Chili Davis Quotes

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.

The thing is, I don't do these things for recognition, being a good teammate, being a positive member of the community. I do them because those things make me whole and complete.

I compete in a sport on an individual basis, but I have never done it for me.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

I always want to give more than I gave yesterday.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

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 don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

My only sure reward is in my actions, not from them.

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

I've always been a person who thinks it's really important to better themselves.

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.

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.

The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.

I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

The only thing I find interesting is self-interest.

Instead of wanting to be better than other people, let's channel that energy to be better than we were yesterday and then again to be the best we can be tomorrow.

Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.

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

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.