Ronald Reagan Quotes

I always try to do better than I have before, so I think it would be good to break the world record.

We just want to outdo ourselves every time we come back somewhere.

I do not compete with anybody else; I compete only with myself. You saw my capacity a few minutes ago. Now I am competing with myself. When I do weightlifting, my body is my world. If I can improve myself, if I can go beyond my previous achievements, then that is my goal. My own previous record is always what I am competing with.

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

I just want to give my best in London, I want to cross that line and see a personal best on the clock then I will see what position I am in.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

The only way that I can do better than someone else, maybe they're better at something else, but they'll never beat me at work.

I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.

Anytime you get a better competition level, it's always better for you because you want to get the best out of yourself, and you want to compete against the best.

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

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.

My focus is on a ring, and giving the best individual performance I can.

There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and ever strive to reach higher levels.

I never competed against athletes. I competed against perfection.

The principle is competing against yourself.

If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.

The only thing that motivates me is to become better.

I am just going to try to run my personal best. If it comes as a world record, I would appreciate it. But I would treat it as a personal best.

I think that if you challenge yourself, then you're going to get your best performances, and every time I go out there, I challenge myself to be better than I was last time.

I just have to make sure I keep improving my game in every aspect there is.

I don't know how I have got this habit, but I try to play one match and give it my best - it doesn't matter which level of cricket I am playing in. It gives me satisfaction that I am not thinking about others, not competing with others.

We can't control everything in our lives. Sometimes you're No. 2, 3, 4 or 5. That doesn't matter. What matters is that you strive to be No. 1.

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

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