Jayson Blair Quotes

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

I just wanted to keep getting better and better and better, and that's just my mindset.

I was the World Champ, but I should be better.

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.

I think you grow through your experiences; you get better as you grow and I'm not nearly where I think I'm going to be eventually where I inspire to be and hopefully the opportunities will continue to come.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

I traced the path I walk today and my goals are many. I think that I'm achieving my goals.

On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.

I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.

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.

For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

I always wanted to be the best and to get the most out of myself.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

No one puts higher expectations on themselves than I do.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

It's important for me to keep improving.

You're always looking where you could do better.

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

I've been a guy who's never really been satisfied. Work hard, try to figure out ways to improve, try to figure out ways to sustain a certain level of play.