Kevin Anderson Quotes

I have many aspects of my game I need to improve, and that's what I am focusing on. I prefer not to say what they are in public - for me, it's a secret, and I just want to work hard.

I am very self-critical and always will be. I think this makes me want to improve, always. But just because I'm self-critical and say what I thought of my performance in a game, it doesn't mean I will bring myself down, ever.

I just kind of try to go out and focus on what I've got to do to get myself better.

I just have to continue to prepare and try to be the best guy I can be every Sunday, whether that's coming off a good game or a bad game.

I can always improve.

Being critical of yourself is important sometimes: not during the season, because you need to be confident, but during the winter, it's always a good time to look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'This, this, and this I need to improve.' That's how it is.

The only one who can beat me is me.

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 think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

Leadership is an intense journey into yourself. You can use your own style to get anything done. It's about being self-aware. Every morning, I look in the mirror and say, 'I could have done three things better yesterday.'

I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.

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.

My mum has always said I am too hard on myself. But I have always been like that and it has always helped me. After matches I focus only on what I did wrong. Never what I did well.

There are a lot of things to my game I can still improve, but everyone can.

If you ask another competitor, they may tell you they felt very competitive towards me. But I can tell you that my biggest competition was myself. There's only so much you can do, right? There is only so much energy that one has. My focus was on how do I get the best out of myself.

I'm always looking at things and seeing how I can improve upon them. I think it's my responsibility to focus on how I can do better, as opposed to what I've done well.

A person like myself will keep challenging to see if I can keep doing it over and over again.

I think that if you challenge yourself, then you're going to get your best performances, and every time I go out there, I challenge myself to be better than I was last time.

I just want to be better. Of course, I'm not satisfied... I'm just pushing every day.

It's my goal every single year. That's the only goal I really set for myself is to make sure I'm better every single year.

I need to build to get better each and every day, so I'm not satisfied at all.

I just have to be better. There's not much else to say.

I look primarily at my own expectations. These include improving steadily.

I like pushing myself.

I know what I need to work on, and I know what I need to prove and to show, and that's all that matters.