Robert Smith Quotes

I'm the kind of person who, if I can't get something right, I get quite frustrated with myself.

I get angry if I do things wrong, but that's what keeps me going. I want to do my best.

Every day I am trying to improve my life.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

I like pushing myself, and usually if I'm not good at something I just won't do it because I'm a perfectionist.

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

No one puts higher expectations on themselves than I do.

It starts with myself. I have to believe in myself and set expectations for myself, set goals for myself, and continue to work for those goals every day.

I'm never happy with my performances. I always want to prove more and more things.

I just feel like I need to do better and better and better.

You want to put on a good performance for yourself.

I'm not happy, because I'm not at the level I want to be.

If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.

I'm sick at myself for not winning more. But I am always trying to find ways to make myself a better player. I am not just turning up to make up the numbers.

I am a sore loser. It's not that I'm so competitive with others. But I'm competitive with myself. I like to do better than I did before.

I heat myself up over the fact that I am never going to be as good as I want to be.

I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'

My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.