Chris Smalling Quotes

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

I guess my ambition is simply to keep doing what I'm doing for as long as I can.

I feel like I have another level every year that I start a new season of basketball. If I continue to keep growing, and make everything consistent, I'm going to get better and better each year.

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

I look at all my projects as a stair step to the next. My goal is to always get better and better.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

I am all about self-improvement and becoming the best version of myself, it could be in my career, my finance, or just life in general.

I realise now that a lot of the things I was doing weren't helping me to get to the goal I want to achieve - to become the champion of the world.

My philosophy when I trained was to be 1% better every day.

Winning and losing isn't what's important. The attempt at success and getting to your best self is what matters.

I look at myself in NXT, and then I look at how far I've come on the main roster. I just think in my mind if I keep working as hard as I do and keep giving it my all that I will continue to get better.

I think, personally for me I always work on the next goal and wanna figure out how to achieve it.

Most people assume you change with success.

You grow when there are trophies in your trophy cabinet. I hope to achieve that here in Naples.

Coming into my second year, my main thing is to show growth - show that I can be consistent and play at a high level all the time.

I've always said the same thing - I'm learning, I'm getting better and I'm loving playing in front of sell-out crowds.

The best way to create spectacular results in the most important areas of your life is through daily practice

Early in my career, I had no consistency. Now I'm the most consistent player on the tour. It feels pretty good.

Of course we want to win every game, but winning forever is more about realizing your potential and making yourself as good as you can be. Realizing that is a tremendous accomplishment, whether it's in football or in life.

By a persistent effort of will it is possible to change the whole body. The athlete must always keep in mind this concept of change and progression. He must never accept his limitations as being permanent, because they are not.

Throughout my athletic career, the overall goal was always to be a better athlete than I was at the moment – whether next week, next month or next year. The improvement was the goal. The medal was simply the ultimate reward for achieving that goal.

I think that if you grow up trying to be the best then you have to be competitive because the more you compete, the more someone is there that is a challenge and the more your performance improves.

There's not anything I can fix, change, make better its out to the world. I'd like to say that I like my records but it's for reasons other than enjoyment, it's more like a notch on my revolver, one more down. I am proud of my work, yes but its accomplishment to me and another year of schooling,in making records it can always be better!

This happens to me every couple of years. I'll look at someone I respect and I'll realize that he's outworking me. It changes the way I behave for the next half decade.