Judith Jamison Quotes

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.

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.

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

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. But I don't go around comparing and contrasting myself with other actors if I can help it. It's also, I think, the key to my success.

I'm quite competitive. Not with other models but with myself. I have to win.

I'm only competing with myself.

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

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

The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.

You cannot build a company or manage a life by chasing others; you have to find your success competing against yourself. There will always be a bigger fish.

I am not the one who has to try to beat me.

I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any obstacle that I set for myself.

I am not competing with anyone. I am competing with myself. When I wake up every day I am only worried about how I can better myself.

The only competition I actually want is with my own self, and for me, work comes above all.

As I said, the biggest competition is myself and it will always be.

I really don't focus on the competition at all. Like even on the football field it's me versus me.

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.

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.

So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself.

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

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

The only one who can beat me is me.