Quotes About Improvement

The challenges of my career have made me better and tougher overall and made me resilient.

I think English is very important for tennis players. To be on the tour, it's much more easier if you speak English. So that's why I knew that I have to improve my English.

When I was playing on the tour, I never really thought about the Hall of Fame because you're always thinking about your game and how you can do better.

It's a holistic process for me during a show. I'm always focusing on the technical aspects of my voice. I try to make my voice do what I want. One big thing I do to improve on each show is to listen back to performances on CD while on tour.

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I'm trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people. You know, I have several projects coming up between 2014 and 2015, and hopefully by 2015, I'll have another hour of stand-up material where I'll be able to go on the road and tour again.

I like to challenge myself. There are not many guys on tour who can give me a challenge in Ping-Pong. So I'll throw some points to see if I can come back.

That's the great thing about the Tour. There's always next year and the chance to rectify everything.

Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.

As long as every tournament, every year, you're getting better and better, that's all that matters.

One tournament win doesn't make you perfect.

I think what's really important from a player is to understand what you did well in that match and see maybe if there's a few areas that you could have done a little bit better, identify them, try to implement it, and keep getting better as the tournament goes on.

I felt a ton of pressure in '08. A lot of great things were expected of me right out of the gate, and I brought some of that on myself with those great early results. But I wasn't a good enough player to make a run every fourth or fifth tournament. I wasn't as good a player as my ranking indicated.

If you're not at the elite levels there are a lot more opportunities to play tournaments.

I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.

I don't think there has been enough communication between the players and the tournaments. In one sense it's just as much the players' fault. Players talk between each other and in the locker room about things that can be improved and then when the time comes to talk and really do something about it they stop.

I'm content. I want to have better success in the tournaments than I've had, but I know I'm playing well, so I'm happy with that.

The want to improve myself and win tournaments and see how far I go is crucial.

Movement is one of the most important things. My consistency, everything - there's a lot to improve. Coaches are never happy. But I'd like to keep improving, go deeper in the tournaments, and get as high in the rankings as possible.

All I do is work hard. Try and work on my bowling and keep improving every day. That's the key to success at the international level and in tournaments like the IPL.

It's all about practice and more practice. Travel to tournaments, play in them, watch other players.

Tours always leave us some regrets and thoughts that we could have done better and should have done better.

I guess I lean toward being an optimist, as far as improving tech being good for people, but that's not to say there are not potential downsides, and you have to stay aware of those downsides.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

Finding out exactly what went wrong is key toward preventing future debacles.