Brian Ortega Quotes

I don't just study my opponent; I study myself. It's something you have to do to get better.

That's been kinda my secret. You use everything off the field to help make you better on the field.

My mum has always said I am too hard on myself. But I have always been like that and it has always helped me. After matches I focus only on what I did wrong. Never what I did well.

You have to go out there and focus on yourself and not who you are up against.

I believe my biggest critic is me only.

We can't focus too much on the opponent, we have to focus on ourselves.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

My father was a drill sergeant, and I've always had that mentality drilled into me of 'you've got to do better, you've got to do better.' I just try to listen to the characters. That's what works for me.

The only one who can beat me is me.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

I'm always calculating what I want to do, who I want to be, what I want to accomplish. I don't need to worry about that - that's always there on a slow simmer. The muscle I have to work on is being more present.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself as a person. I'm a really emotional person and it helped make me a better person.

The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.

There's steps that I've taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that we're going through. This is all stuff that you can say you're going to make a difference, but I'm putting it into action.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.

To learn to know oneself, to judge oneself with truth and impartiality, must be the great objects of one's exertion; they are only attainable by constant and cool self-examination.

Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

I think journaling is a key to success. You can set clear goals for yourself. You can start noticing repetitive behavior patterns and see the type of things that keep bothering you, and then you can have a bird's eye view of it.

If you ask another competitor, they may tell you they felt very competitive towards me. But I can tell you that my biggest competition was myself. There's only so much you can do, right? There is only so much energy that one has. My focus was on how do I get the best out of myself.