Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Quotes

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?

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

I realize everything's on me as far as what kind of player, person, and student I'm going to be.

Even though we can't be perfect, we should try.

Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I'm right on track.

I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

I don't know if I'm so much fueled by trying to one-up myself so much as passionate about coming up with new and greater challenges. I don't see it as a contest, but as a natural progression.

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

I think each one of us has committed to improving.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

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

It's getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work... I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

Whatever it is you're doing, whether it's your career or a particular focus, if you're trying to be the best you can possibly be, then you'll be putting that pressure on yourself.

The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

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

I like pushing myself, and usually if I'm not good at something I just won't do it because I'm a perfectionist.

When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

If you deny yourself commitment, what can you do with your life?

I was really competitive with myself.

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