Fired Up Quotes

• You gotta risk it to get the biscuit.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Risk, Biscuits, Risk It

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• If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Positive, Graduation

  Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.92, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• I worked like a crazyman. I worked day and night, often days and nights at a time - without sleep. Gallons of coffee kept me awake; the paintings kept me fired up.

  Jules Olitski

  Coffee, Sleep, Night

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• Focused intensity is required to win. I can't stress enough that people who took control of their finances and worked their way out of debt got mad. They got sick and tired of being sick and tired! They said, "I've had it!" and went ballistic to change their lives. There is no intellectual exercise where you can academically work your way into wealth; you have to get fired up - There is no energy in logic; this is behavior and motivation modification, and it works.

  David Ramsey

  Inspirational, Motivation, Stress

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• Game developers know that people have more fun when they're in large groups. They feel more fired up when the challenges are more epic.

  Jane McGonigal

  Fun, Epic, Games

  "TED 2010: Reality Is Broken. Game Designers Must Fix It". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. February 11, 2010.

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• You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody. 

  Bill Hybels

  Jobs, Passion, Leader

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• Oh, I get pretty fired up on the court. I try to play with a lot of emotion, especially when I'm playing in front of a large crowd. I want to go out and do my best, and to do that, I have to play with the most energy possible.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Play, Trying, Energy

  "Lleyton Hewitt: Top Spin Intreview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. November 20, 2003.

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• As is the case with that generation [Millennials], they look like they're interested and all fired up and ready to go, and then Election Day comes.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Generations, Millennials, Looks

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.

  David Pogue

  Technology, Self, Magic

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• I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up.

  Jules Olitski

  Sleep, Night, Painting

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• I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.

  Dierks Bentley

  Song, Party, Singing

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• In a recent interview, John McCain addressed Trump's campaign rally in Arizona and said that he just quote, 'fired up the crazies.' Not to be confused with Trump's show 'Celebrity Apprentice,' where he just FIRED the crazies.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Confused, Campaigns, Arizona

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• I don't feel passionately about politics, i'm not a political person. Is it easy for me to get fired up about someone's position on climate change? No, it's not. On most of these issues, I can see both sides.

  Rachel Maddow

  Change, Issues, Political

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• I get fired up when emotions are involved. I think it pulls a little bit of extra out of me.

  Jon Jones

  Thinking, Littles, Emotion

  "Exclusive interview: Jon Jones talks arrest, UFC 197 bout with St. Preux". Interview with Jon Wertheim, www.si.com. April 19, 2016.

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• I read as much as I could, but really just spoke to Chris Chibnall and asked all the pertinent questions. That made me feel like we weren't going to do an off-the-peg Camelot, which has been touched upon in many films and TV series before. I really just picked his brain and, in doing so, I got fired up by tackling Merlin in a fresher angle.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Pertinent Questions, Brain, Tvs

  "Joseph Fiennes, Tamsin Egerton & Exec. Producer Chris Chibnall Interview CAMELOT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2011.

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• I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I wake up every day just fired up. My one rule is, don't let anyone pinch me, because I don't want to wake up.

  Mark Cuban

  Guy, Wake Up, World

  "Mark Cuban on 'Dancing,' Hoops, Vegas and More". TIDAY Intreview, www.today.com. December 11, 2007.

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• I find that the things that really, you know, get us fired up, tend to be things that, for example, things that you talk about tonight, what we see in the news.

  Mike Shinoda

  Example, News, Tonight

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• I try to stay on an even keel. I get really fired up on occasion, but staying relaxed and under control bodes better for my game than getting out of control.

  Troy Glaus

  Games, Trying, Keel

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• I really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script that has a woman at the center.

  Linda Woolverton

  Writing, Differences, Female

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There are two things I enjoy most about my work. First, I get to work with interesting and enthusiastic people who are also fired up about science. Second, every once in a while I have moments in which I suddenly understand the solution to a problem that I've been working on - those are great moments.

  David J. Anderson

  Two, People, Interesting

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• I like to get people fired up, fill them with zeal for McDonald's, and watch the results in their work.

  Ray Kroc

  Mcdonalds, People, Watches

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.78, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Young people, some of whom are not born into the faith, are being fired up by preachers using basic Islamic scripture and mobilized to wage jihad by radical imams who represent themselves as legitimate Muslim clergymen.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Islamic, People, Scripture

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• I love listening to Lil' Wayne, Drake, and Eminem to get me fired up!

  Gabby Douglas

  Listening, Wayne

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