Elgin Baylor Quotes

I don't think it's about topping your last; I think it's truly about just doing your best. That's what I continue to do throughout my career.

Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.

Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

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

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

Every single night, I try to go out there and play the best that I can.

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 know people know how good I am playing basketball... All I do is just use it as motivation: keep getting better, keep doing the same stuff and doing it even better.

When my career is over, I want to say to myself that I've done whatever I could to be the best footballer I could be.

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

It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.

Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

I am trying hard to better my performances every match.

You continue to compete against the very best every day, and you will get better, or you'll be embarrassed.

The challenge is how to be better than the day before, than the previous game.

As a human, as a professional player, you have to improve every day, every training session, every game.

I have said countless times high performance people are never satisfied with what they do or how they do it! Hence, I am always endeavouring to improve.

Basketball has given me so many opportunities, and it's something that's opened the world to me and allowed me to travel really all over the world.

Being the best is:applying yourself to your potential, putting out the best version of yourself.

Each and every day you have to perform, whether it's on the practice ground or off the practice ground. I just want to improve each and every day.

Ever since I was a kid, I've always believed in doing my best, that one should aspire to be No. 1.

Knowing that guys are out there improving and trying to take it to that next level, that gives me fire to improve my play and work on these little things that can keep me from dominating a game.

I gotta win. Winning is just not enough. I have to do my best.