Picabo Street Quotes

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

In golf, you're more competing with yourself.

The only competition that matters is the one that takes place within yourself.

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

I'm racing against me. As long as I come across the finish, I'll be okay.

This is a lonely sport, the more family, the more laughs, and the more fun you can have, the better. At the end of the day, though, it's one man's journey to try and be the best in the world.

We have to compete within ourselves relative to the determination it takes to be successful.

The only pressure I feel is the pressure I put on myself to win.

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.

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.

The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects.

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

I'm quite competitive. Not with other models but with myself. I have to win.

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.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

It's not really about the competition. Your biggest challenge in a race is yourself. You're often racing against time. You're frequently running everything through your mind. You're always competing against preconceived ideas. It's not really the person next to you that you worry about.

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.

I was really competitive with myself.

My biggest competitor? Myself, mentally.

If you ask another competitor, they may tell you they felt very competitive towards me. But I can tell you that my biggest competition was myself. There's only so much you can do, right? There is only so much energy that one has. My focus was on how do I get the best out of myself.

I'm competitive with myself.

I am not the one who has to try to beat me.

I compete against myself in competitions anyway, so I train against myself in practice.