Quotes from Tim S. Grover

Do. The. Work. Every day, you have to do something you don't want to do. Every day. 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. And then all you can do is beat yourself up for the mess you've created,

Cleaners are rule-breakers when they have to be; they only care about the end result. When things go wrong and everyone else starts to panic, the Cleaner is calm and unflappable, cool and steady, never too high or too low, never too happy or too depressed.

Focus is about controlling your behavior, so it becomes easier to do the right things, and harder to be distracted by the wrong things.

no trainer or coach or expert can make you good or great or unstoppable if you're not going to do the work,

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.

If you can tolerate fear and doubt and loneliness… Winning would like a word with you.

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.

share their relentless drive for the end result. And let nothing stand in your way of achieving it.

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.

We never saw obstacles or problems, we only saw situations in need of solutions.

If you want to be great, deliver the unexpected. If you want to be the best, deliver a miracle.

The greatest battles you will ever fight are with yourself, and you must always be your toughest opponent. Always demand more of yourself than others demand of you.

Life can be complicated; the truth is not.

When you use your body for a living, you have one job and it requires one thing: work hard to stay in peak condition. That's it.

Be open to the advice that goes against what you want .

Everything you do in the gym becomes easier when you stop expecting it to be easy.

You can't make things better until you stop me asking them worse.

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.

Cooler, Closer, Cleaner . . . good, great, unstoppable. You can be whichever you want. If you want to be unstoppable, you've got to make the commitment.

In real life, being relentless is a state of mind that can give you the strength to achieve, to survive, to overcome, to be strong when others are not. It means craving the end result so intensely that the work becomes irrelevant. Not just in sports, but in everything you do. The ability to be relentless is in all of us.

We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it." You embrace it. You trust yourself to handle whatever you're dealing with, and don't allow your fear to escalate into uncontrollable doubt. If you ever see me at a game, you'll see no emotion from me.

I am on a path of understanding more and more about myself every day and shifting my perspective just like my father did. I'm becoming more conscious about what I'm ignoring or denying, and my learning process has become faster, my struggles fewer and less intense.

Just show up, work hard, and listen. That's your part of the deal. Do the work.

The fact is, you can't train your body—or excel at anything—before you train your mind. You can't commit to excellence until your mind is ready to take you there.