Think of times other people outdid you and you just assumed that they were smarter or more talented. Now consider the idea that they just used better strategies, taught themselves more, practiced harder, and worked their way through obstacles. You can do that too, if you want to.

open your mind to endless possibilities, work hard but work smarter, surround yourself with the people that know more than you do, or have more than you do.

one can turn one’s challenges into bigger and better opportunities.

Hard work really did make you improve; who knew?

Every day, work harder on yourself than anything else. ‘Cause if you become more intelligent, more valuable, more skilled, you can add more value to other people.

It was a challenge every weekend but it allowed me to become stronger mentally, physically, and I believe it allowed me to quickly improve because I had to find ways to try to be better than the boys.

If you want a significant change in your results, then you probably need a significant change to your strategy. Working harder on your current strategy is unlikely to move the needle.

Before you work harder, work on the right thing.

Play better games. Win better prizes.

Work hard but work smarter surround yourself with the people that know more than you do or have more than you do learn learn learn.

(Y)ou've got to do more than what's expected if you want to get ahead.

You can take your unfortunate history and use it to grow, to be even better.

You cannot remove struggle from life, but you can improve your ability to handle challenge.

Use your work to better yourself.

You need a good strategy in addition to an audacious goal. For me as an athlete it was getting more days on the snow and getting access to really good coaches. I had to move from San Diego, had to raise money and over the Summer I had to live on a glacier to train. I think one of the reasons I won was that I had learned to organize myself better than my competitors in taking the initiative to advance myself, hire coaches, figure out how I was going to make it all happen. It was great training for becoming an entrepreneur—you have to wear all of the hats. You have to recruit people, train them, and organize yourself and your team to make something great happen.

if you can imagine someone surpassing you, you should do it yourself.