Ronda Rousey Quotes

I do think you can't be as good as the person next to you to play: you have to be better.

I feel pressures to stay relevant. To stay interesting and interested. To stay at the top of my game and expand.

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Competition is very good... as long as its healthy. It's what makes one strive to be better.

People like to be challenged. Most people that I know who are any good at life like to be challenged.

I think competition is very important; it breeds many good things in a person.

There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.

Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

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

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

Being an actor, you go through this thing where you want to be the best, and I think, in life in general, you go through this thing where you want to be the best always, constantly.

I like being pushed.

The more pressure you can put on me and get me out of my comfort zone, the better I shine.

There's always an opportunity to be your best until I hang up my shoes.

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.

Obviously winning is what's most important, but I need to show people that I've improved.

The biggest motivation for me is my desire to be the best.

I want to leave a legacy behind. I want the chance to measure myself against the top guys and to have them bring out that champion within me in the Octagon.

Having guys ranked in front of me that I know that I'm better than, that's always going to drive me.

Doing your best is more important than being the best.

Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud?

Games give you a chance to excel.

You've got to look for tough competition. You've got to want to beat the best.

I want to run with the best, that's how I've always lived.