they lead by example. They'll motivate the older guys.

Eric Swensen