Variant: Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.
Interview on Charlie Rose https://archive.org/details/WHUT_20100614_130000_Charlie_Rose (2000)
“Don’t try, don’t try, Don’t try you’ll never win, And you can never be him. ~ "Sleep Better"”
Song lyrics
“To my mind losing is always better than never trying, because you can never tell what may happen.”
Source: Straight From The Heart (1985), Chapter Nine, Main Street...Bay Street, p. 195
“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.”
Eric Stanley on CBS News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksYrWGivy5A
2011
“I was never no, never no, never enough,
But I can try, I can try to toughen up.”
"Change Is Hard".
She & Him : Volume One (2008)
As quoted in an interview with Marc Blau (2004) http://www.celebratestadium.com/blogz/2006/04/stadium-olympics-hollywood.html
Context: I guess the one thing I really learned from participating in sports was to just never say "no", never stop trying, and to always believe that you can do better than the next fellow. I tried to follow this throughout my life, but I always tried to be respectful about it.
“We are never required to be the best, only that we try our best.”
Speech at BEST Podgorica's forum for Entrepreneurs, 7 July 2017.
“You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try.'
Homer Simpson”
