Shinji Kagawa Quotes

I feel this emptiness in me, like I still got something to prove and I still got so much stuff to work on in my game.

Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.

The reality is I'm not this person with this driving 'get it done' attitude.

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

But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.

Because winning a gold medal had been a dream of mine since a young age, I needed to empty my mind during the preparation for the Olympics by telling myself that it would be OK not to win a gold medal.

When things don't come so naturally to you, you want to persevere, you want to keep pushing yourself to overcome obstacles that prevent you from having the kind of life that you want to have.

I never thought I was an achiever and was always low on confidence.

I want to be the best. The only thing holding me back is me.

In the past, I put too much pressure on myself. I went out there and I tried so hard to get the ball in the hole, I tried so hard to hit the perfect shots.

There have been times in my football career where I've thought: 'Is this it? Is this as far as I'm going to go?'

At the start of every season, I always asked myself - am I meeting my own standards? Can I still do it? I didn't want to come to the conclusion that I couldn't during a season.

I've really tried everything in my power to get my life together.

Difficulties seldom defeat people; lack of faith in themselves usually does it.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

Just do your best. I find that if I set that goal for myself and no one else, I feel good.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

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

I heat myself up over the fact that I am never going to be as good as I want to be.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.

I don't think I'm successful.

The only one who can beat me is me.

I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.