Jordan Pickford Quotes

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.

I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.

I'm very good at making mistakes, so I realized that I should embrace mistakes and learn from them.

There was a time where I was such a perfectionist even if I made the kick, but that's no way to live. I can tell you what, that will drive you crazy. I'm very hard on myself, but if the ball goes in a little bit left of the middle, you're not going to hear me crying about it.

People who try to tackle failure attract failure. The more you indulge in analysis, it gets tougher. So just keep making mistakes and learn.

You'll go down a dark road if you just dwell on every time you screw up. We play a very fickle position. If I make nine kicks out of 10, people are going to talk about the one I missed.

I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.

No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.

Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

As tough as I've been on anybody, as hard as I've ever been on anybody, I have been harder on myself. By far.

Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.

Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.

You do the best you can … if you make a mistake, you make a mistake.

I think if I was less exigent with myself, maybe I would be more productive, because I would put less pressure on my shoulders.

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.

It's okay to make mistakes as long as you learn from them.

You make one mistake and you feel like the worst person in the world.

As cricketers we fail all the time. You score a hundred every now and again but you get out between nought and 20 far more often. If you get 50, you feel bad because you should have got a hundred. Even if you get a hundred, you feel you should have got 150. So you're always failing.

You would not hang out with people that talk to you the way you talk to yourself. So get out of your head! Your feelings! Your feelings are screwing you! I don't care how you feel! I care about what you want! And if you listen to how you feel, when it comes to what you want - you will not get it. Because you will never feel like it.

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

New Year's resolutions have always been something to beat myself up with by the second week of January. It seems perverse to set yourself up for failure right at the start of the year.

As a mother, I'm constantly feeling like a failure.

The fear of mistakes is the fast track to irrelevance.