Rose Namajunas Quotes

I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.

It's all about progression, not getting stuck and about having aspirations, which can lead you to do more and not just be satisfied. I was always that way about my dancing, and that's how I am about whatever it is I tend to pursue.

Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.

I'll never be satisfied with where my game is. I always think I can get better.

It's a constant progression, and as long as you're constantly striving to be better, you're headed in the right direction.

We tried to create advantages. We were never complacent.

I don't ever want to feel complacent.

For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.

I have always strived to do something different, to push myself.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

I'd like to think I haven't done my best yet.

I still have a lot to learn, and I still have a lot to prove.

I don't think I'll ever become comfortable with just being here. I always want to take it further.

Each year, I write out a goal sheet with what I expect. If I showed anybody else my goal sheet, they would have said I was crazy.

I wanna keep people on their toes, and that's just kind of how we've always operated.

Every day, you try to get better, and I don't think I'll ever be complacent and happy with where I am, no matter what.

There should always be competition. You should never feel comfortable, no matter where you are at. If you are a 10-year veteran, you should not feel comfortable. For me, that kind of just drives me, that kind of unknown of what is going to happen. The unknown is kind of what drives me.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

Reaching beyond where you are is really important.

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

Don't be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don't be afraid to fail, because you're going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you're always going to get up and you're going to learn something from it.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Even as a kid in the Bronx, I wanted an adventurous life.