Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.

Every time I do something in life, I try to outdo myself.

The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

Believing that your competition is stronger and better than you pushes you to better yourselves.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself.

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.

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

Every time I perform I always kind of outdo myself.

The most successful people do play extensions of themselves in the ring.

I'm always trying to one-up myself.

I'm only in competition with my last level. It don't have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were.

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

I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.

Instead of wanting to be better than other people, let's channel that energy to be better than we were yesterday and then again to be the best we can be tomorrow.

If you have to rely on yourself, you try harder, and when you try harder, you feel bigger.

I always want to grow and top myself.

We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents.

I always try to do better than I have before, so I think it would be good to break the world record.

What you do is you're using the other competitors to push yourself, because it's so hard to push yourself.

I would not be who I am if I were not putting pressure on me to up the level of my game further.

The only thing that motivates me is to become better.

My confidence came from always needing to compete.

I thought that if I was able to change myself, I would be more successful.

I'm always looking to improve as a player and it's very pleasing when you see those improvements.