Bela Karolyi Quotes

It is good to have competition.

Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.

Healthy competition is very important in any industry. It keeps you on your toes and helps you grow.

Competition makes us all better and better.

When you think you've made it, you need to keep pushing because the person next to you or your competitor is also getting better, and you need to be able to stay ahead.

I am happy I have competition. It keeps me on my toes all the while and stops me from becoming complacent. So, it works to my advantage.

You can't rest on your laurels. You have to continue to innovate; you have to continue to be different.

It's good to have high-quality competition. It helps drive research forward at a faster pace.

To me, everything's competition.

It is nice to have valid competition; it pushes you to do better.

Competition helps people figure it out.

I think a little bit of competition is always good.

Every season is a new challenge to me, and I always set out to improve in terms of games, goals, assists.

Once you achieve one goal, you should be looking forward to trying to build onto the next thing, and not just getting comfortable with what you're doing.

I thrive on competition.

Having no competition is a bad thing. Competition makes you try to improve yourself all the time.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.

As far as it growing, I believe it is always necessary to evolve. I am not one to rest on my laurels.

I'm never satisfied with status quo, and a desire to make a difference is what drives me.

The best friend I have is competition.

The more I get better, the opposition has to get better.

I am the type where I don't worry about anything else but how to top what I did yesterday. My main goal is to top what I did before.

I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'