Dan Gable Quotes

Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as quickly.

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

I’m a big believer in starting with high standards and raising them. We make progress only when we push ourselves to the highest level. If we don’t progress, we backslide into bad habits, laziness and poor attitude.

Progress is a comfortable disease.

Each day, I come in with a positive attitude, trying to get better.

I just want to continue to build mentally to push forward even on the good days and bad days.

There is nothing spiritual about complacency.

No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.

The greatest thing about tomorrow is, I will be better than I am today...There is no such thing as a setback. The lessons I learn today I will apply tomorrow, and I will be better.

Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.

Develop inspirational dissatisfaction. Rearrange your attitudes and convert a failure of one day into success on another.

I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair.

Life is about challenges and how we face up to them and the attitude we take into every day life so hopefully we'll be able to motivate people to do more with their life.

When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

I like being challenged. That's the only way you grow.

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.

I still feel like I'm learning a lot and have a lot to learn and improve on.

The day you are content, you will stop growing.

My mentality is still the same. I have to continue to get better.

I don't like whining about the challenges I face while I work. I know they are for the better so I can rise stronger and better.

You just gotta stay positive and take every day as a chance to improve and every practice. And every week you're not having a fight, there's a chance to improve.

I never get complacent with anything.

In the future, I want to be consistent from Day 1. We're still making adjustments. I still believe that I can be better.

Something I learned early in college (is) to not worry about what I can't controlBut what I can control is my attitude, my effort, my focus every single day and that's what I'm trying to worry about.