Shinsuke Nakamura Quotes

I will do anything I can to improve myself.

Life is always full of challenges. I believe you're never happy unless you're consistently making challenges for yourself.

I just have to be better. There's not much else to say.

I am not competing with anyone. I am competing with myself. When I wake up every day I am only worried about how I can better myself.

I find little things that drive me sometimes, but again, I'm already a driven person, and just because I strive for perfection on a personal level and don't really care what other people say or do. I just want to be the best I can be, so that drives me enough.

I can always improve.

You want to put on a good performance for yourself.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive.

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

I like to challenge myself.

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.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

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.

I can't think of anyone I admire who isn't fuelled by self-doubt. It's an essential ingredient. It's the grit in the oyster.

Just keep challenging yourself. I think that's a great thing.

I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.

I love challenging myself; it's what keeps me going.

I'm self-motivated. I'm motivated for myself to be the best I can be - for me to do that, I have to have my own motivation, my own positive energy.

I can be very competitive, but I mainly want to challenge myself.

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

I have a lot to say about my confidence, my fears, my adversaries, my ambitions, my goals and failures.

I just kind of try to go out and focus on what I've got to do to get myself better.

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.

You need to be comfortable with yourself first and then decide what you want to achieve.