Francois Pervis Quotes

As a footballer, I'm never satisfied with where I'm at.

Always, as a player, you are questioned and challenged about the next step. That's what drives the very best: they want to continually win.

People - myself included - expect a certain standard from me. I always have to elaborate or improve on my playing. My success hasn't made me at all laid-back. That relentless drive is still there.

The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve.

I think you should always aim for more.

Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

I expect to win. I've never been content with anything I've ever done.

There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.

As tennis players, you are never satisfied. We are greedy as players, always want better results.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.

If you're going to do something, you're going to do it to be the best.

I've been a guy who's never really been satisfied. Work hard, try to figure out ways to improve, try to figure out ways to sustain a certain level of play.

If I'm not the best D-lineman, it's not good enough for me.

I want the best. I've always fought the best.

I knew if I went home with the gold medal knowing that I could do better, I wasn't going to be very satisfied.

You always have to think in the back of your mind that someone's working harder than you, someone's getting better than you. That's what drives me every day. I always think there's someone out there working harder.

I try to be best at everything I do.

I've been ingrained since a young age to compete always and strive to be the best, and I think I'm working toward that.

Every time I have gotten into anything, I have wanted to do it well. I've always been like that as a young boy, every time I've wanted to go on that pitch.

Obviously I'm not to where Michael Jordan is, but trying to get to some level where he was and just striving for the best. That's what got me here.

I'm very competitive and academic.

I want to do more. I'm never satisfied with what I've done.

What drives me is winning championships.

If you're working, and you're not trying to be great, give up.