Chris Gethard Quotes

Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

After every fight, I knock myself down. I start from scratch again. I say, 'I'm not as good as I thought.' It makes you work harder. It makes you push harder. It's more than money. It's more than the title. It's my pride, and it can be scary thinking about it. I could lose. It's scary.

I haven't done nothing in this league. Every day I come into practice or come into a game, I'm just trying to prove myself.

I'm always trying to figure out ways to one up everyone, and that's what I love about competitions. I love challenging myself and pushing the envelope.

I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.

Challenges give me a kick. The day I stop getting challenges, I would quit.

Every job I take, within minutes I'm thinking, 'I can't do this.' I think it's what makes me work. People think I just swagger in and do it. But I doubt myself all the time. It's what pushes me, what makes me work harder. The older I get, the less I take for granted.

I like to be challenged.

I've really fought to get into rooms, and I'm a big believer in auditioning. It's hard, because I'm insecure, but I have an intense desire to prove myself to people.

I wouldn't be the performer I am if everyone thought I was the best. Having people against you, or who don't quite believe in you, gives a lot of extra fuel to never settle.

I got to prove myself every single day. I'm not going to get comfortable where I'm at.

I don't like to get comfortable. I don't like to be like, 'Oh, my song is all over the place. I'm lit.' Nah, it makes me wanna keep working.

I went from being a big fish in a small pond to going to City with a lot of top players, I felt like I had to work really hard to be the best.

You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive

It's a good thing to feel like you have to prove something

I'm always thinking if I'm not doing something to get ahead in life, someone else is doing it.

I love to be challenged, and I'm never sitting comfortable in the mediocrity chair.

When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.

I think insecurity does drive people. I know it's what drove me to push for the work I've got.

We grow small trying to be great.

Brooklyn for twenty years, I've learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.

Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting.

When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically.

The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, no matter what I did in life, my parents always told me to try to do my best at it and be my best. I can say going through different things that that passion is the most important part. It's not skills or talent or any of that stuff.

I haven't always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can't emerge from a franchise and do well, that's a very strong driving force.