1. “I don’t care how good you think you are, or how great others think you are—you can improve, and you will. ” – Tim S. Grover
2. “It’s time to stop listening to what everyone else says about you, telling you what to do, how to act, how you should feel. Let them judge you by your results, and nothing else; it’s none of their business how you get where you’re going. If you’re relentless, there is no halfway, no could or should or maybe.” – Tim S. Grover
3. “If you think the price of winning is too high, wait till you get the bill from regret.” – Tim S. Grover
4. “If you want to be great, deliver the unexpected. If you want to be the best, deliver a miracle.” – Tim S. Grover
5. “Why did not you trust yourself the first time?” – Tim S. Grover
6. “A true Cleaner never tells you what he’s doing or what he’s planning. You find out after the job is complete.” – Tim S. Grover
7. “Everything gets easier when you stop expecting it to be easy.” – Tim S. Grover
8. “A Cleaner thinks, If I’m feeling nervous, how the fuck are they feeling? They have to deal with me.” – Tim S. Grover
9. “Be honest: Would you be as successful if you followed all the rules and always behaved and never took chances? No, you’d be just like everyone else, scared about failing and worried about being liked.” – Tim S. Grover
10. “Being the best means engineering your life so you never stop until you get what you want, and then you keep going until you get what’s next. And then you go for even more.” – Tim S. Grover
11. “Greatness makes you a legend; being the best makes you an icon. If you want to be great, deliver the unexpected.” – Tim S. Grover
12. “Talk never goes up in price, it’s always free, and you usually get what you pay for.” – Tim S. Grover
13. “I’m not telling you to love it. I’m telling you to crave the result so intensely that the work is irrelevant.” – Tim S. Grover
14. “We never saw obstacles or problems, we only saw situations in need of solutions.” – Tim S. Grover
15. “Success isn’t the same as talent. The world is full of incredibly talented people who never succeed at anything. They show up, do what they do, and if it doesn’t work out, they blame everyone else because they believe talent should be enough. It’s not. If you want to be truly successful, you can’t be content with “pretty good.” You need to find an extra gear.” – Tim S. Grover
16. “Make a plan that truly reflects your goals and interests, and you’ll be more likely to execute. Why pretend you’re going to work out every single day when you know you’re only going to do it three times a week?” – Tim S. Grover
17. “Ask yourself where are you now, and where you want to be instead. Ask yourself what you’re willing to do to get there. Then make a plan to get there. Act on it.” – Tim S. Grover
18. “The drive to close the gap between near-perfect and perfect is the difference between great and unstoppable.” – Tim S. Grover
19. “It’s not weak to recognize when it’s time to shift directions.” – Tim S. Grover
20. “Decide. Commit. Act. Succeed. Repeat.” – Tim S. Grover
21. “He never sees problems, only situations to resolve, and when he finds the solution, he doesn’t waste time explaining it. He just says, “I got this.” – Tim S. Grover
22. “As you sit back doing nothing because you are afraid to make a mistake, someone else is out there making all kinds of mistakes, learning from them, and getting to where you wanted to be. And probably laughing at your weakness.” – Tim S. Grover
23. “If you want to be truly successful, you can’t be content with “pretty good.” You need to find an extra gear.” – Tim S. Grover
24. “Get comfortable being uncomfortable, or find another place to fail.” – Tim S. Grover
25. “Most people have too many options, and they rarely choose the tougher one.” – Tim S. Grover
26. “You don’t have to love it. You just have to believe it’s worth it in the end.” – Tim S. Grover
27. “The greats never stop learning. Instinct and talent without technique just makes you reckless, like a teenager driving a powerful, high-performance vehicle. Instinct is raw clay that can be shaped into a masterpiece, if you develop skills that match your talent. That can only come from learning everything there is to know about what you do.” – Tim S. Grover
28. “So everything I do is to minimize the risk of that happening. That helps me fight the mental urge to doubt myself, to create problems that haven’t happened and overthink everything that could go wrong.” – Tim S. Grover
29. “Cleaners understand they don’t have to love the work to be successful; they just have to be relentless about achieving it, and everything else in between is a diversion and a distraction from the ultimate prize.” – Tim S. Grover
30. “Relentless is about never being satisfied, always driving to be the best, and then getting even better.” – Tim S. Grover
31. “The only way you can light other people on fire is to be lit yourself, from the inside.” – Tim S. Grover
32. “If you want to go somewhere new, you have to throw out the tired, old map and stop traveling the same road to the same dead end.” – Tim S. Grover
33. “Believe this: Everything you need to be great is already inside you. All your ambitions and secrets, your darkest dreams. They’re waiting for you to just let go.” – Tim S. Grover
34. “Control your thoughts, and you control your emotions. Control your emotions, and you control your actions. Control your actions, and you control the outcome.” – Tim S. Grover
35. “You don’t celebrate your achievements because you always want more.” – Tim S. Grover
36. “Confidence lets you hear the voices around you and in your own head, without responding or reacting. You can hear them without listening to a single word.” – Tim S. Grover
37. “Physical dominance can make you great. Mental dominance is what ultimately makes you unstoppable.” – Tim S. Grover
38. “Anyone can start something; very few people can finish.” – Tim S. Grover
39. “Time tells you what you didn’t accomplish. Focus turns off the clock and directs all your energy to the result.” – Tim S. Grover
40. “Athletic success is the result of knowing what to do, the willingness to do it, and the drive to continually improve at it.” – Tim S. Grover
41. “Mental toughness is believing without a doubt, that whatever happens, you got this.” – Tim S. Grover
42. “Bottom line if you want success of any kind: you have to be comfortable being uncomfortable.” – Tim S. Grover
43. “Remember, you don’t compete with anyone, you make them compete with you.” – Tim S. Grover
44. “If you want to be the best, deliver a miracle.” – Tim S. Grover
45. “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.” – Tim S. Grover
46. “Tell yourself what to do, and stop waiting for others to lay it all out.” – Tim S. Grover
47. “Don’t tell me the glass is half-full or half-empty; you either have something in that glass or you don’t.” – Tim S. Grover
48. “Cleaners never feel external pressure; they only believe what’s inside them. You can criticize, analyze, demonize a Cleaner, but he’s still only going to feel pressure from within. He knows what he’s doing right, and what he’s doing wrong. He does not care what you think. He steps out of his comfort zone and challenges himself to get to the next level.” – Tim S. Grover
49. “Every time you think you can’t, you have to do it anyway.” – Tim S. Grover
50. “People who preach inner drive are dreamers with a lot of ideas and a lot of talk, and zero production.” – Tim S. Grover
51. “Every accomplishment is just a stepping-stone to the next challenge; as soon as they’ve hit their target, they’re already stalking their next conquest.” – Tim S. Grover
52. “When all hell breaks loose on the outside, you barely notice; you’re calm on the inside because you’re ready, prepared, and the best at what you do. You don’t tell anyone how you’re going to handle the situation, you just handle it. Everyone else is panicking and choking, and you say, ‘No problem.’ You step on the other guy’s throat, and you finish the fight.” – Tim S. Grover
53. “I don’t want to join you, I want to beat you” – Tim S. Grover
54. “From this point, your strategy is to make everyone else get on your level; you’re not going down to theirs. You’re not competing with anyone else, ever again. They’re going to have to compete with you. From now on, the end result is all that matters.” – Tim S. Grover
55. “Mental dominance is what ultimately makes you unstoppable” – Tim S. Grover
56. “When you’re tired, sore, and can’t do more, that’s the time to do more” – Tim S. Grover
57. “Do. The. Work. Every day, you have to do something you don’t want to do. Every day.” – Tim S. Grover
58. “And most people who claim to have killer instinct rarely do, because when you have that kind of power, you don’t talk about it. You don’t think about it. You just use it.” – Tim S. Grover
59. “Be open to the advice that goes against what you want .” – Tim S. Grover
60. “Our challenge in life is to use the abilities we have, and to compensate for the abilities we don’t have. Successful people compensate for what they don’t have. Unsuccessful people make excuses, blame everyone else and never get past the deficiencies.” – Tim S. Grover
61. “We always get back to work.” – Tim S. Grover
62. “Winning is a test with no correct answers .” – Tim S. Grover
63. “Are you listening to others, or to your own instincts?” – Tim S. Grover
64. “In order to have what you really want, you must first be who you really are.” – Tim S. Grover
65. “Preparation is the key!” – Tim S. Grover
66. “Can you be the best? Of course you can. Then why are you still questioning your ability to do it? Quick answer: because at some point, you made something simple into something complicated, and you stopped trusting yourself.” – Tim S. Grover
67. “You don’t wait to be told, you don’t waver from your goal. When it’s time to act, you act, instinctively and without hesitation.” – Tim S. Grover
68. “Figure out what you do, then do it. And do it better than anyone else.” – Tim S. Grover
69. “As long as you continue to deny responsibility, you have the added burden of covering your mistake, and you know the truth will eventually come out anyway. Why bother prolonging the drama? You screwed up, admit it.” – Tim S. Grover
70. “Challenge yourself to be uncomfortable, push past the apathy and laziness and fear. Otherwise, the next day you’re going to have two things you don’t want to do, then three and four and five, and pretty soon, you can’t even get back to the first thing.” – Tim S. Grover
71. “In anything you do, it takes no talent to work hard. You just have to want to do it.” – Tim S. Grover
72. “Focus is about controlling your behavior, so it becomes easier to do the right things, and harder to be distracted by the wrong things.” – Tim S. Grover
73. “there’s no off-season when you’re serious about being a winner.” – Tim S. Grover
74. “Being relentless means never being satisfied. It means creating new goals every time you reach your personal best. If you’re good, it means you don’t stop until you’re great. If you’re great, it means you fight until you’re unstoppable. It means becoming a Cleaner.” – Tim S. Grover
75. “Winners don’t fear reality, they don’t hide from the truth, and they’re not afraid to confront their own flaws and weaknesses.” – Tim S. Grover
76. “If you can’t face your own truth, if you can’t deal with the darkest part of your past, you’ll never be able to change your story.” – Tim S. Grover
77. “You don’t become unstoppable by following the crowd, you get there by doing something better than anyone else can do it,and proving every day why you are the best at what you can do.” – Tim S. Grover
78. “The satisfaction doesn’t come from the risk, it comes from mastering it. I own this.” – Tim S. Grover
79. “You make decisions, not suggestions; you know the answer while everyone else is still asking questions.” – Tim S. Grover
80. “You already know what you have to do, and you know how to do it. What’s stopping you?” – Tim S. Grover
81. “Proving yourself over and over: you want it for yourself, not for anyone.” – Tim S. Grover
82. “People who don’t pursue their own dreams probably won’t encourage you to pursue yours;.” – Tim S. Grover
83. “Talk never goes up in price, it’s always free, and you usually get what you pay for.” – Tim S. Grover