Luke Donald Quotes

I always try to find something to motivate me to be a better player.

I am a sore loser. It's not that I'm so competitive with others. But I'm competitive with myself. I like to do better than I did before.

I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.

Leadership is an intense journey into yourself. You can use your own style to get anything done. It's about being self-aware. Every morning, I look in the mirror and say, 'I could have done three things better yesterday.'

I'm highly critical of myself. There's not something someone else might say that makes me feel I need to be motivated in a different way. I'm a self-motivated guy.

I'm never happy with my performances. I always want to prove more and more things.

I'm sure like everyone else I'm not always the happiest if I don't do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

I just feel like I need to do better and better and better.

As long as I'm out there and getting a chance to play, I expect to do well. No one is harder on themselves than me when I do bad, and I don't plan on changing any time soon.

I feel like I need to improve in every area. That might shock people, but I'm never satisfied with my game.

I'm always looking for advice on how to get better as a person and as a player.

Being critical of yourself is important sometimes: not during the season, because you need to be confident, but during the winter, it's always a good time to look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'This, this, and this I need to improve.' That's how it is.

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

I compete with myself. I try to get more done than you. I don't know why.

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

For me, there is a lot of room for improvement and there are a lot of things I would like to be better at.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

I always try and do my best and put out the best and find the best in me, as well. But I'm not thinking about it beforehand.

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

Apart from the fact that I've got a strange job, I do lead a fairly normal life. I do my own shopping. I don't feel constrained by who I am because of what I do; I often feel disappointed by my lack of ability. I get frustrated at myself, but I think everyone does.

I get angry if I do things wrong, but that's what keeps me going. I want to do my best.

I'm the kind of person who, if I can't get something right, I get quite frustrated with myself.

No manager in the world gets good results all the time and you know there's people always ready to have a snipe. In fact I'm my own biggest critic, I really am. Because my own standards are so high, I criticise myself behind the scenes more than perhaps I should, according to people who know me well.

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.

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.