Carlos Vela Quotes

I'm very driven by what I do. I am certainly very competitive. I like people who represent the best at what they do, and if that turns you into a perfectionist, then maybe I am.

The only one I feel pressure from is myself to go and give my all for every match and, obviously, I'm a competitor.

I just found at a young age that I really wanted to be more competitive.

I'm not normally content with what I do unless I win.

To me, everything's competition.

You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under.

I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.

I think that there's the self-imposed pressure to come up with something that's good. For guys like us, that's much more important than any external pressure could really be.

When I do something, I don't want to be second best. That's the right way.

I think it's because I'm so hard on myself that I can push myself this far.

It was always about being first, about winning. There were no prizes for second place. My mother and father said, 'Do whatever you want, as long as you're the best at it.'

My motivation is like it is always, try to be the best and try to win, that is part of my character.

A sprinter is never satisfied; otherwise, he is not a sprinter.

Always, as a player, you are questioned and challenged about the next step. That's what drives the very best: they want to continually win.

Every time I have gotten into anything, I have wanted to do it well. I've always been like that as a young boy, every time I've wanted to go on that pitch.

I'm very competitive and academic.

If we're playing and competing at the level we want to and we know we can, then nothing else is really going to matter.

I never wanted to be mediocre at anything.

If I'm at my best, I feel I must win gold all the time.

If I had to single out one element in my life that has made a difference for me, it would be a passion to compete.

I will always be someone who wants to do better than others. I love competition.

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.

I wrestled as a 90-pounder, and I wrestled in the 107-pound class in my first year. I had something inside of me. I could not stand not to compete. And I don't know why... I don't know what that's all about. But that's deep inside of Doug Harvey.

What drives me is winning championships.