Rick Pitino Quotes

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

I always feel that I compete with myself.

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

If you think you can do better, then do better. Don't compete with anyone; just yourself.

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

My greatest competition is, well, me.

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

My biggest competition is me.

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.

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.

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.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

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

I was really competitive with myself.

I'm competitive with myself.

I compete against myself in competitions anyway, so I train against myself in practice.

We are competing against ourselves.

I want to be great, and that's holding myself to my standards, not anybody else's.

As long as I'm out there and getting a chance to play, I expect to do well. No one is harder on themselves than me when I do bad, and I don't plan on changing any time soon.

In reality, I am not in competition with any other actor except myself.

I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.

I put a lot of pressure on myself to be the best.

I'm in competition with myself, and I'm always going to challenge myself.

I do not compete with anybody else; I compete only with myself. You saw my capacity a few minutes ago. Now I am competing with myself. When I do weightlifting, my body is my world. If I can improve myself, if I can go beyond my previous achievements, then that is my goal. My own previous record is always what I am competing with.