Barry Alvarez Quotes
We certainly haven't used that as a motivation, ... The games themselves and the time that they've put in in preparation for these games is motivation enough. I don't think that has anything to do with it at all.
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My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.
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My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?
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When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'
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Of course managers win ball games.
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And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star.
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My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.
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I think plenty of games - from 'Thief' to 'Zelda' - have shown that sneaking around can be fun.
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I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.
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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
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Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious.
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The pressure of the Olympic Games is real overwhelming.
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Before I got into electronic games, I was making table-top games.
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Qualifying for the Olympic Games was one of those moments where you just cry because it was like you've climbed Mount Everest.
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I never used any outside influence to advance my career. All I had was the inner urge to seek more within myself. The key to my motivation has always been to look at how far I had still to go rather than how far I had come.
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I have enough motivation just not looking like an idiot on national television. The fear of disappointing people is certainly higher.
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My motivation was an idea of being able to improve the conditions of life, to try to find a remedy to many of the problems facing the world. That's what led me into economics. I saw it as a way of helping people.
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I was learning the craft; I didn't study writing in school. Rejection was my motivation, and failure is what taught me.
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Music can be useful during training to help get you psyched, and I still listen to music on easy climbs or in the gym. But during cutting-edge solos or really hard climbs, I unplug. There shouldn't be a need for extra motivation on big days, be it music or anything else. It should come from within.
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What I have in me... it's not hard, and it's not cold, and it's not fierce ambition, that's not what it is. It's a drive [for success], but it's not a drive...it's being driven, it's something I have no control over. It's something pushing me, I'm not pushing myself.
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The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.
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The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church, is enough to turn anyone into a budding gastronome
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If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.
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We certainly haven't used that as a motivation, ... The games themselves and the time that they've put in in preparation for these games is motivation enough. I don't think that has anything to do with it at all.
