#allegorical

"A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed."

"Compete like you cannot fail."

"Your current apathy is simply your soul telling you that it is confused."

"Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts."

"The challenge for you is to decide not what is important, but what is most important and then focus your attention on that."

"You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them."

"If you decide not to take action, you are going to fail, and even if you do take action, if you can’t keep up your motivation, you will simply end up back where you started."

"Act like a champion, and then become one."

"You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive."

"The first step is the most important. It is the most crucial and the most effective as it will initiate the direction you have chosen."

"See it, feel it, trust it!"

"They don’t give Olympic medals out for talking a good game."

"To think is good. To obsess is bad."

"It is never about who is right or wrong, it is about what is best."

"Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions."

"It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum."

"Remember, if you don’t do anything – if you don’t change the way your mind works and direct your subconscious mind to create the life you want – then everything stays the same, nothing changes."

"There are three types of people in this world. Firstly, there are people who make things happen. Then there are people who watch things happen. Lastly, there are people who ask, what happened? Which do you want to be?"

"The only test is what you see when you look in a mirror."

"Look for solutions, instead of being difficult; be more thoughtful, instead of allowing anger to burn you out. Look at things from a different perspective, embrace change, look out for opportunities and you will feel much more in control."