Ben Askren Quotes

Being favorite counts for nothing. I am focusing on doing the best time of my life, whether or not it's the best in history or the best in the competition.

Any time you go out there and compete, you want to do your best.

I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.

As I said this year, I didn't try to put any pressure on me by setting high goals or anything, I just want to make sure that every single time I'm out there on the court I do my best, I give 100%, and see where it's going to end up next year.

I thrive in competition. It feels good to improve timings and create records.

I play to be the best.

If I'm going in to a competition, I'm going in to do the best I can do.

I have always had a passion for competition and performance.

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

I want to run with the best, that's how I've always lived.

There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.

I always thought records were there to be broken.

It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

My goal in Korea is to win. There's no timetable when to set the American record.

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

I was really happy with my race, though. I beat my personal best by 1.2 seconds.

I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

Always do your best.

I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.

I've never been more motivated to be No. 1 in the world. I've never been more motivated to try to extend that lead from one to two. All the hard work that I've put into my game right now has paid off, but I've got to keep working hard to win as much as I can.

I think the stress of being No. 1 in the world is more of a motivating factor for me just because I don't want to lose it.

We're all trying so hard to win each of these World Series events and the standard now is phenomenal but it's great that everyone's pushing each other.

I wanna compete; I wanna be the best at whatever I do.

I do look at leader boards. I want to know where I'm at.