Michelle Kwan Quotes

The only one who can beat me is me.

My biggest competitor? Myself, mentally.

I'm only competing with myself.

The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.

My biggest competition is me.

The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

I am not the one who has to try to beat me.

As I said, the biggest competition is myself and it will always be.

I just kind of try to go out and focus on what I've got to do to get myself better.

I really don't focus on the competition at all. Like even on the football field it's me versus me.

I always try to stay aggressive. I always use my strengths and always work on my weaknesses to get better. That's just who I am.

My biggest competition is always myself. I mean no disrespect, but I do not look at any of the guys as being my competition for the simple reason that I can't control how they're going to look. I can only control how I look.

Improvement begins with I.

So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself.

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.

I am my own mentor. I like to listen to myself to improve.

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.

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.

I'm a very competitive person, but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be, and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else, then so be it. But I don't go around comparing and contrasting myself with other actors if I can help it. It's also, I think, the key to my success.

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.

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

I feel like my biggest competition is myself. A lot of kids get caught up in the comparing game - comparing themselves with Michael Jackson, comparing themselves with Michael Jordan. You gotta be your best. You gotta overcome your own fears.

You cannot build a company or manage a life by chasing others; you have to find your success competing against yourself. There will always be a bigger fish.