Chris Wedge Quotes

You cannot build a company or manage a life by chasing others; you have to find your success competing against yourself. There will always be a bigger fish.

I'm a very competitive person, but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be, and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else, then so be it. But I don't go around comparing and contrasting myself with other actors if I can help it. It's also, I think, the key to my success.

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.

I feel like my biggest competition is myself. A lot of kids get caught up in the comparing game - comparing themselves with Michael Jackson, comparing themselves with Michael Jordan. You gotta be your best. You gotta overcome your own fears.

I can say that I don't compete with others and only with myself because I do so many films.

When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

My biggest competition is me.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

My biggest competitor? Myself, mentally.

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.

I am not the one who has to try to beat me.

Every time I perform I always kind of outdo myself.

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.

I'm only competing with myself.

Do what makes you feel good. Remind yourself of what you're good at and make sure you do that.

I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

I'm in control of what I'm doing physically and mentally. I feel good. I've always felt confident and comfortable going into seasons, but each year I feel like I'm getting better and better.

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

The only one who can beat me is me.

I'm competitive with myself, and that goes hand in hand with how I present myself. I'm not only trying to put one foot in front of the other, I'm trying to put my best foot forward.

The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.

When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up.

People are always wanting to pull me up on my shortfalls. I try to battle against those and concentrate on how good things are.

From an acting perspective, I would say that you should always try to make your own stuff. Always be ambitious about your own projects and always know better than anyone else what you're good at.

Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.