Mikel Arteta Quotes

I'm the kind of person who thinks that if I score eight goals in one season, my objective must be to score nine goals in the following season. That's the kind of mentality I have.

I can always do better. I can always find a way to make more plays and be more effective.

For me, what is more important is to get better and better every day.

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

You can and must always keep improving and working on your game - not just your weaknesses but also your strengths.

If you can keep getting better, we can set ourselves better standards every game.

I always compare myself to what I did last, so I've got to try and beat what I did last. I'm always upping my own bar.

I know that sounds weird, but I always compete with myself. If I do something, I always look at a chart and say I can do better the next week.

I always want to give more than I gave yesterday.

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Even when I have a good game, you can still do things better.

You've got to get better every single year, it doesn't matter.

I think that if you challenge yourself, then you're going to get your best performances, and every time I go out there, I challenge myself to be better than I was last time.

I just want to be better. Of course, I'm not satisfied... I'm just pushing every day.

Myself, I always tell people that if you're not getting better you're only getting worse, and every day I try and be better than yesterday.

I need to build to get better each and every day, so I'm not satisfied at all.

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

I like to improve all the time and never let complacency creep into my system.

It is not a secret that I want to get better every day with every game.

I have said countless times high performance people are never satisfied with what they do or how they do it! Hence, I am always endeavouring to improve.

I have many aspects of my game I need to improve, and that's what I am focusing on. I prefer not to say what they are in public - for me, it's a secret, and I just want to work hard.

When you're young, you don't really think about what's going on. At least, in my case, I was always so hooked on being so innovative and didn't worry about what happened yesterday. I just wanted to focus on today and make it better. I was like that every day. I just made sure that every night I was at my best, at the best level I could be.

I don't think I can be perfect, but I think I can be close to perfect if I continue to prepare and continue to do everything in my power to be the best version of myself.

I want to continue to improve season after season, which I think I've done.