Christian Yelich Quotes

I was tested against the best.

I do think you can't be as good as the person next to you to play: you have to be better.

Anytime you do anything, you want to know who was the best at it.

Anyone who's good on any week, makes you want to go out there and beat 'em.

I always get amazed as to how we always need to have someone as the best of something. Why can't we have two people as the best at something?

To me, everything's competition.

With 'Idol' it's kind of just like 'OK, here's this competition - I need to do better than somebody else.'

I'm better than Olivier.

Somehow, people act like I have no competition, but the thing is, the competition is so good that it forces me to be better than I even thought was possible.

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.

You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.

In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.

It's important for me to be No. 1.

I'll put my record up against anybody's.

All my life, everything has been a contest.

If you want to be in the top teams, you know you have competition in your place.

The only place that matters is first.

You always want to play with the best.

I like competing against the very best.

I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.

I love to compete against the best.

I'm old school, man. I think, if you want to be the best, then beat the best guys.

I'm not satisfied with being ranked second and third.

Every time you step in there with a guy who is not ranked where you're at, it's always a big stepping stone for them - if they're able to get the job done.

I love competing against the best.