Mousa Dembele Quotes

I always feel that I compete with myself.

If you think you can do better, then do better. Don't compete with anyone; just yourself.

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.

It's always interesting to challenge yourself to say, 'Is this the best you can do?'

I would not be who I am if I were not putting pressure on me to up the level of my game further.

Every time I do something in life, I try to outdo myself.

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 don't know if I'm so much fueled by trying to one-up myself so much as passionate about coming up with new and greater challenges. I don't see it as a contest, but as a natural progression.

I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.

I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.

What you do is you're using the other competitors to push yourself, because it's so hard to push yourself.

That's the state of mind I have - I always want to be better.

I try to challenge myself.

I'm not easily satisfied with things. I always want to do better. I always want to improve. I always want to grow.

The challenge itself is to exceed certain high standards you've set for yourself.

I have some pride in the things I've done, but I'm pretty hard on myself. Part of looking at my old work is to motivate me to try harder.

I'm always trying to improve.

I want to give myself new challenges. I want to get better.

I'm in competition only with myself, and I always want to push the envelope.

You always have to keep setting the bar for yourself.

I know that sounds weird, but I always compete with myself. If I do something, I always look at a chart and say I can do better the next week.

Instead of wanting to be better than other people, let's channel that energy to be better than we were yesterday and then again to be the best we can be tomorrow.

I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.

I always want to grow and top myself.

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.