Hilary Swank Quotes

What I try to do is improve as much as I can so I can be the best bowler I possibly can.

I just keep my eyes open and focus on the things I'm not good at and what makes other people better than me - technique and things outside the Octagon.

If I don't win the match I at least want to improve my game.

I'm really focusing now on how I can get to the next level as a batsman. How can I get even more competitive? How can I get even more consistent? How can I get better?

I think I've proven that I've improved every part of my game.

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

I've worked on my shot because that's what people have been critiquing me on my whole life. I've gotten a lot better at it, and I continue to get better at it.

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.

For me, it's about consistently churning out performances and looking to improve at the same time.

I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.

Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.

I don't think anything in my game has regressed in the last couple years. I think I've only gotten better. I keep wanting to assume more responsibility in all parts of the rink.

A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against

I want to be the best player possible.

I think the one advantage to a failed - recovering, but a pretty broken - economy, and a lot of broken promises, is that we've pulled the veils from our eyes way earlier than most people do, and realize "Hey, you know what, maybe I should try do this thing that I really care about, and why not spend the time now during my best years to get into knitting, or coding, or swamp boat sailing." And there's this resource called the Internet that's going to provide you with a stage and a library for all of those things.

To watch people push themselves further than they think they can, it's a beautiful thing. It's really human.

I don't know if I'll ever be a master at anything, but I think that's a mistake for me personally. I don't know how much it's about the journey, but it's more about the process.

I try to take what's given to me and then mold it to be a better football player.

When I came to Chelsea from West Ham there were certain parts of my game I felt I needed to improve and I like to think now that I have shown dramatic improvement.

I just want to improve game to game and try to get better.

Throughout my athletic career, the overall goal was always to be a better athlete than I was at the moment – whether next week, next month or next year. The improvement was the goal. The medal was simply the ultimate reward for achieving that goal.

I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.

I perhaps could have been somewhat better. One of the interesting things about playing competitive sports as a child is that you confront your own limitations rather starkly at a certain point.

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.