Mats Hummels Quotes

At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.

I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.

The only way you can learn is by analysing yourself and taking in your mistakes.

You review a game. You don't brush over anything you did well and look at anything you could improve. There's stuff to get better at, it's not hard to find.

Every player usually watches their clips back of how they play: mistakes, duels, things that are specific for your game. I wanted to be proud of that and I wanted to see it in person, I suppose, because in the past I have had a lot of criticism for things that I have done.

Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.

I try to be self-analytical, both to outline the mistakes I made in my life and try to explain why I did, and the things that on balance I did pretty well on.

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view yourself objectively, at arm's length, to make an assessment of yourself. So whom do I rely on? I rely on myself.

I'm not so sure I 'like' to watch myself on film, but I do find it necessary in order to continually be a better artist.

Actually, my character needs to be questioned. On a regular basis. By people who know and love me.

The biggest thing is I watch myself: What I need to improve on, what I can do different.

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

I think a lot about my own game.

I'm the greatest critic of my work.

I think I am my own biggest critic, yeah.

Perhaps I've committed some technical and tactical mistakes and I'll look to correct them.

I've always liked to watch myself onscreen because that's how I learn.

I'm always my hardest critic.

The criticism is what I expect, honestly, because I'm criticizing myself every day when I come in here and watch that film. I'm trying to get better.

I think how I'm playing, not who I'm playing.

I do not take to the field to defend myself from certain criticisms. If I do, in this kind of career, it is because I'm very self-critical.