Patrice Evra Quotes

I am my own main rival.

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

The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

For me, I'm always hard on myself no matter what, so that's always a thing I have to deal with on a daily basis.

I believe my biggest critic is me only.

My biggest opponent was 'me.'

I'm going to tell you right now, no one is harder on me than me. The fact that fans sit there and boo me, I'm booing myself when I'm walking in.

It's just like, damn - I'm competing with myself.

We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.

I'm the kind of person who, if I can't get something right, I get quite frustrated with myself.

I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.

My greatest competition is, well, me.

For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.

I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.

I don't know that I'd agree I was our best player.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that better?' Part of my motivation is from crippling self-doubt - I have got to prove myself wrong.

My expectations of other people, I double them 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'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

I'm quite hypercritical of myself. It's a very Scottish thing, always thinking that you've got to be that bit better than everyone else to be good enough.

I don't see myself as a perfectionist.

I'm not stupid: if I have not been a starter with Ancelotti, Benitez and Zidane, it's my fault.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.