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the way to get the most out of those students was to let them be who they really were, not who others wanted them to be;
That is a Cleaner. You don’t have to love the hard work; you just have to crave the end result.
Still not satisfied. That is a Cleaner.
You just need to share their relentless drive for the end result. And let nothing stand in your way of achieving it.
He flew two thousand miles to hear these two words: Don’t think.
You already know what you have to do, and you know how to do it.
Being relentless means demanding more of yourself than anyone else could ever demand of you, knowing that every time you stop, you can still do more. You must do more. The minute your mind thinks, “Done,” your instincts say, “Next.”
Success isn’t the same as talent.
Michael wasn’t the best because he could fly through the air and make impossible shots; he was the best because he was relentless about winning,
“In order to have what you really want, you must first be who you really are.”
those who talk don’t know, and those who know don’t talk.
get your mind strong, so your body can follow.
Cleaners do the hardest things first, just to show there’s no task too big.
you have to be comfortable being uncomfortable. Every time you think you can’t, you have to do it anyway. That last mile, the last set, the last five minutes on the clock.
When your body is screaming and depleted and telling you, “No way, asshole,” you work harder and tell yourself, “Do it. Now.” You control your body, it does not control you.
My goal is to make it so challenging in the gym that everything that happens outside the gym seems easy.
choose between being uncomfortable because you’re overweight and sick, or uncomfortable because you’re sweating at the gym three times a week,
emotions make you weak.
You have to stop thinking.
They can’t find the Zone, they’re distracted by their own thought process, and they don’t trust themselves. They’re thinking about everything that can go wrong, thinking about what everyone else is doing, thinking instead of knowing, without a doubt, I got this.
Stop waiting to be taught something you already know.
A Closer thinks about what he wants; a Cleaner feels it.
Stop thinking. Stop waiting. You already know what to do.
control your dark side, don’t let it control you.
Clutch is about the last minute. Relentless is about every minute.
Stress is what brings you to life. Let it motivate you, make you work harder. Use it, don’t run from it.
there’s a difference between confidence and cockiness: confidence means recognizing something isn’t working and having the flexibility and knowledge to make adjustments; cockiness is the inability to admit when something isn’t working, and repeating the same mistakes over and over because you stubbornly can’t admit you’re wrong.
“I’m going for this, and if I’m wrong, I’ll make a change and I’ll still be fine.”
The most successful people are those with the instincts to respond quickly to anything, without having to go back to the drawing board,
puts them in situations where they can shine.
Thinking doesn’t achieve outcomes, only action does.
Good things come to those who wait. No, good things come to those who work.
you’re no longer dreaming about what you can do for the game, but what the game can do for you.
Anyone can start something. Few can finish.
The loudest guy in the room is the one with the most to prove, and no way to prove it.
When people start broadcasting what they’re going to do, and how great they’re going to be when they do it, it’s a sure sign they’re still trying to convince themselves.
That’s how you intimidate your opponents without saying a single word.
When you’re the guy at the top, you show others how to act, you don’t drop down to their level.
You can’t make things better until you stop making things worse.
A Cleaner is done when he says he’s done, not when you say he’s done.
No one starts at unstoppable. You fuck up, you figure it out, you trust yourself.
instinct is the most valuable tool you can possibly possess, because only you can decide whether to hear what the voice inside is telling you.
They anticipate failure; you anticipate opportunity.
The drive to close the gap between near-perfect and perfect is the difference between great and unstoppable.
You’ll have what you desire, but be prepared for the possibility that you’ll be standing alone because you had the balls to take the unpopular path and you went to extremes that others won’t ever understand.
You get this small window to be a legend, and you have the rest of your life to act like a kid, at any age. Push it as far as you can, and even if you make it until you’re thirty or thirty-five, you still have decades ahead to enjoy what you built for yourself.
