Top 200 Quotes & Sayings by Eric Thomas

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a footballer Eric Thomas.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Eric Thomas
Eric Thomas
Footballer
Born: September 11, 1965
To be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what you are, for what you will become
Success does not require you to look out the window, It only requires that you look in the mirror
Don't expect front row seats if you're giving nosebleed effort. — © Eric Thomas
Don't expect front row seats if you're giving nosebleed effort.
FORGET ABOUT YOUR PAST! MAKE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE THE BEST OF YOUR LIFE!
No Alarm Clock Needed. My Passion Wakes Me.
Make a commitment to your self that today, success is your only options! No matter the obstacles, no matter the sacrifice! you have decided you won't be denied, you won't be defeated!
You cannot cheat success! Gotta work for it! You gotta breathe it! Sleep it! Eat it!
The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.
You have to take advantage of the opportunity of a lifetime in the lifetime of the opportunity.
Go Fast! Go Hard! Finish! And Win the Day!
Every morning I wake up, it's kind of like wow, I don't know what happened or how it happened, I can't put my finger on it, but I'm grateful. I'm grateful to be alive. To spend one more day with my family. One more day to make my dreams become a reality. One more day to help somebody. So the first thought on my mind is, thank you god for another day.
Greatness is a lot of small things done well.
Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions. — © Eric Thomas
Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions.
Those who want success should think like a planter. They should understand that having the right seed is an essential key to success, but they must also understand that the soil that they entrust to the seed is just as vital Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?.
Remember, a negative multiplied by a negative is only positive in maths, not in the real world
You can change environments, but until you change yourself, nothing else will ever change.
When all your energy gone! When you have nothing left! That's when it's show time!
If you can look up, you can get up.
To be successful is never convenient. The things you have to go through, it's never convenient.
No matter how hard the battle gets or no matter how many people DON'T believe in your dream,Never give up!
When you have something good... When you have something good, you don't play with it! You don't take chances with it! You don't take risks with it! When you got something good, you get every single thing you can get out of it! Because guess what? When you take care of something good, that something good takes care of you.
You have to want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe!
You will never ever be successful until you turn your pain into greatness, until you allow your pain to push you from where you are to push you to where you need to be. Stop running from your pain and embrace your pain. Your pain is going to be a part of your prize, a part of your product. I challenge you to push yourself.
When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you'll be successful.
Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.
You will not experience all life has to offer you or begin to experience life at its fullest as long as you are satisfied with mediocrity. You have to be disgusted with your current circumstances before your circumstances can change.
When you find your why, you find a way to make it happen.
The difference between those who succeed and fail: not taking advantage of opportunities.
Life happens to all of us. It's not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us that really decides if we're going to be victims or if we're going to get and have everything we've ever dreamed of.
I was born to speak. I got in trouble as a kid for talking. I already knew it was a strength.
Your relationships will either make you or break you and there is no such thing as a neutral relationship. People either inspire you to greatness or pull you down in the gutter, it’s that simple. No one fails alone, and no one succeeds alone.
Stop looking for permission to pursue your dreams! They are YOUR dreams and you don't need a co-signer to chase them!
If you are going to win the fight of your life, you can't be afraid to fight.
When your effort is low, you're probably not thinking about the opportunity, you're thinking about the obligation.
Fall in love with the process, and the results will come.
Success is not for the weak and uncommitted... Sometimes it's gonna hurt!
You can't sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful.
I challenge you. Be obsessed with improvement! — © Eric Thomas
I challenge you. Be obsessed with improvement!
I challenge you to be the best you can be! I challenge you to behave in ways you've never behaved.
Be phenomenal or be forgotten!
Some of you, your success has messed you up! You've lost your bite! You're not hungry anymore!
Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?
I don't ever want you to settle for another average day in your life.
Knowledge isn't power, applied knowledge is power
Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.
Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.
Where there is no struggle, there is absolutely no progress — © Eric Thomas
Where there is no struggle, there is absolutely no progress
Character is like my fingerprint; it identifies me from everyone else in the world. It says who I am and where I am headed.
Sometimes it ain’t about being the most talented. Sometimes it ain’t about being the smartest. Sometimes it’s not even about working the hardest. Sometimes it’s about consistency! Consistency!
If you willing to put in that sweat! Blood! And tears! I'm telling you! You can have, be and do what you want!
You might be smarter, your family might come from privilege, your daddy might own a company, but YOU WILL NOT OUT WORK ME!
Recycle your pain, allow your pain to reach you to greatness.
It's realizing that a great dream is not as good as a great memory. The dream can be had by anyone. The memory - must be made.
I’m discovering that the people that wake up early are really the trendsetters. They are up giving the commands on what the whole world needs to do, so the worker wakes up at 8AM, but the dreamer, the innovator, the creator, the engineer is up at 3 or 4 in the morning making it happen.
Don't think about what can happen in a month. Don't think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be!
If you are not where you want to be DO NOT QUIT, instead reinvent yourself and change your habits.
At some point in life you have to face your fears.
The difference between average and good. Good and Great! Great and Phenomenal! It's their mindset!
You can't live off potential for the rest of your life. So get up, get out and go get you some!
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