Stephen Gostkowski Quotes

I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself.

I know what I think of myself and the standard I hold myself to.

I set higher standards than anyone and don't need anyone to tell me when I've played badly or not had a good game.

I don't think there's anybody that puts more pressure on himself than I do.

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

I'll always be tough on myself.

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.

I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.

My mum has always said I am too hard on myself. But I have always been like that and it has always helped me. After matches I focus only on what I did wrong. Never what I did well.

I put the most pressure on myself.

I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.

I was tough on myself when I didn't finish off a tournament right.

I will always be my hardest critic. Nobody else will ever be able to come at something I do harder than I come at myself.

I've always been hard on myself, so I expect so much out of myself that that pressure can be inspiring at time.

Even I don't always come up to my own standards of perfection.

I'm my hardest critic because I know what I can do and I strive to be as perfect as I can be even though I know it's not possible.

I am tough on myself. It's just how I am. I hold myself to a standard.

No one puts more pressure on themselves than me as far as an individual thing.

I'm very demanding of myself.

I put so much pressure on myself. I'm my toughest critic. I always push myself to go harder than I did last time.

It's not me feeling pressure, it's just me putting pressure on myself if I don't do my best, and I know I can do better.

I think your expectations as a player are always high. No matter how high the expectations are from the outside, from media, from fans, wherever, you hold yourself to a high standard and understand what you are capable of.

I'm very hard on myself. If it's a throw that I missed that I know I can make, that's something that I have to correct.