Summer Sanders Quotes

The only one who can beat me is me.

When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.

My biggest competitor? Myself, mentally.

I always say my biggest competitor is myself because, whenever I step out there on the mat, I'm competing against myself to prove that I can do this and that I am very well trained, prepared for it.

What I was doing wasn't good enough. It was good enough up until I met someone who was doing it properly - someone who was stronger than me and in better mental and physical condition than I was.

It's just like, damn - I'm competing with myself.

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

I heat myself up over the fact that I am never going to be as good as I want to be.

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

My biggest competition is me.

I'm racing against me. As long as I come across the finish, I'll be okay.

The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

Normally I don't race other people; I challenge the environment and my own limitations.

Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

Inexperienced personal development teachers always tell you to visualize, but often in a tragically limited way. They tell you to visualize nothing but victory. But high-achievers know that it's even more important to visualize themselves at the point where they want to quit, and then see themselves working through the struggle.

If you ask another competitor, they may tell you they felt very competitive towards me. But I can tell you that my biggest competition was myself. There's only so much you can do, right? There is only so much energy that one has. My focus was on how do I get the best out of myself.

I've done all my bike circuit cardio workouts when I know I gotta push my numbers higher and I gotta be better than I was before. It sucks. Your body doesn't want to do it, but I've done that. I know I have that in me.

I can do something for 30 days or 50 days. I can program myself, but I can't give my year for a shooting. No, I will die. I can't handle it.

I love athletics and martial-arts and competition because it gets me right and puts me in the right place.

Struggling with confidence and self-doubt are things that everyone goes through, especially kids, but I set goals, worked hard and leant on the people around me.

I always work on my mind and my game.

When you're out on the court, you're fighting against yourself and it can be tough.

Of course I have to work harder because I have my limitations, and I have to prepare better and in a different way my body and mental strength, but that is part of my life.

That's been kinda my secret. You use everything off the field to help make you better on the field.