James Anderson Quotes

I look to improve every time I play, whether batting or bowling.

I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.

There's different aspects of the game you have got to pick up along the way. I think I am picking it up fairly quickly and I'm learning all the time and I can only get better.

Whether I'm playing right now or not, I still have an opportunity to get better in practice. It's like sharpening my blade.

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.

Every day in training, we will try to work to keep improving the things we can do and maintaining the levels we're at.

I've always been one of the best players with the rest but I'd rather be able to reach the shot without it.

You have to raise your game to the level of those around you. Then you have to maintain that high level, and by doing this I think I am improving naturally.

As a footballer, you just have to try to learn what you've done bad and what I could do good.

I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.

There are things that I need to do better, and I need to get to a point where it's hard to not have me on the court.

I want to be the best player possible.

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

I'm used to being coached. Something I learned long ago is that a coach is trying to make you better and to be the best version of yourself.

The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time.

When I decide to score, I score. I know I am strong, but I believe it is not enough yet. I can kick fine, dribble very well, but I still have to improve.

Practise things you're good at. Keep on top of things you're not so good at, but be world-class at your best. Never think, 'I'm very good at this and that, I can leave those for a bit.'

I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.

Golf is so selfish - it's so much about how do we get better and get to the next level.

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. But I don't go around comparing and contrasting myself with other actors if I can help it. It's also, I think, the key to my success.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.

I don't think there's ever a point when you turn to yourself and go, 'Yes, I've made a success of this career path.' You never feel like you've done your best work. You always think you could be better.

I just really just try to get better as a player every week, just focusing on the team we have to play this week, and just trying to do whatever is best for the team that week.

I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be. I work hard, I push myself hard, and I probably even expect too much of myself.