Ryan Sheckler Quotes

I love to be challenged, and I'm never sitting comfortable in the mediocrity chair.

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

I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.

Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

For me, it's always been about continually challenging myself and continually figuring out how to go down the hill faster.

I can be very competitive, but I mainly want to challenge myself.

I just want to challenge myself all the time.

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 want to challenge myself with each project.

It's nice to be able to do more and to always challenge myself.

I am very competitive - with myself and everybody else. I'm petty, too.

Even though I live in New York, I still have this Jersey thing where I feel like I have to prove myself. I'm grateful for any chance I get to be the least talented person in the room, because it'll make me work that much harder.

Competition is something that brings you to the next level because if you have no competition, and you know you are starting week in, week out, it takes a little bit of the quality.

If you're competing right, if you're doing it right, competition should be a very selfish pursuit.

It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.

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.

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 have to motivate yourself with challenges. That's how you know you're still alive.

To me, life is so exciting. To me, life is always trying to beat someone in something competitive. It's kinda been my whole life.

When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.

I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.

When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically.

I always like to challenge myself. I never want to be put into a box.

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.