Nick Nurse Quotes

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

The want to improve myself and win tournaments and see how far I go is crucial.

I will not feel like I've made it until the day I retire from basketball because there's something that I can always get better at, and there's always somebody better, and that's what drives me.

I've always been a person who thinks it's really important to better themselves.

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself.

I always want to grow and top myself.

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.

Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.

As a competitor, I want to push myself as much as I can to be at that level that I want to be.

I want to be on a team that's got a chance. That's what's fun. That's what you play the game for.

My competition is with my growth to where I want to see myself.

I wasn't fighting in this sport from the beginning for any other reason than being the best.

That's the type of person I am - I always want to do better.

I'm not here for anything other than world championships. I don't want to be here driving around and finishing races and scoring points. I only want to win and if I can't do that - if I can't see that I have a future with wins and championships - then I'm not up for Formula One, I'll do something else where I can win.

Goals give us purpose, which, in turn, motivates us to make ourselves the best version in all aspects of your life.

Every time I do something in life, I try to outdo myself.

I want to leave a legacy behind. I want the chance to measure myself against the top guys and to have them bring out that champion within me in the Octagon.

You have competition throughout your whole life, and it only makes you better. That competitive edge gives you extra motivation.

I like my life. I like competing, but it's not just because of the money.

I wanted to get out in the world, have a great job, make my mark, and see how far I could go. And I wanted to make good on the philosophy my mother drilled into us with all the subtlety of a Lady Gaga performance. I got it loud and clear. I would need to succeed, and then I could possibly be happy.

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

I love to win, honestly... If you love to win, you should say it. And honestly, I'm hooked on it.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?