Mikhail Baryshnikov Quotes

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

Everybody doesn't get to do each and every film. I don't compete with others; I compete with myself. I have been an athlete, a sportsperson; so I know how to be competitive in a healthy way.

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

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.

I am not in competition with my peers; I am in competition with myself.

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.

I am not competing with anyone. I am competing with myself. When I wake up every day I am only worried about how I can better myself.

I'm in competition only with myself, and I always want to push the envelope.

I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself.

Instead of wanting to be better than other people, let's channel that energy to be better than we were yesterday and then again to be the best we can be tomorrow.

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.

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

My biggest competition is me.

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.

I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.

We all understand that this isn't about me beating you and you beating me. It's about each individual competing against himself.

I'm only competing with myself.

I can be very competitive, but I mainly want to challenge myself.

I find little things that drive me sometimes, but again, I'm already a driven person, and just because I strive for perfection on a personal level and don't really care what other people say or do. I just want to be the best I can be, so that drives me enough.

I'm just trying to be the best version of Trey Young.

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

If I cannot be the best or operate at the best highest level, then I need to go away.

I really don't focus on the competition at all. Like even on the football field it's me versus me.

Just do what you do. Sometimes you do well, and sometimes you do wrong, but you have to just be able to deal with yourself and move forward.