Matteo Manassero Quotes

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

That's the type of person I am - I always want to do better.

I'm constantly trying to become the best. That's kind of how I'm driven. Sometimes I'm not. I kind of focus on when I'm not than when I am. That's probably something I need to switch.

I am obsessed with improving.

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.

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

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

I just wanted to keep getting better and better and better, and that's just my mindset.

I always like to put myself under pressure to improve more.

Every year you want to keep elevating you. And that's what I want to do.

I'll never get complacent. I am my own toughest critic.

I'm always trying to improve.

I was the World Champ, but I should be better.

I feel like I need to improve in every area. That might shock people, but I'm never satisfied with my game.

I don't feel like congratulating myself, because I know there's still a lot of room for improvement.

I want to keep getting better.

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

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.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

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

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.

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. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.

I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.