Gavin Rossdale Quotes

Do it right or don't do it at all. That comes from my mom. If there's something I want to do, I'm one of those people that won't be satisfied until I get it done. If I'm trying to sing something and I can't get it, I'm going to keep at it until I get where I want it.

Brooklyn for twenty years, I've learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.

It may not be the best in someone else's eyes, but it's the best I can do.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.

Just because 'Planes' is an animated movie doesn't mean I don't take my work seriously. You can always push yourself to be better.

I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do.

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

My dad always told me, 'I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner.'

I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.

I always want to do the best I can.

Living up to people's expectations is one thing but it was even harder to live up to my own expectations.

If you don't have that ambition you start to be sloppy and that is not what I like to be.

It goes without saying that I try to do everything to the best of my ability.

If doing something with second-rate effort satisfies you, find something else to do - where only your best effort will satisfy you personally.

I put so much pressure on myself. I'm my toughest critic. I always push myself to go harder than I did last time.

If, at the end of the day, you cannot answer 'yes' to the question, 'Did I do everything I could today to achieve my dream?' then you must adjust.

My approach has always been to make things we were proud of.

I just felt that if the team is doing seven hours, I'd want to do eight. I'd always need to do more. I knew that would make me better than everybody else.

I put a lot of pressure on myself to be the best.

The thing that I have done throughout my life is to do the best job that I can and to be me.

You work your whole life to try to be the best you can, even if it's for only one day or one week.

It's always something that's going to be a part of me. It's the reason why I work so hard each and every day. It's the reason I come to work dedicated to become the best that I can be. Nothing's going to come easy in life, and I've learned a lot of lessons, some the hard way, and I think just the things that I've been through have helped mold me into the person I am and what (is in) my future and that's continuing to do things the right way.

Pretty much the only goal I've had since the beginning, which I still have, is just to get better, work hard, focus, and everything else will just be a bonus. As long as I'm satisfied, and I think we're getting better with every song compared to the last, then I'm satisfied and that's all I want. If we don't achieve that, then I'll be disappointed.

There are many things I want, and the only way I will get them is to keep my head down, listen to the right people and work hard