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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Again the pressure pushes me in the chair, shuts my eyes. I notice the dark red tongues of the flame outside the windows. I'm trying to memorize, fix all the feelings, the peculiarities of this descending, to tell those, who will be conquering space after me.
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Do something that surprises yourself cause if you don't surprise yourself, you're not going to surprise anybody else.
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There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.
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When scientists get old, they get interested in the brain, and I'm a little bit afraid I'm falling into that.
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I'm from an island, so I've always been near the water. I don't think I could live somewhere far from the sea.
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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.
