“When you feel that pressure inside of you and it's very heavy, you're motivated. You feel it. I've got to get up in the morning. I've got to do this. I've got to accomplish this. When that pressure goes away and you don't feel any pressure in your life, you can do anything and there's no consequences for it. You'll just waste time. You'll waste years, you'll waste months, you'll never accomplish anything. You give somebody a deadline, right? They'll accomplish in two months what it would take somebody two years to do without a deadline. It's that necessity. It's that sense of, there's a sword at my back. I've got to get it done. It makes you get things done. It gives you the energy”

“The human condition to be average. It's not to be as good as you can be. You know, it's the human condition to survive, just get along, be average. It's why, when a kid makes an A on the midterm, he misses two weeks of class or doesn't go or try, thinking if I get a C on the next test, I still have a B average. Lots of people think that way. That's normal. So when you get one that comes out for football and he thinks that way, don't think he's got something wrong with him. He's normal. What we do to get him to play hard, to play tough all the time, to give effort, it's special. It's special to get somebody to be the best that they can be to understand the work ethic and how important it is to earn it and you reap what you sow.”

“I had big dreams. A lot of us have big dreams, big goals. And when you have goals that are maybe outside your reach, you have to know that getting to that goal, you're gonna have a lot of bad days, a lot of setbacks. When I was losing 106 pounds in three months, the first two months or first two weeks, it's like I was gaining weight, you know, I would lose a pound, gain two. So I was just failing. I kept failing and kept failing and kept failing. So I had to teach myself how to fail right. And what that means is, when I fail, I can't spend much time in that fail zone. I have to be able to get up and get after the next day just as fast, because my goals were to be a Navy SEAL. I don't have time to stay here and feel bad myself for weeks and months and years, because I'll lose that time. So the big thing is, know that if you have big goals and big dreams, along the way, failure is going to happen. So how fast do you get up from that? You gotta teach yourself that.”

“You can bypass almost all advice you ever receive by operating with 3 basic principles:

1) I choose to simply refuse to quit until I get there. I will win on a long enough timeline, if i do not stop moving foward.

2) Every obstacle I come into contact with is a skill issue. This is a blessing, because it means I have the power to overcome it - I just need to figure it out.

3) I have the power to figure out EVERYTHING i need to figure out, as it comes. Too much planning is useless - as God is the one with the real plan. My adaptability, agility & speed will get me there QUICKER as I use the winds of new data as thrust to get me there faster.

The entire game is re-framing what most consider negatives into positives that make you MORE powerful.

IF you can truly attach these onto your being - WINNING simply becomes a matter of time.

"If you sit by the river for long enough, you will see the body of your enemies floating by"

Achieving what you want is largely a game of attrition.

Get moving NOW, & DO NOT quit.”

“The moral of this story is simple, when an animal depends on humans for food, its wit will be taken away, and then it will be in trouble. The same situation applies to human beings. If you want to make a person disabled, just give him a pair of crutches, and wait for a few months to achieve your goal.”

“Miss only a couple weeks of anything—workouts at the gym, affectionate gestures toward your spouse, or the phone calls that are part of your prospecting routine—and you don't simply lose the results those two weeks would have produced. If that's all you lost (which is what most people assume), not much damage would be done. But by slacking off, for even a short time, you killed Mo. It's dead. And that's a tragedy.”

“If you want to be rich you must make a pact with yourself about fear of anything. You cannot banish fear, but you can face it down, stomp on it, crush it, bury it, padlock it into the deepest recesses of your heart and soul and leave it there to rot.

Just try. Try for just a single day, a whole day when you refuse to acknowledge fear of failure, fear of making yourself look like an idiot, fear of losing your lover, fear of losing your job, fear of your boss, fear of anything and of any kind. Fear will creep back, usually at three in the morning. Laugh at it and tell it to take a hike. Smash it in the teeth. Spit on it. Put your arms round it and make nicey-nicey. Then slip a sharp blade into its stinking throat just as you're French-kissing it.”

“Hard work is really overrated. How hard you work matters a lot less in the modern economy. What is underrated? Judgment. Judgment is underrated.”