Ryan Lochte Quotes

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

I do think it's possible to change for the better.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

I'm actually improving.

Resolutions are popular because everyone feels they could use a little improvement.

My life will change, because I want it to change; and also because this is something I'm committed to doing and that I believe my life has been leading towards.

I don't think anybody should do what they do in hopes of being successful. But I always expect myself to be successful at things. And if I'm not, I feel bad. I don't care for failure. I've failed at a number of things, and it's not my favorite state of mind. So I prefer success.

Scoring is probably something I need to work on.

Myself, I always tell people that if you're not getting better you're only getting worse, and every day I try and be better than yesterday.

You just control what you can control and just hopefully go win games and keep getting better.

I need to get a lot better.

All the time, people are always saying to me that I need to shoot more.

Every year is different. I always try to evolve, get better and find different areas and training that can benefit me.

You can always criticise people, the players are aware we can improve in a number of areas.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.

When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

Every day I am trying to improve my life.

I think each one of us has committed to improving.