Vijay Shankar Quotes

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.

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. But I don't go around comparing and contrasting myself with other actors if I can help it. It's also, I think, the key to my success.

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.

I'm only competing with myself.

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

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.

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

I always want to be the best at what I do. That doesn't mean compared to other people, but just in what you do.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

Who cares if somebody dances better? Doing my very best is rewarding internally.

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 think I have a good head on my shoulders.

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

You cannot build a company or manage a life by chasing others; you have to find your success competing against yourself. There will always be a bigger fish.

I can only do my thing and do the best that I can.

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

As I said, the biggest competition is myself and it will always be.

It is all about quality of life and being proud of what I do. I need me to be me.

You want to put on a good performance for yourself.

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

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.

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

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.