M. J. Rose Quotes

I would just say that I have high expecations for myself.

If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.

Everyone wants to be successful. What I've learned is how do you determine what that is?

I look primarily at my own expectations. These include improving steadily.

The most important thing is that I continue to improve.

Success is mine when I work my hardest to become my best, and I alone determine whether I do so.

Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.

Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I'm right on track.

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

I always have high expectations for me.

I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that's just the biggest issue.

It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else.

I'm very competitive with myself. I'm a scheduler.

No one puts higher expectations on themselves than I do.

I set pretty high expectations for myself, and I hold myself to a pretty high standard.

Your success has to be measured against yourself - a decade ago, last year, or yesterday.

I think it's because I'm so hard on myself that I can push myself this far.

Whenever comparisons get too crazy I just think about my goals, and what I want from myself. I don't look at any references.

I know what I need to work on, and I know what I need to prove and to show, and that's all that matters.

I want to continue to improve season after season, which I think I've done.