Douglas Conant Quotes

I always try and do my best and put out the best and find the best in me, as well. But I'm not thinking about it beforehand.

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

Being your best can only enhance your personal performance.

I can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day.

We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.

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 don't think I can be perfect, but I think I can be close to perfect if I continue to prepare and continue to do everything in my power to be the best version of myself.

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

I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

If you are not moving closer to what you want, you probably aren't doing enough asking. And you're probably not asking the single most important question that can help you achieve a higher level of success and personal fulfillment: How am I doing?

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

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

I never set out to beat the world. I just set out to do my absolute best.

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.

Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love.

You've got to be the best person you can be in your life.

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.

For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

You can't ever make the perfect run, but you can make the best run, and then you clock the fastest time, and that's a win.

I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.

I don't try to focus on anything that doesn't affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I'm just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.

I'm gonna have to develop myself. I'm just going to do the best that I can do.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

With anything in life, I think that's when you start stressing yourself out - when you start worrying about the things that are out of your control. What I can control is being at my best every day and having no regrets at the end of each day. That's what I plan on doing.