Ashton Eaton Quotes

It frustrates me if I'm not good at something, so I do it until I get good at it.

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

I think, you know, the people that have seen my work, I think it speaks to the possibility of getting better, and, I'm sorry, I'm still on the last caller.

You must always strive to be the best, but you must never believe that you are.

Ninety to ninety-five percent of people will withdraw to the comfort zone when what they try doesn't work. Only that small percentage, 5 or 10 percent, will continually improve themselves; they will continually push themselves out into the zone of discomfort, and these are always the highest performers in every field.

When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.

The warrior is always trying to improve.

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.

You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre period, and then you move into your excellent period. It may be very well be that some of you have done quite a bit of writing already. You maybe ready to move into your good period and your excellent period. But you shouldn't be surprised if it becomes a very long process.

A lot of things we're supposed to do are hard to do, but we can do them. They're always beneficial. Really, some things that are hard are beneficial.

I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally.

For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.

Someone said adversity builds character, but someone else said adversity reveals character. I'm pleasantly surprised with my resilience. I persevere, and not just blindly. I take the best, get rid of the rest, and move on, realizing that you can make a choice to take the good.

If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.

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

I always want to become better. If never being satisfied is a problem, then I have it. At least it's a good problem.

The most important skill you need is the ability to learn how to change and grow.

You can always improve as a player; there's never a time when you can say anything is perfect.

I am always trying to learn and adapt.

To me, you can always get better.

The best thing you can do is learn from those mistakes so that you continue to get better. That's the management style or leadership style I believe in, which is push people to their limit such that they can become better than they thought they could be. That certainly has helped me.

There's always room for improvement. That's my mindset.

I make mistakes - I have made a lot of mistakes - but I am a good person, and I will persevere.

I'm going to go out and attack it and get better every day. That's the same approach I've had since I was just a little kid.

I don't want to hit a point where I feel there is nothing to improve upon - there always is.