Giancarlo Stanton Quotes

Living up to people's expectations is one thing but it was even harder to live up to my own expectations.

Although I'm very competitive, I'm also very critical of myself.

I think sometimes it's about just finding the measuring stick that's different than the one the world puts on you. It's finding the one in which you're held accountable and how you hold each other accountable; what a good job looks like in a particular situation and how to be better at your job than you were yesterday.

Obviously, everybody has their own expectations of you, but you have to have your own expectations for yourself. For me, I'm right on track.

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

We all come to the point where it's time to get yourself straight, as a businesswoman, a mother, whatever you are in life. It's tough love but it's also being real with yourself. It's important to take those rose-coloured glasses off and see what's going on.

I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.

If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.

I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

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'm competitive with myself.

Each individual has got to look themselves in the mirror and try and see what they can do better. Period. Point blank.

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

Improving, for me, is quite natural as I'm always critical of myself.

I look primarily at my own expectations. These include improving steadily.

I can look at every one of my faults, see they're there, and go out and try to improve on it.

I'll never give myself an A since I ask a lot from myself.

There's always so much to improve, no matter your age.

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.

Sometimes you have to self-scout yourself.

I think I'm very hard on myself. I think I've always been very hard on myself since I was a kid.

I take very seriously this notion that my highest job is to live a better life, all the time and to the best of my ability. I need to monitor my own progress - take my own inventory - and clean my own closet. I am trying to do all that.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.