Mike Krzyzewski Quotes

I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.

I'm not easily satisfied with things. I always want to do better. I always want to improve. I always want to grow.

I always want to improve, and I am never satisfied with my performance.

Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress.

Set higher standards for your own performance than anyone else around you, and your only competition will be with yourself

If you're going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

I always want to give more than I gave yesterday.

I've always been ambitious to be very good at what I do.

Whatever it is you're doing, whether it's your career or a particular focus, if you're trying to be the best you can possibly be, then you'll be putting that pressure on yourself.

I always want to be the best at what I do. That doesn't mean compared to other people, but just in what you do.

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.

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.

Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

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

I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be. I work hard, I push myself hard, and I probably even expect too much of myself.

I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.

No one puts higher expectations on themselves than I do.

If you challenge yourself and try to be the best in all areas, you have to be a complete driver.

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.

I must always try to do better because perfectionism, and the need to always have new goals and achieve them, is a state of mind that brings profound meaning to life.

I love to do something that's challenging to myself, and just to see the success, it makes me go harder and harder the next time.

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

It's my goal every single year. That's the only goal I really set for myself is to make sure I'm better every single year.

I like to challenge myself, to compare myself against the best.

For me, the main thing is that I continually improve my game and make sure I keep setting the bar high.