“It gets hard to keep some kids motivated. Most of them are ready to compete. I would prefer to have had a meet.”

“It was hard to find motivation after the world championships. It was a long season but I learned a lot from competing consistently on the European circuit.”

“We started to do some interesting things, like linking crimes and motives using advanced statistics and modeling for investigative support.”

“To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.”

“We're hoping that motivation will carry over into a regular school. Our goal is to help these students be successful as citizens, and the FCAT is only a piece of that.”

“Maybe this is a wakeup call for us, too, to say `Hey, we're shaking things up,' and, hopefully, it can help motivate us.”

“Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.”

“We were picked 10th out of 11 teams coming in. That motivated us to work hard and it shows in how we're doing.”

“The confidence that coach (John) Ellinger has in me and the organization's desire to make me Real Salt Lake's inaugural player is inspiring,”

“We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.”