Lennox Lewis Quotes

I never really do the New Year's Resolution thing. I kind of just try to stay focused, not get too distracted, and do the best I can. And that's something I like to tell myself every year around New Year's.

So I don't really focus too much on that, and I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself.

Comparison is a disease. I never felt any competition, since I never compared myself to others. I only focus on my work. I never feel pressurised and do films in my style. Also, I'm very active since childhood, and that gives me the edge to always put my best.

I don't think I've had to change anything, really, apart from being more serious and focussed on my drive. One thing I've realised is that you get out what you put in and because of that my work rate has increased ten fold.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

I wish I were stronger in areas. Not so consumed or distracted.

Don't waste a moment of energy looking around at what other people are doing.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

The people who work with me know how focused I am, and so I would advise people who are not concerned with me to rather focus on themselves instead of focusing on my focus.

When people are successful, they usually become lazy.

Nine out of ten people who are failing blame their failure on somebody else. And that is the common denominator of failure.

I make a little goal every day and work toward achieving it - even if it's the smallest little thing.

When you accomplish something, or you don't accomplish something, automatically your brain goes to the next challenge. That's your next focus.

I am not in competition with anybody; I just want to be productive.

I maximize every day.

Applause abates diligence.

Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.

I never want to feel complacent, and I had started to, a little bit. I had started to feel like "I have this thing I can do, it's worked a few times," but not only does that get boring, but you feel stagnant and unproductive. So I was feeling a lack of creativity and motivation, so I started making a more conscious choice to grow personally. It wasn't even an image-conscious thing, like, "I don't want people to think this way about me." It was really just a way to keep myself energized and feel excited about this thing I love doing. Like I went to couples therapy or something.

What you focus on always gets better.

It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.

I use my experience, my failures, my successes, and help people stay focused.

We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.

Focus on your accomplishments , not your failures.

The problem is that most people focus on their failures rather than their successes. But the truth is that most people have many more successes than failures.

I had something to do, which most kids really need. Something they can look forward to - a goal, a purpose to work towards. Something to achieve. Keeps them out of trouble.