Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

Everyone's doing the best they can with the tools they were given.

I have never gauged myself against anyone else.

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.

It may not be the best in someone else's eyes, but it's the best I can do.

I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.

People are going to make comparisons and they can do that but I'm definitely not going to compare myself to Derek Jeter.

I walk into a health club locker room and feel an immediate impulse toward scrutiny, the kneejerk measuring of self against other: 'That one has great thighs, this one's gained weight, who's thin, who's fat, how do I compare?'

I think everyone is always measuring themselves against other people to a certain degree; it happens automatically, and it's hard not to be this way at least some of the time.

Judgment comes from you comparing yourself to other people, and expectations of what you think life should be.

We're all constantly keeping score. You can't help it. But trying to pit ourselves against other people in some measurable way is largely a waste of time.

I try not to measure myself against other players.

I don't compare myself with anybody.

I have never met anyone who has worked harder than me.

Nobody works harder than me.

I'm so much better than James Vick.

I have a 'pillow test' - can I go to bed tonight knowing that I did my best today? If I can, I'm happy.

I never met a man who worked harder than me.

My job is to give 100 per cent so that I can walk away completely satisfied with the race I put together irrespective of placings.

At most contests now, skaters are judged against themselves.

If you are trying to achieve the 'perfect body' or aspiring to be like someone else, you are only going to feel like you failed.

Suriya is more handsome than me.

We always do the best we can by the light we have to see by.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

You may be better than the rest, but you are not a success until you have made the effort to become the best you can be.