Ashton Eaton Quotes

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

The only thing that motivates me is to become better.

Of course, I won't lie - I like to break records.

Every time I do something in life, I try to outdo myself.

I think it's the opportunity to continue breaking records, either set by other people or by myself. I think that's what pushes me to always make the most of myself and be very demanding on myself.

What you aim for, in the first place, is to be as good as you can possibly be. This is what I do, and I'm going to try to be the best in the world.

No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about.

I think you grow through your experiences; you get better as you grow and I'm not nearly where I think I'm going to be eventually where I inspire to be and hopefully the opportunities will continue to come.

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

I think you should always aim for more.

Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.

I think competition is very important; it breeds many good things in a person.

I always want to grow and top myself.

I always thought records were there to be broken.

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.

There's the push and pull you put on yourself and the push and pull the world puts on you. Most of the time, the world's going to win out, because it's just logical that you should be more successful and more motivated. You can always be more.

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.

Dreams grow if you grow.

I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.

I'm never going to be in a comfort zone. I always want to be a better player, person. I want to help my team get the goals that we are aiming for.

As a competitor, I want to push myself as much as I can to be at that level that I want to be.

I am just going to try to run my personal best. If it comes as a world record, I would appreciate it. But I would treat it as a personal best.