Marquise Goodwin Quotes

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

The only one who can beat me is me.

I am not the one who has to try to beat me.

I'm only competing with 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.

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.

If you ask another competitor, they may tell you they felt very competitive towards me. But I can tell you that my biggest competition was myself. There's only so much you can do, right? There is only so much energy that one has. My focus was on how do I get the best out of myself.

I compete against myself in competitions anyway, so I train against myself in practice.

We are competing against ourselves.

I don't know how I have got this habit, but I try to play one match and give it my best - it doesn't matter which level of cricket I am playing in. It gives me satisfaction that I am not thinking about others, not competing with others.

As I said, the biggest competition is myself and it will always be.

We can't focus too much on the opponent, we have to focus on ourselves.

I compete with myself. I try to get more done than you. I don't know why.

Everybody doesn't get to do each and every film. I don't compete with others; I compete with myself. I have been an athlete, a sportsperson; so I know how to be competitive in a healthy way.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.

The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.

I'm a very competitive person, but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be, and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else, then so be it. But I don't go around comparing and contrasting myself with other actors if I can help it. It's also, I think, the key to my success.

The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.