Scottie Pippen Quotes

I'm a competitor. I'm going to compete each and every day to get better.

You just go out and compete and try to earn whatever you can. I'm looking to get better every single day I set foot on this field.

There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.

I've been a guy who's never really been satisfied. Work hard, try to figure out ways to improve, try to figure out ways to sustain a certain level of play.

Being favorite counts for nothing. I am focusing on doing the best time of my life, whether or not it's the best in history or the best in the competition.

I'm always trying to one-up myself.

I will not feel like I've made it until the day I retire from basketball because there's something that I can always get better at, and there's always somebody better, and that's what drives me.

Every time I do something in life, I try to outdo myself.

I love to strive to be good at stuff that's really hard.

I enjoyed my 15 years at the top, and now I enjoy watching the current crop. What I did, maybe they can't do, and what they do, perhaps I couldn't do. It's like that. I wanted to simply be the best. On a professional level, I wanted to be No. 1, and I worked hard to be that.

The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.

I want to be the best, so whatever comes with that, I'll have to accept.

I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing.

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

Performance is something we all strive to be better at. I'm no different than that. Who wants to look bad?

Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before.

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

The only way to get to be the team you want to be is to get better every day.

We want to be the best we can.

I believe I've shown my worth, become a world champion, now I want to try and see how good I am. The only way I'll find that out is by testing myself against the best.

As a competitor, I want to push myself as much as I can to be at that level that I want to be.

I like to challenge myself, to compare myself against the best.

I've always wanted to be the best.

Right from the beginning I wanted to test myself against the best, against real champions.

That's what I've learned: you are always to improve whether you are a Hall of Fame quarterback or some rookie.