Olympic Quotes

Success is a decision, not a gift.

~ Steve Backley

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

~ Steve Backley

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

~ Steve Backley

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

~ Steve Backley

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

~ Steve Backley

The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.

~ Steve Backley

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?

~ Steve Backley

Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision.

~ Steve Backley

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.

~ Steve Backley

If obstacles are large, jump higher.

~ Steve Backley

Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.

~ Steve Backley

Act like a champion, and then become one.

~ Steve Backley

It is action that creates motivation.

~ Steve Backley

If not now, when?

~ Steve Backley

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

~ Steve Backley

If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.

~ Steve Backley

If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen.

~ Steve Backley

Nothing could be any worse than having to turn to your friends, your colleagues and your loved ones and say –‘I gave up too soon’.

~ Steve Backley

Do you want to know what one of the secrets to achieving all of your goals is? You’ve got to be committed.

~ Steve Backley

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

~ Steve Backley

Success is simply never giving in to failure - either in mind or body.

~ Steve Backley

It is one thing to know what should be done, it is another to do it.

~ Steve Backley

If not you, who?

~ Steve Backley

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.

~ Steve Backley

Mix with positive-minded people as a means to tap into your unexploited potential.

~ Steve Backley

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

~ Steve Backley

See it, feel it, trust it!

~ Steve Backley

Just identify the very first physical action you need to take, and do it.

~ Steve Backley

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.

~ Steve Backley

If you are able to focus unswervingly on your goals, then all that you desire will become yours.

~ Steve Backley

The sprint is like life ... blink and you miss it.

~ Steve Backley

If you have positive energy you will always attract positive outcomes.

~ Steve Backley

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.

~ Steve Backley

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.

~ Steve Backley

Invest your energy in the things you can control.

~ Steve Backley

See it first in your mind, then become it.

~ Steve Backley

Explore. Train your conscious mind and your subconscious mind to start working for you by getting those great powers to move in a new direction. Start creating your own good luck today.

~ Steve Backley

To think is good. To obsess is bad.

~ Steve Backley

Lucky people will focus on what’s in front of them rather than scrabbling about for what they’re searching for.

~ Steve Backley

Every time a champion makes a decision they have a chance to learn something new, regardless of the outcome.

~ Steve Backley