Michael Gerber Quotes

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

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

The only one who can beat me is me.

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.

I'm only competing with myself.

As I said, the biggest competition is myself and it will always be.

I'm competing with myself to outdo previous achievements, but I can't feel any pressure from the fans, the media or the people at all because I know what I'm capable of.

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.

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.

Comparison is a disease. I never felt any competition, since I never compared myself to others. I only focus on my work. I never feel pressurised and do films in my style. Also, I'm very active since childhood, and that gives me the edge to always put my best.

I'm quite competitive. Not with other models but with myself. I have to win.

I've never been competitive with anybody but myself.

We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make a good movie or not.

I think that when people who've had success from a young age go through a train-wreck cycle, it's usually because they're working on someone else's terms, so they feel the need to rebel. But when it's something you've built, you don't have that same kind of resentment or angstiness. But it's also difficult to keep those standards for yourself.

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'm highly critical of myself. There's not something someone else might say that makes me feel I need to be motivated in a different way. I'm a self-motivated guy.

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.

You need to be competitive, but a lot of that you can internalize and use that as motivation to drive you. You do not need to show it all the time.

The only competition I actually want is with my own self, and for me, work comes above all.

Before you can lead anybody else, you gotta put yourself in the right position to be successful.

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

I really don't focus on the competition at all. Like even on the football field it's me versus me.

It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.