Tim Grover > Quotes

“From this point, your strategy is to make everyone else get on your level, you’re not going down to theirs. You’re not competing with anyone else, ever again. They’re going to have to compete with you.”
―  Tim Grover

“There are four components of Winning that determine how you’ll manage your fears and doubts and make that leap, or if you’ll make it at all.

Talent.
Intelligence.
Competitiveness.
Resilience.

It’s possible to get a win with just three of these, and I suppose in very rare cases, you might be able to stumble into a win with just one or two, if a thousand other things are going in your favor at the same time.
But to win at the highest level, over and over, in all areas of your life—career, finances, health, family, whatever else you value—you need all four.

Very few people have all four.”
― Tim Grover, WINNING: Wie du den kompromisslosen Wettlauf zu wahrer Größe gewinnst

“You can stay in the middle, perfectly balanced, and walk away. Back to safety, back to neutral. Not here or there, not forward or back, not up or down. You’re not alone anymore, because everyone else is in the middle with you, where no decisions or commitments are made.

It’s nice. It’s calm. But it sure as hell ain’t Winning.”
― Tim Grover

“Confidence is the ultimate drug.”
― Tim Grover, WINNING: Wie du den kompromisslosen Wettlauf zu wahrer Größe gewinnst

“MJ understood this better than most, as well as the essential return to hell; it’s one of the things that made him great. Early in his career, he knew the hell of being physically beaten on the court by the Detroit Pistons. He knew the hell of building up his body until he was so strong he no longer had to take the abuse. He was in the league seven seasons—yes, seven—before finally getting to paradise, for the first of his six dances with Winning.”
― Tim Grover

“Confidence is the ultimate drug, and Winning is the dealer. It’s the cure for doubt and insecurity and panic and low self-esteem, the antidote to the free fall you experience when you’re losing control, the vaccine for fear and weakness. But there’s no prescription for it, and no one can give it to you. Either you feel it deep in your gut and bring it out, or you don’t.”
― Tim Grover, WINNING: Wie du den kompromisslosen Wettlauf zu wahrer Größe gewinnst

“There are four components of Winning that determine how you’ll manage your fears and doubts and make that leap, or if you’ll make it at all.

Talent.
Intelligence.
Competitiveness.
Resilience.

It’s possible to get a win with just three of these, and I suppose in very rare cases, you might be able to stumble into a win with just one or two, if a thousand other things are going in your favor at the same time.
But to win at the highest level, over and over, in all areas of your life—career, finances, health, family, whatever else you value—you need all four.
Very few people have all four.”
― Tim Grover

“Confident people are their own special breed of killers; you can’t break them because they’ve already been broken, over and over. That’s how they became so confident in the first place: not from others telling them how good they are and throwing confetti and parades, but by being pushed down and kicked and laughed at, and by learning for themselves how strong and powerful they really are. By being in the worst possible situation, and having the confidence to believe: We’re getting out of this mess.”
― Tim Grover