Ashton Eaton Quotes

I always look for... hopefully look for a challenge. And you're always looking for the next summit to hit. Even if it's a personal one. It needn't be some great sense of monumental... It just has to be important to you and big enough and special enough and individual enough that you get up for it. And that can be anything.

I always want to grow and top myself.

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.

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.

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

I just want to be the best that I can be, and I'm focusing on my own career.

My expectations for myself were really high.

I do not compete with anybody else; I compete only with myself. You saw my capacity a few minutes ago. Now I am competing with myself. When I do weightlifting, my body is my world. If I can improve myself, if I can go beyond my previous achievements, then that is my goal. My own previous record is always what I am competing with.

Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype. These people are setting goals constantly and trying to get someplace else. They say, "If you don't know where you are going, then you won't know when you get there."

Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself.

What you aim for, in the first place, is to be as good as you can possibly be. This is what I do, and I'm going to try to be the best in the world.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

The principle is competing against yourself.

My biggest competition is me.

I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'

When you have the right habits, okay, certain good things will come to you, and that's what life is about.

I'm not afraid of working hard at anything, whatever it is. I just always want to be the best that I can.

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

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.

Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.

When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it's make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who's in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you're investing your time in that.

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.

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