George Karl Quotes

I always believe someone somewhere is working harder than me and that motivates me to work harder, give 100%.

I must always try to do better because perfectionism, and the need to always have new goals and achieve them, is a state of mind that brings profound meaning to life.

If I put a statement about being the best interviewer into the universe, I must now live up to it, or at least be held accountable for it. Either way, I'm going to work that much harder.

I've always been critical about my work. It pushes me to work harder.

I have to improve to get to where I want to get and to be as good as I hope to be, so I keep working on it.

I can't tell you exactly why my work ethic is the way that it is, but I know that I will always work harder than anyone else I know.

Personally, I just want to be the best I can be, so that drives me enough.

If you're going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

I always want to give more than I gave yesterday.

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.'

I think I always just want to get better at whatever I'm doing... Always strive for excellence.

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.

I've always tried to work hard. I'm not trying to show anybody up or do something spectacular for attention.

You know, I think it's so ironic that we're calling hard work, striving for excellence, don't blame others, you know, don't give up, that we're calling these, quote, 'Chinese values,' 'cause I always thought of them as American values.

I know what I need to work on; I know my weaknesses, but I have that work ethic to improve every day. I have that want to be the best player at my position, and I have the belief in myself that one day that will come true.

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

There's that talent thing where I can score goals, and there's also that want and ambition to keep doing it and doing it and doing it. I've seen a lot of players do it for a year and then they rest on their laurels, but I've been very driven throughout my career. Without being the most talented, I think I've tried to make the most of it.

For me, it is important to do well in what I'm doing, to achieve the goals I have for myself.

That has been the concept to my life - setting very high objectives and trying to fulfil them.

I am working hard to keep making progress, to always improve.

For my future growth, I'm going to keep working. I'm going to put everything I have in it, and I think everybody knows that that's just the type of person I am.

I'm just working every day to improve.

For me, all I can do is come in, get better each and every day.

It is not a secret that I want to get better every day with every game.