Robert Irvine Quotes

You need to be competitive, but a lot of that you can internalize and use that as motivation to drive you. You do not need to show it all the time.

Whenever comparisons get too crazy I just think about my goals, and what I want from myself. I don't look at any references.

I'm not really interested in anyone's record or anyone - I'm always fighting with myself. I always try to do my best.

The only competition that matters is the one that takes place within yourself.

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 always trying to figure out ways to one up everyone, and that's what I love about competitions. I love challenging myself and pushing the envelope.

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.

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

Comparison is a disease. I never felt any competition, since I never compared myself to others. I only focus on my work. I never feel pressurised and do films in my style. Also, I'm very active since childhood, and that gives me the edge to always put my best.

The easiest thing in the world is to succeed. You can't help it if you follow the rules and play the game the best way you know how according to yourself, instead of according to the one next to you, or above you, or somewhere away from you.

The only way that I can do better than someone else, maybe they're better at something else, but they'll never beat me at work.

My philosophy in life... is to prove myself to myself and not to others. I tried to teach my children that, that I have to respect myself, to prove to myself that I can do the best I can.

Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother.

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.

Champions are not the ones who always win races - champions are the ones who get out there and try. And try harder the next time. And even harder the next time. 'Champion' is a state of mind. They are devoted. They compete to best themselves as much if not more than they compete to best others. Champions are not just athletes.

You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different.

I really just compete against myself. I look at my previous material and try to surpass what I've done.

There are certainly actors who I felt rivalries with, but then, as time goes on, you realize that you have to keep your eyes on your own paper because everybody's doing their own work.

I'm competitive with myself.

I don't know - to be honest, I don't really model myself after anybody.

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.

A lot of people will say they strive and drive to be the best in the industry and I get that, but for me, I think I'm just pushing to be the best version of myself that I can be.

I always feel that I compete with myself.

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