Guy Martin Quotes

I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better.

What you risk reveals what you value.

I'll never get complacent. I am my own toughest critic.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

I really try to put myself in uncomfortable situations. Complacency is my enemy.

On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.

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.

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

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

I'd be lying if I didn't say there were days when I went back and said, 'I wish I'd done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.' But it's always in the motivation of getting better. I've never once looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh boy, can't do this one.'

I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose.

People change when they tell themselves they have to change. People do not change when you tell them they have to change.

My mom says I was an introvert. I never saw myself that way, but I was always focused. I didn't spend a lot of time doing things that I didn't think would make me great.

Apart from some of the videos and haircuts, I don't think I've made any wrong moves, ha ha!

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!

I just care about what I get to unearth and what makes me uncomfortable and what makes me grow because, ultimately, I just don't want to ever play it safe.

Who do you want to be: the radical man who can make a choice in one second, or the man who never takes decisions? That's the question: who's the best? Actually, there is no best.

I'm hard on myself, like, 'Oh, why did you say that?' But it helps me grow.