Ben Askren Quotes

Knowing that guys are out there improving and trying to take it to that next level, that gives me fire to improve my play and work on these little things that can keep me from dominating a game.

I'm always thinking about the private battle, even in the field. I'm always trying to be better than the other person I'm against.

I'm sick at myself for not winning more. But I am always trying to find ways to make myself a better player. I am not just turning up to make up the numbers.

As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.

What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.

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.

Golf is so selfish - it's so much about how do we get better and get to the next level.

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.

The challenge is how to be better than the day before, than the previous game.

I will always have that, 'I want to be the best fighter on the planet' thing in me.

Pressure brings out the best in me. It's the only way to keep improving: putting a bit of pressure on yourself.

I wanted to challenge myself to reach my full potential as a player.

There are things that I need to do better, and I need to get to a point where it's hard to not have me on the court.

I try to get better in every aspect of my life, not just on the football field. I am competitive, and I just want to always get better.

When you're competing, you need to be selfish. You need to think of yourself first.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

I have very high expectations of myself. 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.

I'm always trying to figure out ways to one up everyone, and that's what I love about competitions. I love challenging myself and pushing the envelope.

Everybody doesn't get to do each and every film. I don't compete with others; I compete with myself. I have been an athlete, a sportsperson; so I know how to be competitive in a healthy way.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

For me, competition is good; that is what keeps me on my toes and keeps me going. I am always trying to better my own work, do better than my earlier films... do films that are challenging and exciting for me.

The easiest thing in the world is to succeed. You can't help it if you follow the rules and play the game the best way you know how according to yourself, instead of according to the one next to you, or above you, or somewhere away from you.

The only way that I can do better than someone else, maybe they're better at something else, but they'll never beat me at work.

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.