Adrian Younge Quotes

I know that sounds weird, but I always compete with myself. If I do something, I always look at a chart and say I can do better the next week.

I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.

I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.

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.

The challenge is how to be better than the day before, than the previous game.

I look primarily at my own expectations. These include improving steadily.

I was always harsh on myself as a player and I am the same as a coach, but it's the only way I know how to improve.

I want to continue to improve season after season, which I think I've done.

I'm the kind of person who thinks that if I score eight goals in one season, my objective must be to score nine goals in the following season. That's the kind of mentality I have.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

If you think you can do better, then do better. Don't compete with anyone; just yourself.

If you score 20 goals one season, then you have to promise yourself that in the following season you will get 25.

I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.

No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?

My greatest competition is, well, me.

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and 'How are you going to beat that?' And I have to say, I love the assumption that your intention is to beat yourself constantly - that you're in battle against yourself.

I really just compete against myself. I look at my previous material and try to surpass what I've done.

Just keep challenging yourself. I think that's a great thing.

There are a lot of things to my game I can still improve, but everyone can.

I was really competitive with myself.

I'm very competitive with myself. I'm a scheduler.

No one puts higher expectations on themselves than I do.

Your success has to be measured against yourself - a decade ago, last year, or yesterday.