Philipp Lahm Quotes

Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.

Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

I am not afraid to ask for feedback on my work or appearance, and try to never take that advice personally.

Criticism only hurts when there's some truth in it.

Criticism is part of football. Everybody gets it at some point. I have had it, most players do.

You are never really prepared for criticism.

I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better.

When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction.

One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.

When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do.

No one is perfect, and criticism is always welcome and expected.

If you're open for praise, you have to be open to criticism.

I'm not one to get bad reviews.

I've read some pretty harsh criticisms of my music, but some of them I agreed with and actually sat with me.

I don't have any problems with criticism.

I have to accept constructive criticism.

If you do not play well, it is normal that they criticise you. But criticism is part of the game, so you accept it.

If someone comes and tells me I've done great work, that's not what I want to hear. But if someone comes and tells me that this could have been a notch better, I'd spend an hour with the person and hear him or her out.

Any criticism, you should pay attention to. Whether you accept it and change or you take it and move on is the choice, but criticism is not a bad thing.

You have to accept the criticism but you also have to consider how much of what is said and written is actually true.

Remember that when criticism is difficult to accept, there is probably some truth to it.

I remember in my second year in the league, I dropped 17 balls and led the NFL in dropped passes. That made me the player I am. If I didn't go through that transformative power of crisis, none of this would've probably happened for me.

If I can understand criticism, I take it very seriously. But it's a process; it doesn't happen overnight.