Duff McKagan Quotes

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

I want each experience on the ice to be everything I have.

I try to get better in every aspect of my life, not just on the football field. I am competitive, and I just want to always get better.

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

I think the attitude I was trying to learn myself was to really try hard, to give a great effort, to really care, and to let the results go where they are going to go. But at the same time, I don't have to be happy, and I shouldn't be happy, with less than my best.

I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.

I believe in doing what I am best at. I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.

Don't worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.

I have many aspects of my game I need to improve, and that's what I am focusing on. I prefer not to say what they are in public - for me, it's a secret, and I just want to work hard.

It's nice to have it recognised that I'm doing well and to have people saying good things about me, but I try not to take too much interest. I just try to focus on my own game and what I need to do to improve.

I play to see what I can accomplish. I don't play for fun. I play to see how good I can be.

Just have to worry about making sure I'm playing my game and doing all that.

I just try to work on my craft. Try to be as complete a player as possible, and I've just been focusing on being a consistent player.

We don't focus on our rivals: we focus on ourselves.

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

I think with 'Claws,' it came at such a perfect time where I really started to focus and to take myself seriously.

So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself.

Brooklyn for twenty years, I've learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.

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

If I'm going to be the best in what I do, I have to study what I'm doing, I have to see what I'm doing. I have to see it, I have to hear it. I'm just starting to appreciate myself - not starting, but appreciating myself in a way where I can look at myself back in a movie or listen to myself as much as I do now.

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.

Practise things you're good at. Keep on top of things you're not so good at, but be world-class at your best. Never think, 'I'm very good at this and that, I can leave those for a bit.'

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

Comparison is a disease. I never felt any competition, since I never compared myself to others. I only focus on my work. I never feel pressurised and do films in my style. Also, I'm very active since childhood, and that gives me the edge to always put my best.

My biggest competition is me.