Libby Trickett Quotes

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.

In this crazy, crazy world of figure skating, it is easy to focus on a name or a target. But when you are going after someone, it really only holds you back from what you are capable of yourself.

I don't play tennis to prove a point to anyone. I play for my country and myself. It's not changing what people say or think. It's about what I can do. If I feel I have the ability to achieve something and haven't used my potential to that end, I'll keep trying till I succeed.

Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on.

I inspire myself.

I focus on myself, and I train for myself.

I'm self-motivated. I'm motivated for myself to be the best I can be - for me to do that, I have to have my own motivation, my own positive energy.

You have to go out there and focus on yourself and not who you are up against.

Other people gotta be told when to go to the gym, what to work out, what to work on, what to do. For me, it was always my own self-motivation of maybe just wanting to make it out of Compton. I was like that with everything in my life.

I know what I need to work on, and I know what I need to prove and to show, and that's all that matters.

For a long time, I played for me, for my career.

Pitch within yourself.

Love your sport. Never do it to please someone else; it has to be yours. That is all that will justify the hard work. Compete against yourself, not others, for that is who is truly your best competition.

This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.

If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.

We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today.

I am a sore loser. It's not that I'm so competitive with others. But I'm competitive with myself. I like to do better than I did before.

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

I just want to give my best in London, I want to cross that line and see a personal best on the clock then I will see what position I am in.

I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.