Joseph Altuzarra Quotes

I just care about what I get to unearth and what makes me uncomfortable and what makes me grow because, ultimately, I just don't want to ever play it safe.

Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks.

Do your best to succeed and push the limits without violating them.

I guess you go for nothing, if you really want to go that far.

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying.

If you're playing within your capability, what's the point? If you're not pushing your own technique to its own limits with the risk that it might just crumble at any moment, then you're not really doing your job.

It's good for me to do things outside my comfort zone and push myself.

My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that's what is exciting to me. If I knew it was possible, if I knew I could do it without too much bother, I wouldn't be interested.

I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.

I've learnt that your life is more interesting and fulfilling when you don't lead it in a straight line and you go off on zigzags. I've made it a rule that if life becomes too comfortable and easy, I'll disrupt it.

Struggling at anything that you want to be doing is hard.

One finds limits by pushing them.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

To be the best, I had to work harder than everyone else.

You really should not do this job unless you're willing to put in that enormous amount of effort. You should not do the job unless you're willing to take risks. And you shouldn't do the job unless you're willing to lose the job, too.

Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

It's only when you push at the edges that you excel.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward

There's no escalators - there's only staircases to success. There is no substitute for hard work.

I believe if you are not rediscovering yourself and pushing boundaries, then you are not alive.

It's important to work really hard to get what you want.

I've been working hard my whole life.