Dillian Whyte Quotes

If I cannot be the best or operate at the best highest level, then I need to go away.

I love athletics and martial-arts and competition because it gets me right and puts me in the right place.

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.

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

I sort of set myself really high standards which is good and bad. If I know that I've done all I can to prepare, that's when I race the best and in '09 I was going through a lot of emotional ups and downs and I was never as fit as I would have liked to have been. So I never felt comfortable.

Everybody doesn't get to do each and every film. I don't compete with others; I compete with myself. I have been an athlete, a sportsperson; so I know how to be competitive in a healthy way.

The only one who can beat me is me.

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.

One of the first things I learned about acting was, the only person you compete against is yourself.

The easiest thing in the world is to succeed. You can't help it if you follow the rules and play the game the best way you know how according to yourself, instead of according to the one next to you, or above you, or somewhere away from you.

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. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.

The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

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.

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

Normally I don't race other people; I challenge the environment and my own limitations.

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.

Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.

It's not really about the competition. Your biggest challenge in a race is yourself. You're often racing against time. You're frequently running everything through your mind. You're always competing against preconceived ideas. It's not really the person next to you that you worry about.

When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.

I'm excited by challenging myself physically and mentally every day.

My mum has always said I am too hard on myself. But I have always been like that and it has always helped me. After matches I focus only on what I did wrong. Never what I did well.

I'm very competitive with myself. I'm a scheduler.

I compete against myself in competitions anyway, so I train against myself in practice.

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