Sam Hinkie Quotes

Leadership is an intense journey into yourself. You can use your own style to get anything done. It's about being self-aware. Every morning, I look in the mirror and say, 'I could have done three things better yesterday.'

I always said to myself that the minute I thought I'd slipped, and not be the player I wanted to be, it was time for me to go.

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

I'm hard on myself, like, 'Oh, why did you say that?' But it helps me grow.

Myself, I always tell people that if you're not getting better you're only getting worse, and every day I try and be better than yesterday.

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

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

There's always things that I can improve on.

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

Nobody's a better critic of myself than me, and I try to do the best I can.

I'm the first one to always criticize myself, and I'm trying to find ways to get better.

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

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

I'm a tough critic on myself.

Instead of wanting to be better than other people, let's channel that energy to be better than we were yesterday and then again to be the best we can be tomorrow.

No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?

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.

These guys who keep on playing but aren't winning, you've got to sit them down and let them figure it out and perform a little gut-check on themselves.

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

I have to keep testing myself.

There are a lot of things to my game I can still improve, but everyone can.

You can always become better.

I never judge myself according to the expectations of others. I judge myself by the jobs I've been given over the years and by the extent to which I succeeded in those jobs.

I'm competitive with myself.

I'm always looking at things and seeing how I can improve upon them. I think it's my responsibility to focus on how I can do better, as opposed to what I've done well.